Rime
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The Rime Age was an uninhabited Age of ice and snow that Atrus wrote in order to work with some crystals he had found that had some of the same properties as Linking Books. It was probably one of the last Ages he wrote during the Myst period.
Rime was most likely in its world's extreme polar region, since it has been recorded that the sun never came up on that Age. Moreover, the conditions of Rime were harsh -- it was always bitterly cold and snowy. This was most disconcerting for Atrus, who had grown up in a desert climate and was unaccustomed to cold and, according to his journal entries, had never seen snow before. With some bemusement, he called snow "intricate feathers of ice that [fell] from the sky."
Atrus built an observatory on Rime that went both aboveground and underground. While on Rime, Atrus began to notice the Age's Northern Lights. These fascinated both him and his adult sons Sirrus and Achenar. The family attempted an experiment on Rime to invoke the lights at will. This involved the construction of several large metal towers that were used to conduct electricity from the water. They were able to understand something of the natural processes that created the lights.
In addition to the lights, Atrus also spent much time experimenting with linking crystals. Catherine took a great interest in this project, even making one of her rare uses of a Linking Book to travel to Rime. One of the primary goals was to determine the status of Riven, which neither Atrus nor Catherine had seen for a long time, and another Age which they both wanted to know about. They were able to succeed in both making the crystals orient with other Ages and, eventually, to get Riven to appear in the viewer. However, the conflict involving Riven took an unexpected turn that took it away from the frozen Age of Rime.
Rime plays an important role in Myst IV: Revelation. The modified version of the crystal-viewing device is located in Atrus' laboratory in Tomahna. It is also the place where Atrus spends most of the game Myst IV, stranded in a storm.
[edit] Background
An addition of the realMyst game over the original Myst version, this Age, also referred to as Snow Age, was hidden in a new puzzle on Myst Island.
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