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When the story begins, Thorgal Aegirson is already in a very bad position: He is chained to a rock and is condemned to die, drowned by the rising tide. His crime is to have dared to love Aaricia, the daughter of the king of the North Vikings, he, the bastard born of one knows who and one does not know where. He owes his salvation to a magician who saves him in exchange for his obedience for a year.
A few hours before his marriage, finally accepted by the Viking community, Aaricia was kidnapped by three eagles on behalf of a mysterious rider. Thorgal began to search for him. Failed on an iceberg, he was taken by a Slug, resident of the island of the frozen seas, the domain of the magician Slive. Thanks to the Slugs, he managed to find his beloved and discover part of the mystery of his origins.
While on horseback they travel the country Thorgal and Aaricia meets the dwarf Jadawin who leads them to the land of Aran, a small village, at the edge of a lake without bottom, or drag, as worn out, its inhabitants with empty eyes of expression! In the middle of the lake stands a castle occupied by three old men who end up capturing Aaricia by irritating as the new queen of their estate. Thorgal will have to win back his dulcinate after having had to pass for it a lot of tests.
Thorgal is a total hero. Courageous and weak sometimes, fierce and in love, indomitable Viking but sensitive, human but sent gods, warrior and pacifist. Halfway between history and fantastic, Van Hamme's imagination and Rosinski's talent have given birth to a true saga, a model of the heroic genre. Here Thorgal lets himself go to the softness of things, in a calm host tribe where his wife must bring their child to life. But war, again, destroys this happiness. It is in fact the second beginning of the series, since Aaricia will disappear there and Thorgal, becomes the intrepid warrior he was, return to his mythical destiny.
Accompanied by Shaniah Thorgal wanders begging across the country. It is only the shadow of himself, he has lost Aaricia and does not seem to recover from it. After more than a year to drag their wreck the couple meets Wargan who asks them to follow him, Thorgal would, after him, be the last child of the stars! He could also help him and Galathorn, the heir of the trone of Brek Zarith, to reconquer their good! But before that Thorgal will have to travel the land of shadows accompanied by Shaniah, in order to regain his minds and thus be able to help the two men.
Shardar the powerful king of Brek Zarith, obsessed with his inventions, detains Aaricia, the young wife of Thorgal, and his son Jolan. The latter has strange powers which announce to Shardar the arrival on the one hand of warriors to supplant him but on the other hand a greater danger, a unknown brown only: Thorgal. The latter manages to penetrate the castle of the king and thus gradually discovers all the madness of the sovereign. Accompanied by Aaricia and the little Jolan whom he did not know he will try everything to get to the end of this story.
It is in this album of the origins of our hero, found on board a strange space capsule by the Vicking Leif who will name him Thorgal Aergisson. This child will become the friend of the dwarfs thanks to his medallion made in the metal that did not exist, will also become a young man curious of everything and eager to learn the background of its origins.
Jolan, the son of Thorgal and Aaricia, has become a robust and curious kid of everything. The strange signs that he traces and of which he himself ignores the meaning, intrigue his parents a lot. During a getaway, he became friends with a boy of his age. The child seems lost and he dreads adults. Deaf and mute, he cannot answer the questions raised by his mysterious presence. How did Jolan, who can't read, decipher the inscriptions engraved on the bracelet which he calls Alinoë?
Surprised by a storm, Thorgal was picked up by an old couple. Without a boat and without money, he cannot reach his village. An archery contest may allow him to buy a boat. Of all the archers who take part in the contest, Valnor's beautiful Kriss is undoubtedly the most formidable. But a group of marauders took over the young woman and Thorgal is determined to release her.
While Thorgal, Aaricia and their friend Tjall rebuild the house of our hero on his island, little Jolan and Foot-d'arbre are taken away. Machiavélique Kriss de Valmor then comes to ask Thorgal to help him in a mission while she holds her son and her friend somewhere, in a place that she alone knows! Although he is obliged to accept and take with him Tjall and Aaricia who insists! So they will have to leave for the country Qâ on board a strange flying boat, to find Ogotai, the said god manipulator and allow Tanatloc, the good god to take over and thus bring peace to the world.
Thorgal, Aaricia, and Kriss de Valnor are trying hard to make their way through the forests of the Qâ Country. What has become of Jolan? Held hostage by the Xinjin, his only hope of being saved is that his father will accomplish his mission. But, the Tanantloc Eyes are poached on Thorgal and the god reacts strangely in the name of this one...
