progeny

I don't have kids, and haven't planned on having any. The risk of my children taking after their mother is too great- and the prospect of eighteen years in battle with flying and shuriken-throwing rapscallions tires me.

I was pretty sure that there was no combination of factors that could lead me to change my views on this. But this morning, I found out that a friend from high school named his son Elric.

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Elric.

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As in Elric of Melniboné

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whose sword was named Stormbringer.

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the sword that feeds upon the souls of those it kills.

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I'm going to tell my wife to get ready, 'cause we got a lotta catching up to do. I'll also need to buy a bigger house, one that has enough room for us and our two sons: Dilvish and Thorin, and our daughter Tenar.