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Elfes #12
La Reine des Sylvains
Ora, une jeune elfe élevée par des orcs est devenue une guerrière et veut prouver à tous qu’elle est digne du clan. Elle décide alors de se venger de celle qui a tué ses
parents et l’a chassée de sa forêt : Eliseii, la reine des elfes. Mais la tuer condamnerait les Sylvains à une mort certaine, car partout autour d’eux, les hommes meurent sous les crocs de monstres venus du Nord... avant de revenir à la vie, affamés et malveillants !
parents et l’a chassée de sa forêt : Eliseii, la reine des elfes. Mais la tuer condamnerait les Sylvains à une mort certaine, car partout autour d’eux, les hommes meurent sous les crocs de monstres venus du Nord... avant de revenir à la vie, affamés et malveillants !
56 pages, Hardcover
First published December 2, 2015
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About the author
Nicolas Jarry
295 books23 followersIl a suivi des études universitaires à la faculté de Biologie de Bordeaux avant de s'essayer à la littérature. Il a aussi occupé les fonctions de surveillant dans un établissement scolaire et a été libraire spécialisé dans le rayon Bande Dessinée à la librairie Marbot (Périgueux).
Sa première production s'appelle les Chroniques d'un guerrier Sînamm, un cycle de fantasy (éditions Mnémos). Au Festival du film fantastique (Bruxelles), Nicolas rencontre de Jean-Luc Istin avec qui il créera les Brumes d'Asceltis (Soleil).
Il n'est pas seulement scénariste de bande dessinée, mais également romancier. Il a coécrit avec France Richemond, une saga historico-mythologique en deux époques publiée (2 tomes) aux éditions du Rocher (2005) : "Sphinx" (t. 1) et "Le peuple de la mer" (t. 2). Il a également publié chez le même éditeur, une trilogie de fantasy : "Le Loup de Deb".
Il a participé au collectif Les Contes de Brocéliande.
Sa première production s'appelle les Chroniques d'un guerrier Sînamm, un cycle de fantasy (éditions Mnémos). Au Festival du film fantastique (Bruxelles), Nicolas rencontre de Jean-Luc Istin avec qui il créera les Brumes d'Asceltis (Soleil).
Il n'est pas seulement scénariste de bande dessinée, mais également romancier. Il a coécrit avec France Richemond, une saga historico-mythologique en deux époques publiée (2 tomes) aux éditions du Rocher (2005) : "Sphinx" (t. 1) et "Le peuple de la mer" (t. 2). Il a également publié chez le même éditeur, une trilogie de fantasy : "Le Loup de Deb".
Il a participé au collectif Les Contes de Brocéliande.
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May 23, 2020
Ora is a very young elf who has to deal with the death of her father. She is found and adopted by an orc family and raised as an orc. Ora learns well and grows up to be a formiddable warrior under the orcs tutelage and love. She wants to please them by becoming a great warrior, but she also wants to know more about the elven people and try to figure out why her father was killed.
This quest takes her, along with her orc "brothers", to find the wood elves. She learns about the conflict between her father and the Queen of the Wood Elves. But at this moment, the undead plague attacks the forest. Ora and her brothers join the fight, on the side of the elves, to defeat the undead. The events of this issue will lead to Ora becoming the new Wood Elf queen.
Another stellar addition to the fantasy world of this French comic. Good art, a very interesting story and one with some important moments. Any fantasy fan will deeply appreciate this world and this entire comic series. Hats off to a wonderful creation of a fantasy world.
This quest takes her, along with her orc "brothers", to find the wood elves. She learns about the conflict between her father and the Queen of the Wood Elves. But at this moment, the undead plague attacks the forest. Ora and her brothers join the fight, on the side of the elves, to defeat the undead. The events of this issue will lead to Ora becoming the new Wood Elf queen.
Another stellar addition to the fantasy world of this French comic. Good art, a very interesting story and one with some important moments. Any fantasy fan will deeply appreciate this world and this entire comic series. Hats off to a wonderful creation of a fantasy world.
March 27, 2025
I love how all these different story arcs connect and overlap with each other. This time, we're back to the Wood Elves. Ora is a young Elven girl who was raised by Orks until one day she becomes their greatest huntress and goes on a journey to avenge her blood father's killers. Turns out it's the Queen of the Wood Elves herself, but the Ghoul horde is outside their village, and Ora's destiny unravels in an interesting way.
Jarry is always an interesting writer, but Heban doesn't keep up with the art. Yes, he keeps in line with the overall style of the series. However, there are sloppy and lazy-drawn panels. It's a nice, fast-paced story with a lot of comical moments. Another great addition in this French fantasy series.
