In The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, Michael Moorcock brings together four of his major characters: Prince Corum Jhaelen Irsei (protagonist of six novels), Erekose (the titular hero of The Eternal Champion and four other novels), Dorian Hawkmoon (the lead of nine volumes which incorporate the two series, The History of the Runestaff and Chronicles of Castle Brass), and Elric of Melniboné. The novel reveals these four characters to be avatars of the Eternal Champion, different spokes of the cosmic wheel. This is the third of the Essential Elric volumes and is illustrated.