![]() ![]() Atrus, the newborn from before, is now a young boy. It efficiently introduces Gehn and his callous, dispassionate manner, traits which will be critically important later.įollowing the prologue, the narrative skips forward a few years. It’s a good opening: cryptic, yet still intriguing enough to get the reader’s attention. He spurns his newborn son, storms in the direction of a volcano, and disappears. ![]() Gehn’s wife (here unnamed) has just died in childbirth and he’s distraught. The Book of Atrus opens with characters we’ve never seen before, Gehn and Anna. Video games aren’t the ideal medium for detailed storytelling, so novelizations like this one were critical to the expansion of the game’s universe. As the title suggests, the book is the story of Atrus, building upon from what little we learned of him in Myst while simultaneously setting the stage for the next game, Riven. While Myst: The Book of Atrus may not stand as a classic of speculative fiction, in the context of the series it performs exceptionally well. ![]()
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