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What happens when you discover who you really are���and realize you never wanted to know that soul-wrenching truth? Nightfall and Redlance lead a band of Wolfriders to try to learn the answer, just as the Wavedancers deliver dire news: the Djun���s warships have arrived. The most game-changing issue of _ElfQuest_ ever! * Brand-new _ElfQuest_ adventures! * Collects extras from past and present!

Separated and weakened by unanswered Recognition, can Ember and Teir survive long enough for a rescue? Three factions must join to save the pairCutter and his companions, Ember''s own Wolfriders, and the mysterious realm of elfin spirits. If they fail, the lovers may die. If they succeed, what shattering secrets will be revealed and new threats unleashed? * Brand-new _ElfQuest_ art and adventures! It''s something special and will pull you in from the first time you read it!�Major Spoilers

Can Cutter be saved? After months of tracking, the Wolfrider rescue party finally discovers Cutter in the clutches of an eerie new tribe of elves. But are they too late to reclaim their chief from the edge of madness? Meanwhile, the Djunslander warships have reached the shores of Iceholt, home of the reborn Father Tree. Will the elvesÈ cherished home fall to the hordes of human mercenaries? Winner of the Golden Pen Award from the Young Adult Advisory Committee! Brand-new ElfQuest art and adventures collecting ElfQuest extras from past and present!

Adapted from the New York Times bestselling series of Graphic Novels - the first full-length novelization of ElfQuest, the Original Series.Timmorn Yellow-Eyes. Rahnee the She-Wolf. Mantricker. Bearclaw. For thousands of years these - and others - led the feral Wolfrider tribe of elves. For generations, their Holt was a secluded forest haven, a place of refuge hidden away from the primitive humans who also roamed the untamed land. An uneasy truce existed between the two ancient enemies until one day, driven by unknown dread, the humans invaded and torched the elves'' woodland and destroyed their sacred Father Tree. Now Cutter, son of Bearclaw and Blood of Ten Chiefs, must lead his small but gallant band in a search for a new home - a place where legends say other elves live in peace and safety. But the Wolfriders know nothing of the world beyond the boundaries of the fire-ravaged forest. Their quest will test them sorely. They will descend deep into the caverns of King Greymung and his brutish troll minions. And they must brave the endless desert known only as the Burning Waste, in the hope that salvation lies somewhere beyond.But what if the legends are wrong?

Graphic novel.

A grand saga follows the adventures of human, trolls, and various elfin tribes.

What happens when the one leader who can unite the elves in their time of greatest turmoil has seemingly deserted them? The descent into the symbolic cave is a heros darkest hour. For Cuttervulnerable, mortal, wandering through the forest primevalcan there be a moment darker still? Has the Blood of Ten Chiefs come, at last, to the end of all quests? œIts a really great series that, if you have the time to, you should definitely read. This isnt an issue youd want to miss.�ComicWow!

The penultimate issue in the ultimate Elfquest series! His forces decimated by Cutter''s fierce warrior tribe, the fanatical human commander presses on, risking all to destroy the elves in their forest lair. Lives are lost on both sides. To stop the bloodshed, Cutter''s adopted human daughter, Shuna, risks more than even she realizes. Should she fail, the price will be war everlasting among the native humans, the elves, and the Djunsland invaders. Must Wolfrider chief Cutter, having fulfilled his bond with High One Timmain, now witness the utter destruction of all that has brought him to this fateful moment? A New York Times best-selling series!

Skywise has always been the companion to the hero, Cutter Kinseeker. But now Cutter is gone, his body part of the reborn Father Tree, his spirit free to roam. Life goes on for the stargazer; he now has a daughter, the amazing and gifted Jink, who lives to see her father happy. But a shocking secret lies concealed beneath the beautiful facade of Skywise''s tranquil life. What happens if he learns the one thing that could shatter his—and his loving daughter''s—world? How far would he go—how far would they both go—to regain what might be lost?

The grand finale! What words can possibly do justice to this, the grand finale to the greatest ElfQuest series of them all? Forty years in the planning and making, heroes'' journeys that were begun in the Original Quest will find their resolutions here. Fateful events set in motion in the last issue continue to have unstoppable consequences, as dire battles are fought on both the physical and the spiritual realms. Now decisions must be made that will affect everyone--elves and humans alike--on the World of Two Moons far into the future. Can the Great Wheel of time and history, broken so many thousands of years ago, ever be made whole again? A finale forty years in the making!

Cutter and his Wolfriders suffer the ultimate betrayal as their mates and children are stolen from them.

Led by Cutter, the elfin Wolfriders have experienced equal parts of triumph and tragedy, loss and gain. Now, in the first original Elfquest story in years, the elves must adapt to a world without the Troll smiths, and appoint an elf to master the art of metallurgy. Two quests and two heroes will change the Wolfriders'' way forever. Full color.

Palace of the High Ones has been won. In their new holt, the Wolfriders can settle in and enjoy life and its living, for the first time in recent memory. The horrors of battle and betrayal are behind them.

The Wolfriders are taken as slaves into the mysterious Blue Mountain, the stronghold of the ancient Glider elves, while Cutter and Skywise try to come to their rescue.

Grade level: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, i, s.

Dart, Windkin and their companions follow Cutter''s son Suntop out from Sorrow''s End, far south to the mysterious rainforest called The Forevergreen. here, the elves hope to find a new sanctuary for their kind, but they may have stumbled into a fatal trap instead.

Graphic novel. Cutter''s father Bearclaw was the tenth chief of the Wolfriders, and his reign was marked by frequent skirmishes with humans.

All the known tribes of elves - Wolfriders, Sun Folk, Gliders, Go-Backs - Clash with the trolls to win Quest''s End.

This volume reprints issues 16-22 of the Hidden Years series. Ember has been sent on a quest. She must choose half the tribe to accompany her to find a home, while the remaining elves battle against a human warlord Ember must also find the strength and wisdom to be a chief in her own right, for it is not certain her father will survive the battle.

The Wolfriders are at the mercy of a human hunter whose skills are as great as the elves'' own.

Cutter and family are together again, but now a ruthless human warlord threatens the elves'' existence. The wolfriders must become two tribes -- one to fight a terrible war, the other to flee to ensure that the tribe continues. This volume sets the stage.