The Beyonds

Everyone that has done any degree of study into the Myst knows that there are a large number of other realms that exist beyond the realm that they live on, and the only known way to reach these realms currently is through the Shrouds that exist in this realm. Some of these Shrouds are permanent and have a constantly fixed location, while others are less stable and tend to appear and disappear on a specific schedule or erratically, some of these unstable Shrouds appearing in seemingly random locations as well as times. One of the most compelling questions in the realm among these scholars is the question of what exists beyond these Shrouds, in the realms that each of the races that currently exist in this realm came from originally.

Many adventurers have ventured alone or in groups of various sizes past the Shrouds and the Pale to see what exists in the Beyond. The vast majority of these parties are never heard from again. Those that do return report one of the same two things in the Beyond; either a post-apocalyptic wasteland or an untamed wild land still populated by the original inhabitants. The difference between these two results is the nature of the realm in the Beyond, any realm that has been Shrouded and had a part of it extracted into the current realm is a wasteland, and those that have not been Shrouded are wild lands with the original inhabitants still present.

The name given to all of the realms outside of Mundana, of which all of the races that have arrived are believed to have originally come from. There have been many other realms identified in the Beyonds, most of which have been accessed through either through a Shroud or using an Art that allows the user to perceive beyond the user's current realm. No one knows how many realms exist in the Beyonds, but the most common theory among scholars is that there are an endless number of realms in the Beyonds.