Ansea Latal

When the Roman empire had crumbled and was falling apart, nine important families attended a final meeting somewhere in burning Rome. The concept of good and evil, of a life after this life, which was so in contrast to their own believes, was slowly spreading among the people of Europe. The nine came to the conclusion that, if they wanted to stay in charge, they had to spread this believe instead of suppressing it, and at the same time hold a firm grip at the basis. So they supplied the pope.
The Russian Ansea Latal was an ancestor of one of these nine families. For fifteen ages these nine families rule Europe. She lived in pure wealth. The nine families weren't befriended actually, but they were strong together. They supported the pope, and the war monks and when necessary, directed the flow of history by intervening in politics and in wars and in the decisions made in the Vatican. But too much power is weighs heavy and corruption is always near. In order to tighten his grip Trebaldy asked to nine to support him in his plan to kill the pope en give the power to himself and his war monks. Trebaldy still had another problem, the Scorpion, a man capable of destroying their old scheme.
But not every member of the nine families supported Trebaldi and his plans. Ansea for one, had her own hidden agenda. We don't know yet exactly what her plans were and how many members of the nine supported her, but a fact is that she started to frustrate Trebaldi's plans. Ansea ended up rescuing the Scorpion and fight Trebaldi and his war monks at his side. She also had to fight a beautiful Gypsy named Mejaï, who had chosen the side of the Scorpion for quite different reasons.
The real plans of Ansea are still hidden in the dark however. For more answers we have to wait for the historians to dig up more information

Series Le Scorpion, © Dargaud Benelux, 2000
For the dutch edition De Schorpioen, © Dargaud Benelux, 2000
Artwork taken from vol 1, Het teken van de duivel (La Marque du Diable); vol 3, Het kruis van Petrus (La Croix de Pierre); vol 4, De duivel van het Vaticaan (Le démon au Vatican)

Writer: Stephen Desberg, Artwork: Enrico Marini

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