The Ogre Gods is a French black & white comic series in four volumes written by Hubert Boulard, with illustrations from Bertrand Gatignol.
The royal family has indeed been degenerating for a long time, with centuries of inbreeding visible in the size and longevity of each newborn, who dies younger and is smaller than his predecessors.
This volume makes several references to the "Book of the Forebears", introducing the following characters: Princess Desdea, the Founder, Queen Emione, the God-King, Prince Coor and King Eliabaal.
This new book provides a better understanding of the kingdom of the Giants: the real political power is held there by the descendants of five great families called the "noble-born", these are the Draken, the Elissen, the Hunrahi, the Ragnar, and the Zigness.
Raised for a time in the Elissen palace with his father's legitimate children, the young Yori must leave him with his mother following an altercation with his half-brothers.
Resentful and ambitious, he desires after this humiliation to reach the highest rank of human power in the kingdom, to take revenge on the noble-born families who despise him because of his "half-blood" status.
This new volume is no exception, and the use of characters, reminiscent of Scandinavian runes, leads us this time into a world where Gothic aesthetics gives way to the harshness of Nordic landscapes where forests have eyes and hide forgotten entities.
Fine strategist, but above all a wounded man and a tragic figure, Lours brings real greatness to the story and gives the title of this opus all its meaning.
In this fourth opus, the story turns back the clock into the past of the kingdom of the giants, talking about the life of Bragante, the first child of the Founder who killed her mother when she came into the world.
But she also has a strong temperament that makes her speak out against the authority of her father, the Founder, who does not appreciate her educating the rest of his siblings, the latter preferring that his sons become warriors and his daughters into reproductive ones in the hope that his family will avenge him one day by returning in his homeland.