Conkram (Past) (コンクラム(過去), Konkuramu [kako]) is a location in Legend of Legaia, as seen twelve years before the Ra-Seru heroes embark on their journey to rid Legaia of the Mist. Its serene landscape is in stark contrast to the Conkram that is first witnessed.
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Conkram, in the North Karisto Mountains, was a beautiful town. But now..."
- Soren
Nestled in the North Karisto Mountains, Conkram was world-renowned for its beauty and prosperity. An extravagant palace built on a hill overlooked the town square, which held multiple decorative columns in the center of all its shops and residences. Ruled by the royal family of King Nebular, Queen Minea and their son Cort with the help of trusted advisors known as the Four Wise Men, Conkram developed an intense rivalry with the southern metropolis, Sol. Entry into Conkram was made possible through a mountain pass, which disappeared around the time the Mist came.
Story[]
Karisto Kingdom War[]
Over twenty years before the Mist appeared, quarreling started between Conkram and Sol, a southern tower city. The ruling powers of both territories had their sights on ruling Karisto Kingdom in its entirety, and the quarreling soon turned into a number of small-scale armed conflicts. As the fighting continued, both Conkram and Sol put together powerful armies and artificially strengthened their Seru. An all-out war soon erupted and the fighting continued without an end in sight. As the war prolonged, citizens of Conkram were eventually forbidden to emigrate outside the territory.
After over a decade of war, Conkram found itself in dire straits as Sol was clearly in position to win. The Solians had control over the ancient ruins of Uru Mais, where Seru trappers sent by Emperor Etora VIII would obtain powerful new Seru that would sometimes appear seemingly out of nowhere. Conkram's most brilliant minds worked around the clock to come up with new countermeasures against Sol's armies as the situation became increasingly desperate. Finally, a breakthrough in Conkram's research happened as its young nobleman Cort and its Court Scientist Doctor Jette opened a portal to the home world of the Seru. Cort and Jette traveled to the Seru home world through the portal and discovered new Seru that would be integral to Conkram's offensive and defensive capabilities. More surprisingly, they found that their equipped Seru had increased in strength dramatically, leading into Cort's research of what he called "The Mist".
Mist Outbreak in Conkram[]
By building a generator on top of the portal connecting Legaia to the Seru home world, Cort and Jette made it possible to condense the atmosphere of the Seru home world into a mist elixir that could be transported through a tube and showered over their soldiers. This elixir would temporarily strengthen Conkram's soldiers many fold, enabling them to easily crush Sol's armies even with their new Seru from Uru Mais. Cort and Jette reported the findings to Nebular, Minea and the other sages, Zeto, Dohati and Zora. However, Nebular demanded a demonstration of the Mist in the town square before he would allow its use in battle.
A container was built in the center of the town square that connected to a tube leading to the palace's underground laboratory. With the royal family and the sages present for the demonstration, Zeto announced to Conkram's populace the details of Cort's new weapon as a volunteer soldier was escorted into the container. Cort had Jette turn on the generator and everyone watched as the volunteer was shrouded in Mist. The generator soon malfunctioned and exploded, causing the volunteer to turn into a monster that smashed the container in town, allowing Mist to envelop Conkram. Others wearing Seru were also turned into crazed monsters and any Seru present went berserk and started attacking humans as well. All looked lost until three mysterious youths cut off the source of the Mist pouring into Conkram, saving it from complete annihilation.
Ra-Seru heroes Travel to the Past[]
Vahn, Noa and Gala use the Room of Mirrors in Conkram of their present in order to time travel to Conkram as it was twelve years before the Mist covered Legaia. They are present during the demonstration of the Mist and learn how it was first created as a weapon of war. To cut off the source flowing into Conkram, their Ra-Seru have them journey to Rogue's Tower. They explain while traveling in the portal that the Mist cannot be cut off until they destroy the Rogue, former Ra-Seru that were sealed in the tower by Tieg long ago after their failed rebellion. After defeating the evil Rogue and its cohorts, they travel back to Conkram to see that everything has returned to normal. King Nebular grants their request for a Nemesis Gem as payment for saving Conkram before they return to their present time. Unfortunately for Conkram, they did not realize that the new clam Seru sitting on top of a column in the royal palace would eventually grow to envelop the town itself and all its inhabitants.
Conkram's Transformation[]
Although research into the Mist was banned by Nebular after the demonstration caused the deaths of so many, Cort and the Four Wise Men felt that the Mist still had promise. Conspiring in secret, they analyzed a Rogue Fragment left behind after the outbreak to create their own Mist without need of Rogue's Tower. With Jette in charge of construction of the Absolute Fortress in the mountains to the north of Conkram, a massive Mist Generator was secretly built inside it and turned on upon its completion. The enormous quantity of Mist caused the clam Seru left behind in Conkram to grow rapidly, and the citizens of Conkram that fled the Mist and berserk Seru were quickly fused into the Seru's flesh and lived in constant agony.
Layout[]
Conkram of the past consists of a large royal palace and a town square with many different shops.
Musical Themes[]
The theme "Capital of Mist" (霧の都, kiri no miyako) plays throughout Conkram (Past).
Conkram (Past) Theme
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