This game is a long standing campaign using the standard (more or less) Amber rules.  It is currently full (That is, I lack the capacity to give proper attention to another character, *and* we're out of places for people to sit).

The game takes place a few years after Zelazny's second Amber series.  I have, of course, altered or interpreted Zelazny's characters to suit my needs.   If you really want to know about them, read the books.  Heck, read the books anyway; they're fun.

See Player Characters
See Newcomers to Amber
See Elders
See Other NPCS
See Courts of Chaos

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A rough history is as follows:

Merlin became Emperor in the Courts of Chaos.  He married Coral, and they had a son who they named Luke.  Unfortunately, not everyone in the Courts was happy with Merlin's rule; many viewed him as an Amber collaborator.  There was still a great deal of bitterness over Amber's behavior at the end of the Pattern Fall War.  (See:  Courts of Chaos)

When the war ended, Amber's army moved into the Courts.  Oberon's children executed those they saw as responsible for the conflict and those they saw as potential future threats.  Random either did not chose to or was unable to exert control as his siblings pillaged and, in some cases, raped.  House Sawall alone did not suffer these depredations.  Merlin and his House did not participate in these events, but those from Amber clearly recognized House Sawall as an ally of sorts through ties of blood.

When Merlin's child was about two, Mandor died in a laboratory accident while experimenting with methods for measuring the properties of the Abyss.  For a little while, nothing happened.  Then, a fairly strong force attacked Merlin and Coral while they were holding court.  Coral died instantly, and Merlin fell with the side of his head bashed in.  The conspirators suffered their first setback when Merlin vanished in a ring of blue fire.  Those going to seize the heir, Prince Luke, likewise lost the child to a sudden Trump effect.

The coup was backed by Houses Helgram, Hendrake and Jessamy and had the assistance of members of several other Houses, most prominently and secretly, Merlin's brother, Despil Sawall.  The cabal had intended to install a regency with the toddler, Luke, as a figurehead Emperor.  At this point, they could not prove that Merlin had died and had to be prepared for his return.  Lacking better options, they found a shadow of Luke to put on the throne, told everyone that this was Merlin's son, and formed a council of regency with Melissa Hendrake at its head.  They also found an appropriate shadow body to use at Merlin's funeral.  Then the purges began.

The new rulers in the Courts began a systematic extermination of all those who harbored or who were suspected to harbor sympathies toward Amber.  A few of these people escaped either to Shadow or to Amber itself, but most of them died.

Matters in Amber were confused.  Everyone expected an immediate attack from the Courts, but none came.  King Random looked over the situation and realized that Amber had done little to build its power base against the Courts over the years.  The royal family had lost members since Pattern Fall while the Courts had continued to grow.  He recalled all of the relatives that he knew of and could command and began an active campaign to recruit (with precautions) as many refugees from the Courts as possible.  (See:  Elders and Other NPCS)

Princess Fiona suggested that she and her brother, Prince Bleys, should begin looking in Shadow to see if there might, perhaps, be other members of the family living out there unknown.  While Llewella and Florimel gave vocal support to the notion, Oberon's sons were rather more reluctant, being wise enough to realize that it was highly unlikely that their sisters had unknowingly produced offspring.  Eventually, a compromise of sorts emerged.  Bleys and Fiona would bring in what lost kin they could find, but they would tell no one but Random whose child each seemed to be.

People were both pleased and appalled by the number of new family members that Bleys and Fiona found.  Notions of birth control had apparently never occurred to the male members of the family until after Dara and Merlin came to light, and by that time they'd traveled widely and wildly.  The three sisters smirked at their brother's embarrassment.  (See: Player Characters and NPC Newcomers)

Amber and its allies pulled together their armies and prepared for war.  When it came, several of the newcomers distinguished themselves in the fighting.  Amber's lines held the advance short of Amber itself, and forces under the command of various family members moved to work on Chaosian supply lines and to attack vulnerable flanks.

Then the Courts brought forth their most terrible weapon.  They brought it to bear on Kashfa where the most terrible fighting was taking place and obliterated the entire Shadow.  King Rindaldo, his mother Jasra and his friend, Prince Dalt, are all presumed dead.  Queen Nadya who was several months pregnant had retreated to Amber and then, after almost losing her child, to stay with her own kin.

A few of the new Amberites actually infiltrated the Courts.  There, they discovered the deception regarding the Emperor Luke and regarding Merlin's body.  They found Suhuy to be an ally of sorts in their quest to end the war and retrieved Corwin from the room Suhuy'd locked him in after stopping his attempt to kidnap his ersatz grandson.

