The Catacombs

The Catacombs
Basic Info
Campaign: Prophecies Type: Explorable area Part of: Pre-Searing Ascalon
Neighbor(s)
Ashford Abbey, Green Hills County, Wizard's Folly
Map
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Description

The Catacombs is a large area in pre-Searing Ascalon. They used to be the subterranean burial place belonging to Ashford Abbey, with a large network of hallways, caves, chambers, tombs and crypts. Since the Catacombs are now haunted by Undead in large numbers, they are no longer used as a crypt. Only the bravest dare to enter deep into this area of death and horror. The Catacombs are home to elaborate murals of all of the old Gods (Dwayna, Balthazar, Melandru, Lyssa and Grenth).

Beware of poisonous Swamp Water in some areas of the Catacombs.

Being underground, this area does not show up on the world map, only the mission map.

Exits

Towns and Outposts

• Ashford Abbey (east)

Explorable areas

• Green Hills County (northwest)
• Wizard's Folly (south)

NPCs

• Collectors:
  • 1 Gwynn
  • 1 Karleen
• Various:
  • 5 Academy Monk
  • 3 Paulus the Abbot (only during the quest A Monk's Mission)
  • 5 Necromancer Munne
  • 2 Oberan the Reviled
  • 10 Restless Spirits

Bestiary

Monsters

• Devourers:
  • 1 Carrion Devourer
  • 2 Snapping Devourer
  • 0 Diseased Devourer
• Gargoyles:
  • 1 Gargoyle
  • 3 Shatter Gargoyle
• Nightmares:
  • 3 Crypt Fiend
  • 4 Tomb Nightmare
• Spiders:
  • 2 Deadly Crypt Spider
• Undead:
  • 1 Restless Corpse
  • 2 Blood Fanatic (only during quest The Power of Blood)
  • 3 Raging Cadaver

Bosses

• Undead:
  • 5 Skullreaver

Quests

The Catacombs

• Necromancer Munne: The Necromancer's Novice (See A Second Profession)
• Necromancer Munne: Rites of Remembrance
• Oberan the Reviled: The Accursed Path

Notes

• This area does not re-appear in post-Searing, as all entrances are blocked. Presumably, the entire area has collapsed from the aftershocks of the destruction of the Searing.
• There are stones that look like dragon skulls under the bridge near Karleen.
• Although there are at least 2 statues of Grenth in the Catacombs, you cannot receive a blessing even if the world has Favor of the Gods.
• There is a passage down the side the ruin Necromancer Munne stands in, this is the path to another entrance into the catacombs
• In post-Searing the minimap shows the entrance as a pool of water, it presumably got flooded.