More Myst thoughts (again, maybe only useful to me, quite possibly overthinking)

[rivenwanderer]

Something that just occurred to me now about Myst: Gehn, the quintessential colonialist in the Myst universe, believes that the Ages (worlds) that he visits are *created* by him in the act of writing the books linking to them, and this rationale is used to justify conquering/ruling/'educating'/enslaving the natives. In reality, the Ages were always there, operating on their own terms before he arrived, and owe him nothing. Atrus understands that he's only visiting, not creating, and (if I remember correctly) tends to engage with the Ages and their inhabitants more as a respectful outsider than as a conqueror.

Maybe it's just me, but "I see what they did there".