The linking book to Myst is dropped into a starry expanse known as the Star Fissure, where it is presumed lost (but later found by the Stranger, beginning the events of Myst).
When Saavedro is unexpectedly freed and travels to Tomahna in hope of finding the brothers, he steals the linking book for Releeshahn in a plan to lure Atrus to Narayan and exact revenge.
Thirty years earlier (at the end of The Book of Atrus), Atrus and Catherine trapped Gehn on Riven by removing all of the linking books that led out of the Age; the very last book to be removed, linking to the Age of Myst, was the one they held to escape Riven.
The Stranger's discovery of the Myst linking book saves Atrus from being trapped in K'veer a second time, and Catherine from Gehn's clutches.
Instructing the Stranger to capture Gehn in the trap book, find Catherine, and then signal him, Atrus holds out the link book that will transport the Stranger to Riven.
A linking book to the Age of Myst, the setting of the original game, lies sealed in the ruins of the ancient D'ni civilization.
By writing a description of another world, the D'ni created "linking books" which served as portals to the worlds described, known as Ages.
Ti'ana raises Gehn until he runs away as a teenager, learning the D'ni Art of writing linking books.
Reviewers praised the artistry of the photographs and the message of the texts, linking the books to ongoing debates about wilderness policy and the future of the American landscape.
The mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, appeared alongside the fossil, wearing a T-shirt carrying the TV tie-in logo, "The link". A book about Ida was already coming off the presses.
