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Dworkin (Tom Baker)
Master of the Line
The mad magician of Amber, creator of the family Trumps, has turned out to be your great-grandfather. His origins, and yours, lie in Chaos, though almost nobody knew that until the recent war. With the Pattern repaired, he seems more sane, though he still prefers solitude to court life. Occasionally he appears to one or more members of the family, offering wisdom and tutelage to those who will listen. But he vanishes just as quickly, leaving nothing but laughter and an bizarre epigram or two in his wake.
My flight from Chaos to this small sudden island in the sea of night? The revelation of the Pattern in a jewel hung around the neck of a Unicorn? My transcription of the design by lightning, blood, and lyre while our fathers raged baffled, too late come to call me back while the poem of fire ran that first route in my brain, infecting me with the will to form? Too late! Too late ... Possessed of the abominations born of the disease, beyond their aid, their power, I planned and built, captive of my new self.
-- Dworkin to Corwin, The Hand of Oberon
If she spoke with her usual charm and accuracy, you'd probably have the impression that I'm a mad hunchback! ... Oh. I suppose I'm going to have to do something about that now.
-- Dworkin
Oberon (Brian Blessed) [deceased]
Late King of Amber
Your grandfather, King Oberon, disappeared some years ago without naming an heir, precipitating open warfare for the throne of Amber. After some years of absence, he reappeared in disguise as Ganelon, a companion of your uncle Corwin, but he eventually resumed his own identity. Before he departed Amber again, he appointed your uncle Gerard as Regent. He perished in the work of recreating the Pattern; the Sundering, which destroyed the Pattern of Amber, marked the moment of his passing. The city he ruled declines day by day as its population trickles away to the new realms of Paris and Xanadu.
I like to think that I finally saw you as you were, that I met someone I liked, someone I could trust, and that it was you.
-- Corwin, The Courts of Chaos
I wish it to be known that I died for something larger than myself that I believe in with all my essence, and that will be a sufficient telling. If the teller mentions that that thing was the universe, then I can only say in my defense that it takes a very large thing to be larger than myself.
-- Oberon
Moins (Simone Signoret) [deceased]
Late Queen of Rebma
Queen of Rebma as Oberon was King of Amber, Moins is considered the most likely scribe of the Rebman Pattern. In ancient times made war on the Nedra dragon and bound the Tritons to service. She bore several children, the best known being Moire by an unknown father and Llewella by Oberon. The cause of her death was unknown, but there was an interregnum following that ultimately led to Moire taking the throne.
Eric died. Oberon... returned? The Realm was broken only when Oberon died? So probably Moins never died. For I, like you, have believed Moins was a 'rightful queen' and knew how to keep her realm.
-- Celina
The most likely cause of the war will be if she possesses you and takes over your body. Mother ... had more Chaos in her than father and she was pitiless.
-- Llewella
Moire (Catherine Deneuve)
Former Queen of Rebma
Moins' daughter by an unknown father, Moire ruled for many years as Queen of Rebma. She is intimately bound into family politics as Llewella's half-sister, grandmother to Martin and Jerod, and mother to Celina. Her rule was strong for centuries, extending so far as to force Random to marry Vialle as punishment for her daughter Morganthe's death. But Moire never managed to master Rebma's Pattern, and she fled when Khela's Libertist forces approached Rebma, or perhaps from Huon's attempt to master the Rebman paxblade. She is known to be at large in the Shadows near Paris now, and recent news involves her in some conspiracy with the Dannan survivors in the Ardennes and the Klybesians.
A woman sat upon the throne in the glassite room I almost recalled, and her hair was green, though streaked with silver, and her eyes were as round as moons of jade and her brows rose like the wings of olive gulls. Her mouth was small, her chin was small; her cheeks were high and wide and rounded. A circlet of white gold crossed her brow and there was a crystal necklace about her neck. At its tip there flashed a sapphire between her sweet bare breasts, whose nipples were also a pale green. She wore scaled trunks of blue and a silver belt, and she held a scepter of pink coral in her right hand and had a ring upon every finger, and each ring had a stone of a different blue within it.
-- Corwin, Nine Princes in Amber
Your mother was ... more willing to negotiate, and keep peace.
-- Llewella, to Celina
Cleph (James Franco)
Heir of Borel
Duke Borel, High Lord of Chaos, was a champion of arms with few peers. His training served his daughter Dara well and was responsible for many of Chaos' successes during the war. He met his end at the hands of Corwin as the latter rode for the Battle of the Abyss. What survived the flames of Grayswandir became Cleph, a brutal and vicious being who has worked alongside Dara. He has tried to eat Brita and assisted in the kidnapping of Meg. On the Ordered side of Ygg, he is dangerous and deadly; none of your cousins have fought him on the far side.
