Upon her release, the she-dragon opens the Dragon Gate between the dimensions. Finally the Eternal Champion releases the dragon by breaking the Dragon Sword in the Iron Round. Adopting the identity of Cannibal Ghost Women, they survived for generations by mating with human males, a union that invariably resulted in Eldren daughters. In the book The Dragon in the Sword it is said that the Melnibonéans are descendants of an elfin nomadic race - a group of the Eldren met with disaster while traveling through the Multiverse with a pair of dragons, the Eldren women became stranded in the dimension of Gheestenheem (one of the Six Worlds in the local group of planes) when the female dragon was trapped in the Dragon Sword. In The Revenge of the Rose, the Melnibonéans are said to be related to the Vadhagh people who appear in the Corum books. The Melnibonéans themselves are not originally natives of the dimension in which they live. Elric would later go on to destroy his own Empire and burn Imrryr, the Dreaming City, to the ground.Īt the beginning of the Elric series, Imrryr is already ten thousand years old, and the Melnibonéans have lived on the island for an even longer time.

Elric of Melniboné is the last Emperor to sit on the Ruby Throne. Melniboné's domination of the world is a result of their cunning, cruelty, their potent sorcery and their alliance with the Dragons. Melniboné is populated by the Melnibonéans, elfin non-humans who worship Chaos. Melniboné, (pronounced mel-NIH-bo-nay), also known as the The Dragon Isle and The Bright Empire, is an island nation ruled by a 10,000 year old dynasty of emperors.

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