![]() Writers cannot just write down anything into a Descriptive Book and create a Link to a suitable (as the D'ni say "stable") world. However later Atrus and Catherine were successful in writing nara linking chambers into Spire and Haven. Atrus attempted to violate this rule by writing a ship in Stoneship Age resulting in a ship broken and fused into an island. However, the attempts were unsuccessful and the results unpredictable, and restrictions were established to avoid these problems. It seems that the D'ni had experimented with writing artificial objects in their Ages. ![]() Catherine's Ages such as Torus and Serenia were thought by Atrus to defy the rules of science. However Atrus has been known to write such Ages for experimental purposes, such as Gravitation, or worlds with bizarre structure such as Spire. ![]() There have been some restrictions regarding writing "bizarre" Ages, that would defy certain laws of nature, as apparently these might create links to unstable Ages. Because of this, many of his Ages reflect this and all are usually balanced in the natural elements, and the cycle of life and death. Growing up under his grandmother Anna's guidance, Atrus developed into a deeply ethical man with considerable respect for life and moral values. Sometimes civilizations had arisen, sometimes not, depending on what concept the Age embodied. Ītrus experimented with the Art by writing around concepts that intrigued him each time, and then exploring the and discovering how the Age manifested the results of that concept. Anna also often pointed out that civilizations are stimulated by balanced systems. However energy can have diverse forms, each with strengths and weaknesses of its own. By tapping into its latent energy sources, an Age moves out of stasis to growth and development and thus is necessary for life. Īnna taught Atrus that energy was the underlying fuel that powers all activity. Every equation needs as its foundation an underlying concept around which the Age can develop. The Art is actually the science of putting down a precisely structured equation of words. The Art, in all its complexity, had elegantly simple essential underlying principles. On that matter, Gehn was opposed by his son, Atrus. ![]() Ī few D'ni, including Gehn, believed that the Writers created the Age, and therefore Writers held God-like powers over the Ages they wrote. The majority of D'ni believed that all Ages were actually created by the Maker, and when a writer writes a Descriptive Book, a link is established to an extant Age, approximate in character to the Age described. Atrus used the concept of Lesson Ages.Ĭertain D'ni Masters (as well as Atrus) favored the "cluster design" philosophy first writing an Age that will serve as a "hub world" which then, by housing linking books to related Ages, will serve as a central link to them. The panel is interactive: by merely touching it, the person is linked to that Age.Īges were sometimes written to serve a specific purpose, for example a Healer Age, a Food Age, a Prison Age, a Marriage Age, an Age for vacation and so on. Linking Books have a viewing panel called a linking panel that shows a picture of the target location. Only one Descriptive Book can exist that links to a given Age, but there can be multiple Linking Books to the same Age. The description for an Age is put into a unique Descriptive Book, written in a special form of the D'ni language and using special Books and Ink. One of them wants the first Guildmaster being Varsil who created the Food Age of Dania the D'ni civilization was based on his work. There are many legends about the origin of the Art, but all are conflicting. The origins of the Art are lost in the times of Garternay, and it was believed by the D'ni to have been delivered to the Ronay (the ancestors of the D'ni) by Yahvo the Creator.
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