Forsaken Tunnels

This article is about the pre-Searing dungeon. For the post-Searing dungeon, see Tunnels of the Forsaken.

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Forsaken Tunnels
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Campaign	Prophecies
Region	Depths of Tyria
Type	Dungeon
Levels	3
Reward chest	Maz's Chest
Required quest	The Scourge Beneath
Party size	4
Exit(s)	The Northlands
Images
File:Forsaken Tunnels Entrance.jpg Entrance in The Northlands
File:Forsaken Tunnels Level 1.jpg Level One
File:Forsaken Tunnels Level 2.jpg Level Two
File:Forsaken Tunnels Level 3.jpg Level Three

Forsaken Tunnels is a hidden dungeon found in Pre-Searing Ascalon. The entrance lies within The Northlands, north of Piken Square, and can only be entered by teams that have at least one person who has completed A Bastion In the North. The area is inhabited by hostile Charr forces and contains several branching tunnels filled with enemies and environmental hazards.

Interactive objects

• Boss Lock
• Dungeon Lock
• Lever
• Maz's Chest (after killing Maz Scourgeheart)

NPCs

These quests will affect the spawns in this area, in Reforged Mode only:

• Long Thought Forgotten
• Charr in the Tunnels
• The Scourge Beneath

Allies

• 5 Adept Mullenix (collector for 1 Elemental Crystal Shard) (level 1, only in Reforged Mode during Charr in the Tunnels and The Scourge Beneath)

Foes

Charr

• 8 Charr Axe Fiend (all levels)
• 8 Charr Blade Storm (all levels)
• 8 Charr Hunter (all levels)
• 7 Charr Shaman (all levels)
• 8 Charr Ashen Claw (all levels)
• 8 Charr Chaot (all levels)
• In Reforged Mode, with no quest active or during repeated runs of The Scourge Beneath (all levels, see Notes):
  • If the lowest level player is between level 10 and 15:
    • 10, 12, 14 Charr Axe Fiend
    • 10, 12, 14 Charr Blade Warrior
    • 10, 12, 14 Charr Stalker
    • 10, 12, 14 Charr Martyr
    • 10, 12, 14 Charr Ash Walker
    • 10, 12, 14 Charr Mind Spark
    • 10, 12, 14 Charr Fire Caller
  • If the lowest level player is at least level 16:
    • 16, 18 Charr Axe Lord
    • 16, 18 Charr Blade Lord
    • 16, 18 Charr Stalker Lord
    • 16, 18 Charr Ashen Lord
    • 16, 18 Charr Mind Lord
    • 16, 18 Charr Flame Keeper
  • If the lowest level player is level 16 or 17:
    • 16 Charr Overseer
  • If the lowest level player is at least level 18:
    • 18 Charr Shaman Lord

Grawl

• 6 Grawl Fighter (all levels)
• 1 Grawl (all levels)
• 3 Grawl Longspear (all levels)
• 6 Grawl Crone (all levels)

Plants

• 5 Oakheart (all levels)
• 8 Ironheart (all levels)

Humans (Bandits)

• 7 Bandit Bruiser (level 1)
• 7 Bandit Enforcer (level 1)
• 8 Bandit Captain (level 1)
• 6 Bandit Firebug (level 1)

Elementals

• 8 Hulking Cave Elemental (level 1 and 2)
• 1 Stone Elemental (level 3)
• 7 Cave Elemental (level 1 and 2)
• 8 Shard Elemental (all levels, during Charr in the Tunnels and The Scourge Beneath)
• 9 Hulking Shard Elemental (all levels, during Charr in the Tunnels and The Scourge Beneath)

Bosses

Charr

• 14 Wyle Brimscourge (level 1, only in Reforged Mode during Charr in the Tunnels and The Scourge Beneath)
• 12, 18, 20, 22 Maz Scourgeheart (level 3)

Dialogue

Approaching the Dungeon Lock while a quest is active or the party is not in Reforged Mode:

<Party leader>: "Looks like we don't have access. Did someone forget to put on their Reforged Badge?"

Notes

• While the initial quest Long Thought Forgotten takes you to the entrance to the east of the Northlands, completing that quest opens up the west entrance, just north-east of Piken Square behind the charr encampment.
• Because this area is mechanically part of the Depths of Tyria, the Vanguard Initiate and Reforged Mode effects are not applied.
  • Like in pre-Searing Ascalon, however, party members do not suffer Death Penalty, and enemies have reduced health in Reforged Mode.
• Progress through this dungeon depends on multiple quests:
  • The dungeon cannot be entered if any party members have Across the Wall or A Bastion In the North active in their quest log.
  • If no party members have Charr in the Tunnels or The Scourge Beneath, or if any party member has Long Thought Forgotten, the party cannot advance to the second level.
  • If no party members have The Scourge Beneath, or if any party member has Charr in the Tunnels, the party cannot advance to the third level.
  • Quest spawns will not appear if any member of the party is not in Reforged Mode. This prevents access to levels two and three, since Wyle Brimscourge will not spawn.
  • If every member of the party who has The Scourge Beneath leaves after reaching level 2 of the dungeon, remaining players can still fight Maz Scourgeheart and spawn the reward chest.
• The presence, level, and skills of some Charr foes in the dungeon scale with that of the lowest-leveled player in the party:

Party level	Additional charr	Maz Scourgeheart
1-9	None	12
10-11	10	14
12-13	12	16
14-15	14	18
16-17	16	20
18-20	18	22

• If any party member has Long Thought Forgotten, Charr in the Tunnels, or the first-time version of The Scourge Beneath in their quest log, or if any party member is not in Reforged Mode, the party level is set to 1-9.
• If Devona is present in the party as a hero, her level does not influence the party level.
• Similar to Vanguard quest foes, these Charr do not drop any loot, except for Maz Scourgeheart.
• The rewards dropped by Maz's Chest are improved when higher-level foes are present.
  • Similarly, the size of the chest also increases.

• Walking over the patches of blue, crystalline ground will inflict the Crippled condition for 15 seconds and the Dazed condition for 20 seconds. This environment effect affects all allies, including pets and owned minions, but does not affect any foes.
• The plants and bandits are hostile towards all other creature types, including each other.
• No Locked Chests or Hidden Stashes spawn inside the dungeon.

Anomaly.The dungeon's icon on the map does not change when a character completes the dungeon.

Trivia

• This dungeon was added to the game with the April 1st, 2026 update.
• This is the only location accessible before the Searing where rare or perfect weapons will drop, and the only place in Prophecies where inscribable weapons will drop.
• When the dungeon was first released, Maz's Chest could drop uninscribable rare weapons with inherent modifiers. These were subsequently removed and replaced with inscribable drops, but an unknown number of uninscribable rare weapons still exist in the hands of players in pre-Searing Ascalon.
• Although it is part of the Depths of Tyria, the dungeon plays the same soundtrack as surface explorable areas in pre-Searing Ascalon.

Bug.The dialogue remarking on someone forgetting their Reforged Mode badge has visible markup tags in the chatbox, corresponding to the green text in the dialogue box.

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