Birds of The Master - Setting

Setting

  • An unnamed asteroid wandering through space. The mysterious Master has set up home here at the bottom of an immense valley dotted with volcanoes and shrouded in a thick fog. He is fed by a series of wooden channels, called the Pathways of Klaar, along which his food, known as klaar, is poured. Wind turbines provide the power to drive the klarr along the channels to the Master. The klarr is prepared in a great city, hewn out of the rock, at the head of the valley, decorated all over with carved sculptures made in honour of the Master, that acts as a great kitchen. Nearby lies a great pit into which those driven insane by the Birds-Of-Madness are thrown to end their days. Outside the valley lie many villages engaged in agriculture or fishing where the ingredients that make up the klaar are cultivated, reared or hunted. The Master adds to his army of servants by luring passing spacecraft and brings them to ground in a marshy area, near a huge set of falls, that forms a vast graveyard of spaceships.
Valérian and Laureline
Albums
  • Bad Dreams
  • The City of Shifting Waters
  • Empire of a Thousand Planets
  • World Without Stars
  • Welcome to Alflolol
  • Birds of the Master
  • Ambassador of the Shadows
  • On the False Earths
  • Heroes of the Equinox
  • Métro Châtelet, Direction Cassiopeia
  • Brooklyn Station, Terminus Cosmos
  • The Ghosts of Inverloch
  • The Rage of Hypsis
  • On the Frontiers
  • The Living Weapons
  • The Circles of Power
  • Hostages of the Ultralum
  • Orphan of the Stars
  • In Uncertain Times
  • At the Edge of the Great Void
  • The Order of the Stones
  • L'OuvreTemps
Other stories
  • Across the Pathways of Space
  • The Asteroids of Shimballil
Associated people
  • Jean-Claude Mézières
  • Pierre Christin
Television adaptation
  • Time Jam: Valerian & Laureline

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