Jarry is always an interesting writer, but Heban doesn't keep up with the art. Yes, he keeps in line with the overall style of the series. However, there are sloppy and lazy-drawn panels. It's a nice, fast-paced story with a lot of comical moments. Another great addition in this French fantasy series.
July 16, 2016
This second arc in the Elves heroic fantasy series introduces the race of the Wood Elves, somewhat reminiscent of the Mirkwood ones of Middle-Earth lore, with a personal touch brought in by scriptwriter Nicolas Jarry, who's another author I've had good experiences with alongside Istin.
By now, readers will have learnt that each of the five Elven peoples is going to be handled by a different writer-artist team: Istin/Duarte for the Blue Elves, Jarry/Maconi for the Wood Elves, Peru/Bileau for the White Elves, Corbeyran/Bordier for the Half-Elves, and Hadrien/Ma Yi for the Dark Elves. This has resulted in a few interesting pros and contras that become more noticeable starting from this second story arc onwards. Like, at the beginning it'll look as if this is a clutch of stories that are independent from each other and whose sole point in common is that they're set in the same fictional world and that the protagonists are all Elves. This would give an impression of disconnect, of this being a collage of unrelated sketches, with no unifying topic or overarching narrative thread to bind them all together. Besides, none of the races of Elves either interact or seem to know of the other four existing races at first, which will appear strange since they definitely know of the Men, the Orcs and the Dwarves, and interact with them, so why not the other Elven cousins as well?
But once the ancient danger, personified by the rebel Elven sorceress Lah'saa, sets into motion her evil schemes, a common thread starts to emerge. Each of the Elven peoples have to face the threat of her army at different timelines, and begin to form alliances, which will necessarily lead to interacting with the other races. Little by little, you start to see these others appear in the background in stories outside those dealing with their specific race, the same way extras work in a film; for example, we see Dark Elves in the background on a Blue Elves arc. Then you realise that this series isn't as disconnected as you thought it was when you started to read, and as the power of Lah'saa grows stronger and stronger and she starts to inflict tremendous defeats on each of the Elves at a time, a perceptive reader might guess that it's likely to take a grand mega-coalition of all Elven races to stop if not defeat her, if and when they realise the validity of the "separated we perish, united we win" adage.
Another downside of having different creative teams for each set of Elves is the uneven quality in terms of storytelling and plot. Some of the teams are brilliant creatives, and other teams are weaker creatives, and putting this unequal mix together in publication makes for a series that can be a frustratingly rocky reading experience due to its combo of It's amazing! and It's meh!. Personally, I think the Istin and Jarry teams are the strongest storytellers, with Hanna as runner-up because of his impressive beginning that unfortunately lost steam in the second volume and plummeted. But, on the other hand, I fully appreciate the value of such diversity in storytelling, as it gives each Elven culture an unique flavour that's not matched by the others, their particular set of traits, customs and quirks, and it works in a way like when novelists write each chapter in a novel from a different character's viewpoint.
The artwork isn't as uneven as the storytelling. Or perhaps I don't have as good an eye for art as other BD fans, because it sure doesn't look that vastly uneven to me. Sure, there's noticeable differences in styles and one can notice when this artist is better than that other artist with landscapes or action sequences or drawing people, for example, but it's within what's to be expected, and in general the artists are closer to each other in skill levels than the writers are. The colour palette is remarkably consistent, to my eyes at least, which adds to the smoothing-out of artist particularities in pro of an appearance of consistency. They're employng the same colourist(s), maybe?
Now on to the story, with mild spoilers ahead. The Queen of the Wood Elves has made the sylvan Elves into my second favourite race after the Blues. Unlike the other authors, who've consistently kept the same Elf as protagonist for their chosen arc, Jarry hasn't kept the same character in the main role but instead has had one different for each of the three volumes so far dealing with the Wood Elves. In The Honour of the Wood Elves, the first volume (the second in the series chronologically), the plot was about a Human princess called Llali searching for the elusive Wood Elves to propose an alliance to fight the Orcs and finding the Elf prince Yfass in a moment of dire need. That ended rather tragically (Jarry is the sort of writer to kill your favourites), and in the second volume, The Crystal of the Wood Elves the mantle of protagonist was picked up by Yfass' mother, Queen Eliseii, who has to make a series of hard and morally-challenging decisions to protect both her people and keep the Green Crystal out of sight from Lah'saa until the champion chosen by the Crystal arrives.