Thorgal and Kriss manage to enter the city of Ogotai, the cruel god, thanks to the help of Commander Hog who leads a kind of rebellion against his sovereign. Our heroes discover then that the real purpose of their mission is not simply to steal the magical helmet of Ogotai but to kill him. Thorgal, as he flees, ends up discovering that Ogotai is his father, so he decides to find out more...
The last part of this story in four parts. Thorgal ended up finding Jolan and Pied d'arbre in the city of Xinjin or the kid reigns now as Hurukan. But they will have to face the envy of the little boy's powers. On his side Kriss of Valmor, completely hypnotized by his gold wonders if Jolan could not serve him to escape from this city lost in the desert.
An album entirely dedicated to the first feelings between the little Aaricia and the dark Thorgal. We can read four small stories where we see the girl grow up. The first one shows us Aaricia who wants to find her mother, who died some time before, and who is saved by the young Thorgal. The second story shows us a Thorgal of about 10 years who decides to leave this village that rejoins her, the little girl will do everything to have him come back to her. The third story focuses on the hatred between Thorgal and Bjorn, the brother of Aaricia, a situation in which the little blonde, then about 10/11 years old (she is younger than Thorgal), takes part very quickly. In the last story Aaricia is 14 years old, she meets the young god Vigrid who will take her far into imaginary countries.
Thorgal leaves on the ground to try to reach a vicken village when suddenly he is blocked in the mountain by an avalanche which obliges him to take refuge in the ruins of an old house. He meets there the young Torric who came to hide after having fled from the claws of the terrible Saxonygaard, the master of the mountains who terrorizes the peasants around. The next day, as the young man tries to escape again, he finds himself, suddenly, with Thorgal in the middle of a spring landscape, the snow disappeared and in front of them this, at the door of the miraculously rebuilt house, the beautiful Viana who threatens them with his crossbow. Thorgal wonders what this leap in time means!
The fiery Wor-the-magnificent dream of becoming the new king who will gather all the vicking, but, as he lurks towards the treasure of the late Gandalf-the-foo, he realizes that he will have to get rid of his daughter Aaricia, Thorgal and their son Jolan. So he sets up a trap that is supposed to put an end to the exploits of the hero from the stars. But here the little family is more combative and resigned than he expected. While Thorgal has to leave alone to try to find help, Aaricia, pregnant, will have to defend herself and try to bring the child to birth.
In the second world, Nichor's dreadful Volsung is extracted from nothingness by the demon Nidhogg who asks him to go and get the magic belt of the keykeeper. For this she transforms him into "Thorgal" in order to fall asleep the suppsons of the beautiful (hero's lover too). Shortly after the real Thorgal is attacked by Volsung who decides, after stealing the so-called belt, to become the new king of the Vicking. Incognito Thorgal's income decides to take things back in hand and for that it will have to recover the belt and go to fight the demon in the second world, accompanied by the dwarf Tjahzi.
Thorgal has therefore decided to go alone to try to get forgotten by the gods, in order to protect his family from the danger they are facing in his presence. He has barely set foot in a farm that he is captured by the men of the local tyrant, Orgoff, the invincible, who terrorizes the country. Of course Thorgal manages to escape and ends up falling on a group of rebels led by... Kriss de Valnor allegedly dead at the end of "Between Earth and Light". Again our hero will find himself in a rock-like story.
Along with Kriss of Valnor Thorgal he has to find the invisible fortress or is hidden the stone on which are inscribed the secrets of the gods. On this stone is the name of Thorgal, he will have to go and erase it in order to disappear from the memory of the gods. To this he will face all his memories one by one.
Thorgal Aegirsson and Shaigan-without-Thank you, the bloody pirate who ravages the northern seas, are they one and the same person? Vikings are convinced of this. Aaricia, Jolan and Louve are therefore struck by "the mark of banished people": dispossessed of their property and persecuted, the hero's wife and his children have no choice but to leave the village...
Jolan therefore leaves, accompanied on this journey by the young Darek and his sister Lehla, to look for his mother and the little Louve held captive by Thorgal and Kriss de Valnor. During this journey he will meet the strange Jaax the watchman coming from the future in order to allow Jolan to recover the crown of Ogotai who fills his psychic powers. But especially the boy will meet his alter ego older 15 years who will help him to go deliver his family...
