In the tumultuous year 1190 AD, Elric is known as many things: a thug, a thief, a bully, a bigot, a murderer-a truly despicable piece of gallows bait. The people of York have long yearned for respite from his reign of terror and receive it when Elric takes the cross and joins King Richard's Crusade to the Holy Land. Elric isn't going alone; after an unforgivable act of violence on the grounds of York Castle, a discorporated demon, deprived...