Ascalon

Ascalon is a city in the Astorian Mountains, and the second largest city of the area after Cloud Mountain.

History
The original city of Ascalon was founded in the shadow of the Astorians, controlling the passes between Lower Artan and the flatlands of Sopron. Whatever culture built the city is long since vanished, and its only remnant is the strange, skeletal architecture of the oldest buildings. The new city of Ascalon was built upon the ruins of the old, and citizens refuse to dig downwards inside the city limits, lest they break into the old city.

Culture
The original city of Ascalon belongs to the minor Astorian civilization academics call the Kell culture. Some of its fragments still survive into present-day Ascalon, such as underground tombs and a garbled festival of Red Circle Day.