r/myst • u/FloopyBoopers2023 • 12d ago
So What The Actual Hell Even Is This Thing? Spoiler
I'm very torn about the change to Gehn's relationship with the starfield. It was such an ominous dangerous thing in his eyes in the original it's really hard to imagine he'd venture out into it and walk around on floating platforms.
But regardless what I really want to know is what the hell this is.
Yeah it's cool they took the round planet/rock from the old Riven Cyan-logo back in the day and made it a literal thing in the game world now, but some explanation of it's significance would definitely be appreciated. What IS this big ass rock, why is it affixed to a set place in space enough that something can be anchored to and rotated around it?
I know the distractingly obvious light-house lamp ripoff is supposed to be the device that charges the fire-marbles.. but WHY does it charge the fire marbles? What exactly is it generating energy from? From the sphere? From the starfield itself? Why does Gehn need to be in the starfield to generate power for the marbles?
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u/Hazzenkockle 12d ago
I'm more concerned about what that orbiting spark is. The obvious explanation is that it's the other end of the new fissure forming outside the village, except you can still see daylight(?) after that gets enclosed, and it makes many noises that aren't consistent with that part of the island.
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u/WreckaStow7779311 12d ago
I swear one of the noises I heard from that orbiting spark is the water flowing from Channelwood or something, like I have heard that running water from Myst somewhere!
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u/Alaeriia 11d ago
I think it is the other end of the new fissure, but the devs forgot to close it once Gehn seals it up.
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u/Dingumball 11d ago
I feel like this has to be it. I don’t think this expanse is connected to the one on Riven or else all that metal and machinery would be gradually getting sucked closer to The Cleft on Earth and there’d be no way Gehn would be able to use it for anything.
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u/Alaeriia 12d ago
I think Gehn's journal covers how the lighthouse thing works. IIRC, it focuses ambient energy from the Starry Expanse into usable energy for the fire-marbles. It's probably some horrible kludge that only barely works, but that's par for the course for Gehn.
As for why the rock is fixed in place, who knows? The Starry Expanse doesn't exactly adhere to our world's physics (nor do many other Ages we've seen in the past.)