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Technically how? Because by what the Father says... He was victim to all the power and greed he fought against with his sons.
The wife put him there and died making sure all 3 stayed in their books...
Or that is how the blanks in the story fill out in my mind
Also Catherine isn't dead, nor did she put him there. Dunno where you picked up that idea! I think you've been dipping into Achenar's kool aid lol
The tombstone across from the library surrounded by blue flowers. the brothers talking about someone being a murderer...
That tombstone actually belongs to Ti'anna - Atrus' grandmother. It was an interesting choice to make the text in D'ni in this version of the game, as the original Myst had it in English.
This comes from having read the first book.
Yeah you do. Probably the only game series I can think of where the novels are required. The good news is they're quite good.
(Technically the good ending doesn't end - no credits roll.)
Atrus has the power to write Ages/Linking books, he sees himself as an adventurer but some of the inhabitants of the worlds he goes to sees him as a god. When his sons are old enough to travel with him, he takes them to some of his Ages. And after some time he is comfortable letting his sons travel alone.
Over time the brothers become corrupt and see themselves as superiors to the inhabitants of each of the ages and they start to lord over them. I think Atrus finds out and there is some kind of falling out between them (the exact nature of what this looks like is never covered in the games or books).
To "get back" at their dad the brothers burn most of the linking books and they trap their mother in Riven, a dying world. In order to stabilize Riven and save Catherine, Atrus travels to D'ni (this is why he is always writing in a book at the end). Before he left, the brothers devised a plan to take one page out of his Myst linking book, essentially trapping their father in D'ni. They think their father is as good as dead (they likely assumed is linked into the unstable Riven), and this is the "murder" they keep talking about.
Once free from their father, the bothers decide to travel to the forbidden ages of the red and blue books, not knowing that both of the books were traps Atrus set up many years ago in case any greedy travelers stumbled across Myst.
The first book and Riven both go much deeper into Atrus, Atrus's father, and Catherine's stories and how exactly this family got so messed up. The book also explains that the grave is Atrus's grandmother (likely the last decent person in their family before all the drama took hold).
You can perfectly enjoy the first two games, or indeed the whole series, without reading any books. There's enough detail in the in-game journals and environmental clues to give you all of the information required to understand the direct plot of the games.
If you read the novels, you will understand more about the characters and their motivations. The first novel (Book of Atrus) is the most relevant to the first two games. It's a prequel to Myst, and it goes into deep detail about Atrus, Catherine and Atrus's father (who you will meet if you continue into the sequel Riven). It's also easily the best book in the series.
The other two novels are much less important and I would only recommend it if you're a huge fan of the series and want to know all the lore. The second novel (Book of Ti'ana) goes into ancient history of the D'ni civilization, which isn't directly relevant to any game unless you play the spinoff title Uru. The third novel (Book of D'ni) is set in between Riven and Myst 3, and is the most skippable. It is mentioned in passing at the start of Myst 3, and has some thematic significance in Uru, but that's about it.