He is released if the player brings him the final page of the Linking Book he can use to escape. He has left a message for his wife, Catherine, telling her of the destruction of his Library by their sons, Sirrus and Achenar (note that in realMYST, Atrus' message is a lot calmer, compared to the original, where he is very frustrated and upset). The first game begins with Atrus imprisoned in D'ni. Achenar was trapped in Haven, the 'blue cover' Age, and Sirrus was trapped in Spire, the 'red cover' Age. Eventually they fooled their parents, sent Katran back to Riven, then ripped off a page from Atrus' Myst linking book and sent him to D'ni where he was trapped.Įventually the boys trapped themselves in their own greed by linking to Atrus' prison Ages. However the boys seeing all the rich worlds Atrus wrote, just waiting to be exploited, grew greedy, plundering the Ages, tormenting their inhabitants and burning some books their father wrote. When they returned, he took them to the Myst Library and their worrying mother, scolded them, and said that he will never leave them to explore alone again. Unknown to him, Sirrus intended to destroy the Fortress and the books stored in Camder to leave Atrus stranded there. One time on Mechanical, his sons went missing for days. He tried to teach them the principles of Age writing, and created J'nanin to train them and also sent them to Narayan, one of the most balanced Ages he wrote. He tried to be an example of conduct and discipline befitting their D'ni heritage. Family Ītrus fathered Sirrus and Achenar on the Myst Island, seeking to teach them differently than his father did. Doing this, he banished his father to the dying Age, and he jumped in the Star Fissure, linking to Myst. Secretly, Catherine, together with Anna who had, without him knowing, followed her grandson, wrote the Age of Myst Island, and planned to trap Gehn on Riven by destroying every Linking Book in the Age. Catherine was the best student of Gehn, and Gehn intended to marry her against her will to further control the Art. On Riven he met Katran, whose name he consistently mispronounced as Catherine. By the end of his teen years, Atrus came to realize that Gehn was a madman. Living on the island of K'veer he taught Atrus to write, and how to travel back and forth through Ages safely. He led Atrus down into the underground D'ni capital and told him about his heritage. Gehn came back to the cleft when Atrus was fourteen and took the boy from his grandmother. This book shows Atrus growing up, first in the Cleft with his grandmother, then as he learns to write Ages with his father. Teen Years Ītrus plays the central character in the Book of Atrus, the prequel to the original Myst game. However Anna kept his existence hidden, as she worried that someone would kidnap him to sell him as a slave whenever the caravans came, he hid in the shadow of the volcano's rim, with patched dirty clothes the color of the desert, observing and taking in all details thanks to his lenses. The caravans were the only glimpse he had of the outside world, he longed seeing them day and night he dreamed about one time riding a camel and see the rest of the world. Early Years Īnna taught him much while raising him, including the D'ni language, D'ni stories, and how to look at The Whole.Īt 7 years old Atrus could help her with her garden and repairs of their home and he wished that she didn't have to work so hard. The child stayed with Anna, living in a cleft in the side of a volcano in the desert. Mad with bitterness, Gehn abandoned his mother with the baby, refusing to look or hold his son. His mother was ill while pregnant and despite Anna's efforts, she died while giving birth to him in the Cleft after a long night. As such, he has been acting as a scholar, explorer, inventor and even physician.Īlthough not the player character, he is the main protagonist of the Myst series as well as the book series.Ītrus was born to Gehn and Keta in 9411 and therefore was only 1/4 D'ni. In addition he holds an attitude radically different than his father's: in his Ages he explores and discovers the things that the Maker wrote 'between' his own lines, he establishes respectful contact with the Outsiders he discovers, aids them to boost their civilization (as in Stoneship), protect them (as in Mechanical) or aiding them with hazards (as with The Tide). He has been known to experiment with the Art, to explore the Ages he wrote himself to understand the Art better. Although he was born well after the fall of D'ni, he holds the legacy of the D'ni civilization and the Art which he has studied by experimenting with it. This particular article is still lacking the necessary information, images, and/or general formatting.Ītrus (D'ni spelling: aytrus) is a D'ni/ human descendant.

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