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I like the idea of the uncertainty principle, and I think it fits the Myst feel. If you try and describe an age specifically, you only meet frustration, or have unintended consequences. It becomes unstable. If you instead define the age as a "high concept" or the ecosystem and geology or t...

Maybe terrain, atmosphere, etc. can be written descriptively, but life and living beings can't. Life is kind of unpredictable, and still pretty much a mystery (what is the meaning of life, etc., consciousness, how does the brain work) and is different than inanimate objects. Maybe the life can be de...

for actually writing the age, I think it's less of "there's a mountain here, a tree here, etc." but more of a combination of idea and concepts, a "feeling" of the age." Like in Myst 3 when Atrus writes that "Balanced systems stimulate civilization" and "Dynami...

I pretty much completely agree with your list here are my personal favorite ages: - Riven I like Riven so much because of its size, its distinctive style, its haunting isolation, and its attention to detail. Exploring it is amazing, with so many amazing visuals and important objects. Everything in t...