Well well... This set of news is certainly long overdue: RIFT 1.8 update has been out on the live servers for over a month already and it brought us a new raid tier in form of the raid instance "Infernal Dawn". Despite what the lack of news updates on the front page may have implied (after all, the front page has been stuck with the squid news for quite some months now) - we have been busy killing bosses (and wiping) at Infernal Dawn and in fact, our current raid roster is back to numbers we haven't seen since the launch of the game!



Which bosses we have killed? Why has the roster size grown so much? Read more to find out!

Is it really that time again? Indeed, it is time for some news from our Rift branch. Come to think of it, it has been quite a while since the previous set of news - nearly 4 months to be exact. Past few months have been both uneventful and eventful: When looking from the raid progress point of view, things have been rather uneventful or at least they were until February which is when we started making a good progress on Akylios and finally on February 28th, we killed Akylios!

What else has been going on? What kind of recipe we used to make Calamari Stew from Akylios? Read more to find out!

It was a dark and a stormy day, once again Telara stood at the brink of destruction - on the rooftop of Hammerknell Fortress, Inwar Darktide and his minions were plotting to unleash a flood of catastrophic proportions and drown every living beign on Telara, thus bringing on the Age of Akylios...

A Lizardfishmonster man thingy is up to no good! To the Xanamobile, let's go!

A Dwarven King who speaks with a female voice, a slimy purple slug which has more spikes and skulls than something... Umm, very spiky and skully! A kinky demoness with fetish for getting her non-existent hooves licked and the evil tentacle monsters from the darkest depths of the abyss - Oh my!



Quite the ingredients for a tale beyond your wildest imaginations, are they not? *Ahem* On the otherhand, perhaps I'd rather remain blissfully ignorant of what sort of tales you readers might be imagining... After all this is about raiding! Short version: Double Regicide, cutting down the slimy slug, spanking the demoness and making sushi out of the evil tentacle monsters - for a longer version, read on to find out what exactly we have been up to and what's going on in Telara in general.

On July 27th, after several weeks of working towards a common goal, Runeguard and the Ascended finally breached the sealed gates of the Hammerknell Fortress. A long time ago, Hammerknell was the shining bastion of the Dwarven civilization - an underground city where dwarves created wonders of craft and magic, a place where mead-songs once rang out in the vast halls of the city, a place a that was once thriving with life...

"Close the doors. Destroy the wheel. Never let them leave. There is no one left"

Now the city lies long abandoned, its former inhabitants gone, consumed by the aberrations of death that now linger in the silent halls of Hammerknell.

New threats await the Ascended deep within the delve, but the greatest threat of all slumbers beneath the earth, a threat that would drown the entire...Oh what the heck, despite the overly dramatic start this isn't supposed to be a lore writeup - so in a much less dramatic tone, one could write that after a lenghty wait, the much anticipated raid instance "Hammerknell Fortress" finally became available in Rift. Although the world event, which could be best described as something between abysmal and poor in quality tortured the raiders for weeks with the carrot that was dangling in the end (HK access), it all turned out to be worth the wait. As Hammerknell Fortress is not only probably the best looking raid zone I have seen in any MMO, it also features several really well designed and challeging boss encounters.

Obviously for the past few weeks we've been incredibly busy kicking ass and chewing bubblegum, although truth to be told, to the raid dev teams credit, a huge portion of the time it has been the bosses kicking our ass and going all nomnom on the corpses (or something equally gross...) but hey, at least the defiant rescue medic has piled enough plats from the soul mending bills to spend rest of her days on some sunny beach sipping down cold drinks.

So, what has been going in Rift for the past few months and how far have we progressed inside Hammerknell? Read more to find out!

It has been quite a while since our last news update, way too long to be honest. But despite that we've actually been incredibly busy ingame and have downed all the 20-man raid content that Rift offers so far.



What have we been up to since the last bit of news? Read more to find out!

It has been about a month since Rift went live and I suppose it comes as no surprise that the first month has been incredibly busy - everything from leveling from 1 to 50, invasion events, warfronts, gearing up with expert dungeons and even some raiding.



So how did it all go? Read more to find out about our first month in Telara.

Rejoyce! Its time to launch our item database for Rift:Planes of Telara!

http://rift.xanadu-community.com/items.php

In line with what we have for EQ2 and VG, it will support endgame content!
You can browse by location or search for specific items.
Everyone (registered users) can also add items on his own, which will show up once an admin approved the item.
The how-to should be pretty self explaining, but if theres any questions or suggestions, pls make sure to use the Rift Loot Discussion Board.

Now that the next big chapter in the history of Xanadu is about to start, here's some more details about our presence in Rift:Planes of Telara!




We will start our adventure on feb 24th, playing on Blightweald!
And as you probably guessed from the image above, we will play on the Defiant side there!