I have long wanted to meet you. I am Borel. I do not want it said that I took unfair advantage of you when I killed you.
-- Borel, The Courts of Chaos
That nasty Corwin cut Borel with his sword, and Borel spawned [a single] being to be eaten by the flames. What was left [of Borel after the burning] was Cleph.
-- Clarissa
Madoc (John Hurt)
Count of Chaos
Although he is Clarissa's brother, Madoc's involvement in the war against Amber was minimal: he was your cousin Merlin's tutor in Sorcery. But he also secretly sent his daughter Aisling to Amber for intelligence on the royal family, and either sought or accepted Signy as his wife. He has also been involved business around Ygg such as sponsoring a race in which Edan and Chases in Madness took part. After Aisling's death and Clarissa's presentation of her daughter Saeth to Madoc, Madoc has welcomed a few of his Amber kin into his demesne, but remains firmly on his side of Ygg.
My reasons for wanting these things were not the sort of which you would approve.
-- Dara, The Courts of Chaos
I found out we were having company just before they arrived, when Weyland informed me that Madoc was coming and I was to leave with him to be his wife. Then, I just assumed that this was just his response to whatever thing we were butting heads over at the time, but in hindsight I don't think that had anything to do with it. Weyland is a Master Smith, and he is a cold and merciless businessman. My engagement to Madoc was merely the negotiated price for something larger for him, though I'm not really sure if it was Weyland's condition or Madoc's.
-- Signy
Saeth (Anna Paquin)
After Aisling departed Amber and was seen no more, Saeth appeared under Clarissa's auspices, claiming to be her daughter. She returned to her grandfather Madoc's court, and was still there when Vere and Merlin visited Madoc. But she vanished during their visit to seek out the realms of Order, and her present location is unknown.
Clarissa, what have you done to my daughter?
-- Madoc
She remembered me and Father, although more as though she had been told of us and our conversations than as though she had been the one to speak with us. She struck me as young, as as perhaps even more naive than Aisling had been. And, alas, she was the cause of my leaving Madoc earlier than I had planned. After I had spent some time studying, I sought her out for conversation. And she spoke eagerly of her desire to travel to Ordered realms. She remembered Order with fondness, and felt that she was oppressed by Madoc's refusal to allow her to leave his realm.
-- Vere
First to the Fray (Claire Danes)
Wielder of Tizon
First to the Fray, also known as Chases in Madness, is the daughter of the High Marshall of the Moonriders and granddaughter to Maeve, the Queen of Tir. She first encountered your cousin Edan in a race in the mad realms near Ygg and exchanged a weapon with him: a first indication that she sought peace, if not alliance, with the family. More recently she was involved in a feint against Avalon and Xanadu, culminating in a duel with your cousin Conner which was interrupted by the Unicorn. First surrendered and is a hostage of the court in Xanadu for the time being. She wields the Pattern Blade Tizon, but no one knows which Pattern it is associated with.
HAVE A QUOTE
-- WHO SAID IT, SOME BOOK
"Did you hear what the first Rider said? I was not his to kill. Chases has laid a claim on me with Kyauta. But is it as her enemy?
-- Edan
The Marshall (David Bowie)
High Marshall of the Moonriders
The Marshall, the son of Queen Maeve of Tir, is the chief of the Moonriders of Ghenesh. He led their forces against the family at Jones Fall; he and a party from Ghenesh appeared at Oberon's funeral to honor the late King; and recently he participated in an attack on Avalon that was thrown off by Benedict. His long-term plans appear to involve free access to Tir-na Nog'th and the resurrection or reincarnation of his mother.
Those are the Moonriders. They've been out of the game for a long time. Do not invite them to visit you in Amber. They are not welcome.
-- Benedict
He blames us for our mercy and his loss. He wants to go to a place that doesn't exist anymore. If his life were a novel, he would be the alienated everyman detached from his humanity by the dehumanizing nature of modern life.
Plus he's a sore loser.
-- Bleys
Weyland Smith (Laurence Fishburne)
Master Smith
The great smith and artificer who forged both Grayswandir and Werewindle, and many other things besides. One such weapon was Deirdre's axe, and in exchange for it she bore him Marius and Signy. It is said of him that if his price is met, he is bound to fulfill the commission. It is also said of him that his price is extremely high. The best place to seek him is his demesne in the Plain of Towers.
What is my father's history with this Family? He has to be related to us outside of marriage, or he wouldn't have been able to craft the Pattern blades....
-- Signy
Weyland isn't as clever as he tells you he is. He can often be led to reveal things as part of a negotiation about a different thing.
-- Bleys