Continuity question between Riven and Exile

[B_Money]

So at the end of RIven you fall into the fissure, assuming going home to earth where you first found the Myst book in the game Myst. But at the beginning of Exile you are magically back in the Myst Universe in a world where Atrus lives. Does anyone know if this is explained how "The Stranger" came back?

I can think of:
1. Through the original myst book or the one Atrus dropped into the fissure. (Or is it the same book and there's some kind of weird time travel stuff going on.) If the Stranger were to do this, he would be going back to Myst with no way home again.
2. I heard somewhere that maybe where you fall out of the fissure is New Mexico (the beginning of URU) where the cleft is, so maybe that has something to do with it (eg. travelling through D'ni and finding a way to Atrus' new age there.)
3. Maybe you are a different person?
4. Perhaps it's an alternate timeline and you didn't go back through the star fissure at the end of Riven but instead go to Myst with Atrus and Cathrine?

Anyone know the answer to this? :)

[Noitalever]

1. Different books, no time travel in relation to the time within each age.

2. Possible, where the book landed is not made clear. This likely intentionally unclear, the idea of the stranger is to allow the player to be the character, so it the book could of happened to land in your backyard and that is why you found it.

3. You are still the same person.

4. No alternate timeline.

You would have landed in the same place the Myst book originally landed so you would not have been too far from where you originally picked it up.

There are further details that shine light on that matter if you have read the Myst book trilogy. If you want to I can go into details on that but it be giving you spoilers to the books. The trilogy is quite excellent with fine prose and rich stories. If you do read them the best reading order is "Book of Atrus", "Book of Ti'Anna", and "Book of D'ni".

[Agahnim01]

Sorry, i know i'm late to the party... lol

But Tomahna (Where Exile starts) is on earth (D'ni) not too far from the Cleft (where the Myst book was found in Myst)... so it's very likely that Atrus contacted the Stranger (you) when he and the D'ni survivors managed to get out of K'veer (Atrus' prison in Myst and Riven, also on earth and D'ni), and climbed up to the surface.