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Re: Atrus in URU Live

Kierra — Mon Dec 25, 2006 4:53 pm

Author: Kierra

Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 4:53 pm

ah. I stand corrected

*little kid voice* "Aw mo-om! a history link? eeeew!"

~Kia

Re: Atrus in URU Live

Tiran — Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:55 pm

Author: Tiran

Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:55 pm

BrettM wrote:

Eh?? That doesn't make much sense....Yeesha and Atrus aged *that* much within the space of...what, a year? two?

Re: Atrus in URU Live

Carrot — Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:25 pm

Author: Carrot

Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:25 pm

Actually, when I first heard that Yeesha would be a central character in Uru, I expected to see a wrinkled old lady

Re: Atrus in URU Live

BrettM — Sun Dec 24, 2006 4:09 pm

Author: BrettM

Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 4:09 pm

Kierra wrote:

Owehn wrote:

Except that the events of Myst V were in 2005 - see the DRC timeline.

Eh?? That doesn't make much sense....Yeesha and Atrus aged *that* much within the space of...what, a year? two?

The events of Myst, Riven, Exile, and Revelation all took place back in the early 1800s. So it was a lot more than a year or two between those events and Myst V, which explains Atrus's aging.

For Yeesha, remember that we mostly saw her via hologram in Uru. The hologram could have been recorded when she was younger, so that it didn't reflect her true age at the time we saw it. We didn't see her very close up during her brief speech to us at the end of the journey. But, she is pushing 190 years old (born around 1816), so her aged appearance in Myst V is no surprise.

Re: Atrus in URU Live

Kierra — Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:13 am

Author: Kierra

Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:13 am

Owehn wrote:

Except that the events of Myst V were in 2005 - see the DRC timeline.

Eh?? That doesn't make much sense....Yeesha and Atrus aged *that* much within the space of...what, a year? two?

~Kia

Re: Atrus in URU Live

Samsbase — Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:16 pm

Author: Samsbase

Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:16 pm

Quote:

I don't know if I want supposedly real! Atrus to look like Rand's portrayal, though. What are the odds that some dude in a game company would magically look just like him, huh? Wink

Ok hope my explanation of this doesn't hurt too many heads.

IC from here on
The game company cyan used real D'ni evidence from the cavern and various DRC resources to portray a representation of actual events. Around DRC ages (supposedly visited by cyan) if the DRC do have access to the island of Myst and more, it is safe to assume that they have witnessed portraits of the family of which Atrus of course is the father. Therefore cyan could have cast someone to play the role who looked most like the portraits in the ages they saw. Therefore when playing Cyans games the Atrus you see will probably have a striking resemblance to the real Atrus

Re: Atrus in URU Live

Owehn — Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:04 pm

Author: Owehn

Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:04 pm

Kierra wrote:

Well we must remember that timeline wise, Myst 5 takes place in the future, Uru is our present. Yeesha is old(er) looking in Myst5, and Atrus is definately on his last legs, so to speak.
~Kia

Except that the events of Myst V were in 2005 - see the DRC timeline.

Re: Atrus in URU Live

Sosiqui — Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:32 pm

Author: Sosiqui

Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:32 pm

I don't know if I want supposedlyreal!Atrus to look like Rand's portrayal, though. What are the odds that some dude in a game company would magically look just like him, huh?

Ah, IC/OOC. How confusing you are, and how you hurt my brain sometimes.

Re: Atrus in URU Live

Kierra — Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:30 pm

Author: Kierra

Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:30 pm

Well we must remember that timeline wise, Myst 5 takes place in the future, Uru is our present. Yeesha is old(er) looking in Myst5, and Atrus is definately on his last legs, so to speak.

In present time/Uru, Yeesha is still young looking, and although Atrus is not a spring chicken, he's not exactly a grey-beard yet either.

oh and........

(Spoiler-ish)

I've seen the Atrus Avatar via AdminKi's in UU...whether or not Rand will *use* the Atrus avitar, I don't know. But it *is* there, available for him to use

~Kia

Re: Atrus in URU Live

Narym — Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:15 am

Author: Narym

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:15 am

You can get there in URU PoTS as well, as I remember. You get there through the original linking book that you use in Myst on Myst Island.

Re: Atrus in URU Live

Smooferoo — Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:06 am

Author: Smooferoo

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:06 am

Yeah, when I saw that K'veer was going to be in Myst V, I got really excited, but I was disappointed when you couldn't do anything in it.

Re: Atrus in URU Live

Carrot — Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:55 am

Author: Carrot

Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:55 am

Owehn wrote:

We know where it is: the island of K'veer, which is in the main d'ni cavern. We got to visit it again in Myst V; hopefully the DRC will open it to us again soon.

With hopefully quite a bit more than was shown in Myst V *disappointed*

Re: Atrus in URU Live

Owehn — Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:44 am

Author: Owehn

Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:44 am

We know where it is: the island of K'veer, which is in the main d'ni cavern. We got to visit it again in Myst V; hopefully the DRC will open it to us again soon.

Re: Atrus in URU Live

Kiril — Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:03 am

Author: Kiril

Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:03 am

Lynnutte wrote:

I have a question for anyone who has any ideas on this. Do you think we will find any written or recorded messages from Atrus in D'ni? Since Atrus was in D'ni, do you think the possibility exists? I for one would love to find a few traces of him there.

I'd like to find that pillared room where we first met him in Myst.

Re: Atrus in URU Live

Jeff K. — Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:27 am

Author: Jeff K.

Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:27 am

geekmonger wrote:

The combination of medicine, nutrition and sanitation has effectively doubled the average lifespan of ordinary humans over about a century (in countries where available).

However, it's really all guesswork to try and figure out how much lifestyle or quantity of D'ni blood would affect lifespan, as well as depending on the individual. There are always those people who live on malt liquor and cigarrettes and still manage to break 100 years old.

Also, we're basically going on the assumption that someone who is 1/2 D'ni and 1/2 human will have the expected lifespan of (D'ni span + Human span)/2. Perhaps a little D'ni blood goes a long way, improving the lifespan beyond the average of the two races.

We should remember that Yeesha's mother was Rivenese, not Terran/human. We don't know exactly how long the life expectancy of the Rivenese is, but we can assume that it was shorter than that of the D'ni, since (IIRC) Atrus makes one or two references in his journals about Catherine aging faster than he does.

So, that makes Yeesha 1/8 D'ni, 1/2 Rivenese, and 3/8 Terran. I think it's safe to say that this combination of genetics makes Yeesha's life expectancy a mystery.