UPDATE: Check out the website of Ricardo Sanchez, the author’s, website.

Rift: Planes of Telara’s is preparing to launch a comic book. Make sure you get this four part mini-series, called Telara Chronicles, detailing the story of Asha Catari from DC comics. For more ordering information please visit MailOrderComics.

Written by RICK SANCHEZ Art by POP MHAN Cover by MICO SUAYAN THE TELARA CHRONICLES, based on the highly anticipated MMORPG from Trion Worlds, is the story of a world being devastated by magical tears in the veil keeping it safe from the outer planes. These rifts come without warning, unleashing fantastic and terrifying invasions on a people already engaged in civil war. Telara`s champions have been forced to choose: join the Guardians and fight to restore the faith of a world that once was – or become a Defiant and embrace long-dead technologies to usher in a new age. From one of these competing factions comes Asha Catari, a plane-touched warrior with magical abilities. Follow Asha`s story and discover the war-ravaged world of Telara in this 4-issue miniseries prequel to the game. On sale SEPTEMBER 22.

The latest Dev Journal at MMORPG.com has been released and this time they are talking about Asha Catari, second in command of the Dragonslayer Covenant and one of the founders of the Defiants.

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 more at MMORPG.com.

We got a few minutes with missdoomcookie (LM Lockhart) and captaincursor (Nick McDowell), two of the Lore Leads for Rift and we got a few new tidbits. For the full transcript hop over to Telara Central.

I didn’t get any of my quick questions answered since I came late to the party. Looks like my timeline project will have to wait a bit more. However we did get some information about some of the dragon aspects.

Remember Prince Hylas? He’s the elf prince that helped bring on the Shade War with Prince Aedraxis. We learned he was associated with the Cult of Life who worship the dragon Greenscale; who, during the Blood Storm Wars wanted, to turn the whole world into a jungle, This cult was sprouted from House Aelfwar.

I’m usually not a Lore junkie but I took the plunge with Rift. I gathered as much information that I could find from the Official Website and put together a timeline that might assist others in learning the history of Telara. This is an on-going project that I will be updating as we get more information. Everyone should feel free to get on the forums and talk about what might be right or wrong. It’s as accurate as I could get it, but since we don’t have more information regarding time other that key phrases like “…for several centuries…” and “… for many millenia…”, the time between events could be very very off.

Just to start you off, the beginning of Telara starts at year -4000 and we are now at year 0. Remember you can zoom in and out with the slide bar at the bottom, some events don’t show up unless you get in close.