Apex's Newest Legend, Conduit, Has Heavy Ties To Titanfall Lore

19.10.2023 - 18:51 / gamespot.com / Claire Lewis

The latest episode of Stories From The Outlands suggests the new legend may be connected to the events of Titanfall 2.

By Claire Lewis on

Season 18 of Apex Legends will soon come to a close, and Respawn has given players a taste of what to expect in Season 19, including a Titan-powered new legend, via a new episode of the Stories From The Outlands series titled «For Us, Utang na Loob.»

The animated short gives players their first look at Conduit--a character who was first revealed over a year ago via a massive March 2022 content leak that unveiled the next nine legends who would be joining the squad. Based on the character's in-game portrait at the time of the leak--which depicted Conduit as a faceless Firing Range D.U.M.M.I.E.--some players thought Conduit might be some sort of robot, or event a sentient member of the Firing Range's artificial AI target. But the release of «For Us, Utang na Loob» has revealed that nothing could be further from the truth.

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Though most episodes of Stories From The Outlands reveal an upcoming legend's real name, the latest episode does the exact opposite, referring to the new hero simply by her Apex moniker, Conduit. The episode depicts the horrors of the Frontier War, with a young Conduit peeking out from behind a curtain as massive Titans crash to the ground and begin destroying her peaceful settlement--and those who inhabit it. But when all seems lost, salvation descends from above: A Monarch-class Titan.

The enormous mech (and its unseen pilot) save the settlement, but it comes at a cost: their lives. Outnumbered and injured, the Monarch lures the enemy Titans away from the civilian areas of Conduit's unnamed settlement. Once a safe distance has been reached, the pilot appears to either detonate or overload their Titan's reactor core, which results in a massive explosion that takes out all of the enemy Titans--including the savior Monarch and its pilot. This saves the settlement, and the side of the explosion is fenced off to keep any would-be trespassers away from the dangerous radiation.

Inspired by this noble sacrifice, Conduit's interest in the Apex Games grows as she ages, and she can be seen effectively LARPing as a legend with some of the other youngsters in her settlement. But everything changes when Conduit's sister arrives home from some sort of expedition, clearly injured. Conduit helps her sister into their home, and though her wounds aren't fatal, they're