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Title | La Compagnie des Bannis
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Author | Jean-Luc Istin
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Illustrator | Brice Cossu
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Publisher | Soleil - 2023
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First Printing | Soleil - 2023
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Title | Dal'Darum
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Author | Nicolas Jarry
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Illustrator | Giovanni Lorusso
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Publisher | Soleil - 2023
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First Printing | Soleil - 2023
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Title | La Bataille de Torunn
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Author | Nicolas Jarry
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Illustrator | Alina Yerofieieva
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Publisher | Soleil - 2024
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First Printing | Soleil - 2024
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Title | La Bataille des cités-états
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Author | David Courtois, Nicolas Jarry
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Illustrator | Livia Pastore, Alex Sierra
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Publisher | Soleil - 2024
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First Printing | Soleil - 2024
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Title | Le Choix du sang
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Author | ---
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Illustrator | ---
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Publisher | ---
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Category | Graphic Novels
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Warnings | Near nudity, blood, torture, violence, etc
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Main Characters | ---
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Main Elements | Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Goblins, Wizards
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Website | Le Monde d'Aquilon
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 La Compagnie des Bannis
Dunnrak et Hidden ont créé la compagnie des bannis avec un objectif : détruire la veuve noire, l'alliance visant à droguer les anciennes races pour les anéantir. Aidé du troublant mage Altherat, Dunnrak décide de frapper fort en s'attaquant à l'un de ses fondateurs : le roi du Venkor. En les provoquant de la sorte, il pourrait déclencher une guerre comme jamais les terres d'Arran n'en ont connue.
Dal'Darum
Suite à l'exécution de la compagnie des bannis, Redwin a juré aux principaux meneurs des anciennes races de trouver un lieu où tous pourraient se réunir et résister à la guerre déclarée par les rois humains et les mages de l'ordre des Ombres. Des héros tels que Lanawynn, Ayraak, Jorun, Tala feront route vers la forteresse de Karsonn tenue par les irréductibles nains de la légion de Fer.
La Bataille de Torunn
Face à l'immense horde assanide, Kronan hésite entre l'honneur ou la raison, le combat ou la fuite. Tandis que les elfes Bleus de Port-Vogue, jusqu'alors préservés, se retrouvent assiégés par une immense flotte de navires yrlanais, à l'Ouest, une nouvelle légion d'hommes et de Golems assiègent les Elfes de la forêt de Torunn, repoussant toujours plus loin les Sylvains menés par la reine Ora...
La Bataille des cités-états
Les monarques de Lombardie, de Tarascon et du Léhon livrent une traque sans merci aux races anciennes. Pour échapper au génocide, les elfes Sylvains de la forêt de Daëdenn s'allient aux criminels détenus dans la prison d'Armuhr, tandis que le nain Torunn de la forge, dévoré par la rage noire, porte sa vengeance à travers le pays.
We had hints of something brewing in the background in the other series, in each of them (Elfes, Nain, Mages and especially Orcs & Gobelins) there were clues that human kings rulers no longer wanted to share the world with the ancient races and wanted to wipe them out. After some of the events blamed on those races, such as the ghouls raised by a elf necromancer, the humans no longer wanted to be on the receiving end. Not that humans are all saints but to be fair, all the near world ending events were trigged by the action of the elves, of course it is also the elves that came to the rescue as well, but one doesn't take that into account when seeking someone to blame.
Now several books in the various series are subtitled Guerres d'Arran, so its a bit hard to put a clear set of books together here, but I figured if there was one that was part of this separate series there will likely be more. In this book, we have a mix of races all coming together. Plus the invention of yet another kind of elf, and something called a Lutann which is a bit like a badass hobbit...I didn't much like yanking in these new races out of nowhere, I felt they needed some introduction before being pulled into a crossover novel.
But not only did we also have familiar races, we had many familiar characters all joining together to take a stand against those that would exterminate them.
The main downside? This storyline has just barely started, its likely going to be years before it wraps up. After reading about 100 books in one year, waiting for the next installments will be torture! Who thought that when I picked up a random "Elfes" book from the library, and only because I decided to read a bunch of Faerie books I owned, that I would get so caught up in this epic series! I don't think many can be had in English, but if you can read French, wow, this is one expansive and rich world and complex stories. I wonder if when they started did they realize how huge this was going to be!
June 2024
Finally got my hands on the next book after 6 months. The one downside of a 100+ epic graphic novel series is that you start to forget bits and pieces. I couldn't remember some of the characters though one of two of those were pretty important (the orcs in particular are starting to flow one into the other). But this was a big book, coming in at over 80 pages of amazing illustrations. And I love how all the characters are coming together, crossing paths, as they battle against, well, extinction. A classic tale of building up an army of people who normally would never work together, taking a ragtag bunch of exiles and homeless and creating a resistance. And of course some last minute aid from a dragon never hurts. For as long as they publish this series I'm going to keep reading it, and when they are done, I'll just start all over again!
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