Twig, Volume 1

Twig, Volume 1 by Skottie Young

Which, despite the title, is a complete story, collecting a five comic miniseries.

Twig has fallen into the role of Placeling, because his father died without an apprentice, and he knew the most about it -- little though that was. It is his job to take magical things and put them where they will be found by the appropriate Chosen One, who will save the world. More complications than he expected arise in a brightly colored and quite fantastical setting.

tidbits cross time

Properly marrying off all the royal children was considered, in Korea, to be part of the rites to stablize the relationship with Heaven.

Prussian forest rangers, installed by Napoleon in the Rhineland, introduced forestry management techniques such as cutting down broadleaf trees -- oaks, maples, beechs -- as unproductive and banning the traditional use of the forest. They were among the first to go during the 1848 revolutions.
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