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The Ascendant Champion
Location	Sareloth Grotto
Race	Breton	Gender	Female
Health	15,000
Reaction	Friendly
Other Information
Faction(s)	Ascendant Order

The Ascendant Champion

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The Ascendant Champion is a Breton and a high-ranking member of the Ascendant Order. She is in charge of the plot involving the abduction of Guild Scholar Valessea and the theft of some very special medallions from the Society of the Steadfast.

Related Quests

• Ascending Doubt‎: Try to help keep Alliance War peace talks on track.
• A King's Retreat‎: Chase down and cleanse a number of cursed medallions.

Quest-Related Events

Ascending Doubt

She is first encountered deep in Sareloth Grotto where she is speaking with a fellow Ascendant about the medallions you are collecting:

Ascendant Acolyte: "We hid the medallions throughout the grotto as you requested. Do you want to take them with you?"

The Ascendant Champion: "Are you questioning my orders, worm? Leave the medallions exactly as I instructed."

The Ascendant Champion: "Now I must take my leave. I have other matters to attend to."

<A portal is opened and she leaves.>

A King's Retreat‎

After it is revealed that the medallions were sabotaged to kill whoever wore them, you race against time to locate the medallions that were handed out and dispel the magical trap on them. However, Valessea soon contacts you with bad news, she can no longer get in contact with Lady Arabelle who was delivering the amulet to High King Emeric directly on Sword's Rest Isle. When you arrive at the island with Jakarn, you find that the Ascendant Order have already attacked. And according to the Ascendant Champion's New Orders, the new plan is to murder King Emeric.

While trying to find Lady Arabelle in the Keep, you and Jakarn will witness a conversation between the Ascendant Champion and her superior—the Ascendant Magus:

The Ascendant Magus: "Have you breached High King Emeric's quarters yet?"

The Ascendant Champion: "Soon, my lord. We are almost through the wards."

The Ascendant Magus: "I will suffer no more delays. You have this last chance, Champion."

The Ascendant Champion: "Yes, Magus."

<The pair will walk away from the location.>

Jakarn: "Just how many people are in charge of the Ascendant Order?"

Moving along the passage, you will witness another conversation between the Magus and the Champion. This time about Lady Arabelle:

The Ascendant Magus: "What news of the woman?"

The Ascendant Champion: "She still eludes us, Magus. But there are only so many places she can hide."

The Ascendant Magus: "A careless mistake. Deal with Emeric. Then find the woman and kill her."

The Ascendant Champion: "It will be done, my lord."

<The Magus opens a yellow-red portal and disappears.>

Jakarn: "It sounds like they haven't found Lady Arabelle yet. Come on, let's get to her first!"

The Ascendant Champion
Location	Sword's Rest Isle
Race	Breton	Gender	Female
Health	267,687	Difficulty
Reaction	Hostile
Other Information
Faction(s)	Ascendant Order

After you find Lady Arabelle, she asks you to deal with the Ascendant Champion while they deal with the mages trying to break the wards protecting King Emeric. When you reach the courtyard, you will find the Ascendant Champion directing the mages to bring down the ward. Lady Arabelle and Jakarn will be sneaking around:

Ascendant Order Mage: "We're almost through the wards, champion."

Lady Arabelle: "Take this, you coward! Look out!"

<As Lady Arabelle attacks, the Champion unleashes a burst of lightning.>

The Ascendant Champion: "I will take care of this!"

If you stay idle, the Ascendant Champion will shout threats at you:

The Ascendant Champion: "You are powerless before us."

The Ascendant Champion: "You have no idea the threat you're facing!"

The Ascendant Champion: "Oppose the Ascendant Order and die!"

The Ascendant Champion: "The alliances will fall. It's inevitable!"

The Ascendant Champion: "Come! Test your might against the Ascendant Champion!"

During the fight she will use lightning magic and her greatsword.

The Ascendant Champion: "You dare challenge me? Fine! Step forward and die!"

From time to time, she will shield herself with lightning and summons cyclones to chase you, along with other Ascendant members to fight you instead.

The Ascendant Champion: "Enough! You try my patience!"

The Ascendant Champion: "Fool! You can't defeat the Ascendant Order!"

Finally, she will summon a Giant Haj Mota.

The Ascendant Champion: "You can't hold out forever!"

Skills and Abilities

Quick Strike

A basic melee attack dealing low physical damage.

Lightning Burst

A basic melee attack that strikes all nearby targets at once, dealing moderate shock damage.

Uppercut

A melee attack that causes high physical damage and knock back if it connects. This attack can be blocked.

Thunder Hammer

The champion swings and shocks the ground in front of herself as indicated by a red cone. This attack does moderate shock damage.

Shock Aura

The champion shocks the ground around herself as indicated by a red circle. This attack does moderate shock damage and can be interrupted.

Impending Storm

The champion charges up and releases lightning from herself as indicated by red circles. This attack does moderate shock damage to all enemies hit. This attack can be interrupted.

Waterspout

The champion conjures raging water that surges up from the ground and flows forward, indicated by a circular AoE, dealing shock damage and knocking you away. This can be interrupted.

Negate Magic

The champion creates a globe of magic suppression for 10 seconds, removing and preventing all player area of effect abilities from occurring in the area. Players within the globe will be silenced and pets/companions are stunned. Silence prevents players from using any ability costing Health, Magicka, Ultimate or have no cost at all as long as they are in the affected area.

Thunderstrike

The champion raises her hand up and shoots a bolt of energy that falls down into the arena in the form of several thunderbolts, indicated by small red circles, each dealing moderate shock damage.

Lightning Sweep

The champion performs a spell that sends clusters of shock energy along the ground moving outward, four at a time in a +-shape trajectory, indicated by small red circles, each dealing moderate shock damage and snaring.

Dazzling Leap

The champion jumps into the sky, like a warpriest, and crashes back down at her target's location, dealing high shock damage and stunning affected targets. Shocking swirls are created by the impact, which shoot outward, indicated by red circles, dealing moderate shock damage and staggering.

Ward

At 80%/60%/40% health, the champion teleports away in the arena and wards herself, becoming invulnerable. Ascendant reinforcements also arrive in the arena then. To remove her ward, the allies summoned must be defeated. During the 40% ward, she instead summons a singular Giant Haj Mota.

Champion's Wrath

While warded, she then channels a spell that causes thunderstrikes to land all over the arena continuously, indicated by growing red circle, each dealing high shock damage, as well as a windstorm to swirl around the arena, indicated by a large red circle, which deal continuous moderate physical damage. An additional windstorm is added during each subsequent ward phase.

Notes

• She is the author of Crafting Motif 111: Ascendant Order Style.