Saavedro

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Saavedro is the antagonist of Myst III: Exile, and was played by Brad Dourif.

Saavedro, his wife and two daughters inhabited the Age of Narayan, one of the Ages chosen by Atrus to teach his sons, Sirrus and Achenar about the writing of Ages. Saavedro met with Atrus with whom he discussed if Sirrus and Achenar could come to the Age and study it and its people, Saavedro agreed to help tutor the two brothers, not knowing the torments that awaited him. Saavedro was shocked when Sirrus and Achenar instigated a rebellion on Narayan, and then abandoned it taking its riches. When Saavedro pursued them back to J'nanin and confronted them about what they had done, they laughed then assaulted and bound Saavedro, leaving him for dead.

Trapped on J'nanin and the Ages of Edanna, Voltaic and Amateria, the instruction Ages for the sons of Atrus. He grew vengeful believing that Narayan and his family where destroyed by the evil brothers, he slowly went mad during his twenty years of Exile. When Atrus linked back to J'nanin, Saavedro followed him to Tomahna, where began reading Atrus's diaries and journals, discovering that he had given his D'ni brethren new life. Feeling that Atrus was a hypocrite for aiding the D'ni while Narayan remained destroyed, Saavedro concocted a plan to draw Atrus back to J'nanin, and trap him there, forcing him to solve the puzzles he himself had created for his sons, altered by Saavedro, who's ultimate plan was to bring Atrus to Narayan. Hoping that Atrus would repair the Age, Saavedro stole the description book of Releeshahn, however, it is not Atrus who follows Saavedro back, but The Stranger. Believing it to still be Atrus, Saavedro lures The Stranger into his trap. After solving all of the 'lessons' on the instruction Ages, The Stranger gains access to Narayan. Once there Saavedro realizes that it had not been destroyed; only that he had been unable to get to it. In the end Saavedro gives up the book of Releeshahn so The Stranger can give it back to Atrus, then goes peaceably and returns to his family, people and Age.

It is debatable as whether he is or is not a villain in Myst III: Exile he has a tragic past and steals Reeleshahn as his revenge on Atrus and his sons.