What do we know about... Basram
A.k.a. the first post in the ‘WDWK’ series. Well, it’s kind of hard to keep in mind all this information found in various artbooks and other sources, so I’ll try to put it all into a single post regarding the selective topic. I will make them as many and about such topics as I’ll feel necessary in the progress of the story, so the posts probably won’t be regular or follow some kind of structure. Yeah, they will be a mess as you can see from just looking at this one. But I expect to make at least a few of them.
And the first will be about the Gaean country of Basram. I tried to find what I could about it as I was thinking of Cyro, an original character coming from that country, who was introduced in chapter 4. And well, as I said in the author’s note, the official information about Basram is very scarce. But I will list all I could find here and also attempt to do a little analysis (or rather, I’ll be grasping at the straws tbh).
Note: I’ll be using abbreviations for the artbooks, ‘ESCAB’ is for the Escaflowne Settei Collection Artbook, ‘EFB’ are the Escaflowne Filmbooks
1. Basram is the only republic from among the Allied countries (EFB 6)
2. The coat of arms represents entwined double dragons
As seen in the artbooks (the text says ‘Basram crest’):
Regarding the colors, it’s hard to the flag in a screenshot, but it’s indeed red so these ancient images for ants with the copyright of Sunrise studios (??) that still float around the web look quite legit:
3. The design of the uniform for Basram soldiers
EFB 6 depicts the uniform of the common soldier (left) and the general.
According to the ESCAB, this is in fact a specific Basram general by the name of Quarto (Kuaruto):
However, in the series itself we see a different-looking commander instead - none other than Mr. Bombastic himself:
Since his ordinary pal from the artbook is present at the scene as well, I would say they just changed the design of the general in the end.
4. The position in the southeast of the ‘known Gaea’
At least as depicted by the part of the map of Gaea from one of the artbooks. According to it, the known neighboring countries are Egzardia to the Northeast, Asturia to the Northwest and Freid to the Southwest.
5. The development and use of the energist bomb
Basram decides to use the chaos on the battlefield and use their new weapon called the energist bomb, not only to wipe out the Zaibach army, but also to weaken their allies and assume the dominant position from among them and “rule Gaea themselves”.
This is the bomb and the ship which drops it:
Then there are several depictions of Basram guymelefs and that’s it for canon-only.
And now it gets more specific, but also way more speculative…
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