Talk:Age of D'ni

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Wait, Hold on, how is it that we have the cleft placed in two vastly different places? I believe that the cleft is in the Middle East, as is evidenced in the books. In the book of Ti'ana, when the earthquake occurs some people on the surface say "Allah". Now this could just be some imigrants if the cleft is in New Mexico, but it seems unlikley. In the Book of Atrus there is a scene with a caravan which is where the cat arrives. On the sacks is writing which atrus admires as flowing and graceful. That doesn't sound like english to me and native Americans used Hiroglyphs if any writting. And I was not aware that caravans often came through New Mexico. Obviously some one has it wrong and I think that is Ubisoft. The books came first so I don't think they are wrong. The global comunity MUST end this discrepancy as soon as posible. - Ti'm

To answer this, Cyan has explained that the Book of Atrus is wrong here: David Wingrove (the primary author) was not given all facts and was only told that the Cleft was in a desert somewhere. He assumed that the Middle-East was meant. Cyan either noticed too late or (more likely) didn't care: there were at the time no plans for Uru and thus the "true" location of the Cleft could remain hidden. Within the conceit of Myst-is-fact: Catherine's journals (which are the base of the first four Myst games and the novels) were adapted by the DRC. They chose to enter misleading information so that D'ni would not be easily found--a ploy which failed due to Yeesha and Zandi (Uru). Either way the canonical location of the Cleft is Eddy County, New Mexico. Jordi·✆ 00:19, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

This confirms my personal theory about a DRC Disinformation Project -- thank you. However, I note that Mr. Zandi's mobile home appears to be registered in "Zandillo County". Did he modify his license plate?Cactus Wren 13:55, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Originally his license plate was registered in a real county -- Grenadillo, perhaps? I can't remember -- but later it was found that the plate had been ripped off from a guy's website about his license plate collection. They hastily changed it, and all subsequent Uru patches had a different plate with the fictional Zandillo County. SFT | Talk 20:49, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

They first used this plate, from Bernalillo cty. After it was found out this was from someone's personal collection the plate was indeed changed. -- Jordi·✆ 21:10, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

For: I believe D'ni Caverns should be merged with Age of D'ni. After all, both articles reference each other (the section on the Cleft talks about the passages to D'ni, the section about D'ni and the especially the shaft talk about the surface (which would be the cleft), etc. Besides, they're all on one big age. Why not put them all on the same?