While the pirates of Shaigan return with new slaves, one of them, Prince Galathorn, recognizes in Shaigan his old friend Thorgal. The latter, intrigued, decides to know more. But Kriss de Valnor is, for his part, determined not to let him do it. Refugeed at the top of a tower the hero then asks the gods to help him, so he finds himself, after having been "foudroyed", in the company of Frigg the wife of Odin who asks him to go to the land of the giants to recover the ring Draupnir, stolen from the king of the gods, once...
In the castle of Brek Zarith, alongside Prince Galathorn and his sister Syrane, Thorgal, finally freed from the spell of the gods that deprived him of his memory, decides to return to his own. On the island he is suddenly captured by darek who remained there to protect Louve and Lehla while Aaricia and jolan went to try to gather men to fight Saigan (the name of Thorgal when he did not remember anything). Locked in a cage he will have to succeed in convincing his beautiful, returned braggles with his son, and to defend all this little troupe against brigands who pass through it.
Thorgal and his family have decided to leave their island forever to try to discover their destiny. But as they sail on the waters they are caught in a storm and then separated. Thorgal ends up failing, with Louve, on a strange island occupied by a poplade of Greek origin. They venerate a mysterious creature called Arachnéa, a princess once betrayed by her father and who is condemned to hiding underground and to devour twice a year of young Ephebs. Thorgal will have to face new obstacles to free his daughter prisoner in the heart of the island.
Back on the Thorgal seas and his family find themselves in the vicinity of a country where they contract, unfortunately, a mysterious evil which manifests itself by blue plates on the body. To save his own Thorgal will have to leave in the marshes to find the mage who lives on the mountain on the snow roof. But for this he will have to unite with the twin brother of the king of this country, Zajkar...
More than just one more episode in the saga of the man that the gods have put to the test: a key album that sheds new light on the origins of the child of the stars. Revelations that announce a revival of tumults in the destiny of Thorgal and his own. Aaricia is tired of the life of wandering that her husband has led her. Jolan and Louve would like to live like all the teenagers of their age. No longer is there any opposition to their return to the country of Vikings. Although very reluctant to reconnect with a painful past, Thorgal ends up yielding to the desires of his wife and children. At the moment of embarking to sing to the North, there arise Tuaregs whose apparent hospitality nevertheless commits them to delay their departure. Sargon, the leader of these strange desert men, wishes to speak to them. But the interview is quickly transformed into interrogation. Dived into a hypnotic sleep, Thorgal reveals all of his extraterrestrial origins.
Thorgal and his family have been captured by slave merchants. Buyers present themselves, among them the governor's intendant of a Roman province in search of Barbares for a surprising hunting game. At 18, the noble youths of the governor's court pass their officer's exams. One of the trials consists in pursuing and slaughtering the prisoners. This allows to evaluate their ability to shoot at the bow. Thorgal will be one of the game! But when the latter takes hold of the arch of one of the hunters, the exercise takes an unexpected turn.
Convinced of her husband's death and wanting to return to her native Northland, Aaricia tried vainly to escape from the palace that held her prisoner. Her obstinacy to escape soon earned her the right to be forced to work with her children in the silver mines. Their conditions of detention were all the more painful as they would be subjected to the orders of a guardian they knew well: the cruel Kriss of Valnor!
Will Thorgal be able to make lie to the old adage that we never return home? Our hero has at last found his family, but he is exhausted by the poison, and the gods give him only two days to live. Once again, he will have to take away his survival from them. But this time, the child of the stars is no longer alone! He is accompanied by his son Jolan, a young man with unlimited potential.
Thorgal is now safe and sound, and the time has come for his son to fulfill his dues. In exchange for his father's life, Jolan promised his own to the mysterious Manthor, a half-god of Red Magic. After arriving in the Entremonde, the young man is promised a destiny at the height of his lineage. But, to deserve Manthor's teaching, he will have to triumph over the path of trials! The rule is clear: only two feet will be able to tread the Threshold of Initiation. Not ten or eight or six or four. Not one. Only two. Indeed, the title of Elected attracts a few other contenders. So many promises of a great series of rhythmic and epic initiation. Thorgal can enjoy a little rest, his son is in good hands!
