Is not sure whether fate exists, certainly does not like to think of himself as a pawn of it. Superhuman, immune to disease and the ravages of time.Īgnostic, with a certain distaste for fate.Ĭlever, know his craft like the back of his hand.īear two mundane sword, one silver and one steel. White haired and cat eyed due to witcher mutations. Orphaned child without family or fortune. Has few friends or acquaintances, mainly Dyvim and Moonglum. Rides Dragons and sometimes even weirder craft. His people have ruled the world for ten millenia. One aspect of the champion eternal, a multiversal hero. Mightiest mage in all of the young kingdoms.īound symbiotically to a soul eating sentient sword. Weakling who needs to sustain himself with either drugs or stolen souls. Rightful emperor of Melnibone, and thus most powerful individual in all the Young Kingdoms. Just as an example of what I am talking about to give you a gist here, here are the lists the naysayers tend to provide: The stronger case being thematic themes, reverse contextualization of characters, tone of conflict both characters endure and the like. After which a bunch of individuals started making lists of differences that result in no plagiarism involved while Razorfist and his camp provide striking similarities that make a stronger case for plagiarism. This became apparent to me as I came upon some of his tumblr posts that he was reserved to call The Witcher plagiarism on the grounds that the game developers were not the ones plagiarizing Moorcock's work but Andrzej Sapkowski was the one who is supposed the one doing it here and making money off the game.Īfter he began reading the books he came to the conclusion that they were and made this video as a result of his final word on the video. Apparently he wasn't aware of Moorcock until he stumbled upon the forum post. Now at first I didn't pay it much mind because a lot of people and fans of fantasy novel's appear to make claims about how all kinds of fantasy author's plagiarise one another's work and usually this doesn't go anywhere beyond the forums of the fans arguing about it and I wrote it off as just that.īut one day I got curious and decided to see if this was the case with Razorfist. I know that this topic was posted somewhere else in fact but I am somewhat curious here to hear Michael Moorcock sort of give me his definitive word on this because all I have ever heard of this tends to come from second or third hand accounts giving their view on why it's plagiarism or notįor the record here, this is the video that turned me on to this controversy in the first place:

, Moorcock has spoken, there never was a lawsuit.

Michael Moorcock by Michael Moorcock