He then asks The Stranger for their help in fighting Gehn and rescuing Catherine on Riven, setting up the events of the next game. If they bring the page, Atrus links back to Myst and appears to burn the Red and Blue books containing Sirrus and Achenar (though later games contradict this). If the player links to the D'ni age before finding the page, they become stuck there with Atrus forever. However, Atrus is stuck within the book (as Sirrus and Achenar had torn a single white page from his linking book, stranding him there) and requests The Stranger find the missing page. The good ending is achieved by finding a white page and bringing it to the green book, which contains Atrus.

He gloats as The Stranger becomes trapped in the Blue Book and tears out the blue pages, stranding them there. The second ending is similar and results from bringing the blue page back to Achenar. Sirrus laughs at him/her and tears the pages from the book, eager to find Achenar. The first bad ending results from bringing the red page back to Sirrus, who swaps places with The Stranger. They both warn The Stranger not to touch the green book, as they will become trapped there forever.Īt this point, players can experience either the two bad endings or the good ending. Though their stories conflict, each figure that Atrus is dead and they are forever trapped in their prisons.Īfter returning all four pages from the ages, they both tell The Stranger to find a pattern in a burnt book and use it in the fireplace, which will lead them to their final pages.

However, each blames the other for the destruction of the books in The Library with Achenar blaming Sirrus' greed and Sirrus blaming Achenar's instability. Their first encounter with another human on the island is with Sirrus and Achenar, who are trapped within the red and blue books and request that The Stranger visit the ages to find the pages to their books to free them.Īs The Stranger explores the four ages, Sirrus and Achenar begin to tell him/her more about their imprisonment and past, explaining that they are the sons of Atrus and Catherine and that their father Atrus wrote the ages. The Stranger, the name given to the player by Myst fans, finds the book and subsequently links to Myst, where they are tasked with exploring the island. The game begins with Atrus falling down into the Star Fissure and dropping a Myst Linking Book.

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