(Hillborg said he wasn’t yet ready to talk about the game’s art style, but he said the contributions of fans have been amazing.) Elric has also been drawn countless times. The Finnish version of Dungeons in Dragons in the 1980s had Elric’s sword, Stormbringer, on its cover. The band Blue Oyster Cult made songs about Elric. Over time, Elric has become a huge part of fantasy culture. But a year ago, he was contacted again by Moorcock’s agent, who said the rights to a game were now available. He was told at the time that the ancillary rights to the video game were tied up in a movie license that failed to come through. Hillborg said he inquired about the rights to Elric a couple of years ago after a chance conversation triggered the idea. But I got to ask that question of Yasin Hillborg, creative director at Runatyr, who talked to me about his long dream to turn the series into a video game. And I had the same question all the other fans had. This is pretty exciting for me, as I read the Elric series decades ago as well as many of the titles in Moorcock’s Eternal Champion series.
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