D'ni items

Note: Fictional details from the Myst franchise follow, and will be treated as facts.

What follows is a list of unusual or interesting items — objects, devices, machines, etc. — that can be found on the D'ni Ages as described in the various Myst franchise games and novels. Most concern technology that was unique to the D'ni themselves.

Culture

• Games:
  • Ahyoheek

• • • Ahyoheek is a game table found in public places inside many D'ni neighbourhoods. It is a game for two or more players which has some similarity to Rock, Paper, Scissors. See Ahyoheek for more information.

• • Gemedet
    • Gemedet is a two-player game quite similar to Connect 4.
• Imagers:

• • Imagers, in the D'ni culture, were devices which somewhat resemble television screens. They could either display live data transmitted from a camera placed somewhere, or a series of static images (taken by a Ki or possibly even paintings). D'ni Imagers are found in most neighbourhoods, as well as in Ages, where they are sometimes used to display greeting notices or instructions.

• • Other kinds of imagers more closely resembled hologram emitters. An examples is Gehn's Imager of his deceased wife Keta found in Age 233.
• Timepieces:

• • As the D'ni counted time differently than the surface dwellers, their watches and clocks were remarkably different. A D'ni day was divided 5 equal segments of 6 hours each, making for a 30-hour day. (30 hours, 14 minutes in surface time). One example of a D'ni watch can be seen on Aitrus' maps. D'ni alarm clocks/timers are found in various Ages, such as in Age 233. Larger clocks are seen in D'ni neighbourhoods.

Industrial objects

• Mining devices:
  • The Burrower
  • The Cycler

• • The Excavator

• • The Grinder
  • Old Stone Teeth
  • Rock-Biter
    • These devices were immense machines, which were used to create tunnels that connected the diverse caverns that formed the D'ni empire.
  • Fusion-Compounder
    • The Fusion-Compounder turned the tunnelled rock into highly compressed molecules, which were used to create the mining products below.

• Mining products:
  • Deretheni
    • Deretheni is a jet-black form of D'ni engineered stone. More malleable than Nara, the strongest Maintainer's Suits were created out of this.
  • Nara
    • Nara is a highly compressed form of D'ni engineered stone, which is green-black in colour, and emanated a faint green light. It is approximately 300 times stronger than stone, and was used to structurally support D'ni tunnels.

Miscellaneous

• Related to the Art:
  • Books (Kortee)
    • Linking Books (Kor'vakh)
    • Descriptive Books (Kor'mahn)
    • Trap books
  • Gateway Image
  • Nexus Book Machine
  • D'ni Ink

• Maintainer technology:
  • Great Zero:

• • • The Great Zero Neutrino dispenser is a device which emanates neutrinos, which are used by the D'ni location markers.

• • • Maintainer Marks are markers in other Ages, which are connected to the Great Zero in some way. They allow for position tracking and KI communication across Ages.
  • Great Zero Markers are markers which can be "collected" with a KI. They play a role in calibrating the Great Zero.

• • The Marker Dispenser is a device which can configure a KI to collect certain groups of Markers.

• • KI

• • • The D'ni KI is a handheld device developed by the D'ni shortly before the downfall of the D'ni empire. Its actual name is unknown: KI (pronounced 'key') is from the D'ni numeral 3, which somewhat resembles the letters KI. It is unknown why the devices were all labelled 3. The KI served as a communication device for the D'ni, as well as a storage device for images, and a positioner using coordinates from the Great Zero and Maintainer marks. KIs could also be used to track and store markers.
    • The D'ni technology underlying the KI allowed for communication across the various Ages.
    • In Uru, it is learned that the DRC rediscovered the KI and managed to partially translate the devices so they could be used by DRC members and authorized explorers. The KI is needed to finish the Age of Gahreesen, and also plays a role in the puzzles in the first Uru Expansion Pack, To D'ni.

• • Maintainer's Suits are the protective suits worn by Maintainers on dangerous missions, to untested or unstable worlds. They are created out of Deretheni rock.

• Linking books:

An Item in the Myst Series that has the power to transport its user into another world [or more noted, the world described in the book] The book consists of what you would normally find in a regular book. An ink medium, a paper inside, and a cardboard-like or wooden -based binding. However, the ink is made of a mix of special chemicals designed to implement objects and flora and fauna into the world or Age as its called through the book. To make an age, you would need great skill in the creation of a book. The creation of an age needs a very precise description of the world. The rectangle in the front or back of the book is the linking panel. The panel usually shows a fly-around or animated picture, but sometimes it shows a static, one-view picture of the age. It is not known if this is true, but the panel is actually made of a sort of energy. If an age is written improperly, it can lead to disaster. However, as shown in the game Riven, very slight changes can be made to the age to stop the rate of decay. If an age is written differently to stop the age's decay, then you change the age that you are transporting to. In other words, the age you link to is not the same age as before. This was shown to be true in Myst: The Book of Atrus.

See also: D'ni items, Ages of Myst, Ages of Riven, Ages of Uru, Ahyoheek