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Starting with ''The Revenge of the Rose'', Moorcock began establishing a new version of the Eternal Champion mythology which incorporated elements from his novels of the 1980s and was focused on new aspects of the multiverse. | Starting with ''The Revenge of the Rose'', Moorcock began establishing a new version of the Eternal Champion mythology which incorporated elements from his novels of the 1980s and was focused on new aspects of the multiverse. | ||
Into the mid 1990s, almost the entirety of Moorcock's works were re-released in ''The Tales of the Eternal Champion'' with revisions to adapt them to the Multiverse cosmology established in the ''Second Ether'' trilogy | Into the mid 1990s, almost the entirety of Moorcock's works were re-released in ''The Tales of the Eternal Champion'' with revisions to adapt them to the Multiverse cosmology established in the ''Second Ether'' trilogy. | ||
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|''Corsairs of the Second Ether'' | |||
|Short story | |||
|''Second Ether'' | |||
|Introduces the concepts of [[Chaos Engineer]]s and the [[scales of the multiverse]], including the [[First Aether|First]], [[Second Aether|Second]], and [[Third Aether|Third Ether]]. Introduces [[Horatio Quelch]], the [[Original Insect]], [[Brian Abberley|Buggery Otherly]], and [[Begg family|several individuals with the surname Begg]]. Also introduces the real world concept of [[self-similarity]] as a core part of the Moorcock Multiverse. Returns to the concepts of [[Chaos (The Coming of the Terraphiles)|Chaos]], [[the Balance (The Coming of the Terraphiles)|the Balance]] and [[Limbo (The Coming of the Terraphiles)|Limbo]] from ''Elric'', with [[Law (The Coming of the Terraphiles)|Law]] being referred to "the Singularity". The Lords of Chaos and Law are reimagined as the [[Archangel of Law|Angels of the Singularity]] and [[Archangel of Chaos|Angels of Chaos]] and the [[Battle of the Balance]] is believed by one character to be the "[[War in Heaven (Academic Notes)|War in Heaven]]", reflecting the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s comment in {{cs|The Coming of the Terraphiles (novel)}} that the conflict is "a bit [[John Milton|Miltonian]]". | |||
|''New Worlds'' 2<br>1992 | |||
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=== Continued stories in the Multiverse (2006 - present) === | === Continued stories in the Multiverse (2006 - present) === | ||
