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RIFT turns 7 this year, and the Carnival folk are ready to celebrate with you!

Seven years has flown by in the blink of an eye – let’s mark the occasion with all of our traditional Carnival events in Tempest Bay. We welcome all Live server players to grab a piece of 7 Year birthday cake and join the celebrations!
Wait up, say Prime server players… Tempest Bay? We haven’t found Tempest Bay yet! Ahhh, very true, though you’ve clearly heard rumors of the fun going on there, like echoes from a past life. Likewise, a traveling merchant has heard of this new, far off land called Vigil and is even now packing up his mule train to bring you a taste of Carnival! Look for Winachuck Maguck in Sanctum and Meridian. Yes, he has mastered the arcane art of being in two places at once!

Carnival runs from March 15th at 3:30 PM Pacific (22:30 UTC) to April 5th at 3:30 PM Pacific (22:30 UTC).

We are pleased to show off our brand new Carnival items for 2018!

Available for event currency:

• An adorable carousel-style Pegasus companion pet named Celeste!
• Cavort in stylish and colorful carnival-style masks, newly designed for this season
• Feeling bubbly? Apply the new Celebratory or Prismatic weapon rune!
• Feel like throwing around some virtual coin? Use the Golden or Silver rune of Wealth!
• Save some cake for your Dimension – the Primal Rebirthday Cake has unlimited shelf life!
• Earn a new Raid Tier 2 Earring for lvl 70s (RIFT Live only)
• …and of course, the 7th Anniversary Cape!

Available on the RIFT store for credits:

Glorious new Wings of the Archfey – make your own Carnival parade while wearing these beauties!

And without further ado, the mount you’ve all been waiting for… no lockbox, offered direct, fresh from the Plane of Life with a puff of helium…

Greeñata!

Never has Greenscale been more plumpy, soft and loveable than in this unique, floating, mount form.
Best of all, every Telaran race rides Greeñata in a different way. Pictured above, the graceful form assumed by male Dwarves.

Post your #Greeñata pics @RIFTgame, on the forums, or on Facebook!
See you for Carnival!
RIFT ON!

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Did you miss last Friday’s 7 Years of RIFT Memories stream? We’ve got you covered!

Here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig_cbLzokb4

• Find out the name chosen for the very first RIFT Prime server!
• Get a sneak peek at the Carnival of the Ascended mount (in this blog thumbnail too!)
• Listen in on mayhem and madness as DeadSimon, DarkMoon, CaptainCursor and Brasse talk about the “good old days” of pre-launch RIFT – we launched seven years ago, so memories are supported with archeological notes found deep within sedimentary layers of old Dev documentation!

Join us every Friday at 11:30 AM PDT (17:30 UTC) for RIFT Livestreams on Twitch TV – we always simulcast on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube!

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Rift celebrates its 7th anniversary in March, together with the Carnival of the Ascended. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane this Friday!

That’s right, RIFT is about to mark another birthday! We’re getting the gang together to talk about some RIFT history, and take a sneak peek at a few new goodies coming with Carnival of the Ascended in March!

Julia “Darkmoon” Adams-Esgrow returns to join Simon “DeadSimon” Ffinch will join Brasse for a look back at the road leading to seven years in RIFT. Darkmoon is bringing some of the notes compiled from evidence found in sedimentary layers of design docs. We will attempt to make sense of them years later and wonder where all the time has gone….

RIFT Prime – is it March 7th yet? ALMOST!

Thank you to all who nominated names for the #NamePrimeServer poll, and the many more people who have been voting! At midnight tonight (Feb 28th) the final tally will be taken and we will reveal the very first RIFT Prime shard name on stream!