The island of Myst is like no place you've ever seen before, but will remind you of somewhere you may have visited in your imagination: an eerily deserted landscape of wide vistas, soaring evergreens, and imposing seemingly-deserted buildings, where the silence is broken only by the rhythmic lapping of the waves on Myst's craggy shoreline.
But once there was life here. Myst is the creation of one man, Atrus, who has a powerful gift shared by few: he possesses the Art, the ability to conjure new worlds out of words. For him, Myst is the only refuge from his vicious father Gehn, from whom he has inherited the gift and from whom he must escape to preserve it.
Gehn has taken him from an idyllic life with his grandmother to a dark subterranean land, an ancient maze of rooms and tunnels that once housed a thriving civilisation, where he must begin his initiation into The Art. It is only after a disagreement when Atrus is imprisoned by Gehn that he realises there is a dark side to the Art and one which his father intends to use to bring the power he craves.
