In the latest developer journal from the Rift: Planes of Telara team, Rift Walker Asha Catari is profiled. Asha is the founder of the Defiants faction and has a fascinating story behind her. Read on!

Artifacts exist of a flourishing city-state known as Catari, dating back to the Eth Empire. Though the empire fell, the family line of the state’s sorcerer lords endured, continuing to produce some of the finest mages of Telara. The sisters Aurum and Asha Catari proved no exception to this tradition. The pair distinguished themselves among the pupils of Quicksilver College, though in very different ways. Aurum was the shining star of the academy, always performing to task and beyond standards of excellence. Asha, the younger sister, was just as gifted, but chafed under stringent curriculum of the college, questioning the effectiveness of century old methodologies. She was expelled in her third year for pursuing the arts of the warlock, a subject forbidden at the school. The scandal caused her father, Theo Catari, the representative of the southern races and High Mage in the court of Mathos, to disown her.

Read the lore behind Asha Catari.

Rift walker? Seriusly? I'm starting to think that good ol' Kevin Siembieda may have really been on to something.

Cool story.

story is ok, not a "huge" fan of lore, but this game is one that has kind of pulled me into it.

in regards to Methos, I find rift walker to flow off the tongue comfortably, I think it sounds about right.

It's as if they want Palladium to win the lawsuit against them...

Originally posted by Xondar123

It's as if they want Palladium to win the lawsuit against them...

That seems to have been thrown out bit ago.

http://www.jasonrichards.net/2010/06/palladiums-lawsuit-dismissed-by-judge.html

Great article... I love the lore of this game.

For the record,  Rifts the pen n paper rpg had Lay Line Walkers, not  a Rift Walker.

Originally posted by Methos12

Rift walker? Seriusly? I'm starting to think that good ol' Kevin Siembieda may have really been on to something.

 

Kevin is an ego-centric ass.  He had the balls to try and sue Todd McFarlaine over use of the name Spawn, for crying out loud.  Lost that battle, too.  Had to change the name of HIS game.  LOL.  Palladium Books isn't nearly as cool as he thinks they are.  And as pointed out, the OCC was Ley Line Walker, not Rift Walker.  Kevin has no claim on any of it.  Next he'll try to sue WotC because they have Dragons in DND4.

The Palladium Fantasy RPG wasn't even under the RIFTS title and was a blatant rip off of H.P lovecraft, Robert.E.Howard and Tolkien.   He's just a bitter old fool that couldn't out shine Gygax and Arneson.

Originally posted by WarpHunter

Great article... I love the lore of this game.

For the record,  Rifts the pen n paper rpg had Lay Line Walkers, not  a Rift Walker.

Originally posted by Dracondis

Kevin is an ego-centric ass.  He had the balls to try and sue Todd McFarlaine over use of the name Spawn, for crying out loud.  Lost that battle, too.  Had to change the name of HIS game.  LOL.  Palladium Books isn't nearly as cool as he thinks they are.  And as pointed out, the OCC was Ley Line Walker, not Rift Walker.  Kevin has no claim on any of it.  Next he'll try to sue WotC because they have Dragons in DND4.

You know what I meant. It's like they're really messing with him now that he can't do anything about it. :D

Originally posted by Locklain

Originally posted by Xondar123

It's as if they want Palladium to win the lawsuit against them...

That seems to have been thrown out bit ago.

 

http://www.jasonrichards.net/2010/06/palladiums-lawsuit-dismissed-by-judge.html

 

The case was thrown out in Michigan for reasons of jurisdiction. Trion then sued Palladium in California, and they're waiting for their day in court on September 10. The whole story, with reactions from a Palladium freelancer, can be found here:

http://www.jasonrichards.net/search/label/palladium%20trion%20legal

Jason Richards

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Originally posted by Durp5

The Palladium Fantasy RPG wasn't even under the RIFTS title and was a blatant rip off of H.P lovecraft, Robert.E.Howard and Tolkien.   He's just a bitter old fool that couldn't out shine Gygax and Arneson.

