URU Ages Beyond Myst Prima Official eGuide - All Things Uru

The CleftThe windmill that Zandi told meto start.The Cleft, where Atrus andAnna (Ti'ana) supposedly lived.I decided to investigate the windmill, andthat's when I saw the Cleft: a huge rip in the surface of the earth, at least 80 feetlong by 20 or 30 feet deep. At one end of the Cleft floor was a pool of water.Rope bridges crisscrossed its levels, leading to rooms that looked as if they werecarved out of the Cleft's rock walls. I had seen sketches of this Cleft before inThe Book of Atrus. This is where the legendary Atrus from the Myst games wassupposed to have been raised by his grandmother, Anna (a.k.a. Ti'ana, the firsthuman woman to see the city of D'ni in their recorded history).Of course, it wasn't possible that this could be the actual Cleft. I wasobviously dealing with some very committed Myst enthusiasts who'd gone to greatlengths to replicate the childhood home of one of their favorite fictionalcharacters. Still, it was a good likeness of the Cleft, and I couldn't even begin toimagine how much time and effort it must have taken to create.-12-