Pre-Searing Ascalon

Pre-Searing Ascalon is the tutorial area for the GuildWars game.

Here you are introduced to the background story and the main NPC characters. Here you learn your first skills from profession trainers and choose a secondary profession.

See the Pre-Searing Guide for more details.

In Pre-Searing, if you're killed, you're resurrected by the nearest Resurrection Shrine without Death Penalty. This means you can "rinse and repeat" until you've cleared an area.

When you enter accept the offer from Sir Tydus to join the Ascalon Guards and you enter the Ascalon Academy, there is no turning back: After you've accomplished the academy trial fight you see the Searing (the destruction of Ascalon by the Charr) happening in a cutscene and - after a "time warp" - you find yourself in post-searing Ascalon City ruins. This is where the real game begins.