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All aboard the Atrophinius lore train!

We’re a bit late getting the stream sorted out this week, as everyone is working on projects for Live and Prime… but hey, I caught me a Captain Cursor, A.K.A. Atrophinius, and he’d LOVE to talk more lore tomorrow, if only to get out of his other pressing deadlines!

Atrophinius is commandeering the livestream on PTS SERVER. Zones: Silverwood (Freemarch as a backup). Mayhem will ensue!

Post your pressing Lore questions here (lore ONLY – Brasse and Atrophinius know nothing of engineering, think bugs are due to living too close to swampy areas and cannot balance their own checkbooks, never mind classes… but RP and lore? HECK YES!

RIFT LoreStream
www.twitch.tv/trionworlds
Friday, February 2, 11:30 AM PDT
Be there!

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Join Brasse, DeadSimon and CaptainCursor for new year’s resolutions, lore, and announcing the winners of the RIFT Ugly Sweater Costume Contest!

It’s 2018, and we’re happy to pack away all of our ugly holiday sweaters at last, but not before we reveal the best of the entries in the contest recently held on the forums! Our warmest thanks to Madarablackgetsuga (@blackgetsuga on Twitter) for organizing the contest.

Brasse will host this week, doing her best to keep the guests in line. CaptainCursor will delight the audience with random tales of lore, while DeadSimon will do what he does best, squishing Ascended under his bony feet. eventually relinquishing an Eternal Item to some lucky person!
RIFT LIVESTREAM
Friday, January 5, 2018
11:30 AM PDT
www.twitch.tv/trionworlds

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Prepare for war or prepare to flee. Crucia has come for Ahnket and is willing to crush any who get in the way.

The Celestial Storm strikes on July 19th, 2017!
Here are the key highlights, which we’ll present in more depth in blogs and livestreams as we march toward launch:

• Vostigar Peaks, a new overland zone with new questlines and several fascinating points of interest.
• Tartaric Depths Normal Mode
• New Raid Rifts
• New Instant Adventure
• New creatures
• Four new Primalist Souls, free to anyone who already owns the Primalist Calling. The Ascended Essentials Pack is a great way to gain ALL the souls!
  ⦁ Mystic
  ⦁ Farseer
  ⦁ Predator
  ⦁ Primal Lord

Best of all, Prophecy of Ahnket is now FREE. For good. Forever!
Bring your friends, your old guildmates, your next door neighbor, and enjoy all that this strange and wonderful comet has to offer! All you have to do is log in to enjoy the celestial lands.

A new prophecy…

Clouds of magic flow around the entity, swirling and dark. She has been watching from afar, slowly building her forces and honing them for war. At first, she thought the Ascended might defeat Ahnket for her, but clearly they are not up to the task.

“Pathetic creatures,” she sneers as she watches yet another piched battle between Ahnket’s constructs and the Telarans. They are not moving swiftly enough, and her patience is at an end. Her desire is focused on the Tenebrean magitech perfected by Ahnket.

She sweeps off to review the ships of her fleet. They must attack NOW!

Vostigar Peaks spreads out before you. It is a cool, sweeping mountain range, gently cradling pastoral hills dotted with regal conifers. It is a feast for the senses, and, in any other circumstances, a place where one could enjoy a few years of quiet contemplation… but not now.

You have traveled to the tail of the comet with Orphiel and Asha, hoping to end this long struggle once and for all. You’ve learned so much about Ahnket and her wide array of minions and allies as you slowly pushed your way to this serene valley. Surely you can lead the Telaran forces to a decisive victory over Ahnket!

Battle rings out below you, echoing off the snow-clad peaks. The peaceful setting is marred with violent clashes between uncanny Tenebrean automata and the tyrannical might of the Legions… of Crucia. She has returned!

You are caught in the middle of this Celestial Storm of titanic power, together with your Ascended allies, the fora and Simulacra Mages of Uttila. Can you survive? Should you leave and let the two great forces tear each other apart?

And then you hear the terrified whispers… the prophecies that drive this conflict are uncertain and shifting now. Can you really hand victory from one villain to another? Is Crucia’s tyranny an alternative to Ahket’s destruction? The seers are unsettled, confused – images of a feathered God-Queen of Telara switch to a Tenebrean devastation that burns the very source of a mortal’s soul. The weapons of this devastation alternate between steel and bronze.

Which doom of Telara will you choose? Or is there even a small chance that you can devise a means, with Orphiel and Asha’s expertise, to defiantly reject such choices and found a prophecy of peace?

You realize that you must remain, to defeat not only Ahnket, but the forces of Crucia once more – neither of them must be suffered to win this war.

It is time, Ascended!

Talk to us about the upcoming 4.2 patch on our forums!

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On last week’s LoreStreamPalooza, we quizzed RIFT players with all manner of obscure lore questions pertaining to the Celestial Lands. This week, we turn the tables and find out what CaptainCursor REALLY knows!

Three of our RIFT players most steeply imbued with lore-frenzy, Mizuki Ayu, Lorska and Samuraiko, have provided us with no less than thirty-two questions. Will it prove too much for the long-winded Captain?  Brasse will grill him mercilessly to make sure he answers every single one of them before the stream ends – challenge accepted!  The good Captain will either prepare responses or make them up on the spot. Anything goes!

Remember to tune in at 11:30 AM PDT, our new time slot!

CaptainCursor looks so confident in last week’s stream when HE’S the one asking questions – let’s see how he does THIS week!

RIFT LIVESTREAM

https://www.twitch.tv/trionworlds

11:30 AM PDT, Friday, May 12th
SIMULCAST on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube!
(Note: due to technical limitations, you must be in the Twitch channel to participate in prize draws)