The Dark Crystal #1

The quest begins.

On the mystical world of Thra, a young Gelfling (a small elfin race) believes himself to be the last of his kind. Raised since a baby by the Mystics, a dying race reduced to but ten members, the gentle wizards of the natural powers of the world are the counterbalance to the evil Skeksis, a race of vulture-reptile monsters also dying, also reduced to ten members.

The fate of all these beings is inextricably bound up with a mysterious Dark Crystal, whose baleful karmic powers and vampiric forces doom everyone to work out their destinies in the context of a Prophecy that will save or doom the world...