History ComicBook / Arawn

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: The four sons of Siamh are two sets of identical twins spawned from a different father. Math and Kern were the sons of her husband Dag, Arawn and Engus were the sons of her rapist Bran. Each one looks identical both to their twin and their sire.

* FullFrontalAssault: Morrigan, Goddess of War, appears as a mighty and beautiful winged woman. She is always completely nude, and [[spoiler: there is a sequence of her fighting Arawn possessed by the Cauldron]].

* MaleFrontalNudity: Besides the plenty of female full frontal nudity, there are some panels showing male nudity with visible penises.

* ModestyBedsheet: While Dag and Siamh were sleeping, their bedsheet go as high as Dag abs, covering up his lower half, but only go as high as Siamh's thighs, leaving her entire body on display for their intruder.

* MsFanservice: Siamh. Most women tend to be {{fanservice}}y, but she is the one to receive most [[MaleGaze attention]] in the story, being frequently depicted partially or fully naked. Even when she is covered, her outfits are really skin-tight. The goddess Morrigan and the goddess of Nature also appear as beautiful completely nude women. Oh, and SceneryCensor is completely and utterly averted.

* HumanSacrifice: The Cauldron constantly demand that its owners give them souls. [[spooler: Also Siamh sacrificing her own son Math in order to summon to goddess of War Morrigan.]]

* MsFanservice: Siamh. Most women tend to be {{fanservice}}y, but she is the one to receive most [[MaleGaze attention]] in the story, being frequently depicted partially or fully naked. Even when she is covered, her outfits are really skin-tight. The goddess Morrigan and the goddess of Nature also appear as beautiful completely nude women.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Arguably Kern. He is the only one of Arawn's brothers to not turn out into a complete dick, won his crown with the most minimal bloodshed and questioned Math's madness, believing he brought it on himself. With that said, he still followed his mad brother, ended up falling to the Cauldron's seduction too and [[spoiler:payed with his life for it, though ironically, he was raised from the dead and became a forest god]].

* HumanSacrifice: The Cauldron constantly demand that its owners give them souls.

** [[spoiler:A resurrected Arawn managed to kill Morrigan, the Celtic Goddess of War and stole her godly power.]]

* WarGod: The Celtic war goddess Morrigan plays a part in the story. Arawn summons her to give him an army to fight his brother Math, which she grants him in exchange for a blood sacrifice. Siamh asks for her help in fighting the demon spawned from the Cauldron of Blood, [[spoiler:which results in the demon killing Morrigan and absorbing her powers.]]

* ThudAndBlunder: The main characters are all walking Boris Vallejo specials, whose repertoire of responses to the world around them is mostly limited to "kill it" and "have sex with it." By comparison, the more run-of-the-mill examples of this trope read like ''Middlemarch''.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Well, anti-heroes at any rate, but Deirdre is the only woman our protagonist ever loved.

* CessationOfExistence: During the gathering organized by the gods to avenge the [[spoiler:death of Morrigan, they state that the goddess has ceased to exist]].

* BattleTrophy: [[spoiler:: After destroying the two deities Morrigan and Mug Ruith, Arawn takes the giant bones from their corpses and use them to build his own castle]].

* BlackAndGrayMorality: It's pretty hard to pin point which side is the most "grey", but its a pretty accurate assessment to say nobody on either side comes out clean.

* ButtMonkey: Owen. For starters, he is reduced to a ''decapitated head'' who lives in constant torment at Arawn's hands for his betrayal. And as Arawn's tale shows, he was constantly disrespected, berated and slapped by others. But then again, given the kind of stuff he pulled, he deserved it though he kinda redeems himself by [[spoiler:throwing down his life to destroy the Cauldron]].

** The most prominent deadly rivalry is between Math and Arawn for possession of the Cauldron, driving the former to utterly ruin the latter's life and push him down the dark path. [[spoiler:While Arawn is ultimately robbed of personally killing Math, he makes sure to torture his sibling in the Underworld for the rest of time]].
** Kern seems to be the only one in good terms with all his brothers until he too is tempted by the Cauldron and tricked into [[spoiler:sacrificing Engus to the Cauldron in order to become a god. The joke was on him, since it was Engus who rose as a god at the end an promptly killed Kern in retaliation]]. At the end of the series, [[spoiler: Kern is resurrected as a god himself named Kernunos, leaving him as Arawn's only surviving sibling. Arawn tries to kill him in revenge for playing his part in taking Deirdre from him, but he is always brought back to life every night]].

** Engus turns out into a decadent degenerate who holds non-stop orgies in his throne room. By the way, one of the girls brought before him looks no older than ''ten''. He becomes ''even worse'' after [[spoiler: gaining the Cauldron's power, having an army of demons at his back and call, and fueling the Cauldron with the souls of the innocents]].

* CessationOfExistence: During the gathering organized by the gods to avenge the [[spoiler: death of Morrigan, they state that the goddess has ceased to exist.]]

