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They Key (horn) is still pretty mysterious to me, though Travanchet is definitely Ascian. His theme music is the Ascian theme. He was definitely a double agent, however. He masqueraded as a Serpent Reaver, which allowed him to walk openly among both the Sahagin and Lominsans unnoticed for what he was until he revealed himself to take possession of the horn. However, I've always wondered if he was a mere Reaver to the Sahagin or just presented himself as such to Emerick. We see him command two Sahagin/Reaver ships into battle against the Barracudas... but I've always wondered if perhaps he was the Paragon assigned to them as well.

The same theme was also played when the Reaper ascian was sighted in Thanalan, as well as a few of the times we meet Lahabrea in ARR. As for the Ascian / Paragon connection, we were getting pretty close to the reveal in Version 1.0. In the final released quest, we finished up a side-story arc about Ala Mhigan refugees attempting to strike back at the empire. This introduced Gaius, the Imperial presence in Mor Dhona, and their entire concept of indoctrinating children to fight the coming Calamity. Two further main scenario quests had been developed, but never released, that went back to the story of the Ascians and the reveal of Titan. Even in the 2009/2010 trailers you can see the Company of Heroes elezen marauder getting ready to cleave the Lord of Crags.

The translations of those quests that I found are rough and dirty, but seem to imply that the grim reaper Ascians only started to appear ten years ago and that they are the very entities that terrify the beast tribes so. The Sylphs refer to the Ascians of things of terrible evil but the Paragons as divine messengers, albeit of gods that darken hearts and poison minds. It may very well be that the reaper ascians were diversions... scare tactics meant to make the tribes latch on to the Paragons offers; the left hand scaring the mouse into the right hand's grasp.