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D'ni '''Books''' appear fairly ordinary, but are specially constructed to transport a user to another world, or [[Age]] in D'ni parlance. The method for creating D'ni Books was a closely guarded secret, dating back to the discovery of [[the Art]] on [[Garternay]]. The D'ni based their entire culture and industry around the Art, and the Ages they could access through their books. | D'ni '''Books''' appear fairly ordinary, but are specially constructed to transport a user to another world, or [[Age]] in D'ni parlance. The method for creating D'ni Books was a closely guarded secret, dating back to the discovery of [[the Art]] on [[Garternay]]. The D'ni based their entire culture and industry around the Art, and the Ages they could access through their books. | ||
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== Types of Books == | == Types of Books == | ||
=== Descriptive Book === | === Descriptive Book === | ||
A '''Descriptive Book''' is where a Writer fully describes the Age to which they wish to link. These volumes are typically very large, with a considerable number of pages, suitable for the extensive descriptions needed to craft a stable link. There can only ever be one Descriptive Book for an Age. Because ''regestoy'' is capable of accessing the infinite possibilities of the [[w:Many-worlds interpretation|quantum mechanical multiverse]], it is highly improbably (though not strictly ''impossible'') for two Descriptive Books to ever link to the same Age, even if their descriptions match exactly.<ref>Email, RAWA. "[[Reference:RAWA/1997 Lyst posts#Re: More linking issues|Re: More linking issues]]". 1997.</ref><ref name="RAWA 1998" /> There are always too many variables left undefined to guarantee that a link is forged to the same place twice. | A '''Descriptive Book''' is where a Writer fully describes the Age to which they wish to link. These volumes are typically very large, with a considerable number of pages, suitable for the extensive descriptions needed to craft a stable link. There can only ever be one Descriptive Book for an Age. Because ''regestoy'' is capable of accessing the infinite possibilities of the [[w:Many-worlds interpretation|quantum mechanical multiverse]], it is highly improbably (though not strictly ''impossible'') for two Descriptive Books to ever link to the same Age, even if their descriptions match exactly.<ref>Email, RAWA. "[[Reference:RAWA/1997 Lyst posts#Re: More linking issues|Re: More linking issues]]". 1997.</ref><ref name="RAWA 1998" /> There are always too many variables left undefined to guarantee that a link is forged to the same place twice. | ||
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The precise processes for manufacturing Books is currently unknown to humanity, despite years of research by the [[D'ni Restoration Council]]. However, the practice does still survive on [[Releeshahn]], amongst those D'ni who survived the [[fall of D'ni|destruction of their civilization]]. | The precise processes for manufacturing Books is currently unknown to humanity, despite years of research by the [[D'ni Restoration Council]]. However, the practice does still survive on [[Releeshahn]], amongst those D'ni who survived the [[fall of D'ni|destruction of their civilization]]. | ||
== Apocrypha == | == Apocrypha == | ||
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=== Trap Books === | === Trap Books === | ||
The games ''[[Myst (game)|Myst]]'' and ''[[Riven (game)|Riven]]'' depict a special type of Book called a '''Trap Book'''. [[Atrus]] describes these Books as ones where the link is partially severed, causing the user to become trapped in limbo between Ages. If another person uses the Book, the original user is displaced back into the originating Age, and the new user becomes trapped. The Red and Blue Books ([[Spire]] and [[Haven]]) in ''Myst'' and the Book used to capture [[Gehn]] in ''Riven'' are all Trap Books. However, this kind of Book does not actually exist. | The games ''[[Myst (game)|Myst]]'' and ''[[Riven (game)|Riven]]'' depict a special type of Book called a '''Trap Book'''. [[Atrus]] describes these Books as ones where the link is partially severed, causing the user to become trapped in limbo between Ages. If another person uses the Book, the original user is displaced back into the originating Age, and the new user becomes trapped. The Red and Blue Books ([[Spire]] and [[Haven]]) in ''Myst'' and the Book used to capture [[Gehn]] in ''Riven'' are all Trap Books. However, this kind of Book does not actually exist. | ||
In a 2000 email to the [[Riven Lyst]] community email listgroup, [[Reference:RAWA/2000 Lyst posts#Assorted ramblings... Very Long...|RAWA explains]] that Trap Books were an invention that [[Cyan]] developed in order to simplify the gameplay of the first two games in the series. Historically, these would all have been [[prison Age]]s—Ages with no Linking Books in them—and the [[Stranger]] would have needed to rely on other kinds of information to successfully complete the tasks of freeing Atrus from his prison on [[K'veer]] in ''Myst'', and trapping Gehn in a similar prison in ''Riven''. Indeed, ''[[Myst IV: Revelation]]'' abandons the Trap Book notion entirely, and fully fleshes out the appearance of the Ages in which [[Sirrus]] and [[Achenar]] were imprisoned for almost 20 years. | In a 2000 email to the [[Riven Lyst]] community email listgroup, [[Reference:RAWA/2000 Lyst posts#Assorted ramblings... Very Long...|RAWA explains]] that Trap Books were an invention that [[Cyan]] developed in order to simplify the gameplay of the first two games in the series. Historically, these would all have been [[prison Age]]s—Ages with no Linking Books in them—and the [[Stranger]] would have needed to rely on other kinds of information to successfully complete the tasks of freeing Atrus from his prison on [[K'veer]] in ''Myst'', and trapping Gehn in a similar prison in ''Riven''. Indeed, ''[[Myst IV: Revelation]]'' abandons the Trap Book notion entirely, and fully fleshes out the appearance of the Ages in which [[Sirrus]] and [[Achenar]] were imprisoned for almost 20 years. |