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We know how it is: you want to play RIFT with your friends but are unsure about committing to a subscription. We've got you covered. RIFT Lite lets you play levels 1-20 for free, as long as you want. New players, former free...

The spirit of giving spreads across Telara from Iron Pine Peak to Shimmersand as Ascended celebrate the new holiday of Fae Yule. Join the festivities with this neatly wrapped video just for you, filled with presents, merriment,...

In 2003, Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade started the Child's Play charity, which united gamers in providing toys and games to sick children in hospitals worldwide. To support their exemplary work, Trion has...

Join an Instant Adventure for the thrill of battle, on tap. Waiting around for your guild before a raid or just have some time to kill? At the click of a button, your level 45-50 Ascended will be whisked away to Shimmersand or...

Gather your friends and celebrate with fancy hats, fun new quests, and even a festive corgi companion! The traditional Telaran holiday of Yule has arrived and spirits are high, especially among the Fae. Free of Greenscale, the...

Conquer corrupt Caduceus in Caduceus Rise, the massive dungeon in RIFT™ 1.6: From the Embers. Discover all the secrets and challenges in a truly sprawling instance that invites exploration and promises danger from up to 11...

All your favorite gaming news sources are buzzing about Ember Isle, the huge and dangerous tropical zone set to erupt in RIFT™...

Journey through the Travel Stones to Ember Isle: lost kingdom of the Kelari and jungle home of the Farclan Dwarves. Though imprisoned in a volcano by the Keepers of the Flame, Maelforge has used the chaos of the rifts to corrupt...

Ascend to new challenges on the massive and breathtaking Ember Isle in RIFT™ 1.6: From the Embers. Twice the size of Stillmoor and besieged by Maelforge and his Wanton, Ember Isle is our largest and toughest zone yet. Level 50...

Anthousa Mona embodies the Kelari people’s independence and driven confidence, so one would not guess that the High Priestess struggles with grief and regret. Many of her people fell to the seductive power of the dragon cults,...

Amass what wealth you will, but Laethys will take what she thinks she is owed. The embodiment of greed, the golden dragon of the Plane of Earth seeks to possess all of Telara, and her minions in the Golden Maw will deliver it to...

Fight for Telara free of charge Oct. 13-17 and discover what's new in the fastest-updating MMORPG ever! RIFT 1.5 brings new dungeons, Planar Attunement, Veteran Rewards, and so much more! Don’t miss your chance to experience...

Who doesn’t like to save a little gold? We’re celebrating the fall season by reducing the prices of all RIFT™ editions! But like all seasons, sales, and raid buffs, this offer lasts for a short time. Take advantage of the...

Earn an Ash Strider mount in Ashes of History, the new World Event in RIFT™ 1.5! The Wanton and the Golden Maw plot untold destruction from a long-abandoned island kingdom. Now the Ascended must race to gather Magma Opals that...

The Ashes of History Edition has arrived, and exclusive loot awaits when you upgrade your account! Summon Moneybags, your personal banker, to access your vault on a whim, ride Spindrel, your spider mount (because eight legs are...

Check out all the content slated to go live with RIFT 1.5: Ashes of History. Planar Attunement lets you advance beyond level 50, while Chronicles—new solo and duo instances—and a challenging Master Dungeon are yours to...

Check out the new Veteran Rewards that you’ll get every time you hit a new milestone in RIFT. Rock the armor from your faction’s honor guard, and summon a vendor or mailbox anywhere in Telara. Multi-month subscribers get all...

Chronicles are new story-driven dungeons for one or two players, granting level-50 Ascended access to instances normally reserved for raids! Confront a fallen hero in single combat in your Chronicle of Attunement. Adventure with...

Harness the planes to empower your level-50 Ascended. Planar Attunement lets you ride faster, hit harder, withstand everything the dragons can throw at you, and even summon rifts of any element on command....

Read on about Kira and Uriel, two operatives in the Faceless Man’s secret service. To find the missing Cleric, they must face lunatic Abyssal cultists amidst the frozen mountains....

