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* Atrus himself is kind of horrifying in Myst, when you realize that {{spoiler|He intentionally trapped his two sons forever in a hellish blank landscape of nothingness forever,}} and when you free him and return to the library {{spoiler|all that's left of his sons are scorch marks from where he burned them alive}}.

** The edge on the {{spoiler|Atrus trapped his sons}} thing is somewhat dulled when Atrus explains that {{spoiler|he never intended his sons to become trapped in them}} in the first place, and in order to even use the books {{spoiler|Sirrus and Achenar actually had to trap Atrus and Catherine}} first:

{{quote| "Ah, but the red and blue books, those were different. I wrote those to entrap overgreedy explorers. [[Hoist by His Own Petard|But I had no idea that my own sons would become entrapped.]]"}}

{{quote|"Ah, but the red and blue books, those were different. I wrote those to entrap overgreedy explorers. [[Hoist by His Own Petard|But I had no idea that my own sons would become entrapped.]]"}}

** It's even more dulled by the [[Retcon]] that {{spoiler|their prisons are in fact full Ages with no Myst book (which you visit in ''Myst IV: Revelation''), and he merely destroyed the linking books in the library.}}