Yes

RIP John Keston, you will be missed.

Yes exactly!

5:20

apparently it was from Covid-19, and he was in his 90s. RIP to a great actor.

@@WhyDidntIInventYT That is a travesty.

Respect.

Yes indeed, one of the best actings in the saga. Thanks for watching.

almost 5 minutes of uncut dialogue, John Keston is fantastic in this role

@@Riven55555 He would have been perfect to play an Imperial officer in Star Wars.

@@therabidscorpion Star Wars couldn't hold a candle to this high IQ drama.

What's great is how layered the speech is. He's a master manipulator, and uses the appearance of self-awareness to disarm the player and gain trust. Some of the regret might be genuine, but he was still throwing whark parties to "keep the islanders in line" until that very moment, and the first thing he does if you fail to trap him is run over to the link site and gun down Atrus. He's both a sympathetic/tragic character and also a stone-cold sociopath.

But also his unwillingness to learn and grow, especially after his rough upbringing in D'ni.

Funny you say that, I always compared him to the Grand Moff Tarkin of Myst.

@@zesty2023 ahah right! He looks alike him!

Third time, I think. But yes, he gets very annoyed at you constantly interrupting whatever he's doing outside XD

*Third

I think it’s a dart gun.

I could. He was deceitful prick with a God complex.

@@therabidscorpion indeed. he enslaved a race to build him more materials and then acted as god punishing them by feeding them alive to giant wharks. probably the only redeeming thing he did was sire atrus edit: i guess he did write riven. although in his warped mind he thought he created it rather than linking to another existing world

Atrus stared back at him, silent now, the fissure behind him dark and cold, glistening with stars, the Myst book edged by that strange blue light. Gehn studied his son a moment, taking in the situation, then took a step toward him, putting out a hand. "Please, Atrus. There is still a chance for us." "No, Father. Whatever linked us once has been destroyed. You burned it with those books you burned. You erased it along with those phrases in my book. Little by little you destroyed it. Don't you see that? Well, now you've got the justice you deserve. You can stay here in the little haven you've created for yourself, in your tiny island universe, and play god with your 'creations'." A scene in the Myst Reader right before Atrus left Gehn for good.

@@Pumpkin525 I remember reading that. Emotional scene for sure.

I knew he though he had justification but for me any sympathy died when I found the burnt Books. From my understanding at the time and certainly as he understood it he was literally killing worlds.

I agree. Sirrus and Achnar are spoiled brats. This is the villain I wanted to face again in the sequels.

@@alexanderjakubsen2198 Yeah, he’s so good in his role that at some point I believed that the biggest main story of Myst lies here in Riven hahaha😂❤️. So much is at stake. You literally need to save yourself, as well as everyone and Catherine, including Atrus (again). John Keston’s portrayal of Gehn is so authentic that he’s like the best main antagonist of the entire series❤️❤️❤️. I’ve never felt so nervous in a video game just because of him and his allies (add the atmosphere of the music). I got chills just trying to imagine he might catch me from anywhere in Riven. Goodness, I love the worlds of Myst, especially this. I’ve never felt so engaged and excited to play these puzzle games (I admit this is the hardest Myst game I’ve played so far, still trying to finish Revelation up to End of Ages), the story is so good and complex😭❤️.

he died at 97 due to covid im his granddaughter

@@lily-rx7xn oh jesus I'm so sorry to hear that. My condolences to you and your family:(

Sorry for your loss, young lady 😢

and Tywin Lannister

@@luizmendesjunior6670 So, Charles Dance, then?

Precisely.

They wouldn't, which is why I loathed that retcon. Especially because it was so easily avoidable; prison books trap you half-way between worlds in an incomplete link, so all they had to do to make the newer games fully compatible with the lore of the older games was have Atrus, at some point after the events of Myst, modify the original trap books to finish the incomplete link they had been trapped in and dump the brothers in the ages they appeared to link to all along.

Who in turn would make a great Gehn

Yeah, it was a joke for the players. :)))

I read them long time ago, I don't remember that detail. Good trilogy though. Thanks for watching!

Myst Adventure Games yes they are now I’m on the book dini

No, it doesn’t, and this is racist nonsense. Still enjoying the fruits of the industrial revolution?

@@crypastesomemore8348 British isn't a race, and even if it was the comment wouldn't be racist. They are making an observation that when someone is evil a lot of the time they are English and are old, it's literally a trope at this point.

it is, it’s an italian piece called O Sole Mio, he loved it.

I'm pretty sure its actually just an easter egg.

Gehn himself is half-D'ni. His mother was Ti'ana (previously Anna), a human woman who discovered D'ni through a natural cave network in the southwestern USA. The song is an easter egg, but there's basis for him to have learned it - Anna was heavily implied to have Italian heritage.

Unfortunately, he didn't sing the high note!

@@Eisenwald64 "I'm not going to sing the high note" (this video cuts that part out)

I mean... Ghen doesn't write ages in a considered normal way... That's why the age of riven is so fucked up, so if he doesn't know any better, he wouldn't even have that thought crossing through his mind because he doesn't know better

Yep, as Hugarada pointed out, Gehn was actually really unskilled and sloppy in The Art. He likely didn't have the right knowledge to fully understand that the book was a trap, and from his skimmings recognized enough of the coding to think that it could be real.

He still suspects a trap, that's why he sends the player through first. He'd have to know not only that trap books exist (Atrus' notes make clear that he probably doesn't), but also the specific detail that each can only hold one person at a time.

Atrus's notes specifically say that Atrus discovered about trap books on D'ni on his own but hid that fact from his father, who had the habit of confiscating his findings. The notes also say that the choice of words to write a trap book (whatever that means) are so subtle that someone who doesn't know about them would be essentially unable to tell. Ghen isn't unskilled at bookwriting at all, and he isn't foolish either -- his notes, that you find in the 233rd age after trapping him, say that he finds it it suspicious that Atrus would have sent someone with a linking book. But of course, after 30 years of thinking about it, he would be desparate to link back to D'ni.