Les Naufragés d'Ythaq



Les Naufragés d'Ythaq (The Castaways of Ythaq) is a French-Belgian comic book series by Christophe Arleston and Adrien Floch that blends elements of Space Opera and high Fantasy.

Granite Welgoat and Narvarth Bodyssey work onboard the Brume de Comète, a luxury space cruiser, in which Callista De Sargamore is a passenger. The spaceship crashes on an unknown planet and the three of them find themselves in the same lifepod.

After landing on the planet, they realize it is populated by several different sentient species, including humans. It turns out that a number of other ships have known a similar fate over the years, and their shipwrecked crews and passengers have assimilated into native societies. Some of them have developed the ability to master one of the four elements; Granite herself discovers that she has acquired pyrokinesis.

Gradually, the big picture emerges. The planet is the setting of a live-action game that has been played for centuries by the greatest powers in the galaxy, under the supervision of mysterious entities.

Les Naufragés d'Ythaq provides examples of:

 * Action Girl: Granite
 * Ancient Conspiracy: The game has been going on for centuries, and only the players themselves know about it.
 * Bare Your Midriff: Most of the outfits worn by Granite, Callista and the majority of female characters.
 * Betty and Veronica: Granite and Callista.
 * Big Creepy-Crawlies: The Skopandres.
 * Conspiracy Placement: The logo of the Silver Star lines, which ends up permanently displayed on Callista's forehead.
 * Dark-Skinned Blond: Granite
 * Elemental Powers
 * Fang Thpeak: Krurgor is basically a sapient bipedal walrus, including thpeech-inhibiting fangth.
 * Les Yay: Callista is bisexual and tries to talk Granite into a relationship.
 * Playing with Fire: Granite's acquired power.
 * Powers That Be: The game masters, who also probably qualify as Sufficiently Advanced Aliens.
 * Rich Bitch: Callista starts out as a haughty, pretentious upper-class woman.
 * Sealed Evil in a Can
 * Shout-Out: The title of the series is a reference to The Odyssey, and various winks to a similar series, Lanfeust, pepper the narrative.
 * Starfish Aliens: The Ythes.
 * UST: Granite and Narvath.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Narvath
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Narvath