Star Fissure (Myst)
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I realized the moment I fell into the Fissure that the Book would not be destroyed as I had planned. It continued falling into that starry expanse of which I caught only a fleeting glimpse. I have tried to speculate where it might have landed, but I must admit that such conjecture is futile. Still, questions about whose hands may one day hold my Myst Book are unsettling to me. I realize my apprehensions might never be allayed, and so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been Written. – Atrus
The Star Fissure is an anomaly that was created on the island of Riven during the events of the Book of Atrus while Katran was tampering with the Art. At the end of the book, Atrus threw himself in there to escape his father, holding the Myst Book and immediately linked to the Age of Myst. Atrus thought that the Book would be destroyed but it is believed that the book continued to fall and landed somewhere on Earth, later found by the Stranger (the puzzling introduction to Myst depicts these events).
Gehn later sealed the fissure and installed a telescope-like device to study it and even threw Rivenese people into it to determine its nature. Although the Fissure looked like an image of deep space right below the very ground of Riven (as if the planet was hollow), the specimens could still breathe before being lost from the telescope's sight. Also, it differed than space by the fact that there were some black patches without stars at all (known as 'clouds') that are believed to be gateways to other Ages. Gehn believed it was some vacuum between the Ages and whoever fell there could obtain access to any of the Ages.
During the events of Riven, the Fissure (known as Allapo or Allatwan in Rivenese) is found on Temple Island, as Riven has already divided into 5 small islets due to its gradual state of decay. In the game's finale, the Stranger broke the iron seal over the fissure on Catherine's instructions as a way to signal Atrus. The Fissure began to consume the objects and air around it, accelerating the collapse of the Age. Both the telescope and, shortly after the escape of Catherine and Atrus, the Stranger, fell into the fissure, and presumably landed on Earth, in Eddy County, New Mexico. Both the telescope and a bleached Whark skeleton can be found half-buried in the desert on the far side of a volcano in the game Uru: Ages Beyond Myst. The fissure plays a notable role in this game, appearing on both the player's home Age of Relto and in the Age of Er'cana. Additionally, in Myst V, the large Moiety knife from Riven is found in the crater of the volcano.
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