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For 14 years Atrus grew up in The Cleft with his grandmother Anna, until his Father, Gehn, returned to claim him. Descending into D’ni with his father Atrus begins to learn more about D’ni and about the Art, and it is during this period like Myst, that the story of Riven begins [see: Book of Atrus].

The stranger heeds the call of Atrus once again. This time the task isn’t as simple as a choice. This time the task is to rescue Atrus’ wife Catherine from the clutches of his own father, who he trapped on Riven decades before. The stranger travels through the beautiful but dangerous Age of Riven, an Age written by Gehn himself, and unlocks clues to where he may be hiding Catherine. The Age of Riven is a look into the mind of Gehn, a power hungry D’ni born man. Upon arriving on Riven, Upon arriving on Riven, The Stranger gets his first taste of the turmoil that grips the Age. Like the island that housed them the Rivenese people to have split, there are those who oppose Gehn at every turn, The Moiety. Then there are those who just wish to simply live, the average villagers who still do Gehn’s bidding.

But the door is open, Gehn has found a way to write Ages and no longer resides on the doomed Age and Catherine has been imprisoned upon one of Rivens distant isles. The Stranger rushes to trap Gehn and save Catherine, in doing so sets of the chain of events that will destroy Riven. Upon her freedom Catherine moves the villagers to the Moiety Age, Tay. The stranger rushes to the Temple Island to send a signal to Atrus by re-opening the Fissure that Atrus jumped into decades before. But the Age is weak and the opening of the fissure begins to rip the Age apart.

With Catherine reunited with Atrus and Gehn trapped, Atrus thanks the Stranger and indicates the Fissure will return him to his home. With that the couple Link home and The Stranger is thrown into the Fissure by an earthquake to return home.