His later identities include Urlik Skarsol, Clen of Clen-Gar, and Prince Flamadin.

Across the Erekosë book series, the hero fights forces of corruption and evil, then later leaves that world (sometimes not by choice) and appears elsewhere in the multiverse with a new identity that once belonged to a dead hero of that world.

As his memories of Daker's life fade and his mind shifts to that of Erekosë, he accepts his altered identity and attempts to end a great war. Due to flashes of knowledge and memories from different past lives, Daker accepts he is a reincarnation of Erekosë and also the ' Eternal Champion', a soul who is reborn frequently throughout the multiverse. In this time and place, Daker manifests with the body of Erekosë, a warrior who died long ago. Responding to the call, Daker's spirit is pulled to a different part of space and time where humanity is at war with another race. For several nights, he hears a voice calling him 'Erekosë' and asking him to protect humanity. In the first story, John Daker lives on Earth in the 20th century. In Moorcock's novels The Vanishing Tower and The King of the Swords, Erekosë is described as a man with 'jet black skin', often wearing a bear-skin cloak. The Erekosë canon The Swords of Heaven, the Flowers of Hell, is a graphic novel plotted by Moorcock that was scripted and illustrated by Howard Chaykin. The book became the first of the Erekosë book series, which includes the novels Phoenix in Obsidian (also published as The Silver Warriors) and The Dragon in the Sword. He first appeared in the 1962 novella The Eternal Champion, which was later expanded into a novel of the same title in 1970. The character repeatedly assumes different forms and identities during adventures across Moorcock's multiverse. JSTOR ( February 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Įrekosë (also known as John Daker) is a heroic warrior in different fantasy adventure stories by English writer Michael Moorcock.If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline.

Hawkmoon by Michael Moorcock