Résumé

The story takes its inspiration from a Celtic legend about a mysterious city, built 'at the mercy of the sea' at the extreme western point of the peninsula of Brittany, in the famous 'Bay of the Dead,' and today drowned beneath its waves: the city of Ys. King Gradlon reigns in Cornouaille. He is constantly torn between the sage counsel of the hermit saints Corentin and Winwaloe, and the madness -- soon to become deadly -- of his adored only daughter, Dahut: beautiful as a star, and with a heart as black as hell.It is to satisfy Dahut's mad desire that the king builds Ys, the most beautiful city in the world.Built to protect its inhabitants from invaders from the East, YS is a city currounded by the sea, and defended from the waves by enormous walls. A complex, ingenious system allows the gates to be opened at low tide.One day, a stranger dressed in black seduces Dahut, who hands over to him the jealously-guarded key to the gates. She doesn't know that the stranger is the Devil himself -- who has come to destroy YS!An ancient legend retold by Rodolphe -- Kenya, L'Autre Monde (« The Other World ») – and illustrated by the Spaniard Raquel Alzate, whose previous work includes La Croix du sud (« The Southern Cross »), in the collection « Long Courrier ».