Greetings RIFT fans. Watch this new Ascend-a-Friend video. Now watch any other video. Now watch Ascend-a-Friend again. Sadly, that other video doesn’t tell you how to earn awesome rewards by bringing your friends to Telara....

Stifle the raging flames of the Wanton, the monstrous and barbaric cult of Maelforge. Goblins, gnolls, centaurs, devils, Dragonians, and worse all surge from the Fire Rifts, covering Telara like a flood of flame. The easiest cult...

Live free and die standing! These are the commandments of Thedeor. Once god of the Mathosians, Thedeor granted his people the strength to build an empire and the justice to rule it wisely for centuries. Now, Thedeor is one with...

Any Defiant is honored to meet Sylver Valis, perhaps the greatest inventive mind in all Telara. Not as mysterious or divisive as his colleague Orphiel, Sylver is an engineer whose boundless enthusiasm and imagination have led to...

This September marks RIFT’s half-birthday, but who can wait that long to celebrate this awesome MMO? From August 25 to 31, we’ll be offering all sorts of rewards like ramped-up XP and Prestige gain for subscribers, and...

Head over to RIFT Junkies and check out episode 12 of RIFTCEPTION. This week, they’ve got Hal Hanlin talking about the new features and content in Update 1.4: Legacy of the...

Those who stand against the mindless wild soon meet its fiercest servants, the fallen Elves of House Aelfwar. Led by Prince Hylas, the royal house of Silverwood now follows brutal Greenscale in his rampage to snuff out...

Dare you enter Stillmoor, the reeking swamp that has replaced fair Mathosia? Corpses walk here as if it were the Plane of Death itself, and the village where the Guardians first died has been replaced by a gaping crater called...

Something doesn’t add up about the Faceless Man’s mission. Why send two top agents to track down a low-level contact like Shiyesa Wohab? But Kira and Uriel find two keepsakes from the Faceless Man himself in Wohab’s cabin,...

Greenscale and Akylios have been slain, their boundless elemental power scattered across Telara. Where this power pools, it congeals into Dragon Motes, which can be broken to harvest the very essence of Life and Water. Now...

In the scalding desert of Shimmersand, Ascended brave the merciless sun, sinister cults, and endless waves of monsters from the Planes of Fire and Earth. Everyone seeks to claim the treasures of ancient Eth, long lost beneath the...

With two dragons defeated, the cults of House Aelfwar and the Abyssal have only become more dangerous, rushing to collect Dragon Motes and return their masters to life. Meanwhile, tensions escalate as the Guardians and Defiant...

Most subtle of the Vigil’s gods, Thontic created the oceans and dotted Telara with mysteries to be discovered. Where horrid Akylios loves the black depths and hoards knowledge like a miser, wise Thontic loves the swelling waves...

The Kelari Rogue Kira and her Bahmi companion Uriel head to Iron Pine to track down a missing contact for the Faceless Man. As "Drowning in Snow" continues, the pair's mission for the Defiant spymaster brings them to a secluded...

Ascended who visit Orphiel’s Spire often reach for their weapons upon seeing the sinister figure of the Faceless Man. Clad in the flowing robes and featureless mask of the Abyssal, this towering Warrior is actually a Defiant of...

During the month of July, RIFT is offering special Summer of Savings subscriptions, including a new annual option. Take advantage of the summer bargains and save up to 40% on your subscription while you join your friends in...

RIFT 1.3 has arrived! Unspeakable monsters under the command of Akylios and Regulos advance on Moonshade Highlands, and no zone of Telara will be safe. As the Ascended battle to keep Hammerknell from the Abyssal, they must open...

Embark on the new 20-player raid! Hammerknell has long stood as a reminder of the consequences of evil acts. A glorious city cursed by the actions of the Dwarves who called it home, its streets are now abandoned and echo with the...

RIFT 1.3 arrives June 22! The minions of Akylios and Regulos crave access to Hammerknell, the forsaken and sealed capital of the Dwarves. Soon, each cult will launch a terrible invasion that leaves no part of Telara untouched as...