Meanwhile, Merlin's bother Jurt turned up in Amber asking for an alliance.  He pointed out that Amber would be better off with an adult ruling and that Merlin's son would only be a target for further coups.  He argued that he, himself, was not viewed so badly as Merlin had been.  In return for Random's support, he agreed to marry Annabel, the daughter of the deceased Prince Eric (or possibly King Eric depending on your politics), and to have his children with Annabel have precedence in inheritance over any other children he might have.  His daughter, Ophelia, who was his only known child agreed to renounce her claims in favor of those of her theoretical half-siblings.

Benedict and his forces had been out of communication for some time.  Apparently, he had reached a decision about what the fate of the Courts of Chaos should be.  Since many of those killed in the purges had been of his blood, this worried pretty much everybody, and rumors about his intentions ran wild both in Amber and the Courts.  Benedict began a steady and bloody push toward Chaos, ignoring all of Random's attempts to recall his forces.

Those who had infiltrated the Courts made two new discoveries.  The first was that Princess Florimel was working with House Jessamy in hopes of becoming Queen Regnant in Amber.  She was, apparently, not at all bothered by the fact that this would require slaughtering most if not all of her siblings.  She had married Erlich Jessamy and promised to name him as her Prince Consort if Jessamy could deliver.

The second discovery was actually more disturbing.  Dworkin had decided that the Logrus was defective and had devised the Shadow destroying machines as a way of getting rid of the Logrus so that he could create something else to fill the void.  Dworkin regretted, mildly, the fact that destroying the Logrus would probably kill everyone connected to it, but he figured that they were all replaceable.  Dworkin even claimed to have manipulated events to cause the current war, but no one was certain of how far to believe him on that.

Exposed as a traitor, Florimel fled Amber after having poisoned her sister Fiona.  She has disappeared into shadow.

The agents in Chaos put stopping Dworkin at the top of their list, right above stopping Benedict from obliterating the Courts.  With their help, Suhuy faced down Dworkin and won, although he died a death of sorts.  Suhuy's body died, but he possessed the body of a young man who had recently traversed the Logrus and altered that body for his own purposes.  No more than a handful of people even know that anything happened.

Random's armies under the command of his siblings, children, nieces and nephews marched toward Chaos in support of Jurt's claim to the throne.  Jurt pulled together those Chaosians who had survived Benedict's advance into an army of his own.  Annabel led an army of her own that she had built during her decades in shadow.

At this point, Amber's agents attempted to assassinate the Regent.  Melissa Hendrake managed to elude them, but they had infected her with Chaos cancer, so everyone is fairly hopeful that she found a corner somewhere and died.  The surviving leaders of the Courts agreed to accept Jurt as Emperor, but Benedict objected.  He stated that Merlin's death has not been proven and that no one knows Luke's fate.  After some intense negotiation, he agrees to acknowledge Jurt as Regent in the Courts of Chaos for 100 years.  If at the end of that time neither Merlin nor Luke has turned up, Benedict will reconsider the matter.  Nobody else was very happy about this solution, but everybody accepted it.

Benedict and his forces retreated into shadow.  He still refused to talk to Random directly.

House Hendrake proved to have too few surviving members to be viable and so ceased to exist.  Many of its survivors were accepted into a newly formed major House, House Alysande, headed by Sand's son, Borant, and his sister, Yvonne.  House Helgram barely survived.  Its members cooperated fully with the new regime in return for a generalized amnesty.  House Jessamy disappeared.  None of its members seem to have died, but they all disappeared.  They left everybody else to deal with their mess and retreated.

Fiona died of the poison Florimel had given her.  Rumors say that she might have survived had she stepped back from the war effort and given all of her energy to her recovery.  Fiona's funeral provided an excuse for a gathering of the now much larger family at which Random revealed what was known of the parentage of the newcomers.

This gathering was interrupted by news that something was wrong with the Pattern.  It had changed color in both Amber and Rebma.  A bit of investigation revealed that someone had tampered with the Primal Pattern.  A Chaosian named Kaleva (who turned out to be Dworkin's son) had, with Dworkin's assistance, walked the Pattern and in the process left a layer of slime over it.  No one could predict what effect that slime might have beyond the color alteration, and no one was sure what Dworkin's intentions in the matter were.

Shortly after this, it became apparent that Tir na N'ogth had become a permanent fixture in Amber's sky.  The phase or visibility of the moon no longer affected it.  A few intrepid souls investigated and discovered that the Pattern there still appeared normal.

See Player Characters
See Newcomers to Amber
See Elders
See Other NPCS
See Courts of Chaos

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