Achenar

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This article deals with Achenar of the Myst series; for the star Achernar (Alpha Eridani) (sometimes spelled Achenar) see Achernar.

Note: Fictional details from the Myst franchise follow, and may sometimes be referred to as facts. It may need to be edited to conform to the guidelines for writing about fiction.

Achenar (D'ni: Akehnahr/[Akenar]) is the oldest son of Atrus and Catherine.

Achenar is the first son of Atrus and Catherine, commonly paired with his brother Sirrus (see Sirrus and Achenar).

Achenar was apparently mentally unstable, and became obsessed with violence and death. He owned many torture instruments. He was an accomplished hunter, and enjoyed mounting trophies of his kills.

In Myst, Achenar was played by Rand Miller, who also played Atrus. In Myst IV: Revelation, Achenar was played by Guy Sprung.

In Myst, Achenar was first met inside the blue book on Myst Island in Atrus's library. The book was revealed to be a type of trap or prison that Achenar claimed that his father had incarcerated him in. At first, the book has many pages missing, and when first opened without the pages, the player could not see or hear Achenar at all due to the static blocking the gateway image. When the first blue page was put into the book, Achenar was able to barely see someone looking into his blue book. He implored the player to find more blue pages which were scattered in the four remaining ages of Myst. With each page he could see out of the book more clearly. As the vision became clearer he shouted out not to pick up the red pages belonging to his brother Sirrus' red book. He slowly explained through the static which later cleared once enough pages were gathered, that he could escape and reward the player. Like his brother, he claimed Atrus and Catherine were dead, and that his brother was responsible for the destruction of the Ages. [1]

At the end Myst, if he so chooses, the player leaves Achenar imprisoned, and instead frees his father, Atrus, from his prison in K'veer. The player waits in D'ni, and when they return to the island of Myst, the red and blue books that acted as the two son's prisons have mysteriously disappeared, with burn marks in their place.

Later, in Myst IV: Revelation, it is discovered that the brothers are in fact not dead. Twenty years later, they escaped their prisons with yet another sinister plot. Though, in the end, Achenar turns to the side of good and saves his sister's and the player's lives, dying for them by destroying Sirrus' evil machine and inhaling a toxic gas in the process. See Sirrus and Achenar.