Long before Atrus, the D'ni empire is at its height in its caverns under the earth. Aitrus, son of a powerful Guild family, meets Anna, a young woman from the desert above who has found her way down into D'ni. She's the first outsider anyone there has seen in a very long time, and not everyone in the city's Guilds and Council is pleased about it.
What this adds if you've played the games
Read this one for D'ni itself. Uru and End of Ages put you in the ruins of the cavern city, and here you see it running: the Guilds, the Council, the rules about writing Ages, and the politics that eventually wreck it all. Anna, the grandmother from The Book of Atrus, gets her own story, and you learn where Gehn comes from. It's bigger and slower than Atrus, more political history than adventure, and the D'ni names take a while to keep straight. Worth it before Uru.
Where it fits
- Read beforeMyst: The Book of Atrus
Ti'ana is set two generations earlier, with Atrus's grandparents. You already know D'ni falls; this is how. It reads best once you've met Anna in The Book of Atrus, so read it second, as published.
- Background forUru: Ages Beyond Myst
The novel shows the D'ni city at its height; Uru has you walking what's left of it centuries later. Reading the book first makes the ruins mean more.
Editions
Hyperion paperback
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