Then, for the third volume, the protagonist is to be Ora, a young Wood Elf raised by Orcs (yes, you read right, an Elf raised by an Orc family as one of their own) after the death of her father, a death with ramifications to Queen Eliseii. Ora's storyline is, in my opinion, the funniest in the series, bordering on comedy, not just because of her wildly unusual upbringing as an adoptive Orc but also because of her personality, the characterisation of her Orc family, and the misunderstandings she runs into when she has to interact with other Elves due to her . . . ahem, Orkish manners. I won't say much more of what goes on, for fear of spoiling this any further, but suffice to say that Ora becomes quite the hero in this installment.
So, yes, I still maintain that this series provides with plenty entertainment and would recommend it warmly. I do wish it were translated into English beyond the first volume (that I can see), but I'm growing a tad tired of repeating the same lament about the disinterest of Anglo editorials in European bandes dessinées over and over.
By now, readers will have learnt that each of the five Elven peoples is going to be handled by a different writer-artist team: Istin/Duarte for the Blue Elves, Jarry/Maconi for the Wood Elves, Peru/Bileau for the White Elves, Corbeyran/Bordier for the Half-Elves, and Hadrien/Ma Yi for the Dark Elves. This has resulted in a few interesting pros and contras that become more noticeable starting from this second story arc onwards. Like, at the beginning it'll look as if this is a clutch of stories that are independent from each other and whose sole point in common is that they're set in the same fictional world and that the protagonists are all Elves. This would give an impression of disconnect, of this being a collage of unrelated sketches, with no unifying topic or overarching narrative thread to bind them all together. Besides, none of the races of Elves either interact or seem to know of the other four existing races at first, which will appear strange since they definitely know of the Men, the Orcs and the Dwarves, and interact with them, so why not the other Elven cousins as well?
But once the ancient danger, personified by the rebel Elven sorceress Lah'saa, sets into motion her evil schemes, a common thread starts to emerge. Each of the Elven peoples have to face the threat of her army at different timelines, and begin to form alliances, which will necessarily lead to interacting with the other races. Little by little, you start to see these others appear in the background in stories outside those dealing with their specific race, the same way extras work in a film; for example, we see Dark Elves in the background on a Blue Elves arc. Then you realise that this series isn't as disconnected as you thought it was when you started to read, and as the power of Lah'saa grows stronger and stronger and she starts to inflict tremendous defeats on each of the Elves at a time, a perceptive reader might guess that it's likely to take a grand mega-coalition of all Elven races to stop if not defeat her, if and when they realise the validity of the "separated we perish, united we win" adage.
Another downside of having different creative teams for each set of Elves is the uneven quality in terms of storytelling and plot. Some of the teams are brilliant creatives, and other teams are weaker creatives, and putting this unequal mix together in publication makes for a series that can be a frustratingly rocky reading experience due to its combo of It's amazing! and It's meh!. Personally, I think the Istin and Jarry teams are the strongest storytellers, with Hanna as runner-up because of his impressive beginning that unfortunately lost steam in the second volume and plummeted. But, on the other hand, I fully appreciate the value of such diversity in storytelling, as it gives each Elven culture an unique flavour that's not matched by the others, their particular set of traits, customs and quirks, and it works in a way like when novelists write each chapter in a novel from a different character's viewpoint.
The artwork isn't as uneven as the storytelling. Or perhaps I don't have as good an eye for art as other BD fans, because it sure doesn't look that vastly uneven to me. Sure, there's noticeable differences in styles and one can notice when this artist is better than that other artist with landscapes or action sequences or drawing people, for example, but it's within what's to be expected, and in general the artists are closer to each other in skill levels than the writers are. The colour palette is remarkably consistent, to my eyes at least, which adds to the smoothing-out of artist particularities in pro of an appearance of consistency. They're employng the same colourist(s), maybe?
Now on to the story, with mild spoilers ahead. The Queen of the Wood Elves has made the sylvan Elves into my second favourite race after the Blues. Unlike the other authors, who've consistently kept the same Elf as protagonist for their chosen arc, Jarry hasn't kept the same character in the main role but instead has had one different for each of the three volumes so far dealing with the Wood Elves. In The Honour of the Wood Elves, the first volume (the second in the series chronologically), the plot was about a Human princess called Llali searching for the elusive Wood Elves to propose an alliance to fight the Orcs and finding the Elf prince Yfass in a moment of dire need. That ended rather tragically (Jarry is the sort of writer to kill your favourites), and in the second volume, The Crystal of the Wood Elves the mantle of protagonist was picked up by Yfass' mother, Queen Eliseii, who has to make a series of hard and morally-challenging decisions to protect both her people and keep the Green Crystal out of sight from Lah'saa until the champion chosen by the Crystal arrives.
