Old Ascalon

This article is about an explorable area. This name is also used for a Zaishen vanquish quest.

Old Ascalon
Campaign	Prophecies
Region	Ascalon
Type	Explorable area
Exit(s)	Ascalon City Regent Valley Sardelac Sanitarium The Breach
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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

New Prophecies campaign characters will enter this area automatically upon completion of the Ascalon Academy mission. Travel north to find the exit into Ascalon City.

Factions and Nightfall characters will need to travel back from Lion's Arch to Ascalon City. See this map.

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

NPCs

Allies

Humans

• 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 Guard
• 4 (20) Ascalonian Guards (at the exit to the Breach and patrolling near Ambassador Zain)
• 4 (20) Ascalon City Wall Sentry

Services

• 10 (20) Innis the White (collector for 4 Singed Gargoyle Skulls)
• 1 (20) Palben Tunne (collector for 4 Ornate Grawl Necklaces)
• 1 (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)
• 2 (20) Jarrel the Tamer (pet tamer)

Charmable animals

Animals

• 5 Melandru's Stalker (south from the entrance to The Breach)
• 3 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

Notes

• If a Tyrian (Prophecies) character is present, Sergeant Clark and 2 or 3 Ascalon Guards will offer their help regardless of whether the quest Military Matters is active.
• There are many hidden Devourers and Crowns of Thorns throughout the entire area.
• Gwen's Broken Flute can be found in the ruins of Ashford.
• Complete exploration of this area contributes approximately 1.8% to the Tyrian Cartographer title.

• Vanquisher runs of this area without active quests require defeating around 245 foes. Including quest influences, it has been reported to range from 200 to 304 foes.
  • The Eastern portion has numerous Devourer and Crown of Thorns pop-ups.
  • Most enemies are hostile towards other types of enemies, letting them fight it out can save a couple dozen kills.

Trivia

• There are the remains of what appears to be a wagon at the location that Hamish the Merchant occupied 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 is different 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.
• There is a cave in the Southeast corner of the map that contains a small, deserted Charr jail. Before the Searing, this cave was the Devourer Cave.
• During the E3 for Everyone beta event, this area was called the Ascalon Wilds. The Ascalon Wilds had a vastly different appearance from Old Ascalon, having more canyons and blocky buildings like the missions.

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