

Gehn has taken him from an idyllic life with his grandmother to a dark subterranean land, an ancient maze of rooms and tunnels that once housed a thriving civilisation, where he must begin his initiation into The Art. For him, Myst is the only refuge from his vicious father Gehn, from whom he has inherited the gift and from whom he must escape to preserve it. Myst is the creation of one man, Atrus, who has a powerful gift shared by few: he possesses the Art, the ability to conjure new worlds out of words.

Watson joked that Esher's pronounciation can be explained as a result of some speech impendiment (caused by being bitten by the snakes in Noloben).The island of Myst is like no place you've ever seen before, but will remind you of somewhere you may have visited in your imagination: an eerily deserted landscape of wide vistas, soaring evergreens, and imposing seemingly-deserted buildings, where the silence is broken only by the rhythmic lapping of the waves on Myst's craggy shoreline.īut once there was life here.

Some D'ni survived to the present day, however, and Atrus, the main character of the Myst series, is one-quarter D'ni. The original D'ni civilization was destroyed by Veovis and A'gaeris, with the majority of the D'ni people perishing in the catastrophe that they orchestrated. The people of D'ni were practitioners of the Art, a skill that allowed them to write books that could transport them to other worlds, called Ages. The D'ni (D'ni spelling: D'nee meaning "New Beginning" ) are a civilization that once existed in an underground cave system on Earth.
