He went to the Rift Archive before the Division.
The Archive was on the ground floor of the Guild's administrative building, two streets from the registration hall, marked by a plain door with a reader's mark rather than the Guild seal. Not a restricted space—any registered hunter could enter. The collection inside was the Guild's public record of Rift zone classifications, creature catalogues, path material grade histories, and mission outcome data going back four generations.
He spent an hour there.
What he was looking for was not in the creature catalogues or the mission records. It was in the zone classification histories—specifically the reclassification events. Every few decades a zone would shift designation, usually upward, because the ambient Rift energy in it had strengthened or a new creature sub-type had established territory. The Archive recorded these reclassifications with brief explanatory notes.
Zone eleven had been reclassified twice in the last forty years.
