What is "erekose"

Erekosë is a character in author Michael Moorcock's fantasy novel The Eternal Champion. He is an incarnation of Moorcock's character the Eternal Champion, and is unique among those incarnations in that he can remember his previous lives, something that frequently causes him great distress.

Erekosë appears as a lead character in three Moorcock novels and a graphic novel:

• The Eternal Champion (1970) - based on stories in Avillion and Science Fantasy
• Phoenix in Obsidian, aka The Silver Warriors (1970)
• The Swords of Heaven, the Flowers of Hell (1979) (graphic novel)
• The Dragon in the Sword (1987)

Another novel, The Sundered Worlds, appears in the White Wolf Publishing omnibus collection The Eternal Champion (with the novels The Eternal Champion and Phoenix in Obsidian, in between the two), but only as a bonus novel; it is not part of the Erekosë series. (The Dragon in the Sword appears in the following White Wolf omnibus, Von Bek.)

In The Eternal Champion, Erekose is introduced as "John Daker," a seemingly average man of twentieth-century Earth, who is soon transported to another world and forced to deal with his true calling. He finds love with the woman Ermizhad, but seems to be cursed not to be with her for very long.