Old Ascalon

Before the Searing, Old Ascalon was a beautiful, pastoral land of rolling hills and farms. Now nothing remains but a barren, blasted wasteland infested with monsters.

Getting there
This is the first explorable area that new characters will enter upon completion of the Ascalon Academy mission prior to the Searing. Travel north to find the exit into Ascalon City.

Being the first area after the initial tutorial area, understandably, there are lots of quests that take place here, both primary quests and secondary quests.

Shrines

 * Resurrection shrines:
 * Northeast, short distance southwest of the exit into Ascalon City.
 * Northwest, at the exit into the Breach.
 * Center, at the exit into Sardelac Sanitarium.
 * Southeast, at the exit into Regent Valley.


 * Statue of Balthazar:
 * Northwest, east of the exit into the Breach, at collector Penelope Hoode's location.


 * Statue of Lyssa:
 * North, along the broken wall west of Ascalon City.

Quests available

 * Ambassador Zain
 * Helping the People of Ascalon
 * The Ambassador's Quandary
 * A Mission of Peace
 * Captain Osric (only immediately after the Ascalon Academy mini-mission)
 * The Krytan Ambassador
 * Elementalist Aziure
 * Elemental Knowledge
 * Scorched Earth
 * Gate Guard Hollis
 * Barradin's Stand
 * Supplies for the Duke
 * Grazden the Protector
 * Sowing Seeds
 * Protecting Ascalon
 * In Memory of Paulus
 * Master Ranger Nente
 * Endangered Species
 * The Charr Patrol
 * The Charr Staging Area
 * Shalev the Hermit
 * Shalev's Task
 * Warmaster Grast
 * Gargoyle Trouble
 * Military Matters
 * Into the Breach
 * Witness Rastin
 * Rastin's Ritual
 * Symon's History of Ascalon

Services

 * 10 (20) Innis the White (collector for 4 Singed Gargoyle Skulls)
 * 1 (20) Palben Tunne (collector for 4 Ornate Grawl Necklaces)
 * 10 (20) Saba Blackstone (collector for 3 Scorched Lodestones)
 * 2 (20) Dreaz Bowem (collector for 3 Fetid Carapaces)
 * 10 (20) Penelope Hoode (collector for 3 Scorched Seeds)
 * 1 (20) Artisan Daved (artisan)
 * 10 (20) Jarrel the Tamer (pet tamer)

Other allies

 * 2 (20) Sergeant Clark (only if a Tyrian (Prophecies) character is present)
 * 20 (20) Captain Osric (only immediately after the Ascalon Academy mini-mission)
 * 5 (20) Warmaster Grast
 * 4 (20) Gate Guard Hollis
 * 4 (20) Gate Guard Sebastein
 * 4 (20) Gate Guard Wendell
 * 5 (20) Master Ranger Nente
 * 5 (20) Elementalist Aziure
 * 8 (20) Shalev the Hermit
 * 15 (20) Ambassador Zain
 * 10 (20) Grazden the Protector
 * 10 (20) Farmer Hamnet
 * 10 (20) Melka Blanston
 * 15 Evennia (only after the scene in Ice Cliff Chasms)
 * 10 (20) Witness Rastin
 * 4 (20) Ascalon Guards (three are with Sergeant Clark)
 * 4 (20) Ascalonian Guards (at the exit to the Breach and patrolling near Ambassador Zain)
 * 4 (20) Ascalon City Wall Sentry

Charmable animals
Animals
 * 5 Melandru's Stalker (south from the entrance to The Breach)
 * 5 Moa Bird (west of Sardelac Sanitarium)

Foes
Charr
 * 6 (23) Charr Axe Warrior
 * 6 (23) Charr Stalker

Devourers
 * 4 (22) Carrion Devourer
 * 4 (22) Whiptail Devourer
 * 3 (22) Plague Devourer

Elementals
 * 3 (22) Hulking Stone Elemental

Gargoyles
 * 3 (22) Flash Gargoyle
 * 4 (22) Shatter Gargoyle

Grawl
 * 4 (22) Grawl
 * 3 (22) Grawl Ulodyte

Plants
 * 5 (23) Crown of Thorns

Bosses
Devourers
 * 6 (26) Rot Chuchau
 * 6 (26) Stig Plopgush

Elementals
 * 6 (26) Cobble Poundstone
 * 6 (26) Flint Touchstone

Gargoyles
 * 6 (26) Rif Telourau

Grawl
 * 6 (26) Anani Mokmok
 * 6 (26) Mono Ookook
 * 6 (26) Palila Uggugg
 * 6 (26) Gougi Gakula
 * 6 (26) Mok Waagwaag

Humans
 * 6 (26) Bonetti

Trivia

 * There is the remains of what appears to be a wagon at the location that Hamish the Merchant occupied previously in pre-Searing.
 * Much of the explorable area of Old Ascalon was Green Hills County and Lakeside County before the Searing. The entrance to Ascalon City has also moved from its pre-Searing location, and some of this area used to be inside Ascalon City before the Searing.
 * The Resurrection Shrine just outside of the City is facing a different direction than it was before the Searing.