Then, for the third volume, the protagonist is to be Ora, a young Wood Elf raised by Orcs (yes, you read right, an Elf raised by an Orc family as one of their own) after the death of her father, a death with ramifications to Queen Eliseii. Ora's storyline is, in my opinion, the funniest in the series, bordering on comedy, not just because of her wildly unusual upbringing as an adoptive Orc but also because of her personality, the characterisation of her Orc family, and the misunderstandings she runs into when she has to interact with other Elves due to her . . . ahem, Orkish manners. I won't say much more of what goes on, for fear of spoiling this any further, but suffice to say that Ora becomes quite the hero in this installment.
So, yes, I still maintain that this series provides with plenty entertainment and would recommend it warmly. I do wish it were translated into English beyond the first volume (that I can see), but I'm growing a tad tired of repeating the same lament about the disinterest of Anglo editorials in European bandes dessinées over and over.
January 23, 2018
This is the third book focused on Wood Elves, I liked the storytelling as it had three things working for it, first freshness, we get the first real look at the Orc race, second character focused, by basing it on one person instead of an event, it becomes more personal, third common thread, by having a common enemy that of the ghouls/undead, all the individual book in series are coming together. I loved the climax battle sequence. The artwork as usual was excellent.
I read the English translated version called Elves: The Queen of the Wood Elves
I read the English translated version called Elves: The Queen of the Wood Elves
June 1, 2025
Gros coup de coeur pour ce tome !
September 27, 2018
Interesting story and good art... I enjoyed it very much. The narrator talks too much at times but that's a detail... The end is a bit rushed and expository...
April 2, 2020
Fantastic issue, probably my favourite so far. What a great series.
May 1, 2025
POPKulturowy Kociołek: „Królowa Sylwanów” przenosi nas o kilkadziesiąt lat w przyszłość względem wydarzeń, które na zawsze odmieniły życie Leśnych Elfów i ludzi z krainy Eysine (tom 6, 9, 11). Tytułowa Królowa, sięgając po zakazany Zielony Kryształ i zawierając ryzykowne przymierze z ludźmi, uratowała swoje plemię przed najazdem barbarzyńców z północy, ale zapłaciła za to wysoką cenę.
Scenariusz Świat Akwilonu: Elfy tom 12 wprowadza czytelnika w dramatyczne losy młodej elfki Ory, która po tragicznej śmierci ojca trafia pod opiekę orków. W surowych realiach ich klanu, gdzie szacunek zdobywa się wyłącznie siłą i odwagą, przechodzi niezwykłą przemianę, wyrastając na jedną z najlepszych łowczyń. Gdy osiąga pełnoletniość i składa wojownicze śluby, postanawia odnaleźć morderców swojego biologicznego ojca, nieświadoma, że jej osobista vendetta splecie się z dużo większym konfliktem.
Początek albumu prezentuje się całkiem dobrze, a scenarzysta (Nicolas Jarry) kolejny raz prezentuje swój kunszt autorski. Niestety wraz z kolejnymi przeczytanymi stronami zaczynamy dostrzegać wady tytułu.
Największym problemem komiksu jest skrajne przeładowanie treścią. Na 54 stronach twórca próbuje zmieścić zarówno wątek osobistej zemsty, narodziny Wielkiego Przymierza, epidemię nieumarłych, walkę o magiczny kryształ i zdradę królowej Sylvanów. Powoduje to, że poruszona wątki są dość słabo zarysowane i prześlizgujemy się ledwie po ich powierzchni. Historia, która w spowolnionym rytmie mogłaby wybrzmieć z większą mocą, tutaj pędzi na złamanie karku, gubiąc po drodze potencjalne momenty refleksji i budowania napięcia.
Jeśli chodzi o główną bohaterkę, to można ją oceniać dwojako. Elfka wychowana przez orków, przyjmująca ich zwyczaje i mentalność, to naprawdę ciekawy koncept. Z drugiej jednak strony, rozwój tej bohaterki pozostawia pewien niedosyt. Jej przemiana w twardą wojowniczkę wydaje się czasami przeskakiwać naturalne etapy emocjonalnego dojrzewania, przez co nie wszystkie jej decyzje są przekonujące.
