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Lanfeust Quest

French comic series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ104838421
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Lanfeust Quest is a French comics series version of the adventures of Lanfeust. Written in Japanese reading direction, small format, black and white and a lot more distinctive style, this revised version of Lanfeust of Troy is illustrated by Ludo Lullabi.

Characters

Lanfeust: Very dissatisfied with his ability to be able to melt metal, Lanfeust dreams of being a hero. One day in contact with some ivory sword pommel, he discovered an absolute power.

C'ian: Nicolède's elder daughter, but primarily girlfriend of Lanfeust. She acquires “after dark”, the power of healing.

Cixi: Nicolède's younger daughter. She can transform water into ice or steam.

Nicolède: The village elder of Glinin. He will guide Lanfeust, that scholars of Eckmül can study at leisure.

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“Lanfeust Quest” enters the record as french comic series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lanfeust, Quest and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from Lanfeust Quest” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.