I have noticed through a variety of playthroughs that many of the Nephalem rifts are named after important figures from the lore of Diablo, for example:
- Horazon's approach
- Bartuc's trail
While it may be pretty incidental, the various instances I've been in Horazon's approach the levels have generally been of an "Arcane Sanctuary" design utilising the Pandemonium fortress level designs in darker colours – but is this coincidental or does the name of the rift have any influence on its content?
Does the name of the rift affect the level generation (ie: certain rifts will definitely go to certain places/use certain designs for their levels) or the rift guardian that spawns?
Best Answer
Official information on this is pretty hard to come by, but there are 2 seperate pieces of information that point towards Nephalem Rifts being completely random and having content independent of their name. The first one is from the BlizzCon 2013 RoS Panel:
In the Beta forum there has also been a post by Tsamis that heavily points towards the fact that Rift names have no meaning at all: