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** The entire episode where Thorgal faces a giant and a dwarf who are brothers clashes with the later worldbuilding as giants and dwarves are otherwise entirely seperate species. We are also told that they protect the "guard tower of the icy realm of Niflhel". Niflhel, like the other realms of Norse Mythology, is later established to be a separate dimension and not a place you can just walk to without supernatural means.
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'''The Betrayed Sorceress''' is the first Thorgal story, published in the belgian edition of "Tintin Magazine" from mars to october 1977. It was first published as an album in Le Lombard editions in 1980 along with the second album and second part of the story '''The Island of Frozen Seas''. The first album also contains the short story "Almost Paradise" published in Tintin in 1979.
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** Gandalf mentions that Slive is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld centuries years old]] which doesn't match the revealations in "The Island of Frozen Seas". Also the Ice Drakar Slive summons at the end is never seen again. It's likely that Slive was intended to have a more mystical origin.
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** Gandalf mentions that Slive is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld centuries years old]] which doesn't match the revealations reveal in "The Island of Frozen Seas". Also the Ice Drakar Slive summons at the end is never seen again. It's likely that Slive was intended to have a more mystical origin.
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* BittersweetEnding: Thorgal and Skadia escapes the garden but Skadia dies soon after. At least she was happy in her last moments.
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* BittersweetEnding: Thorgal and Skadia escapes the garden but Skadia dies soon after. At least least, she was happy in her last moments.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The opening narration explicitely put the story around 1000 AD. The series never uses datation again and [[EarthDrift all but ditched the pretense that it takes place on our world]].
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* NoImmortalInertia: After leaving the glacier, Skadia rapidly ages in her sleep. Thorgal finds her death in the morning.
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* NoImmortalInertia: After leaving the glacier, Skadia rapidly ages in her sleep. Thorgal finds her death dead in the morning.
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* UnwantedHarem: Ingrid and Ranghild propose Thorgal to marry them and their sister Skadia. Thorgal reject the offer since he want to get out of the place.
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* UnwantedHarem: Ingrid and Ranghild propose Thorgal to marry them and their sister Skadia. Thorgal reject rejects the offer since he want to get out of the place.
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** Thorgal injures Loki the cat in order to find the way out of the maze. It is never seen again throught, one can assume he aged rapidly just like its owner.
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** Thorgal injures Loki the cat Loki in order to find the way out of the maze. It is never seen again throught, although one can assume he aged rapidly just like its owner.
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* PlotHole: Somehow, Sharn - a quadrupedal wolf - manages to climb a cliff and a tower [[DeusExMachina in order to rescue Thorgal from the dwarf]].
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** Slive mentions that Gandalf has been [[DeathByChildbirth a widower since the birth of Aaricia]]. In Aaricia's self titled album, her mother died when she was a little girl.
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** Slive mentions that Gandalf has been [[DeathByChildbirth a widower since the birth of Aaricia]]. In Aaricia's self titled album, her mother died when she was a little girl. This is fixed in the official english translation.
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* BrainsAndBrawn: the two guardians of the castle are a huge sword-wielding giant and a sorcerous dwarf (the latter being the more dangerous).
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* BittersweetEnding: Thorgal and Skadia escapes the garden but Skadia dies soon after. At least she was happy in her last moments.
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** Oddly enough Aaricia isn't mentionned at all. It's pretty jarring that Thorgal never brings the fact that he's already married or engaged when Ingrid and Ranghild propose to marry him. It's never adressed what she Aaricia did during Thorgal's one year of absence.
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** Slive mentions that Gandalf has [[DeathByChildbirth a widower since the birth of Aaricia]]. In Aaricia's self titled album, her mother died when she was a little girl.
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** Slive mentions that Gandalf has been [[DeathByChildbirth a widower since the birth of Aaricia]]. In Aaricia's self titled album, her mother died when she was a little girl.
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!!The Betrayed Sorceress provides examples of
* AsYouKnow: The way Slive provides the exposition of Thorgal's backstory.
* BestServedCold: Slive had 10 years to avenge her capture by Gandalf.
* BigDamnHeroes: Sharn saves Thorgal from an evil dwarf.
* BookEnds: The story begins and ends at a cliff near the sea.
* ChainedToARock: Thorgal is chained to the Ring of the Sacrifice by Gandalf-the-Mad for being loved by Gandalf's daughter. Thorgal is soon rescued by the Sorceress Slive.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Thorgal is much more angrier and vengeful than later in the series including the prequel stories.
* CoolBoat: Slive returns to her island on her Ice Drakkar.
