RIVEN HISTORY
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The history of Riven is not a very good story, nor is it a boring story. Riven was a creation by Ghen, Ghen was trully mad with power, he loved to create ages that were unstable and then with a gods intention he would travel to these ages seeking to play god with the people who lived there. Why exactly any one would ever want to do this is unknown. Ghen never gave his creations names instead he would give them a crule labling such as "5th Age" or "233 Age". Riven was Ghen's fifth age and so that is what he named it but Atrus however believed that naming an age was the best part in all the hard work that must be used in order create the age. During Atrus' first visit to Riven he learnd that the island was very unstable and that it sould collapse at any moment unless someone could repair the damage the his father had done. But like it is described in "Myst: The Book Of Atrus" Atrus was forced to abandon his twisted tormented father on Riven which was already falling apart because of Cathrine's doings. Atrus and Cathrine were forced to fee Riven with all the linking books out destroyed except one, The Myst Descriptive Book. As Riven collapsed around them and they were running from Ghen, a huge fissure opened up in the ground in front of them (this was Cathrine's creation). This fissure however didnt have boiling hot moltin lave poring from it like the others that had opened due to the tremors, this one had a blue tint to it and the air around it not only seemed to be sucked down into it but it felt cool to the touch. As Atrus piered over the edge of the fissure he was astonished to see stars, thousands of tiny beautifual stars twinkling back at him almost from the depths of Space. Cathrine reached into her back pack and pulled out the Myst book and placed it in Atrus' hands and just before she linked she said:
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"Did you ever wonder what it would be like to go swiming out among the stars? We could fall into the night and be cradled by stars and still return to the place where we began."
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Then she linked leaving Atrus to stand alone on the edge of the fissure. Atrus didnt quite understand what she ment but when Ghen showed up and threatning Atrus said "Give me the book and we'll link from this place together" Atrus raised the book over the fissure ready to drop it if ghen made one wrong move to try to take it. Atrus then replied "oh, and why should I give you the book? So you can go back to your twisted ways distroying age after age." Ghen droped the rock that he was previously threatning Atrus with and said "I want you to trust me because...........I love you." Atrus with a stern look on his face said "Love, LOVE, do you have any idea as to what that means, love dosent bind with ropes and chains its not loved ones in a cell. Little by little you destroyed it for me the only thing that I ever learned that was of any value I learned from Anna" and that as his final words he fell back into the star filled fissure and as he opened the book ready to link he heard Anna'a comphorthing vioce in his head "What do you see Atrus?" Atrus replied "I see stars grandmother, thousands of beautifual stars." As Atrus linked to the safty of Myst island the Myst Descriptive book continued to fall into the star fissure untill some kind of cosmic forces caused it to land here on Earth there the player finds it and links to Myst for the first time.
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