From the crime-ridden city of Lantern Hook, to the monster-haunted desert, and to the eerie ruins of the ancient Eth, no part of the Droughtlands is safe. You know the badlands are dangerous when the best chance you have at...

Prepare to enter one of the darkest corners of Telara when the Hammerknell 20-Player Raid debuts with RIFT 1.3. Once a gleaming city, the corridors of Hammerknell lie shrouded in shadows, filled with nightmares and unspeakable...

Gluttony, greed, megalomania, destruction, savagery: the sins of the other Blood Storm are obviously sinister. The insidious thing about Akylios is that his desire seems so reasonable: enlightenment. He sought knowledge until his...

The Dwarves of Moonshade live with the secret sins of Hammerknell, too ashamed even to use their clan names. Among these refugees, the orphan Scotty was soft-spoken and less than confident, an embarrassment to his kinfolk. Scotty...

Under Moonshade Highlands stretches the vast Dwarven delve of Hammerknell, sealed since the rifts began. No one knows why the Dwarves sealed their capitol, only that in their haste to do so, many stragglers were locked within....

There is a line beyond which the quest for knowledge leads from wisdom into madness, and the Abyssal cross that line and never look back. Working in independent cells throughout Telara, these cultists follow their Tidelords to...

RIFT players who bring their friends to Telara will be richly rewarded. With every new Ascended who joins the fight, you will gain another prize. Sound the call on Twitter, Facebook, or by word of mouth, then strike down...

RIFT 1.2: The Spoils of War is here, bringing a slew of upgrades for the Ascended. Slivers, instanced moments in alternate timelines, will offer challenging 10-player raid content. You’ll get added combat versatility with a...

Fragments of golden dragon egg are appearing near every invasion and rift from the Planes of Earth and Fire, while coins rain down upon the faction capitols of Meridian and Sanctum, inspiring unusual greed in the populace. To...

A volcano arose during the Convocation, dooming one of the Eth Empire’s secret laboratories. Now the Storm Legion has learned that the Charmer’s Coil developed in that lab survived the disaster, and seeks to add its hypnotic...

Protect your account with the RIFT Mobile Authenticator, a brand new app from Trion Worlds. Download this handy little application to your iOS or Android mobile device—absolutely free of charge—and link it to your RIFT...

Due to an overwhelming response, Trion Worlds is holding another Allies of the Ascended event this weekend. We’re giving out Ally Codes that will grant new players access to the world of Telara, free of charge, for the entire...

The Boar Spear’s adventure is over, but we have only just begun to tell the Tales of Telara. Dive into our next series, "Drowning in Snow," starring Kira and Uriel. Defiant players know Kira as a jaded Kelari Rogue and Uriel as...

Adam Gershowitz visits The RIFT Podcast this week to talk about the River of Souls update and the latest developments in...

Telarans who do not know better think the Guardians are all shining bastions of hope and virtue, and that Paladins are beyond reproach. They would hate to meet Frederic Kain, with his grim, scowling face and black, bloodied...

The Endless Court has seized control of the River of Souls, and Alsbeth the Discordant recruits both endless hordes and elite fallen enemies to serve eagerly in the Devourer's thrall. Watch as she taunts Ascended with her...

Hot on the heels of release, RIFT’s first content patch introduces the River of Souls, where Ascended can challenge Alsbeth, Mistress of Discord and leader of the Endless...

Players can look forward to an aggressive update schedule for RIFT, beginning with the River of Souls. Patch 1.1 will see the Mistress of Discord rampage throughout Telara, raising hordes of walking dead, unleashing Death Rifts...

The Boar Spear is dead. Again. Luckily, the Ascended have more than one life (and one Soul) to give for Telara. Will Ulfrid destroy Gloamwood, or will Hugo return the lich to his early grave? See for yourself in the extended,...

