Guardians of the Rift

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Guardians of the Rift is a non-combat minigame that takes place within the Temple of the Eye. The main goal of the game is to assist The Great Guardian in closing an abyssal rift to The Scar, the most dangerous part of Abyssal Space, by supplying it with guardian stones while protecting it from the abyssal creatures that come through the rift.

Gameplay

The objective of the minigame is to allow the Great Guardian to charge up enough power to close the rift where Abyssal creatures are coming through.

Players will need to do the following throughout the battle:

• Imbue essence acquired during the minigame at runic altars to power up the Great Guardian
• Create elemental and catalytic guardians to do battle with the incoming Abyssal creatures
• Create barriers to protect the Great Guardian from Abyssal creatures

To imbue essence and create rift guardians, players must obtain guardian fragments from guardian remains of varying sizes in the Temple. There are three nodes that can be mined off of - guardian parts, guardian remains, and large guardian remains. Parts and normal remains can be found in the edges of the temple area, while the larger remains are past some rubble in the mid-east of the Temple area, requiring level 56 Agility (not boostable) to access.

The huge guardian remains, which give guardian essence when mined, are found at the mid-western area of the temple. Though normally inaccessible, portals will occasionally appear that takes players there, spawning approximately every 2 minutes. Portals remain active for around 25 seconds.

The doubling effect of certain mining enhancers (ex. Varrock armour and charged celestial rings) will apply when mining for guardian fragments and essence.

Imbuing Essence

Guardian fragments are converted into guardian essence, which are storable in essence pouches. They are brought to runic altars to be imbued via entering Portal Guardians surrounding the centre of the Temple. Only two portals are active: the elemental and catalytic portals. Imbuing guardian essence requires the same Runecraft level as crafting them regularly in the corresponding altar. Note that crafting on runic altars during the minigame will not give players the rift guardian pet.[1]

Occasionally, players will receive a portal talisman that can be used on the Portal Guardians to take them back to the runic altar they previously used, even if the portal is closed for that altar. These cannot be kept after the game ends, so players should use them whenever possible. Players can right-click "Toggle-talisman" on a Portal Guardian to stop receiving portal talismans of the selected type.

Once players imbue their essence into either an elemental or catalytic guardian stone, they can return to the Temple and power up the Great Guardian. Each guardian stone will give two energy of the respective type; if crafting combination runes, players will instead receive polyelemental guardian stones, which give three elemental energy when used on the Great Guardian.