“We must be bound to one another then," Aeroc murmured despairingly. "Bound by hell-forged chains and fate-haunted circumstance. Well, then—let it be thus so—and men will have cause to tremble and flee when they hear the names of Aeroc de Espadero and the Black Blade, his sword. We are two of a kind—produced by an age which has deserted us. Let us give this age cause to hate us!”
― Adapted and edited: Michael Moorcock, Elric: The Stealer of Souls