La Saga des brumes #[nn]

Two figures — a slight, long-haired youth and a broad-shouldered warrior wrapped in heavy furs — stand knee-deep in pale, mist-softened waters, exchanging what appears to be a scroll or document while a lone sailing vessel drifts through the haze behind them. The cover's restrained palette of icy blues and warm terracotta reds gives Jean-Paul Krassinsky and Marc Védrines's work an immediately atmospheric, mythic quality. Published by Glénat in 2011, La Saga des Brumes promises a tale of seafaring, ancient encounters, and the kind of northern mystery that lingers long after the last page.