Pojawiają się tu nawet momenty (na szczęście krótkie i okazjonalne), gdzie jej zachowanie jest dziecinne i denerwujące. Brakuje też głębszego rozbudowania jej charakteru i więzi z otaczającymi ją postaciami (zwłaszcza orczym klanem). Szkoda, bo właśnie relacja między Orą a orkami miała potencjał, by najmocniej przykuć uwagę czytelnika i wyróżnić album na tle poprzednich części serii. Mimo swoich wad Ora to jednak postać, która intryguje i poprawnie oddaje tematykę rozdartej tożsamości, zwłaszcza w świecie, gdzie lojalność wobec własnej rasy wydaje się być czymś świętym....
https://popkulturowykociolek.pl/recen...
Scenariusz Świat Akwilonu: Elfy tom 12 wprowadza czytelnika w dramatyczne losy młodej elfki Ory, która po tragicznej śmierci ojca trafia pod opiekę orków. W surowych realiach ich klanu, gdzie szacunek zdobywa się wyłącznie siłą i odwagą, przechodzi niezwykłą przemianę, wyrastając na jedną z najlepszych łowczyń. Gdy osiąga pełnoletniość i składa wojownicze śluby, postanawia odnaleźć morderców swojego biologicznego ojca, nieświadoma, że jej osobista vendetta splecie się z dużo większym konfliktem.
Początek albumu prezentuje się całkiem dobrze, a scenarzysta (Nicolas Jarry) kolejny raz prezentuje swój kunszt autorski. Niestety wraz z kolejnymi przeczytanymi stronami zaczynamy dostrzegać wady tytułu.
Największym problemem komiksu jest skrajne przeładowanie treścią. Na 54 stronach twórca próbuje zmieścić zarówno wątek osobistej zemsty, narodziny Wielkiego Przymierza, epidemię nieumarłych, walkę o magiczny kryształ i zdradę królowej Sylvanów. Powoduje to, że poruszona wątki są dość słabo zarysowane i prześlizgujemy się ledwie po ich powierzchni. Historia, która w spowolnionym rytmie mogłaby wybrzmieć z większą mocą, tutaj pędzi na złamanie karku, gubiąc po drodze potencjalne momenty refleksji i budowania napięcia.
Jeśli chodzi o główną bohaterkę, to można ją oceniać dwojako. Elfka wychowana przez orków, przyjmująca ich zwyczaje i mentalność, to naprawdę ciekawy koncept. Z drugiej jednak strony, rozwój tej bohaterki pozostawia pewien niedosyt. Jej przemiana w twardą wojowniczkę wydaje się czasami przeskakiwać naturalne etapy emocjonalnego dojrzewania, przez co nie wszystkie jej decyzje są przekonujące.
Pojawiają się tu nawet momenty (na szczęście krótkie i okazjonalne), gdzie jej zachowanie jest dziecinne i denerwujące. Brakuje też głębszego rozbudowania jej charakteru i więzi z otaczającymi ją postaciami (zwłaszcza orczym klanem). Szkoda, bo właśnie relacja między Orą a orkami miała potencjał, by najmocniej przykuć uwagę czytelnika i wyróżnić album na tle poprzednich części serii. Mimo swoich wad Ora to jednak postać, która intryguje i poprawnie oddaje tematykę rozdartej tożsamości, zwłaszcza w świecie, gdzie lojalność wobec własnej rasy wydaje się być czymś świętym....
https://popkulturowykociolek.pl/recen...
November 21, 2022
Elves Vol 12: The Queen of the Wood Elves is a edge of the seat ride from the start! Elves Vol 12: The Queen of the Wood Elves is filled with heroics, eye popping visuals, daring do, orks, characters popping up everywhere, relentless pacing, great panels, world building, outrageous great humour, three-dimensional characters, great art, elf conspiracies, Elves, Cats, scout reporting, social goings on, old and new plots, team ups, training, cunning twists, easter eggs, cinematic vistas, magic, full on adventure and action! Brilliant and highly recommended! Crisp high five! Get it when you can! :D
May 24, 2022
i liked this one. It is all about Ora and her life story. She loves her father but when her father dies she gets a new family. To avenge here father she wants to murder someone else her family but that doesn't seem necessary after she hears the story and the queen says that Ora is the next queen.
But what should be a nice moment is actually a dead trap...
Elf, Ork, family, queen... Curious what she will become in the future.
But what should be a nice moment is actually a dead trap...
Elf, Ork, family, queen... Curious what she will become in the future.
September 17, 2024
Fantasy mixed with drama and horror.
The plot twists from previous parts are finally coming together and I am happy for the footnotes!
The plot twists from previous parts are finally coming together and I am happy for the footnotes!
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