Here is an email from Richard A. Watson to the Riven Lyst clarifying some of the events in Myst: The Book of D'ni. The comments from fans are in italics, the plain gray print is RAWA's answer.
From: "Richard A. Watson"
To: "Riven Spoiler Lyst"
Subject: Re: [rls] Could you find Atrus? I think so.
Date: December 01, 1998
The last quarter of BoD is so unclear that I'm still not completely sure of everything that happened at the end, though I've read it several times! I sure wish I knew.
Me too. It is very unfortunate for the Book of D'ni that the deadline for the book coincided with the deadline for Riven. The whole second half of the book didn't get anywhere near the attention we would have liked to have given it.
It's clear that Atrus wrote Tomahna for the D'ni survivors, but I'm still not sure if he wrote any other Ages for anyone else. On page 306 of the hardbound BoD, Atrus talks about an Age he'd written and I can't tell if this was a new Age for the Terahnee, or if it was referring to Tomahna and that Gat was just visiting before D'ni and Terahnee were sealed from each other. It sounds like Atrus was saying he was going to leave them, but at the very end of BoD it sounds like Atrus was living on Tomahna at least part of the time. I find that very confusing.
It's even more confusing than you think...
The Terahnee (with the exception of a few that choose to go with the D'ni to their new home) remain on Terahnee, but rename it Devokan (hope).
Atrus writes the Age mentioned on pg. 306 for the D'ni survivors - "one of the finest Books ever written" from Catherine's description. This Age is never named in the Book of D'ni.
The Books between Terahnee and D'ni are once again sealed.
Atrus and Catherine don't remain with either group, but instead move to a place Atrus called "Tomahna".
Richard A. Watson
Programmer / D'ni Historian
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