After the disappearance of the 10th Legion's Grand Mage, Merik, in 1144, Castle Ehb fell to the Seck, who were able to escape their prison beneath the palace as the magical wards binding them within weakened. The king's retinue was slaughtered, but Konreid himself was spared, and imprisoned within his own dungeons. The Seck leader, Gom, ordered Konreid to be tortured, hoping to squeeze a way to enter the Chamber of Stars out of the king. Konreid remained resolute, however, and refused to divulge the secrets of the Chamber until a band of heroes, led by a farmer-turned-warrior, rescued him. These heroes secured the artifacts within the Chamber of Stars, and used them to defeat Gom and the Seck once and for all.