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Myst was trashed by pirates from Mechanical
Sooner or later, they'd realize that the fortress is no longer inhabited. Some pirates might get curious.
All worlds have a linking book.
There was a past Golden Age where the D'Ni were either ridiculously creative and/or generous and taught their Reality Warper methods to other peoples. How much a particular world follows the Rules Of Index and/or takes Acceptable Breaks from Reality depends on the author.
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All Reality Warpers are D'Ni.
...and are Author Avatars having fun in their own world. Insert Haruhi jokes here.
All of the series' Ret Cons are the result of someone writing in Earth's Descriptive Book.
Atrus and Catherine are liars
Word Of God holds that all of the Myst games were based off of what Catherine wrote in her journals. The only games that were portrayed according to "real life" events were Myst V (based on what Richard A. Watson did) and Uru, hence the many Ret Cons. Of course, Literary Agent Hypothesis can go both ways. Atrus and Catherine could have recorded anything they wanted into their journals, effectively changing the past and there wouldn't be any way to prove them wrong.
The shape of an Age's inhabitants is subconsciously affected by the shape of the Writer.
This explains why every single sapient inhabitant of every single Age that is explicitly named are Human Aliens: Atrus, Gehn, Catherine, and other Writers simply haven't figured out how to adapt Xenofiction to the Art. In fact, it may be likely that a Xenofictionally-written Age would simply fail to link, or be so alien as to be worth nothing to the D'ni other than resources. This might be why the Bahro are enslaved by the Tablet during Uru and Myst 5: the D'ni Wrote the Noloben book xenofictionally, only to find out that the Bahro were (in their opinion) only fit to serve them, and thus the whole endeavor was a failed experiment. Alternatively, The Bahro gave the Tablet to the D'ni as a peace offering, a specieswide surrender perhaps after a genocidal war. This in turn explains why Esher was so quick to write off the Bahro's form of linking as "an abomination" in Myst 5.
When Atrus dies, his body will be interred on Tay.
That is doubtless where Katran was laid to rest, and he will want to be interred with her.
Haven is a Pod Age at this time.
The Torus Age, meanwhile, is a Guild Classic. Spire is either a Classic or a personal Age.
The Stranger is Will Navidson.
... Or rather, the protagonist of Myst and Riven is Will Navidson. In House of Leaves, it is never detailed how long Navidson disappears into the labyrinth for or how he gets out: this is because while inside the labyrinth, he discovered the Myst linking book that Atrus originally threw into the Fissure (in Myst, it is discovered by the player in what appears to be an endless black void). When he collapses into the Fissure as happens at the end of Riven, he "falls" back to the real world. This is backed up by Myst: The Official Strategy Guide, in which the main walkthrough is narrated by a man who has a camera: "Carrying case, plenty of film. If I couldn't document this place, nobody would believe it". The only flaw with this theory is that the protagonist of the Guide walkthrough starts his journey in a library, rather than in a black void.
As a side note that is slightly related, the makers of The Starry Expanse Project discovered that the Temple on the first island of Riven is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. Make of it what you will (explanation starts about 9:00 minutes in).
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