Blackmoor reading list

[finarvyn]

And which works in concrete?

Try to keep in mind that there may not be an answer to this question. If, for example, Dave read the Elric books by Michael Moorcock (and we'd first want to determine which books were out pre-1971 or so) he might not have taken any single person or event from the books as much as he might have taken a mind-set of dark fantasy, hero doesn't always get the girl, bad things happen to good people, or whatever.

In the case of Elric, however, I suspect that Stormbringer was a major inspiration for the magic swords matrix. While there had been famous swords prior to Stormbringer (Excalibur, for example) none were to my recollection sentient and conveying powers to the user.