The first five novels are narrated by Corwin and describe Corwin's adventures and life as he remeets his family after an absence of centuries.

Corwin then joins in the battle although it is hopeless: Caine's forces are already destroying Corwin's navy and he escapes by using a Trump to move him to Bleys and his army.

For an in-depth plot summary of Corwin's adventures following his time in the clinic, see Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon, Sign of the Unicorn, The Hand of Oberon, and The Courts of Chaos.

Corwin's Pattern created an additional emblem of Order, upsetting the balance of power between the original Pattern and the weakened Logrus of Chaos.

It appears that the original Pattern wishes to incorporate Corwin's Pattern into itself, to further its advantage over the Logrus, and that Corwin's Pattern is resisting its incursions, to the extent that the Pattern of Amber could not subdue the independence of Corwin's without being sufficiently weakened to lay itself open to a counter-stroke from the Logrus of Chaos.

Likewise, the Logrus seeks to destroy Corwin's Pattern, since it represents an additional artifact of Order against Chaos ( although not in accord with the Order of Amber's Pattern ) — but equally cannot do so without the risk of a counter-stroke from Amber's Pattern.

It is suggested that Corwin's Pattern may end up forming a third " pole " in the struggle between Order and Chaos, ultimately taking neither side and able to retain its independent existence against anything short of what will never happen, namely a combined assault from the Amber Pattern and Logrus.

) They meet up with Fiona and discover that the Logrus is making an attempt to damage Corwin's Pattern: but Merlin refuses to help Mandor and Fiona learn more, and returns to Amber, only to be embroiled in diplomatic controversy: in order to avoid Luke's possible accession to the throne of the Shadow kingdom Kashfa, Random is playing politics to put his own candidate on the throne, and the neighbouring kingdom of Begma objects to that particular candidate's territorial ambitions.

All of Corwin's siblings believe that guns can never be brought to the medieval world of Amber, as all gunpowders seem inert there.

Corwin and Ganelon journey on and meet the Protector, who turns out to be Corwin's long-lost brother Benedict, the most formidable swordsman and military strategist in existence.

Luke uses the power of Werewindle-revealed to be a transformed spikard, like Merlin's ring ( and also Corwin's sword Grayswandir )-to destroy it.

Corwin's eldest brother, Benedict, has made it clear that he absolutely does not want the throne and prefers to be General of the Armies of Amber, although because of Benedict's supreme prowess in all manner of combat, he would be completely unchallenged if he wanted the throne.

It feels more benevolent than Amber's Pattern and its Shadow copies ; this is theorized by readers to be a result of Corwin's mellowed personality and his experiences in Paris, France, which he drew on while creating his Pattern.

Merlin tries to use Trump magic to locate Coral-with the help of Mandor, Jasra and even his own creation Ghostwheel, with whom he is back on good terms-but is ambushed by various ghostly constructs of people that have walked the Pattern and Logrus, and even by Corwin's most recent Pattern-ghost ( from his own Pattern, not the Pattern of Amber ), and finds himself drawn into a struggle between the Logrus, the fundamental power of chaos, and the Pattern, the fundamental power of order.

Contact is prevented if the person is drugged, deeply asleep, has some form of brain damage ( such as Corwin's amnesia ), unconscious or imprisoned in a fashion designed to prevent Trump use.

Corwin's favoured weapon is his sword Grayswandir, and his use of magic is extremely limited.

Oberon has a final talk with his son, explaining that while he had set Corwin up to meet him in Lorraine, he had enjoyed being Corwin's friend, and he wants Corwin to succeed him as King of Amber, with Dara as his queen.

Nearly all of Corwin's relatives carry a deck of Tarot cards, with a key alteration: each family member is on one of the Trumps.

After years have passed, Corwin's eyesight begins to regenerate, and he begins an escape attempt by whittling the door with a spoon he stole from Eric's table.

Fiona appears with Dara and Corwin's son, Merlin.

Corwin's encounter with " Lady " contains various allusions to the ballad " La Belle Dame sans Merci " by John Keats.

That the reference is to Lolita rather than directly to Carmen is suggested by Corwin's mixed feelings about Dara's apparent age while she is seducing him, and the creation of a literary reference with three degrees of parentage is consistent with Zelazny's occasional predilection for subtle literary stunts.

In 2000 Corwin partnered with Animal Planet and Discovery Communications serving as host and executive producer of The Jeff Corwin Experience and Corwin's Quest.

He appeared Off-Broadway in Burnt Piano for HB Playwrights Theatre and with Uta Hagen in a television adaptation of Norman Corwin's The World of Carl Sandburg.

A third option is to have the players portray Corwin's children, in an Amber-like city built around Corwin's pattern ; this is sometimes called an " Argent " game, since one of Corwin's heraldic colours is Silver.

