Riven

I want to make a book cover like the leather-bound books that you get in Myst and Riven.

"She, hurling Jove's winged lightning, stirred the deep / and strewed the ships. Him, from his riven breast / the flames outgasping, with a whirlwind's sweep / she caught and fixed upon a rock's sharp crest."

"Here, where thou seest the riven piles o'erthrown, / mixt dust and smoke, rock torn from rock away, / great Neptune's trident shakes the bulwarks down, / and from its lowest base uproots the trembling town."

But now the vault which had covered the fountain being broken down and riven, and the Gothic font ruined and demolished, the stream burst forth from the recess of the earth in open day, and winded its way among the broken sculpture and moss-grown stones which lay in confusion around its source.

The nation was riven by partisan conflict.

The society is riven with class conflict.

“She shall be blasted like a riven oak! Drowned in sulphur! Torn by whirlwinds!”