** Later on, Arawn challenges [[spoiler:his brother Engus]] to a duel to the death for control of their armies. Arawn deliberately hands over his black sword to his rival, because its enchanted to not harm its owner. [[spoiler:Except the Cauldron removes the enchantment allowing Engus to kill his brother effortlessly. [[ManipulativeBastard Prick.]]]]

* DeathOfAChild: Kids are not safe from onscreen deaths, one of Math's infamous moments was murdering the children of the king he dethroned just to prevent any future rebellions, and also [[spoiler: his own nephew Gwern (Arawn's son) out of sheer spite]].
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: The comic is a deconstruction of the EvilOverlord. Arawn, sitting atop his skull-adorned throne in ScaryImpracticalArmor, introduces himself as the immortal demon god of death, lives in an EvilTowerOfOminousness in a [[{{Mordor}} burning wasteland]], and rules over an army of hellspawn monsters and undead soldiers who mindlessly obey his every word. However, he WasOnceAMan, and relates his long and sad life story of what it took for him to become such a figure of pure evil. The answer involves [[YouCantFightFate irrevocable prophecies]], [[ArtifactOfDoom evil artifacts]], [[DivineConflict divine intervention]], and [[CainAndAbel decades of warfare between him and his three warrior brothers]]. Also, despite his immense power, he never got what he really wanted, since even with his mastery over life and death he [[CameBackWrong cannot truly bring back]] [[TheLostLenore the woman he once loved]].

** [[spoiler:Kern is resurrected as the god Kernunnos at the end of the story]].

* DivineConflict: The demon created from the Cauldron of Blood eventually devours so many souls that its powers are on equal footing with the gods. Then he kills and absorbs the goddess of war, which angers the rest of the divine pantheon enough to make them join their forces and fight him. They are actually on the losing end until [[spoiler:Owen destroys the Cauldron itself.]]

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* BattleTrophy: [[spoiler:: After destroying the two deities Morrigan and Mug Ruith, Arawn takes the giant bones from their corpses and use them two build his own castle]].

* CessationOfExistence: During the gathering organized by the gods to avenge the [[spoiler: death of Morrigan, they stated that the goddess has ceased to exist.]]

* HotGod: Notably Morrigan, Goddess of War, who appears as a mighty and beautiful completely nude woman.

* ModestyBedsheet: While Dag and Siamh were sleeping, their bedsheet go as high as Dag abs, covering up his lower half, but only go as high her thighs, leaving her entire body on display for their intruder.

* PhysicalGod: The gods are physical entities, and can be killed by beings of equal power. [[spoiler: For example Morrigan, goddess of war, ends up being completely destroyed by Arawn, who manages to absorbs her divine essence reducing the goddess to a lifeless shell of bones.]]

* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: Towards the end of the comic Siamh summons the goddess of war Morrigan in order to fight Arawn possessed by the Cauldron demon. The goddess has the upper hand for most of the fight and manages to nearly kill him thanks to her superior divine powers. As she is going to give him the finishing blow the demon manages to immobilize her with one of his tentacles. He then start absorbing the divine essence from Morrigan's body, slowly retaining his lost strength. At the end, the powerful goddess of war is completely destroyed, and all what remains of her is a lifeless bunch of bones and flesh.]]

* CessationOfExistence: During the gathering organized by the gods to avenge the [[spoiler: death of Morrigan, they say that the goddess is no more, and has ceased to exist.]]

''Les chroniques d'Arawn'' is a French comic book written by Ronan le Breton and drawn by Sebastian Grenier originally published in the pages of the ''Magazine/HeavyMetal'' magazine. It is loosely based on Myth/CelticMythology and tells the tragic story of Death-Lord Arawn, an EvilOverlord that has thoroughly conquered the land and how he came to be the way he is.

* FullFrontalAssault: Morrigan, Goddess of War, appears as a mighty and beautiful winged woman. She is always completely nude, and [[spoiler: there is a sequence of her fighting Arawn possessed by the Caludron]].

* PhysicalGod: The gods are physical entities, and can be killed by beings of equal power. [[spoiler: for example Morrigan, goddess of war, ends up being completely destroyed by Arawn, who manages to absorbs her divine essence reducing the goddess to a lifeless shell of bones.]]

* RevengeByProxy: After [[spoiler:her son with Arawn is murdered by Math]] Deirdre takes revenge on him by [[spoiler:murdering their son Duncan, chopping him into pieces and serving his body as meat for their husband to eat]].

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Math went from a innocent child whose parents loved each other dearly to a brutal, power-mad warlord that kills children in cold blood. All because of a stranger bringing a cursed cauldron with him that killed his father and raped his mother.

* FullFrontalAssault: Morrigan, Goddess of War, appears as a mighty and beautiful winged woman. She is always completely nude, and [[spoiler:: there is a sequence of her fighting Arawn possessed by the Caludron.]].

* FullFrontalAssault: Morrigan, Goddess of War, appears as a mighty and beautiful winged woman. She is always completely nude, and [spoiler:: there is a sequence of her fighting Arawn possessed by the Caludron.]].