“Isolated sorceress Sybel raises a human child, awakening emotions and upheaval when the boy's father returns.”
The Calling
コーリング (岡野玲子)
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Isolated sorceress Sybel raises a human child, awakening emotions and upheaval when the boy's father returns.
An adaptation of Patricia A. McKillip's "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld." Sixteen when a baby is brought to her to raise, Sybel has grown up on Eld Mountain. Her only playmates are the creatures of a fantastic menagerie called there by wizardry. Sybel has cared nothing for humans, until the baby awakens emotions previously unknown to her. And when Coren -the man who brought this child- returns, Sybel's world is again turned upside down.
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A Manga Publication
- Format 3 vol ch × vol
- Published Jan 1993 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M14559 catalog