The Living Weapons
# The Living Weapons

The Living Weapons is volume fourteen in the French comic book (or bande dessinée) science fiction series Valérian and Laureline created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières.

## Principal characters

* Valérian, a spatio-temporal agent from Galaxity, future capital of Earth, in the 28th century.
* Laureline, originally from France in the 11th century, now a spatio-temporal agent of Galaxity in the 28th century.
* Albert, Valérian and Laureline's contact on 20th century Earth .
* Brittibrit, a transformist artist from the planet Chab.
* Doum A Goum, a virtually indestructible, rock-eating creature.
* Yfysania, a creature capable of teleportation.
* Schniarfeur, a living weapon from the planet Bromn. The Schniarfeur's weapons are its irritating voice and its destructive spit. The planet Bromn is so dangerous that all its inhabitants, including the Schniarfeur, are in a state of perpetual aggression. A Schniarfeur's aggression can be tempered by operating on its chabounal gland.
* Rompf, a Lord of War from Blopik.
* Wauk, a Lord of War from Blopik and Rompf's rival.

## Settings

* Blopik, the third planet in the Constellation of Orpheus. Blopikians are a mixture of minotaur and centaur having the head of a bull and the body of a horse. Despite their fearsome appearance, they are ruminants. Their planet is mostly rocky, primarily red and brown in colour with many canyons and ravines. Primitive wooded bridges connect the ravines. The Blopikian natives regularly make war on their great plains. When the forests of the high ranges reach maturity and bear fruit, the Blopikians set them on fire to start the war between the rival tribes.
* Earth, Russia, the late 1980s after the events of On the Frontiers but before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Valérian and Laureline take Brittibrit, Doum-a-Goum and Yfysania to join the Moscow State Circus.
