We begin to see hints about the flaws in Atrus' parenting methods that ultimately led to the brothers going rotten. Atrus and Catherine were very much absentee parents (Atrus had his experiments and writing, and Catherine stopped linking away from Myst after Anna died), while Sirrus and Achernar were free-range latchkey kids. Maybe if Atrus had guided his sons through his lesson ages himself, instead of leaving the matter to pre-recorded lesson videos and subcontracting poor Saavedro as a tutor, the boys might've turned out differently. Maybe.
We begin to see hints about the flaws in Atrus' parenting methods that ultimately led to the brothers going rotten. Atrus and Catherine were very much absentee parents (Atrus had his experiments and writing, and Catherine stopped linking away from Myst after Anna died), while Sirrus and Achernar were free-range latchkey kids. Maybe if Atrus had guided his sons through his lesson ages himself, instead of leaving the matter to pre-recorded lesson videos and subcontracting poor Saavedro as a tutor, the boys might've turned out differently. Maybe.