Kaelri

Hello, Myst Blogs! I’ve just started working on this, my third-ish attempt at a useful and entertaining blog. My plan (read: desperate hope) is that, now that I’m paying actual moneys for this server space, I’ll be more inclined to use it. However, if you find it neither useful nor entertaining, you may rest with the knowledge that all tangible precedent has doomed its fate. :)

You might know me from Myst Online: Uru Live as that guy from Unbound Hearts spouting nonsense about Yeesha and pride and so forth. I also hang around MYSTcommunity much of the time. Despite my status as a recovering lurker, a part of me still thinks of it as my “home” in this big scary Internet. It seemed like all the smartest and liveliest people in the community gravitated there, which I found very inviting in my adolescent years. (I am also, to this day, awed and intimidated by chucker and the other mods, which Capella finds hilarious.) Though it’s quieted down some, there’s still wonderful people there, and I welcome you to join us.

Anyway, since most of you probably have no idea who I am, I thought I’d make a Myst-related contribution. The following is a map of the island itself, drawn by me with colored pencils when I was about 13. Somehow – I can’t quite figure it out – I managed to rotate the gears 180 degrees. But aside from that, I think it’s quite accurate, and I’m very pleased with how it turned out. I always meant to do the other Ages, as well, including Rime. It may yet happen.

One other thing: thanks to amonre for putting up with my badgering. Unbound Hearts have changed servers three times in six months, which meant three update requests to Uru Blogs. He’s responded promptly each time, and he hasn’t even hit me over the head with something blunt. Such restraint! I am grateful.