Editing Reference:RAWA/2000 Lyst posts (section)

== February 1, 2000 ==

Ken T. wrote:
<blockquote>There's no way to bring the book that you're linking with with you when you link... this is why Atrus had to drop his myst book into the fissure to trap Gehn on Riven. If he could have just taken it with him, it would have been a lot easier.</blockquote>

Yep

<blockquote>Now as for the brothers removing a page from Atrus' Myst book ... you're running on the assumption that the myst book was always in D'ni. Perhaps the Myst book was on Myst, or on one of the other mystian ages, and the brothers got at it without Atrus knowing.</blockquote>

Hence the message from Sirrus to Achenar in the recording device in Channelwood.

"He [Atrus] is preparing [to go do D'ni]. Remember, take only one page."

<blockquote>Then when atrus took his myst book with him to go to D'ni, that was his only way back.</blockquote>

Yep.

<blockquote>Now this brings up the question -- why wasn't there already a myst book in D'ni? ... Where *was* myst written anyway? (It's been a while since BoA...sorry :) ... Well I'd venture to guess that that myst book (which used to be in D'ni) was the one atrus brought to Riven, and dropped down the star fissure.</blockquote>

Yep. Atrus was very careful not to leave a link to Myst from D'ni (when preparing to trap his father in Riven at the end of the book of Atrus). He couldn't be sure his plan would work, or that he wouldn't miss one of Gehn's links back to D'ni, so he wanted to sever all the links between Myst and D'ni, just in case.

<blockquote>Which, of course, is why he brought another myst linking book when he went to D'ni after the brothers tricked him into going there -- because he knew there was no myst linking book there.</blockquote>

Yep.

Nice explanation, Ken.

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