Nine princes and four princesses of Amber, including Prince Corwin as narrator of the first book series, try to deal with the disappearance of Oberon, their father, and an apparent need for succession of the throne.

He escapes and investigates, discovering the truth, piece by piece: he is really Prince Corwin, of Amber, the one true world of which our Earth is just a shadow.

* In the Roger Zelazny's 1978 novel The Chronicles of Amber: The Courts of Chaos prince Corwin encounters Ygg ( a nick from Yggdrasil ), a tree who speaks and is planted on the border between Order and Chaos, between Amber and Courts of Chaos

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Several " Chronicles of Amber " omnibus anthologies have also been published collecting the 5 novels from the original ' Corwin cycle ' or all 5 novels of the ' Merlin cycle ' or ( as in The Great Book of Amber ) all 10 novels.

Corwin has escaped the dungeons of Amber, where he was imprisoned by his hated brother Eric, who had seized the throne of Amber.

But Corwin has secret knowledge: in the shadow world of Avalon, where he once ruled, there exists a jeweler's rouge that will function in Amber as gunpowder should.

With his newly-trained army, Corwin marches on Castle Amber only to find it already under siege.

Eric is dead, and Corwin now rules Amber as Regent.

Corwin travels to Tir-na Nóg ' th, the mysterious, moonlit Amber-in-the-sky where he hopes to gain insight into the situation, and upon his return finds himself at the Primal Pattern rather than Amber.

Corwin and his family band together to prevent this, eventually recover the jewel, and discover that their father Oberon, the true King of Amber, still lives.

Thus both the Pattern and Logrus are forestalled for a time, in their attempts to escalate their conflict: while Corwin begins the journey back to Amber, Merlin-who wants peace with Amber-returns to Chaos to await his coronation.

In 2012, audible released brand new recordings of The Chronicles of Amber with Alessandro Juliani reading the first five books ( the Corwin cycle ) and Wil Wheaton reading the last five books ( the Merlin cycle ).

In Nine Princes in Amber Random and Corwin arrive in Arden by driving Flora's car through Shadow, but as soon as they do this they are discovered by Julian.

Later, when Oberon returned and it was revealed that Amber itself was a Shadow of the Primal Pattern, Corwin found he could enter Shadow much closer to Amber than he thought possible.

Explosives, and thus firearms, do not work in Amber, until Corwin discovers that Jeweler's Rouge from Avalon ( a world Corwin frequented in his past and favored above all other shadows save Earth ) meets the chemical requirements to combust in Amber.

Corwin describes himself at the beginning of The Courts of Chaos as the " mad prince " of Amber, drawing a parallel between himself and the mad prince of Denmark.

*" To sleep, perchance to dream ... Yeah, there's a thing that rubs ", Corwin muses in Nine Princes in Amber ( chapter 6 ).

* Very early in Nine Princes in Amber Corwin thinks to himself, " In the state of Denmark there was an odor of decay.

This is likely due to three scenes in the Chronicles: first, when Eric paralyzes Corwin with an attack across the Trump and refuses to desist because one or the other would be dominated ; second, when Corwin faces the demon Strygalldwir, it is able to wrestle mentally with him when their gazes meet ; and third, when Fiona is able to keep Brand immobile in the final battle at the Courts of Chaos.

However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.

The trump picture of Corwin is executed in a subtly different style-and has features very similar to Roger Zelazny's.

Bleys falls from the side of Kolvir and Corwin is captured, blinded and imprisoned.

Eric is mortally wounded and passes the Jewel of Judgment to Corwin, making Corwin Regent.

In the midst of the ensuing intrigue an assassination attempt is made on Corwin and he finds himself incapacitated on Earth.

After being chased from the Pattern, Corwin eventually discovers that Brand is responsible for the damage and that he now has the Jewel of Judgment.

Corwin refuses and is tasked to bring the Jewel of Judgment across the shadows to the battle that will ensue after the Pattern is redrawn.

