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, hunted by Dworkin and all of Chaos (if not to negotiate a truce with them so they can destroy Amber once and for all). Brand, though wants Amber for himself and does not wish it to be defiled by Chaosite hands. A sort of stalemate arises, where Amber is weakened, but not defeated, Chaos is on the warpath against both Brands burgeoning Abyssaly-enhanced armies and (somewhat) Amberite forces, and Brand mostly marshalls his forces and tries to find novel ways of using his new-found power.