The Ascalons Lost Ruins: The Desert Revealed
Tyrian Academy of Sciences
Archaeological Department
Writtn by Eratimus Swiftarrow
eratimus@gmail.com
Researched by Eratimus Swiftarrow and Panda Amorem
The Lost Tale
As found deep within the Catacombs of Ascalon, likes a chamber of caskets. Rising high into the high arched ceiling gaze three towering statues. Statues of armored heroes paying homedge to the Heroes of Acalon. Yet, it does not stop there.
Long has it been thought that the Ascalons never ventured into the desert,a nd that perhaps their pilgramage to Arah, to seek the aid of the Gods may have gone through the mountians, until now.
Recent expeditions have found these same towering statues among the rubble of the Desert, yet no direct link has ever been made to Ascalon until this very day.
The expedition began as I was attemtping to uncover the origins of the Ascention Obylisks one finds through out the Desert. During my stay in Auguay rock, something struck very familiar to me. The arches depict what looks to be griffons all across the stone form one side to the other. This soon made me think, Ascalon. It has been said that the creature of Ascalon is the griffon. WE see the griffon in the suspected crest of the "Ascalon's Chosen" guild, the elite gu ild of Ascalon. The same winged lion can also be found among the Hall of Heroe's perhaps depicting their current reign over the Hall.
Although, that was not enough for me to connect the stone structures of Ascalon to the Desert, as we dont see the arch anywhere else. Then it came to me, the dark stone architecture also resembles that of Ascalon. Remembering the Columns found thorugh out Ascalon, those found at Augury were nearly the same. They seem to be made by the same people, same type of stone, and same style. But, that too was not the same.
There was one other site that I knew of in the desert that I had to check to verify a notion I had. together, Panda Amorem and I, after having resupplied at the Dunes of Dispair heading out to the north-east in search of the remnance of a stone structure in disrepair, the same location to which the fallen statue allows us to cross as a bridge.
Arriving safely, we began our exploraton. This is a place we have both ventured to a number of times, but never in such detail. What we were after were the same suspected Comumns we have seen elsewhere. The columns that once held up a stone roof conpose of two decorations, a decoration just above the base, and the other, a swiring carving at the top. To our minds these columns seened to be form the same peoples, the same architects, it seemed to be from the Ascalons. But, again, was that proof enough? Even though they seemed to be done in the same style, they just were not exactly the same. Even though Ascalon has been the only people we knew who built columns such as these.
Panda had told me of very similar columns she had see within the ruins of Rin, the old capotp; pf Ascalon. So, we picked up our packs, and head north, through the desert, through the ruins of Ascalon, and finally into what was left of the Nolani Academy. We began our trek documenting other possible finds for future writings, until we finally reached waht was left of Rin. After a good deal of exploringthe ruins, rising high aove are borken columns, the ame material, the same style, but something else, they were the EXACT same columns found in the lone stone structure in the Desert aside from the ridges in the base of the Rin column, and very similar styles to that of those found all over Ascalon and Augury Rock. We had found what we traked for, the second evidense that with our exploration, no doubt finally connects Ascalon to the Desert.
After due discussoin based on the evidense presented by the Collosus statues, very similar coumns and these same exact columns found in both Ascalon and the Crystal Desert, we have come to announce that Ascalon HAS been to the Desert. In what fashion we don ot know. It would also seem that they had alos built the arches and dark stone Columns found at Augury, and it would also seem, the Colossus we find in the desert.
We know that Doric, the first King of Ascalon, ventured to Arah, the city of the Gods to ask for help. Whether or not he ventured to the desert on this way to Arah, could this finally prove that the Ascalons did not just visit the Desert, but also built structures along their way? This may have been done on their way to Arah, or perhaps coudl they have been the thrid peopls spoekn of by Turai Ossa? We are never told the ppl were destroyed, only that they failed ascension when they had been there.
It is our scientific opinion that the Ascalons were the buildings of the ruined stone structure, Augury Columns, and Griffon Arch. As to when they were built, we do not currently know. But, some how there is a lost tale of the Ascalonians visit to the Desert.