Jolan and his companions survived their first test. For the sinister Manthor, it is now time to determine which of the five suitors will be his true Chosen One. For this, they will have to penetrate into Asgard and steal his shield from the god Thor. A human task all the more impossible to accomplish in the allotted time, since the hour is no longer for alliances!
As Thorgal pursues the kidnappers of the young Aniel, his eldest son Jolan is about to finally cross the threshold of adolescence. Winner of perilous trials, he must now enter the kingdom of Asgard to bring back a fruit of it from the garden of Idun, the only remedy to save Vylnia, Manthor's mother. To achieve this objective, Manthor has entrusted him with an army. But, can she protect him from the schemes of the perfid Loki? One thing is certain: the young man will come out transcended from the kingdom of the gods...
While he is looking for his son Aniel, Thorgal will cross the road of curious merchants for whom he will agree to fulfill a very special mission aboard the Bateau-Sabre. This album places Thorgal at the center of the action, in extreme climatic conditions, while Jolan and his companions reach the end of the course orchestrated by Manthor.
While Thorgal, on board the Sabre Boat, is heading for Bag Dadh in search of Aniel, the beautiful and mysterious Saluma tells him that the Red Magicians have condemned his son to death so that he may be reborn as the Master of the Red Magicians. Saluma tells him the story of Bag Dadh and the Red Magicians Brotherhood. In the light of this story, Thorgal is faced with a dilemma: saving his son or saving Bag Dadh from tyranny? Does her son's life be worth the suffering of an entire city?
Bag Dadh is besieged by the Magnus army and the fighting is raging. But this war is not Thorgal's. In the heart of the burning city, the Viking has only one goal: to find Aniel and save him from the grip of the Red Magicians who made him the reincarnation of their Grand Master Kahaniel. Will Thorgal manage to regain the trust and affection of this son who has become a cruel and fanatical religious leader?
After a long quest, Thorgal managed to find his son Aniel. The return trip is full of dangers, but Thorgal knows that the rest of his family is waiting for him in Viking land. And nothing nor anyone can make him deviate from his road.
Thorgal has finally returned to his family, but before he can live in peace with them, he still has to bury a ghost of the past: the one of Shaigan, the fearsome pirate he became during his amnesia. In memory of a young girl who was his victim, Thorgal goes towards the Island of Skellingar. In this desolate and hostile place, he will have to face a strange cult that pushes his followers to suicide.
Louve has disappeared! Thorgal and Jolan hurry to take the sea to find the young girl, kidnapped and taken to the mysterious island of Kalsoy... Faced with the inhabitants of bloodthirsty manners, our heroes will be confronted despite them with the ancient curse of Kopakonan la Selkie: a creature of legend that holds under its evil grip the entire population of the island.
In a storm in the open sea, a Viking expedition discovers a baby in a mysterious boat. The child is baptized with the name Thorgal. Prodigy of archery, loving with freedom and justice, he will never cease to defend his own and to aspire to a peaceful life. His story is that of a man whom the gods have decided to test and who will pierce, in the course of his adventures, the mystery of his origins.
Back in the ship of its origins, Thorgal has to face Neokora, an artificial intelligence determined to restore the Atlantean reign.
Morbid by a red viper at the bottom of a real underground labyrinth while he had finally discovered the legendary rock in the thousand eyes of the goddess Skaedi, Thorgal must nevertheless manage to extract and bring back a fragment of this mysterious stone fallen from Asgard, if he wants to save Jolan and Boréale. The help of a young snake hunter will not be too much for our "child of the stars", if he wants to have a chance to triumph on Odin's chess board!
On returning to the village, Thorgal found Aaricia, Louve and serenity; he now helps Jolan build his own home. One morning, an unknown ship wets off the port: Özurr, a warlike mercenary Varègue is back in the village after being banished for thirty years. He returns with a head high, rich and ready to pay the weirgild, the price of blood. Thorgal will be led to face the terrible Özurr during a ruthless duel, facing an opponent for whom all the low blows are allowed.
Captured by Aniel's men, Thorgal and Boréale were locked up in the castel prisons under the supervision of an ambitious captain, ready to do anything to reign in the place of the young Valnor. While his father tried to escape, Aniel gradually found himself the pawn of a plot of palaces where knife and poison were the best instruments of ambition.