* DeathGlare: Sharn gives one to Gandalf when the latter is about to kill his unconscious owner.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** There's a narration that is dropped by the third album.
** The issue is 30 pages long but later stories are 45 pages long. Also the story was published in Tintin as a five parters of 6 pages each which makes the abrupt changes of scenery and time skips jarring in the published album.
** Slive mentions that Gandalf has [[DeathByChildbirth a widower since the birth of Aaricia]]. In Aaricia's self titled album, her mother died when she was a little girl.
** Gandalf mentions that Slive is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld centuries years old]] which doesn't match the revealations in "The Island of Frozen Seas". Also the Ice Drakar Slive summons at the end is never seen again. It's likely that Slive was intended to have a more mystical origin.
* ForcedToWatch: Gandalf ties his daughter Aarica on his boat so he can forces her to watch her lover Thorgal sentenced to death. [[AbusiveParents He certainly not the father of the year]].
* InMediasRes: The story opens with Gandalf sentencing Thorgal to die tied on a rock. Slives later exposits the hero's backstory.
* InSeriesNickname: Slive tells early on that Thorgal is known as "Son of the Storms" because of his hot temperedness. "Son of the Storms" is also the title of the first chapter.
* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Slive reveals at the end that the beach where they all are is the verry place where Gandalf captured her. Also it's has been ten years, day for day, [[ExaggeratedTrope minute for minute]].
* MosesInTheBullrushes: No one knows where Thorgal is from. His last name is Aegirson because he's suspected of being the son of the sea Giant Aegir
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* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Thorgal rages against Odin for letting him die without getting his vengeance on Gandalf just before Slive shows up.
* ScarsAreForever: On the second page, Gandalf gives Thorgal his iconic scar on his cheek.
* StarCrossedLovers: Thorgal and Aaricia are etablished as this. Thorgal is just a skald while Aaricia is a viking princess.
* TookALevelInKindness: Thorgal at the end of the story renonces his vengeance because he's sick of violence.
* TheUnreveal: Whatever Slive intended to inflict to Gandalf before the Baalds attacked them is left unknown.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's unclear what happened to the rings of Freyr after Gandalf free himself of theiri influence. Either, Slive took them with her or she let them in the snow.
* WeWillMeetAgain: Slive return to her island on her ice Drakkar and promises that she will have revenge and reminds Thorgal that he still owns her eleven months of his life.
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!!Almost Paradise provides examples of:
* DepartureMeansDeath: Ingrid and Ranghild warns Skadia that if she leaves the garden, time will catch her up. Skadia ignores them.
* HorseJump: In order to escape a pack of wolves, Fural attemps to jump over a ravine but fails.
* MistakenForAfterlife: When Thorgal wakes up in the garden after his fall, he assumes he's in the Walhalla.
* OutOfOrder: The short story was written and takes place between "The Island of Frozen Seas" and "Three Ancients of the Realm of Aran" because Fural who dies appeared in the former but not in the latter. It was added to the first book in order to fill the 45 pages format.
* NoImmortalInertia: After leaving the glacier, Skadia rapidly ages in her sleep. Thorgal finds her death in the morning.
* PassedInTheirSleep: Skadia passes away in her sleep.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Fural, Thorgal's horse from the two first albums die a the beginning of this story.
* UnwantedHarem: Ingrid and Ranghild propose Thorgal to marry them and their sister Skadia. Thorgal reject the offer since he want to get out of the place.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** Thorgal injures Loki the cat in order to find the way out of the maze. It is never seen again throught, one can assume he aged rapidly just like its owner.
** Oddly enough Aaricia isn't mentionned at all. It's never adressed what she did during Thorgal's one year of absence.
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'''The Betrayed Sorceress''' is the first Thorgal story, published in the belgian edition of "Tintin Magazine" from mars to october 1977. It was first published as an album in Le Lombard editions in 1980 along with the second album and second part of the story '''The Island of Frozen Seas''. The first album also contains the short story "Almost Paradise" published in Tintin in 1979.
Sentenced to death by Gandalf-The-Mad king of the Vikings of the North for loving his daughter, Thorgal is saved by a mysterious red haired woman. As gratitude, Thorgal must accept to serve her for one year without asking questions. He soon learn that she also seek revenge on Gandalf.
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Sentenced to death by Gandalf-The-Mad king of the Vikings of the North for loving his daughter, Thorgal is saved by a mysterious red haired woman. As gratitude, Thorgal must accept to serve her for one year without asking questions. He soon learn that she also seek revenge on Gandalf.
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