With his memories of Daker's life and family quickly dimming, the warrior accepts his identity as Erekosë and joins a great war, armed with a radioactive sword called Kanajana. The Eternal Champion is often called to restore or maintain the multiverse's balance between the cosmic forces of Law and Chaos. Daker also sees memories of other lives he's lived or will live and realizes he is one of many incarnations of the Eternal Champion, a key figure in the mythology of Michael Moorcock's multiverse. Daker realizes he is the reincarnation of the warrior Erekosë and is now being called to assume that identity again by the people he once served. In the story, John Daker, an ordinary man in the 20th century, is pulled through time and space to the tomb of Erekosë, a long-dead hero of a version of Earth that may be the distant past or distant future. The sequel novels are Phoenix in Obsidian (1970), also published as The Silver Warriors, and The Dragon in the Sword (1987). The Eternal Champion is the first in a trilogy of novels known as the Erekosë series (though the lead character adopts other identities in subsequent novels). Along with expanding the original story, the novel make some minor changes to narration and scenes, and also includes references to other short stories by Michael Moorcock. The novella was first published in the anthology magazine Science Fantasy #53 in 1962.

First published in 1970, it is an expanded version of a novella of the same title that introduced the hero known as both John Daker and Erekosë.

The Eternal Champion is a fantasy novel by Michael Moorcock.

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