Amber/Episodes

The Rainbow Jewels
All Amberite Elders disappear except Random. With a last effort Dworkin gathers Donald and Kei and joins them to Shylock and William. The four race back to Amber, where Brand greets them. Shocked, they plan to follow Brands orders for fear of their lives. They receive a Rainbow Jewel, which they are ordered to imprison Lord Bances in. Kei watches into the Jewel and is plunged into it, and cannot exit. Brand breaks it and delays their journey a day, to be able to create a new.

The same evening, Random contacts William and receives his pledge of continued loyalty. Random wants them to find out what the Jewels are and everything about them.

The friends Hellride to Bances, arriving at Krakatoa, Second home of the Serpent. Here, Bances greets them cordially, and offers them a possibilty to change sides, betraying not Amber but Brand. They decline, but are showed a very powerful reflection of the Well of Worlds, where the Serpent resides. Bances then provides them with the means to enter a shadow where Dworkin was trapped (unbeknownst to Bances) with the help of the Logrus. They Jewels have created reality storms in every Shadow where they reside as the Abyss Power used to create them, is inimical to normal Shadow Stuff.

The heroes crush the Jewel, that has grown considerably as it absorbed all Power in the Shadow (including all intelligent life), by crashing Shylock's fastest ship into it, freeing a few hundred thousand souls, and Dworkin.

Returning to Amber, they lie to Brand, and receive his laurels, then turn around opening up the Jewel in Arden, where William's father Julian has been trapped, and now haunts the forest with a Ghostly Wyld Hunt. As he is freed, Brand smells a rat and flees into Shadow. Chaos forces descend on Amberite holdings, but are driven back, as Shylock's fleet and armies succeed in holding them at bay, although they suffer great losses.

The Hopes of Men
Three years have passed. The war ground into a three-way mexican standoff, with Brand not losing any more ground, but Chaos slowly inching its way through Shadow.

William has spent a lot of time in Arden, although a rift is forming between father and son. Returning, he is the Green Knight of Arden, wearing a Shield emblazoned with a tree.

Kei, who has been lost in the Shadows during this time, is contacted by Dworkin. A new threat has arisen on Earth, the Shadow where Corwin and Flora resided for hundreds of years. What it is, is unknown, but Dworkin and Random want the Young Amberites to investigate. They travel to Earth in Shylock's new racing yacht, the Tempest. As they arrive in New York, Earth, they are hurrily transported to one of Shylock's penthouse hotel suites. As they arrive, they are sworn off by Brand, who has been waiting for them. He does no wish for them to be hurt when he "experiments" with the shadow, possible collapsing it into raw power. A conflict erupts as William the Green Knight cannot hold his sense of duty in check, attacking Brand unprovoked. The rest of the Amberites support his attack, but Brand escapes when he is shoved through the plate-glass window out into the street. As he glides down, seemingly unworried, he spends a moment tipping his hat to Donald, who returns the gesture in kind. Shylock races down to confront Brand, but as he arrives, he loses his nerve and only hails him as Brand speeds away in a limousine.

Kei tracks Brand down to Ellis Island, realizing that he wants to use the Statue of Liberty as a focus of power to "liberate" the power stored in this Shadow. They all confront at the top of the Statue of Liberty as Godzilla attacks, awakened by the energy released by the event. Brand seems unstoppable, until Dworkin offering to help the war party by trumping Brand to an undisclosed location where he will be loathe or unable to use his powers. Shylocks courage fails him again, William is reluctant as he was severly crippled by trying to touch Brand earlier, Kei tries to manipulate the magical forces present and finds them unamenable to change. Donald resolves the situation by firing his mighty grapple gun into the chest of Brand, while Kei touches Donald and sends Brand into the unknown.

After the sejour in Earth, they return to Amber, where Random has come up with a plan to calm the tensions between Chaos and Amber: a group of ambassadors will be sent there, tasked with keeping the King's peace.

They arrive at the Harbortown of Chaos, where they are allowed to set up an embassy, the first one ever constructed there. Shylock muses that he will become a rich man, continuing his triumphant march over all of the riches existant in Shadows.

Mark of the Manticore
Efter introduktionen till Chaos, har Shylock jobbat hårt med sina handelskontakter. Kei har spenderat tid görandes ärenden åt alla möjliga karaktärer, medan Arthur varit ambassadör, och William har tillbringat så mycket tid med Chaos blivande förkämpe Gilva Hendrake att tabloiderna i Chaos kokar av förväntan. Gilva bjuder också in William till Hendrake Ways där de spenderar en tid i bergen där Mantikoran bor, och träffar den för första gången. Shylock ordnar många mottagningar på ambassaden för att främja sina handelsintressen, och på en av dem blir William anfallen ur bakhåll av ett antal hamnskiftande personer. Han besegrar dem lätt, och Enhörningen visar sig för att hedra hans insats. Många blir chockade och hobavtrycket i balsalen blir en ny attraktion. På den officiella ett-årsbalen av ambassadens skapande dyker en kvinna och lägger an på Shylock. Hon visar sig vara Belissa Minobee, Shylock främsta motstånd i Chaos och det flyger gnistor mellan dem. Kei tar en hemlig gäst till mottagningen, Ormens väktare Suhuy (som är den som avslöjar Belissa). William är där med sin kompanjon Gilva och vakar över tillställningen. På mottagningen avslöjas också att Sawall tror att den gamle kungen Swaywill, är senil eller dylikt. En plan kläcks för att förflytta kronan till Sawall under den första officiella audiensen med Swaywill, där Amberiterna skall borga för neutralitet. Suhuy skall undersöka kungen och se vad som fattas honom, och Sawalls avkomma står reda för att stötta sin far. Under audiensens första, minglande del blir mottagningsområdet anfallet av terrorister vid namn Systrarna av Chaos, som gör att mottagningsområdet lossnar från sina förtöjningar och börjar snurra iväg i en ostadig spiral ut mot Abyssen. Samtidigt anfaller Brand med skuggdemoner skapade ur Abyssen. Kei trollar bort alla skurkar och audiensen kan börja. Belissa och Shylock anklagar varandra för överfallet, men ingen vill erkänna sin skuld för den andra. Det visar sig efteråt att terroristorganisationen Chaos Döttrar varit instrumentella i förstörandet av nästan all handel mellan Amber och Chaos, samtidigt som många små skuggor blivit övertagna av olika maktfraktioner. Chaos sprider sig i skuggorna, och Amber känner sig än mer hotat. På mottagningen visar det sig att Swaywill på grund av sina höga ålder och långvariga experimenterande med Logrusen, blivit infekterad av Chaos, vilket gör honom olämplig som framtida kung av Chaos. Efter att Dworkins sedan länge hunsade syster Moora Bariman dyker upp och analyserar problemet, sedan skickas Swaywill till Amber för att gå det Primala Mönstret så att han blir frisk.

Released Elders
List of Elders released from the Rainbow Jewels.

Corwin
Quite weak right now.

Julian
Still lives in Arden. Still protects Amber from any land-based Attacks.

Llewella
Rebma was close to Dworkin's ritual and was the first to be released. She vows to bring Rebma into the fight, but Rebma needs to rebuild from the Chaosite attack that followed the Jewel Break.

Random
Who was never caught, which he professes is because of the Jewel of Judgement around his neck.

Brand
At large and dangerous.