Escaflowne, NewType Novels, Vol 6 (½)

Who all’s headed for Youmacon this week? Come find us at Artist Alley table B-15! (I’m not using the royal we; I’ll be tabling with friends lmao)

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inktober 2018 day 23: muddy

Dilandau for Inktober Day 19 - “Scorched”

i kinda wanted to color alseides more, but thought my red marker was a little too red for it

Day 02 

人の想いは時に天空を動かす  “People’s emotions sometimes move the heavens.“ 

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Escaflowne Doujinshi Cover

Before and after, I wanted to do something cute and did the cutest person I could think of…. . . . #watercolor #penandink #mixedmedia #washitape #fanart #escaflowne #dragonslayers https://www.instagram.com/p/BnkexWkHFGv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2x2u7ovutp7a

Since tumblr doesn’t like multi-pic posts….

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

Canon information:

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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Escaflowne translations overview

Because it’s been years, I’m losing track of them, and I need it for reasons.

Escaflowne Settei Collection Artbook

Escaflowne Novels

Others/Random

I think that was all of the bigger ones.

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