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<center>''This article is about the civilization. For more information on this wiki, see [[D'ni:About]].''</center>
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{{quote|What is D'ni? What is this kingdom? I have read of D'ni the people, I have lived in D'ni the place, I have spoken D'ni the language.|[[Phil Henderson]]}}
The '''D'ni''' (D'ni spelling: ''D'nee'' meaning "New Beginning"<ref name=watson/>) are a civilization that once existed in an underground cave system on [[Earth]]. The people of D'ni were practitioners of [[the Art]], a skill that allowed them to [[The Art|write]] [[Descriptive Book|books]] that could transport them to other worlds, called [[Age|Ages]]. 

The original D'ni civilization was destroyed by [[Veovis]] and [[A'gaeris]], with the majority of the D'ni people perishing in the catastrophe that they orchestrated. Some D'ni survived to the present day, however, and [[Atrus]], the main character of the [[Myst (Series)|''Myst'' series]], is one-quarter D'ni.

==Overview==
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==Notes & Trivia==
*The name "D'ni" was originally spelled "Dunny" in early material related to the [[Myst (Game)|first game]], signifying the pronunciation of the word. [[Richard A. Watson]] noted that this word means "toilet" in Australian English,<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dunny</ref> and perhaps that was the reason it was dropped.<ref name=watson/>
*During the production of ''[[Myst V: End of Ages|Myst V]]'', actor [[David Ogden Stiers]] suggested to pronounce the name as "duchnee" instead of Dunny, and [[Rand Miller]] gave his approval, despite being inconsistent with what Stiers and Miller always used already (and what is known about the D'ni language). Watson joked that Esher's pronounciation can be explained as a result of some speech impendiment (caused by being bitten by the snakes in [[Noloben]]).<ref name=watson>[http://www.allthingsuru.com/AllThingsUru/pdf/The%20Watson%20Letters.pdf Language]</ref>
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