Walking the Pattern of Rebma ( a city in Amber that mirrors the true city of Amber, down to the smallest detail, including the Pattern ) restores Corwin's memory and his abilities to travel through shadow.

Dworkin Barimen, the mad sorcerer who created the Pattern enters Corwin's prison through the walls of Corwin's prison cell, and eventually draws on the wall the door through which Corwin escapes.

All of Corwin's siblings believe that guns cannot function in Amber, as gunpowder is inert there.

The next five novels focus on Merlin, Corwin's son.

Merlin-and a Pattern-ghost of Luke-are both adopted by Corwin's Pattern ( which has previously rejected Fiona ), at the instance of a Pattern-ghost of Corwin himself, as it appears that his own Pattern is also sentient and resisting incursions from both the Logrus and Amber's Pattern-and taking a hand in the conflict between the two.

Betancourt's series tells the story of Corwin's father Oberon.

Corwin's Pattern exists separately from the original Pattern, although it is still attacked by The Logrus.

Corwin's Pattern may have served as a gateway to an entirely separate multiverse, and it may have also been responsible for additional shadow storms which can raise havoc across the multiverse.

For example, the Celtic Wasteland myth ties the barrenness of a land to a curse that a hero must lift ; Corwin's curse is in part responsible for the Black Road.

Corwin's symbol, a silver rose, echoes the House of York's symbol, a white rose, and Eric's chosen color, red, echoes the House of Lancaster's symbol, a red rose.

A nearby lake, known as Corwin's Pond, was renamed " Artist Lake " after Alonzo Chappel settled there in 1869.

Burt, an elderly local resident who had already received a couple of Corwin's presents, points out that Corwin has taken " nothing for yourself, not a thing " and Corwin replies that his only wish is to do this every year.

" He added, " Mr. Corwin's scenario, under Curtis Bernhardt's soupy direction, stretches Miss Wyman's situation.

While traveling they encounter Corwin's sister Deirdre who reveals she fled from Eric's court.

I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.

Now let us imagine a wing of B-52's, on alert near their `` positive control ( or fail-safe ) points '', the spots on the map, many miles from Soviet territory, beyond which they are forbidden to fly without specific orders to proceed to their targets.

I told him you are on orders from the Home Army to get inside Majdanek so you can make a report to the government in exile in London ''.

Telephone orders distort the picture: the suburbanite naturally calls a local rather than a central-city number if both are listed in an advertisement, especially if the local call eliminates city sales tax.

Mail orders are now being received for the series of concerts to be given this season under the auspices of the San Francisco Chamber Music Society.

Now, not only are there considerably more laity as students and professors at Oxford, but there are also numerous houses of religious orders existing in respectable and friendly relations with the non-Catholic members of the University.

The three modern orders of amphibians are Anura ( the frogs and toads ), Caudata / Urodela ( the salamanders ), and Gymnophiona / Apoda ( the caecilians ).

The three modern orders are Anura ( the frogs and toads ), Caudata, alternatively known as Urodela ( the salamanders ), and Gymnophiona ( the caecilians ).

The Lissamphibia, superorder Salientia, are traditionally divided into three orders, but an extinct salamander-like family, the Albanerpetontidae, is now considered part of the Lissamphibia alongside the superorder Salientia.

They are present in the lower Cambrian fossil record along with trilobites from the Redlichiida, Corynexochida, and Ptychopariida orders.

The orders which have been separated from the old Liliales are difficult to characterize.

Other families included in the Alismatates as currently defined are here distributed among ten additional orders, all of which are assigned, with the following exception, to the Subclass Alismatidae.

Once he has received this blessing, the abbot not only becomes father of his monks in a spiritual sense, but their major superior under canon law, and has the additional authority to confer the ministries of acolyte and lector ( formerly, he could confer the minor orders, which are not sacraments, that these ministries have replaced ).

Partial and total orders are antisymmetric by definition.

* 1848 – Camila O ' Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.

Polyenergid oocysts and tissue cysts are found in representatives of the orders Protococcidiida and Eimeriida.

Since Pope Leo XIII issued the bull Apostolicae Curae in 1896, the Catholic Church has insisted that Anglican orders are invalid because of changes in the Anglican ordination rites of the 16th century and divergence in understanding of the theology of priesthood, episcopacy and Eucharist.

There are also other reasons why the Holy See does not recognise the validity of the orders of the Independent clergy:

As with the cars, new models are often exhibited by manufacturers at prestigious industry shows to gain new orders.

Today Benedictine monasticism is fundamentally different from other Western religious orders insofar as its individual communities are not part of a religious order with " Generalates " and " Superiors General ".

The Rule of Saint Benedict is also used by a number of religious orders that began as reforms of the Benedictine tradition such as the Cistercians and Trappists although none of these groups are part of the Benedictine Confederation.

The Treasury has reserve powers to give orders to the committee " if they are required in the public interest and by extreme economic circumstances " but such orders must be endorsed by Parliament within 28 days.