Ehm... what's the Original Age? O_o

[Nek'rahm]

Okay... I finished Uru CC a while back and saw this:

1) D'ni and Earth (Prime) are closely linked
2) Tomahna, the Cleft, Eder Tomahn, the Great Shaft, and Ae'gura are all connected (not really tho >>)
3) Earth Prime was not the original age, since Yeesha brought rain into it

Now, assuming this, the only way for Yeesha to do what she did at the end of Uru: Ages Beyond Myst was if:

A) She duplicated Earth Prime in a linking book (read below)

or

B) Earth is not the Age from which D'ni (and all else) came from

Now, A is very likely... but think of this:

The only way to COMPLETELY Duplicate Earth... is for a Descriptive Book for Earth Prime to already exist.

In that case... Earth Prime is not the Original Age

Meaning B is prolly correct... so... em... ? Anyone know what the Original Age was?

~Confused Nek'rahm O_O

[LucasWilson]

The original age was called Gartanay... The Ronay, the ancestors of the D'ni, lived in this bright and sunny age. However, when cataclysm was at hand, all of the Ronay evacuated into various linking books, with the great writer Ri'neref (who was also the first king of the D'ni) and his followers went to D'ni, which literally means "New Start", and most everyone else going to the big, green, tropical age of Tehranee. The details of Atrus and the D'ni meeting the Tehranese for the first time in 10,000 years is detailed in The Book of D'ni.

[Nek'rahm]

ahhh, Gartanay and the Ronay...

Thanks again ^_^

[Chacal]

Precision: people probably went to Tehranee from D'ni, as the Tehranee descriptive book was found hidden in D'ni (from Book of D'ni).

EDIT:
Also:
D'ni and Earth (Prime) are closely linked:
Yes, D'ni is a mile under the surface of Earth.

Tomahna, the Cleft, Eder Tomahn, the Great Shaft, and Ae'gura are all connected (not really tho >>):
Yes, really. The cleft and Tomahna are on the surface of the Earth. Eder Tomahn, the great Shaft and Ae'gura are directly connected to the surface (the Book of Ti'ana and the Myst V game differ as to the exact location of this connection)

Earth Prime was not the original age, since Yeesha brought rain into it:
Exact. Exactly what Yeesha did is unknown, but she does say only she could do it. But we can think this:

- In Uru we don't descend into D'ni through the Great Shaft. Yeesha gives us a link to Relto from the Cleft, and we (eventually) get to D'ni;
- Linking books made by the D'ni had only one linking panel (I can't find a reference for this right now);
- The linking book we get to D'ni has multiple linking panels, so it must come from Yeesha or have been altered by her;
- The linking book we get to the Cleft must come from Yeesha as we know the D'ni never went to the surface;
- Since it It has linking panels to two different versions of the Cleft, she must have made two instances of the Earth (RAWA confirmed instances came from Yeesha);
- The only way to write a linking book from scratch is from a descriptive book;
- My brain is about to asplode.

Thus Yeesha has the descriptive book for Earth. EVERYBODY PANIC!
This is a problem as it makes no sense to bring a descriptive book in the Age it describes.

[Trylon]

Possibly, but not necessarily as the descriptive book could have been brought there after the escape occurred. A similar book (appearently descriptive) leading to D'ni was found on the other side.

[Chacal]

Oops. I edited my post after Trylon wrote. He was referring to the first line in my post.

[Nek'rahm]

Now wait...

If Yeesha has Earth's Descriptive Book... this conflicts with Episode 9 of the MOUL Season

Couldn't she just make some kind of adjustment to the cavern/earth that would keep the Bahro from attacking?

Or is she leading em out of Ae'gura and the Neighborhoods to do just that?

I'm confuzzled o-O

[Trylon]

I think it could also be a little different - perhaps ordinary linking books allow for certain localized changes to be made in age around the destination point. Of course you'd have to know how, and the D'ni's strict rules wouldn't have allowed that...

[Nek'rahm]

Wait a minute... maybe Yeesha pulled a Kadish!

Remember? Ahnonay?

That Age had 4 different versions of the same linking book:

1 - Water
2 - Ice/Mist
3 - Space
4 - His own Statue

Maybe Yeesha advanced on this?

[Chacal]

No, er, (we need spoiler tags) Ahnonay was a trick. There is just one AHnonay after all, and it's none of the 4 shperes.