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Title Turuk
Author Jean-Luc Istin
Illustrator Diogo Saito
Publisher Soleil - 2017
First Printing Soleil - 2017
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Title Myth
Author Sylvain Cordurié
Illustrator Giovanni Lorusso
Publisher Soleil - 2018
First Printing Soleil - 2018
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Title Gri'im
Author Nicolas Jarry
Illustrator Stéphane Créty
Publisher Soleil - 2018
First Printing Soleil - 2018
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Title Sa'ar
Author Nicolas Jarry
Illustrator Paolo Deplano
Publisher Soleil - 2018
First Printing Soleil - 2018
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Title La Poisse
Author Olivier Peru
Illustrator Stefano Martino, Dellac
Publisher Soleil - 2018
First Printing Soleil - 2018
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Title Ayraak
Author Nicolas Jarry
Illustrator Jesus Hervàs Millàn
Publisher Soleil - 2019
First Printing Soleil - 2019
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Title Braagam
Author Nicolas Jarry
Illustrator Stéphane Créty
Publisher Soleil - 2019
First Printing Soleil - 2019
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Title Renifleur
Author Olivier Peru
Illustrator Giovanni Lorusso
Publisher Soleil - 2019
First Printing Soleil - 2019
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Title Silence
Author Olivier Peru
Illustrator Stéphane Créty
Publisher Soleil - 2020
First Printing Soleil - 2020
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Title Dunnrak
Author Jean-Luc Istin
Illustrator Alex Sierra
Publisher Soleil - 2020
First Printing Soleil - 2020
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Title Kronan
Author Jean-Luc Istin
Illustrator Sébastien Grenier
Publisher Soleil - 2021
First Printing Soleil - 2021
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Title Pest
Author Sylvain Cordurié
Illustrator Bojan Vukic
Publisher Soleil - 2021
First Printing Soleil - 2021
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Title Kor'Nyr
Author Sylvain Cordurié
Illustrator Pierre-Denis Goux
Publisher Soleil - 2021
First Printing Soleil - 2021
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Title Shaaka
Author Sylvain Cordurié
Illustrator Poupard
Publisher Soleil - 2021
First Printing Soleil - 2021
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Title Lardeur
Author Olivier Peru
Illustrator Ma Yi
Publisher Soleil - 2021
First Printing Soleil - 2021
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Title Morogg
Author Sylvain Cordurié
Illustrator Stéphane Créty
Publisher Soleil - 2022
First Printing Soleil - 2022
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Title Azh'rr
Author Nicolas Jarry
Illustrator Simone Buonfantino
Publisher Soleil - 2022
First Printing Soleil - 2022
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Title La Meute
Author Olivier Peru
Illustrator Stéphane Créty
Publisher Soleil - 2022
First Printing Soleil - 2022
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Title Nerrom
Author David Courtois
Illustrator Deplano
Publisher Soleil - 2022
First Printing Soleil - 2022
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Title Kobo et Myth
Author Sylvain Cordurié
Illustrator Bojan Vukic
Publisher Soleil - 2023
First Printing Soleil - 2023
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Title Orak
Author Nicolas Jarry, Jean-Luc Istin
Illustrator Alina Yerofieieva
Publisher Soleil - 2023
First Printing Soleil - 2023
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Title Viande Morte
Author Olivier Peru
Illustrator Alexis Sentenac
Publisher Soleil - 2023
First Printing Soleil - 2023
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Title Akrith
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Title Orouna
Author ---
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Category Graphic Novels
Warnings Near nudity, blood, torture, violence, etc
Main Characters Turuk, Myth, Gri'im, Sa'ar, La Poisse, Ayraak, and many more (see book titles)
Main Elements Orcs, Goblins, Elves, Dwarves, Wizards
Website Le Monde d'Aquilon




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Click to read the summaryGri'im

Click to read the summarySa'ar

Click to read the summaryLa Poisse

Click to read the summaryAyrakk

Click to read the summaryBraagam

Click to read the summaryRenifleur

Click to read the summarySilence

Click to read the summaryDunnrak

Click to read the summaryKronan

Click to read the summaryPest

Click to read the summaryKor'Nyr

Click to read the summaryShaaka

Click to read the summaryLardeur

Click to read the summaryMorogg

Click to read the summaryAzh'rr

Click to read the summaryLa Meute

Click to read the summaryNerrom

Click to read the summaryKobo et Myth

Click to read the summaryOrak

Click to read the summaryViande Morte




I wasn't sure what to make of this. Usually orcs and goblins are the bad guys, very violent, without morals, and not to bright to boot. Sure, I've read some books featuring orcs but they are usually comedies so the violence is more silly than serious. But since its part of the larger Terres D'Arran series, I figured why not see the world through the eyes of these two races too.

I think they made a good choice with Turuk, see he's a half breed, so he's not so ugly and not so dumb. In fact he comes of as a reasonably decent guy...only he is an orc, so in fact, he's not nice at all unless is serves his purpose. I also thought the ending particularly fun, I mean I had figured it out but thought it was cute just the same (yes cute, even as it ends with a set of clawed hands spraying blood...yeah, this book was hard to categorize).

The second one had a goblin thief (also someone whom you wouldn't want as a friend or partner), but again they managed to make a bad guy palatable because the people he steals from are just so much worse than he is. If you're bad guy is hurting other bad guys, you can kind of root for him. This is where I started having trouble with the fact I'm reading these books in French. Sure, no problem reading a novel, but toss in crude language, swearing and dialects and it got a little harder. At least when someone swears its usually pretty obvious.

The swearing continues in the third book, where they get around the bad guy issue by doing the "the enemy of my enemy is my...well ally at least". And when one's childhood was a miserable's as Gri'im's you can't help but feel at least some sympathy for him.

In Sa'ar we get a story of a goblin's rise to power, now he's totally a bad guy in this one except...everyone else is that much worse! And I have to say I really enjoyed La Poisse because, well I have to give away too much, but La Poisse's grandfather is hilarious, even if he is a goblin and his grandson half orc. It also has the most horror element with grotesque ghosts and a Cthulu-esque villain, but I still had the most fun with the twists in this one.


Around this point my father discovers one of these books and he's like, ooh, a comic book can I look? I'm and thinking of all the blood and violence and other stuff found in both Orcs & Gobelins as well as Elfes (the first Elfes book he looked at involved a Lord of the Rings epic battle with a ghoul army), plus the books are in French. But he said that even if he didn't read them he wanted to look at the pictures. So a testament to the quality artwork, I have to admit that even when someone is being dismembered or tortured, the artwork is very well done :o) Maybe at times a little too realistic? Sometime graphic novels get an artist to do the cover and then when you open it up you're disappointed but here, the insides are just as good as the cover.


So I'm reading Kronan and thinking this one is kind of unusual. The setting for one thing didn't feel like any part of the Terres d'Arrans I was familiar with, and some of the artwork captured those pulp fantasy novels from decades ago, more so than most of the nearly naked women art these novels are filled with. And this orc had an awful lot of long flowing hair and the way he rode his war...water buffalo? It was very familiar. It took me till the end to clue in that "Kronan" was umm..."Conan" and that made me smile. I've read the Conan stories but long enough ago that I didn't recognize it here, but other than some name changes and a skin colour change for our barbarian protagonist, its definitely a retelling of "A Witch Shall be Born". A nice little treat.




Posted: July 2023

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