With King Aedraxis Mathos dead, leadership of the Endless Court has fallen to the necromancer Alsbeth Rothmann. It was Alsbeth who disabled Port Scion’s defenses, Alsbeth who is responsible for Prince Zareph’s disappearance,...

As a new day dawns, young Guardians enter Silverwood, where Tavril once swore the Elves to service. Here, amid the lush forest, you can study magic at Quicksilver College, fight the corruption of the Mirror of Ages, and confront...

Of all the Dragon Cults, none is more numerous and insidious than the Endless Court. Anyone mad enough to crave power over the dead can embrace eternal service to Regulos and oblivion. From the evil sorceress Alsbeth, to...

If you’re looking forward to face-smashing, back-stabbing, spell-slinging action in the warzones and Warfronts of Telara, then you’ll be chomping at the bit when you see the rewards RIFT offers PvP junkies. Gear, ranks,...

The prison of Greenscale the Primeval is breached! The forces of House Aelfwar have discovered his resting place, tampered with the magical chains that bind him, and now prepare to release Greenscale’s wrath upon the soft and...

There are Warriors whose deadliest weapons are their animal companions, and Rogues who set aside the dagger and pick up a lute to inspire their teammates. Some Clerics sow devastation across the battlefield, while some Mages can...

In their natural state, Telara’s forests are beautiful and pristine, though not without reasonable danger. Thanks to Greenscale and the Plane of Life, the Age of Dragons saw wild and alien forests overtake the land, turning...

Want to know about the PvP Souls designed to give every Calling an edge in combat, or find out the victory conditions in each of the four Warfronts that will be playable when RIFT™ launches? Maybe you want learn how defeating...

When we last left Hugo, he was plunging from a high tree bough in the deadly embrace of Lord Ulfrid’s werewolf “hound.” This is, believe it or not, far from the most dangerous thing to happen to...

Arguably the founder of the Defiant, definitely the man who reintroduced Eth technology to Telara, Orphiel Farwind also gave King Aedraxis the tools to open the...

The Mathosian Empire traditionally assigned younger princes the rule of prosperous Port Scion to pacify their desire for power and discourage possible coups. Who would have expected that Aedraxis, elder twin and king of Mathosia,...

For centuries, Shyla and her Prince Hylas led the High Elves in Tavril’s service. Learn how they parted, and how this Ascended priestess strives to protect her people—and all Telara—from a similar...

An enchanted well in Lantern Hook allows Ascended to live out a terrible potential future where the forces of Maelforge reign supreme. If you wish to prevent the fall of Telara, you must first experience the Fall of Lantern Hook!...

Until recently, Mathosians felled only the few mighty granitewood trees they needed to build their grandest structures. Thanks to Aedraxis, the forest is all but gone. Explore the remains of Scarwood Reach before House Aelfwar...

The Ascended truly are spoiled for choice, as every Calling unveils a new Soul with devastating abilities to enhance any repertoire. Warriors can bully spell-casters as Void Knights, Dominators are Mages who rule the battlefield...

Two enchantresses protected Gloamwood from harm in the days before the rifts. Once, the bandit Hugo Waldemar gave them an artifact for safekeeping. On the run from minions of Regulos, the Boar Spear seeks to reclaim this...

Rulers of the last great empire of Telara, the Mathosians reigned supreme in piety and armed might. Their valor kept the world safe for centuries, but did their pride seal Telara’s...

The Dwarves of Hammerknell built a beautiful garden in a ravine. The same runic magic that destroyed Hammerknell has infected the garden, twisting everything that enters into a slave of...

Cyril Kalmar was a mythic figure long before the rifts came, inspiring heroic tales throughout Mathosia. Slain and reborn as a mighty Ascended, Cyril leads the Vigil’s forces to undo the doom of the...

Explore Freemarch, breadbasket of both Telara’s great empires, now home to the brilliant Defiant. Yet in the shadow of fallen Port Scion, under the tread of a returned tyrant, and infected by rifts of Death and Water,...

