Atlantis in Rift

[Slipmat]

Not sure if this is old news but there's a sunken city a bit off the coast of Ember Ilse, not sure what it's for, it's down very deep so you can't really stumble across it




Here's a short video just showing a tiny portion of the city

[Davisdoesdallas]

I have never played Rift but that is pretty damn cool. I've always liked stuff like that in games. I go to the monument for rousch when I'm in the area and do a /mourn and /cheer. That's about the most RP I do but hidden away items I enjoy because it means someone cared enough to dedicate time placing it there.

[Puremallace]

There is some place called Tempest Deeps that used to be on Rift maps. It has got to serve some purpose in a future content patch. Underwater zone would the shiat

[Runintowalls]

awesome! gonna have to check this out. I love finding hidden treasures in games, and this looks like quite a treasure. so much development put into this underwater city. I used to like going to the top of the mountains in barrens back when I played wow, thinking I was exploring mysteries not many others are thinking about, then in cataclysm they put holiday decorations up there and it obviously wasn't a secret anymore.

RIFT is doing some pretty amazing things, can't wait to see what they think of next. this is a really cool find, and will be fun in months when new players join RIFT and have a year of all these awesome new features waiting for them to experience. wow has 7 years of content and releases a patch every 6 months, but if rift had 7 years of awesome content like it does now, releasing a new patch every 2-4 weeks, in 7 years I would probably live in telara 24/7, lol

[Puremallace]

So I checked this out. When you get close it is called The Forgotten Sanctum

[Khelendros]

Will probably be a future home to a raid/dungeon/sliver.

[Primalthirst]

Yeah I call Sliver

[EQuestions]

It's shit like this that makes me want to play. A new game world full of exploration. And if I remember right "wall climbing" is doable with a mount?

[Acquiesce of Telara]

With or without a mount, actually, though some locations are easier to reach by traveling faster/jumping farther while mounted.

In Rift there are artifacts scattered across the entire gameworld; little glowing orbs that are similar to relics from WoW's archeology. One of Trion's developers has the same kind of wanderlust as the best MMO explorer. He used every non-hack possible to reach the most obscure and dizzying locations to drop these relics for collectors. Some of them require ridiculous levels of climbing, wall-walking and ghost-edge jumping to reach.

Some screenshots (to give you an idea of what kind of geographical rape is expected of you)

http://imageshack.us/f/444/20111110153704.jpg/ <---look for the two red glows
http://i.imgur.com/Qdqwo.jpg
http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/9894/sc1e.jpg

Video of one of the most infamous two artifacts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyexxdoAAvo

The game literally rewards you for using every trick at your disposal to reach those near impossible-to-reach sites.