7/9/2023 0 Comments Myst riven![]() ![]() Together with Ti'Ana and Catherine, Atrus helped devise a plan to leave Gehn trapped in Riven, thus preventing him from dooming more Ages and their civilizations. Catherine was the best student of Gehn, and Gehn intended to marry her against her will to further control the Art. Ītrus' disillusionment with Gehn's tyrannical education of the Art and his cruel, god-like rule over his flawed ages - Riven in particular. Gehn taught Atrus that the world is harsh and he shouldn't with sentiment. However, Atrus soon realized that his father was corrupt, and possibly insane. When Atrus first met Gehn he seemed intelligent, adventurous, and friendly. Roughly fourteen years later, Gehn returned to the surface to collect Atrus, who had since then grown into a teenager. Copying passages from an age's Descriptive Book is the process normally used for creating Linking Books to that same age the Descriptive Books Gehn attempted to write in this manner were thus probably trying to describe a new age, and create links to multiple ages already-described, at the same time, hence their instability and probably also the existence and behaviour of the Star Fissure. Riven marked the first "stable" age Gehn had Described, although in time this age, too, would begin to show signs of breaking apart and decaying. Gehn wrote his "Fifth Age," Riven, by piecing together fragments of writings from pre-existing Books. These Ages, however, were marred by flaws owing to his incomplete knowledge of the Art and contradictions in his Writing - which led them to quickly decay and collapse soon after their Descriptive Books had been completed. Because Gehn was never taught the D'ni beliefs before the Fall, he believed that he created the Ages he wrote (as opposed to merely accessing pre-existing worlds), and thus concluded that the creators of Ages had the right to rule over them. ![]() In D'ni, Gehn pieced together his incomplete education of the Art by copying from the ancient books, and during this period he wrote many ages which he dominated in the name of his ancestors and in this madness he destroyed whole civilizations. He returned to D'ni, while Atrus was left in the care of Ti'ana. He refused to look at the baby, and left the two looking out toward the lip of the volcano. Overcome with bitterness, he blamed his mother again as he buried Keta next to the garden, thoughtlessly spoiling it and the small pool. However all Anna could do was to deliver the baby. In his desperation and having none else, he overcame his grudge and returned to his mother at the Cleft to seek her knowledge of healing. When he was 19 years old and Keta was pregnant, she fell ill. He met and married Leira of the Amad whom he also called Keta. He dedicated himself to the cause to rebuild and reconstruct the D'ni culture to save it from extinction. He had vague recollections of the love Anna had for his father, and for D'ni, but he held her responsible for the Fall. ![]() He considered himself a D'ni, and her an outsider. Gehn fed a bitterness towards his mother. After Aitrus' death, Ti'ana took Gehn to the surface to begin life anew in the Cleft. Not much is known of his life during his short time in the guilds, but when the empire of D'ni collapsed, Gehn's father, Aitrus, was lost in his successful attempt to destroy A'Gaeris. Īs a boy, he noticed that the number 5 had a special significance to the D'ni society and was found everywhere, on the ancient heraldic emblems of the ruling elite as well as the commoner houses. Gehn came to believe that his father was an important man in the D'ni world, but he was too young to see such a thing back then. ![]() His father took immense pride at each of his small accomplishments there. But Gehn's sharp mind and natural intelligence did not go unnoticed, and he was accepted as an apprentice in the Book-Makers Guild. The stigma placed upon Gehn remained a painful part of his life throughout his later years, and when he was sent to the Guilds as a small child as per D'ni custom, he endured harassment and teasing from his peers because of his mixed heritage. There were several times in his life when it was believed that he would die - an outcome viewed as necessary by those who considered his birth an abomination. Due to his mixed blood, Gehn suffered many health ailments as an infant and toddler. Gehn was the first known child born of D'ni and human parents, Aitrus of D'ni and Ti'ana of the Surface. ![]()
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