Each Ascended Calling welcomes a new Soul with a host of powers and abilities to aid against the invaders. Riftblades give Warriors unstoppable magic strikes, Marksmen make Rogues deadly from a distance, Necromancers command the...

Just and noble rulers of Freemarch, the March Wardens deserve better than to have their rest disturbed by the cultists of the Endless Court. Eliam, the first Warden, summons you to Iron Tomb to free his successors’ ghosts from...

Laethys, Dragon of Earth, exists to spread greed, lust, and desperate desire. Her minions in the Golden Maw are fat merchants and slimy backroom dealers ready to sell Telara for a handful of gold. From the Earth Rifts come...

Running along moonlit rooftops is a rogue’s favorite way to travel, especially when the corpse of a nobleman you murdered a lifetime ago is hurling spells at your back and the streets below teem with the hungry dead....

When the rifts came, the Dwarves sealed their city at Lord’s Hall, trapping ancient magic inside. Now both the cults of Death and Life seek King’s Breach, an ancient rear entry to the...

We’re pleased to announce that four new souls have joined the battle against Telara’s enemies. Paragons bring dual-wielding focus, while Riftstalkers are all but impossible to strike. Shamans attack with arctic fury, and...

For the first time, you can explore the sacred city. No less than Cyril Kalmar takes you through Sanctum, pointing out its holy orders and sweeping architecture, reminding the Guardians of the golden age they strive to...

Trion Worlds, a global developer and publisher of premium online games, announced today that the first closed beta event for RIFT™, the highly-anticipated MMORPG, is scheduled to take place December 3-6,...

The Plane of Air is home to beings that ride the wind, looking down on land-bound mortals. Crucia the Storm Queen offers her followers perfect clarity of mind—her own...

The Abyssal cultists of Akylios have taken over the highest peaks of Iron Pine, working to awaken an age-old cephalon frozen in the...

During the Age of Dragons, great heroes imprisoned the Dragon of Air in bottomless ice. The mighty Icewatch oversee her prison, but threats from the rifts and local bandits have stretched even these stalwarts to their...

Once, the Eth used sophisticated magic to strike at the dragons and build an empire of peace and progress. Yet for reasons not fully understood, the Eth Empire fell, and its people have been nomads ever...

Once, Hugo Waldemar was a vicious bandit, ready to end anyone who gave him trouble. Read "The Boar Spear, Part 2: Suspended Negotiations" to see how such a man could be chosen as a righteous Guardian, and the consequences of...

Three new souls stand ready to grant Telara’s heroes their power. Lead the charge as a Warlord, heal the faithful and smite the wicked as a Justicar, or marshal the fury of the elements as a...

Dark as the deepest subconscious, the Plane of Water gives the Plane of Death a run for its title as most terrifying place beyond the rifts....

Follow Orphiel Farwind on a tour through the stronghold of progress. The proud Defiant have reclaimed the glory of the Eth Empire with Meridian, city of sweeping towers and arcane...

The Guardians and Defiant will first cross paths in Scarlet Gorge, where three Dragon Cults already vie for precious sourcestone. Scores of heroes and monsters leap into the frenzy of violence, but only a few will emerge from...

Prey screams, predators prowl, and the very plants constantly fight for survival where Life Rifts take hold of...

Prey screams, predators prowl, and the very plants constantly fight for survival where Life Rifts take hold of...

Looking for the latest playable race in RIFT™? Look no further. We're thrilled to announce Kelari as the newest playable Defiant...

We are thrilled to announce Stonefield - the newest playable zone in RIFT™. Heroes seek out the Deepstrike Mines, but these rolling hills hold more than just a...

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Looking for the latest playable race in RIFT™? Look no further. We're thrilled to announce Dwarves as the newest playable Guardian...

We are excited to announce the first playable dungeon in RIFT™ - Darkening...

We are thrilled to announce Gloamwood - the newest playable zone in RIFT™. In this dark, deeply forested Zone, players' worst nightmares rise out of the plane-corrupted soil. ...

Learn all about the Plane of...