Then and Now, Here and There

Overview
Summary
 * 1) Travel to the ruins in the Diessa Lowlands.
 * 2) Defeat the Charr guarding the ruins to free the prisoners. You have 4 groups remaining.
 * 3) Reassure the Charr's prisoners.
 * 4) Find Dahgar the Eye of Flame in Old Ascalon and destroy him.
 * 5) Find Gwen's hidden treasure in the ruins of Ashford.
 * 6) Bring news of the Charr's defeat to Duke Barradin in Piken Square.

Obtained from
 * Hall of Monuments

Requirements
 * Tapestry Shred in inventory
 * Tyrian-born Character
 * Required Hero : Gwen
 * Complete The Missing Vanguard

Reward
 * 15,000 XP
 * Gwen's Flute (Unique) (Not stated in quest log)

Dialogue (from the Quest Log)

"Ah, , how I treasured this little shred of tapestry as a child. I remember the day I gave it to you. For you to have held on to it for so many years... well, it warms my heart to know I was not forgotten. Please, allow me to hold it once more. I wish to keep it as a token of our friendship. So long as I hold this, I will know that there are some things in life that cannot be taken away from you.

"There's something I would like to give you in return. I didn't think the day would come for me to say this, but we must return to my home... our home... to Ascalon. We must head to the Diessa Lowlands, where I was held prisoner for a time. I have something hidden there, that I want you to have. Will you accompany me?"

Intermediate Dialogue 1 (On approaching the temple)

Gwen: "These ruins were once a great temple. I think that's why the Charr used it as a temporary prison.  Every passing second, our presence was nothing but a reminder of a destroyed past and a denied future, built on top of a monument to our broken faith.

"I have never known a creature more hateful than the Charr. Had I not escaped from them, I would be dead by now.  Or worse, a prisoner.

"Before the Ebon Vanguard found me, I was little more than a scavenger. Although I had an empty stomach, my mind was filled with thoughts of vengeance.

"Now that I find myself here, these broken pillars do not seem as tall or frightening [cutoff]"

Intermediate Dialogue 2 (After killing the Charr guards) Duke Barradin: Hail! To whom do we owe our lives?

Gwen: We are from the Ebon Vanguard.

Duke Barradin: The Ebon Vanguard! It has been long since we heard word from them. We thought you had all been lost.

Gwen: Not destroyed, just beset on all sides by foes. I see the Charr still plague these lands...

Farrah Cappo: [cutoff]

Intermediate Dialogue 3 (Approaching Dahgar)

Dahgar the Eye of Flame: So predictable.... Threaten their holes, and all of the little mice scamper out.

Gwen: Silence, you thrice-damned monster! I will have your heart in compensation for the one that you broke!

Intermediate Dialogue 4 (After killing Dahgar)

Gwen: As a child, I found myself haunted by the sight of his remorseless eyes staring into my own...and then nothingness. When the world appeared to me again, I was seeing it for the first time as a prisoner. For all the horrors I have witnessed while under the captivity of the Charr, few compare to the murderous visage of the one who took me from everything that I knew. That was Dahgar.

You will torment me no longer, demon. As you have taken from me, I have taken from you. A life for a life.

But I must apologize....I did not mean to drag you here for my own personal vendetta. There is something I mean to give you, but I had to see to the safety of my homeland first. Come, we go to the ruins of Ashford...to my old home.

Intermediate Dialogue 5 (At Ashford Ruins)

Gwen: There was something that I buried here... I don't remember exactly where. Could you kneel down and help me search?


 * Player Kneels, Gwen's Flute (Unique) appears in inventory

Do you remember this? It is the flute you gave me all those years ago. I lost the broken pieces of my first flute during the searing, and did not want to lose your gift.

I hid it here in the hopes it would not be lost to me after the Searing...

As you have allowed me to keep this tapestry shred, allow me to return to you the flute, as a sign of our friendship. We have lost a great deal, but some things will endure. We will see this war through to its end. We will bring peace to these lands, and I will see them as beautiful as they once were.

There are many battles ahead,. We should see Duke Barradin in Piken Square, and deliver him the news of the Charr's defeat. After that, we should return to the north. The Ebon Vanguard...and the future we need to forge, are waiting for us!

Reward Dialogue (Duke Barradin) "You say that Dahgar the Eye of Flame is dead? Perhaps defeating a monster so terrible as that one will break the will of the Charr that followed him.  Ascalon will continue to do what she always has: fight to protect herself, and her own.  Do not worry yourself with our affairs, .  I know that you have your own battles to fight.  May Dwayna watch over you and illuminate the paths you walk upon."

Walkthrough
Take Gwen and other heroes and leave from Nolani Academy. This area will now be filled with level 20 Charr as they appear in the Charr Homelands, however they aren't as large in groups so you have a better chance. Follow the quest marker to the ruins and carefully begin to pick off the Charr groups from a distance. The ranger Charr boss is still the same level he always was so he's an easy morale boost if you need it. This shouldn't cause any major problems, even with 1 healer, if you have someone who can attack at range, it will help greatly in taking out Charr from where they cannot get to you thanks to the map layout.

Upon defeating the Charr you'll free Duke Barradin and Farrah Cappo who will inform you of the new boss in Old Ascalon. Leave from Sardelac Sanitarium and go south, taking out the Charr carefully as you go (They are level 20 here too). The boss is lightly guarded and can be taken out without many problems. Once you do this, Gwen will take you to where the farmer kept his pigs in Ashford and ask you to kneel and search for something. Doing this gives you Gwen's Flute (Unique) and a conversation with Gwen about her friendship with the character. To end the quest, talk to the Duke in Piken Square.

Trivia

 * This quest's title is a reference to the anime series Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku, known in English as Now and Then, Here and There.