

When he finally found a way back to Narayan, he could not get past the Crystal Shield Atrus had installed, and thought his entire people to be dead. That is when he was trapped on the Age of J'nanin. But one man, Saavedro, followed them, to ask them why they did such things, to ask them to fix what they had ruined. In doing so, they forced Sirrus and Achenar to leave. Soon after, some of the trees fell into the ocean below, and the rebels of the tradition had realized the grave error they had made in following Atrus' sons. Atrus wrote Narayan to display to his sons the concept Balanced Systems Stimulate Civilizations.īefore Sirrus and Achenar destroyed the Ages in the Library of Myst, they tried to trick the young of the Narayani people into abandoning their traditions, which in turn would destroy the very structure that kept their civilization alive. Narayan is the culmination of the lesson Ages Atrus wrote for his sons, to show them the physical embodiment of concepts they needed to understand, were they to write Ages of their own. They had to constantly prune the branches of the trees to keep overgrowth at bay, and bring in new spores to graft as old ones expired. The side door unfreezes and can now be opened to reveal a corridor. As the room starts to warm up the walls change colour. To start the furnace turn the lever outside and the press the button on the furnace. To do this, they would play beautiful tunes on "flutes" or "pipes" to lure these spores toward them, where they would then capture the spores with nets. Look at the map on the wall, cold furnace, alcove with the Myst Island linking book and the frozen door. For the Narayani to survive, they had to capture these spores and graft them into the trees to keep the trees from collapsing into the ocean below. Large milky white spores, what Atrus referred to as "Pearls", would periodically float up from the ocean, through the cloud layer, and into the atmosphere. Extremely large trees called "Lattice Trees" grew from this ocean. Narayan was an Age covered entirely with ocean, no land masses existing.