 Haveing the second copy of the 2nd editon come in today.. um your so wrong. Rip off of Tolkien eh.. theirs no hobbits or even haflings like in dungeons an dragons.

Two of the posts in this thread remind me of some of the reviews of paladium books. Where the reviewer bemons theirs no index..Tables of contents just arent enuff.Quick find list wount help them unless you read the book.Maybe before out an out spreed lies you might read the books?Rober E howard rip off.. wth.. how do you even get that?Only thing close to H.PLovecraft is because it has insanity rules.So did Dungeons an Dragons .1st editon AD&D on up.

Originally posted by Methos12

Originally posted by WarpHunter

Great article... I love the lore of this game.

For the record,  Rifts the pen n paper rpg had Lay Line Walkers, not  a Rift Walker.

Originally posted by Dracondis

Kevin is an ego-centric ass.  He had the balls to try and sue Todd McFarlaine over use of the name Spawn, for crying out loud.  Lost that battle, too.  Had to change the name of HIS game.  LOL.  Palladium Books isn't nearly as cool as he thinks they are.  And as pointed out, the OCC was Ley Line Walker, not Rift Walker.  Kevin has no claim on any of it.  Next he'll try to sue WotC because they have Dragons in DND4.

You know what I meant. It's like they're really messing with him now that he can't do anything about it. :D

 He cant do any thing about it?

http://www.livingdice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/palladium_books_counter_claim.pdf

looks like they did.

Originally posted by Methos12

Rift walker? Seriusly? I'm starting to think that good ol' Kevin Siembieda may have really been on to something.

You don't say so? Sound like a ley line walker to me and the whole game sounds a lot like Palladium.

I hope Kevins lawsuit wins, not that I am against the idea of a Palladium MMO but they should pay license rights and use all the lore then, not just steal all the good parts.

And this isn't just like everyone who steals from Tolkien, Tolkien himself stole a lot of his ideas from Norse mythology while Kevin spent his life work creating his own stuff (even though he also borrowed from the worlds ancient religions.

This is actually stealing everything including the name, it would be like someone created a MMO called "Middle earth" or "Hyborea" without license rights.

I don't mind TERA at all but there is a limit to how much you can steal others ideas and this is past it. 

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by Methos12

Rift walker? Seriusly? I'm starting to think that good ol' Kevin Siembieda may have really been on to something.

You don't say so? Sound like a ley line walker to me and the whole game sounds a lot like Palladium.

I hope Kevins lawsuit wins, not that I am against the idea of a Palladium MMO but they should pay license rights and use all the lore then, not just steal all the good parts.

And this isn't just like everyone who steals from Tolkien, Tolkien himself stole a lot of his ideas from Norse mythology while Kevin spent his life work creating his own stuff (even though he also borrowed from the worlds ancient religions.

This is actually stealing everything including the name, it would be like someone created a MMO called "Middle earth" or "Hyborea" without license rights.

I don't mind TERA at all but there is a limit to how much you can steal others ideas and this is past it. 

Loke666, you are way off base on this one man. An honest review of what has been released for this game so far will quickly show that Trion isn't stealing "everything" from Siembieda. Far from it. Kevin stole just as much from other cultures and such to make his game. He's no angel that in his case he's only borrowing but everyone else is stealing.

Anyway, at this moment there is no lawsuit, in case you hadn't heard. Judge threw it out. There may be one attempted again once Rift:PoT goes live but it will most likely go the way of the dodo like this first one.

Either way, I've had a close look at all of the latest release games. None of them in their release versions come close to comparing to the level of polish this one has in it's alpha. I don't give a flying flip what they call it as long as they release a polished, fun MMO.

Palladium might wanna update/redesign their website. It looks very 1994

I think it's very cool that they are working on getting some story into this game, and finding a way to make that part of the player experience.  Dark creepy forests and demons are awesome, but it needs story to make it dark fantasy. 

Khalathwyr the legal action continues in California court.