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Avelon is a fantasy comic book series created by Manny Vega (artist) and Blaine Loyd (writer) in 1997. Vega and Loyd self published Avelon with Jeff Janovetz (lettering) and Ricardo Boronat (cover art) as Drawbridge Studios, Inc. from 1998 until 1999 at which time, Kenzer & Company signed the book for publishing. Avelon's run consisted of 11 issues spanning 4 chapters. Each chapter focuses on the story of one or more characters who are loosely connected as they cross paths as each story unfolds.

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Publication History
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Chapter 1: The Scrolls of Dyom

 * Issues: 1 - 4
 * Synopsis: We are briefly introduced to the largest city in all of Avelon, Kesleton. Deep in the twisting dark sewers, Quillyan searches for hidden treasure through trapped filled corridors. After narrowly dodging a pitfall and the swing of a Minotaur like creature, he manages to make his way into a treasure room. All the while, two wizards scry upon the street thief, watching as he begins to unlock a treasure chest with his back turned to a golem posing as a statue.
 * Characters:
 * Quellyan

Chapter 2: The Way of the Wylden

 * Issues: 3
 * Vol. 1 The Way of the Wylden
 * Synopsis: Ashelynn stands in the woods of the Wylden recounting the tale of her previous visits to the area to another traveler. In a previous life, Ashelynn was a traveling actress in a small time troupe where she fell for a fellow actor. After catching him in bed with another woman, Ashelynn proceeded to storm off. Wandering away in fury, she gets lost in the woods where she falls victim to a snare laid by a trapper. The trapper finding Ashelynn strung up proceeds to assault the helpless actress where she is saved by a mysterious stranger at the last moment. He introduces himself as Loren and being lost in the woods, Ashelynn follows him. As the evening progresses, Loren is attacked by a pair of orcs. During the fight, Loren warns Ashelynn to run away before he turns into a beast and dispatches his attackers. Back in the town of Faeldon, the manager of the troupe sends a tracking party to find Ashelynn. Meanwhile, Loren leads Ashelynn deeper into Wlyden territory. He explains to her how all Wlyden are born men and as they come to adulthood, they take on a permanent bestial form, except for him and his brother. This is also the explanation of why he is considered an outcast among the Wylden as he does not have a permanent transformation. Later, as Loren encounters a serpent monster and kills it in the defense of Ashelynn, he is accused of stealing the kill of another Wlyden and must answer to his father for his violations of Wylden law. The next day a battle to the death was set between Loren and his accuser. During the battle Loren assumed his Wlyden form and before he could strike the killing blow, but Lyden, Loren's human brother, stopped the match. Convincing Loren of sparing the other Wlyden's life, Lyden uses nature magic to escape with Ashelynn and Loren, turning their backs on the Wlyden tribe for good. The hunting party looking for Ashelynn reveals their true intent to massacre the Wlyden and set fire to the forest knowing the Wylden could not leave their home. The group later returned to the Wylden to stand with them against the hunting party. During the battle that ensued, Ashelynn discovers that she is a druid, calling out to the powers of nature when she attempted to save Loren from a mortal blow. In the aftermath of the battle, the hunting party was defeated and Lyden sacrifices his life to revive the burned woods. Back to the present, Ashelynn finishes her story with the reason she returned to the woods of the Wylden. She intends to reunite with Loren who was struck by a cursed arrow. His recovery was now tied to the life of the forest and now that it has had time to recover from the fires, so had Loren. Ashelyn then reveals the other traveller to be Quillyan from the first chapter.
 * Vol. 2 The Killing Blow
 * Synopsis: Quillyan gets himself into another predicament with magic as he flees the wrath of a very upset mage. As he escapes through a portal, he lands into the harem of the Rasha of Salan, ruler of the largest city in the Northern Lands of Maraish. After slaying the Rasha in a misunderstanding,Quillyan flees with one of the concubines, Cassandra. Opening another portal to escape the palace guards, Quillyan awakes on the ship Evangelion with Cassandra. There they befriend the Captain and his son who acts as a translator for Cassandra. A few months into their voyage, Quillyan falls in love with Cassandra, but their relationship is cut short after three pirate vessels attack their ship. Quillyan is knocked out after seeing the captain killed and the fate of Cassandra and the captain's son is left unknown. Quillyan awakes, and finds himself a slave of the pirates, forced to row the oars for their ships until he gathers the crew into mutiny against the captain of the Crimson Tide. Later after being named first mate by the new captain, he joins their raids along the coast of Avelon. Later, Quillyan finds himself on the opposite side of what led him to his life of piracy and in the moment of witnessing the assault on another helpless woman, he remembered the fate of Cassandra being tied to the mast surrounded by bloodthirsty pirates. Yelling for his men to stop, he stands there as the woman begins to fade into the wind, becoming a vanishing whisp on the horizon.
 * Vol. 3 The Fabler
 * Synopsis: Thoman the Fabler returns to the oldest port city in Avelon, Airowyn. He makes his way to a local bar, the Full Sail where he performs with his lute. After a night of singing and drinking, he is approached by a dark and beautiful woman who asks him to recite the fable of the Assassin Del. This fable is forbidden in the city of Airoywn, yet he finds himself eventually singing the tale about an assasin who kills the king of Airoywn. The assassin loses two fingers during his escape when the king's wife manages to fight him off, disappearing into the night and unheard from for thirty years. It so happened that the crowned prince of Airowyn was there at the bar. After hearing the forbidden story of the assassin who killed his father, he ordered his guards to take Thoman out back and beat him until he came out to personally finish him off. The woman convinced the prince to spare the fabler's life. The guards still took Thoman outside and beat the poor man. After recovering from his beating he comes back to find the prince and the woman having an argument. Distracted with Thoman's return, the woman, Syrinne, pulls out a dagger and slits the prince's throat. She then threatens Thoman to spread her tail as the prince dies at her feet. Thoman convinces her there is no life in being remembered as an assassin of royalty only to have your story sung in bars to the drunk. She gives him the dagger but during the exchange, pulls off his glove. It is revealed that Thoman has two wooden fingers stuffed in his glove and implies that he is the assassin Del.
 * Characters:
 * Ashelynn
 * Loren
 * Lyden
 * Quillyan
 * Thoman the Fabler

Chapter 3: The Legacy of Thrain

 * Issues: 6 - 10
 * Plot: [TODO Fill in plot]

Chapter 4: "The Heir of Legend"

 * Issues: 11 - 13 (Issues 12 and 13 were never released).
 * Plot: [TODO Fill in plot]

In Other Media

 * Knights of the Dinner Table (No. 38)
 * "The Corridors": Short Comic (pg. 53 - 61)
 * Knights of the Dinner Table: Bundle of Trouble (Vol. 9) - Bonus Section (pg. 64 - 79) - The characters of the KoDT run adventures based on stores from the Avelon comic series.
 * "Five Shall be Called"........pg. 64
 * "One Shall be Chosen"......pg. 67
 * "You Are What You Drink"..pg. 71
 * "The Legend of Heirs"........pg. 75