Perhaps I stay with you for the same reasons that you pursue the sorcerer of Pan Tang.
I have had bad luck, yet I am still one of Pan Tang's greatest sorcerers.
"He is one of the most powerful in Pan Tang."
"And the wizards of Pan Tang almost equal your folk, Elric, in their skills."
Even if they had sailed with the other southern vessels it would have been unlikely mat they could have turned the day against Pan Tang.
It is also the name of a song by Tygers of Pan Tang.
Pan Tang was an unholy island dominated by its dark aristocracy of warrior-wizards.
By their armour, these men were from Pan Tang.
Pan Tang was an island of green, shiny, obsidian rock that gave off bizarre reflections; rock that seemed alive.
And since I would have no truck with the ordinary kind of wizard such as Pan Tang spawns, you were my only choice.