The gateway image is badly distorted and it turns out Atrus is stuck writing in corrections to Riven's book to delay Armageddon due to Gehn's abysmal writing skills. Atrus opens the descriptive book to Riven and it soon becomes apparent that Riven is unlike the previous Ages you have visited.

What's worse is that the Age was created and is ruled over by Atrus' twisted and deluded father Gehn, who sees himself as a god, and who has now imprisoned Catherine.Īt the beginning of the game, you meet Atrus again who assigns you to the age of Riven with the goal to capture Gehn in a book that was specifically designed for this task, and to rescue Catherine. The Stranger pieced together the clues of what happened on the island of Myst, and rescued Atrus by freeing him from his stone prison.īut now Atrus's wife Catherine has been trapped on the Age of Riven by their sons. However, an unknown character only known later as ' The Stranger' appeared on Atrus' home age of Myst. Atrus was trapped in a stone hall prison by his two twisted and evil sons, who in turn trapped themselves in separate Ages by accident. In the previous game, a man named Atrus is part of a splintered civilization called the 'D'ni' (pronounced 'Duh-NEE'), who have the ability to create portals to alternate realities within special books, simply by writing the description of the reality in the book. The story of Riven continues exactly where Myst left off. Atrus, explaining the plan to the Player Character in the intro.įully titled Riven: The Sequel to Myst, a 1997 PC-Mac game that is the sequel to the world-famous PC-Mac game Myst.

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