Inspirations for a Magic / Cosmological System

 This has so many implications for Stormbringer and similar games.

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MORE AI Content??!?!??!

 OK, this is the last one I swear!

This is practicing step by step prompting for an assignment in the AI course I am taking..

Here we go.

Helen Konek, 1949

PROMPT

Hello. Please do the following step by step. First, read the lyrics for the songs written by Michael Moorcock. Next, read his Eternal Champion series. Finally, write a paragraph profiling a different Eternal Champion who is an Inuit.

Sure! Here’s a structured approach to complete your request:

THE BREAKDOWN

### Step 1: Read the lyrics for songs written by Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock has written lyrics for several songs, often collaborating with bands like Hawkwind and Blue Öyster Cult. Some notable songs include:

1. "The Black Blade" by Blue Öyster Cult

2. "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" by Blue Öyster Cult

3. "Sonic Attack" by Hawkwind

4. "The Wizard Blew His Horn" by Hawkwind

5. "Standing at the Edge" by Hawkwind

These lyrics often contain themes of science fiction and fantasy, resonating with Moorcock's literary works.

### Step 2: Read the Eternal Champion series by Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series includes a complex and interconnected universe featuring various incarnations of the Eternal Champion. The primary series and books include:

1. **Elric of Melniboné** series

2. **Corum** series

3. **Hawkmoon** series

4. **Erekosë** series

5. **Von Bek** series

The Eternal Champion is a recurring figure destined to maintain the balance between Law and Chaos across different worlds and timelines.

### Step 3: Write a paragraph profiling a different Eternal Champion who is an Inuit

After synthesizing Moorcock's themes and style from his lyrics and the Eternal Champion series, we can create a new Eternal Champion character with an Inuit background.

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THE RESULT

**Aaluk of the Frozen Lands** is an Eternal Champion hailing from the icy expanses of the Arctic. Born among the Inuit tribes, Aaluk possesses a deep connection to the spiritual and natural world, embodying the spirit of her people and the harsh yet beautiful environment they inhabit. She wields the Iceblade, a legendary weapon forged from the heart of a glacier, which can control the elements of ice and snow. Aaluk's destiny as an Eternal Champion is to protect her world from the encroaching forces of Chaos, represented by the malevolent entity known as Qaumaneq, the Dark Light, who seeks to engulf the Arctic in eternal darkness. Guided by the ancestral spirits and aided by her loyal sled dogs, Aaluk traverses the frozen wilderness, battling monstrous creatures and confronting the inner turmoil of her dual existence as both a savior and a harbinger of necessary destruction. Her journey is one of balance, where the preservation of her people's way of life and the natural world stands against the inevitable march of change and conflict brought by the forces of Law and Chaos.

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This character integrates the mythological and environmental elements characteristic of Moorcock's work, while introducing a unique cultural perspective through an Inuit Eternal Champion.

CONCLUSION

Once again, we have a bit of the trite AI content (Iceblade, sigh), as well as some stereotypical depictions of Inuit and the arctic. Yet because my prompting skills are improving after learning techniques such as chunking, we see some interesting details (female protagonist, loyal dog sleds, inner turmoil, Quamaneq). Still, it is a pale imitation of a Moorcock character, no matter how happy I am to see a fellow Inuit as the Champion Eternal, I feel this is not up to the standards we expect of a Moorcock character.

The hidden danger of AI, however, is that this level of generated knock offs becomes the norm as it is mass generated by AI, and that people forget what the sublimity of true art really looks like.

AI Generated Content?!?!?!?!

 So, I am doing a great Coursera course on AI to help me bone up for a chapter on AI and Society I have agreed to write to help me widen my appeal to Canadian universities. I had to prompt and refine something so here is what I did (not the pic, the content below it).

AI Generated Elric pic from the web

Chaos Prompt Engineer?

Here is the prompt I wrote:

Create a new monster for the Stormbringer RPG using the article Moorcock Bestiary on the Tomb of Tedankhamen blogger.

Based on the content from the Tomb of Tedankhamen blog, here's a new monster for the Stormbringer RPG:

AI Content

### The Shadowed Harbinger

#### Description:

The Shadowed Harbinger is a dark entity from the Plane of Shadows, embodying fear and darkness. It appears as a tall, cloaked figure with an ever-shifting form, its face hidden beneath a hood that reveals nothing but an empty void. Whispering shadows trail in its wake, spreading dread and confusion.

#### Attributes:

- **STR**: 3D6+6 (15)

- **CON**: 2D6+6 (13)

- **SIZ**: 2D6+6 (13)

- **INT**: 2D6+6 (13)

- **POW**: 3D8 (15)

- **DEX**: 3D6 (10)

- **CHA**: 1D6 (3)

#### Abilities:

- **Fear Aura**: Any creature within a 10-meter radius must succeed on a POW vs. POW roll or be paralyzed by fear for 1D6 rounds.

- **Shadow Manipulation**: The Harbinger can manipulate shadows to create illusions or hide within them, granting it +30% to Stealth and allowing it to disappear and reappear within 20 meters.

- **Life Drain**: On a successful melee attack, the Harbinger drains 1D6 POW from its target, healing itself by the same amount.

- **Dark Vision**: It can see perfectly in complete darkness.

#### Combat Skills:

- **Unarmed Attack**: 75%, 1D6+3 (Life Drain effect)

- **Shadow Whip**: 60%, 2D6, range 10 meters

#### Armor:

- The Harbinger has a natural armor of 6 points due to its shadowy form, reducing damage from physical attacks.

#### Special:

- **Difficult to Harm**: The Shadowed Harbinger can only be harmed by magical weapons or spells.

- **Binding Ritual**: To bind the Harbinger, a sorcerer must perform a ritual requiring a rare shadow gem and the blood of a fear-stricken creature. The ritual includes a POW vs. POW struggle, where the Harbinger's POW is rolled as 3D8.

This monster, inspired by the various entities and binding rituals discussed on the blog, offers a unique challenge to adventurers in the Stormbringer RPG【9†source】【10†source】【11†source】.

Verdict

This monster, like the AI Elric portrait I added above, is incredibly trite and boring compared to what I slavishly created for this blog and for a zine coming out this year. I don't know if Moorcock has voiced his opinions on AI art, but I hope he'd agree that this soulless, corporate content pales in comparison to anything human passion and imagination can create. There is a meme making the rounds (couldn't refind it sadly) that goes something like,

It took AI to make me realize how terrible art without soul can be.

Truer words were never spoken.

Fuck AI 'art'