Whereas Corwin of the first series was a product of the late 1960s and 1970s and was more of a cross between a hardboiled detective in the vein of Raymond Chandler and a Highlander-like immortal with centuries of experience fighting his way through the stories, Merlin ( a product of the late 1980s and early 1990s when computers had become commonplace ) is a youthful hacker / magician finding himself in increasingly complex situations in the vein of modern hacker protagonists.

In a conversation with his mother Dara-mistress of Corwin once, and a descendant of Benedict, also from the royal house of Chaos-he finds that she was the one who sent the t ' yiga demon which is now Coral's sister Nayda ( and appears to be developing something of an affection for Luke.

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.

It becomes apparent that the real Corwin is held prisoner by Dara herself-ironically, in a chapel devoted to Corwin ( chapels devoted to Amberites having apparently become a popular cult in Chaos after the Patternfall War: Jurt worshipped Brand, House Hendrake idolised Benedict, and Mandor's patron was Fiona.

It is this pattern that Corwin walks to regain his memory.

In Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber series, Ganelon appears as a former aid and later betrayer of the main character Corwin in a place called Avalon, alongside the Arthurian character Lancelot du Lac.

As in Serling's 1963 screenplay for the political thriller, Seven Days in May, in which a highly moral minor character is named Art Corwin, the appellation of Carney's " Night of the Meek " character, Henry Corwin, was a tribute to Serling's idol, legendary television, film and, most memorably for Serling, radio writer Norman Corwin whose lengthy career, in contrast to Serling's relatively brief 50-year lifetime, had spanned over seven decades.

* Corwin ( The Chronicles of Amber ), a fictional character in the Amber book series

The original 256-page game book was published in 1991 by Phage Press, covering material from the first five novels ( the " Corwin Cycle ") and some details-sorcery and the Logrus-from the remaining five novels ( the " Merlin Cycle "), in order to allow players to roleplay characters from the Courts of Chaos.

Abraham Lincoln, in his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861, specifically referenced the Corwin Amendment:

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.

The Trumps and multiverse are restored and Corwin begins to relate the first Five novels to his son Merlin.

* When Corwin first meets Eric in Nine Princes in Amber, Eric complains " It's true, that uneasy-lies-the-head bit.

* Corwin, when describing the royal family to Ganelon in Sign of the Unicorn, says that Oberon had two other sons with Benedict's mother Cymnea, the first being Osric, who shares his name with a courtier in Hamlet.

The first European settler in what is now Lebanon was Amy Elizabeth Carnahan, daughter of Thomas Corwin, who came to Ohio from Bourbon County, Kentucky and settled on the north branch of Turtle Creek in March 1796.

Although intimidated at first by Eric's immense skill, Corwin gets the upper hand in the fight and injures Eric on the arm.

With a shock, Corwin and Ganelon realize that this is the true, Primal Pattern, of which the one in Amber is but the first shadow.

Under the leadership of the Reverend John Youngs, with Peter Hallock ( after lots were drawn, the first to step ashore ), the settlement consisted of the families of Barnabas Horton, John Budd, John Conklin, William Wells, John Tuthill, Thomas Mapes, Richard Terry, Matthias Corwin, Robert Akerly, Zachariah Corey and Isaac Arnold.

Whereas the first series was narrated by Corwin, this series is narrated by his son, Merlin.

" The " genealogical gaffes " here refers to a number of inconsistencies in the first series ( the Corwin Cycle ) regarding the parentage of Corwin's various siblings.

Corwin was among the first producers to regularly use entertainment — even light entertainment — to tackle serious social issues.

Corwin was the first winner of the One World Award established by the Common Council for American Unity along with the ( Wendell ) Willkie Memorial of Freedom House.

Corwin documented the post-war world and used his recordings in a series of 13 broadcast documentaries on CBS — which were also among the first broadcast uses of recorded sound allowed by the radio networks.

Abraham Lincoln, in his first inaugural address, said of the Corwin Amendment:

* While not credited as such, David Corwin is named on screen for the first time.

In his first report, he was critical of his predecessor, Thomas Corwin, because he made private arrangements for debt repurchases.

Corwin first experienced the tropical rain forests in 1984 in Belize.