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The New Courts
"We are now very near to the real Earth, though still far from Amber," said my brother. "It will be futile to run through adjacent Shadows..."
-- Roger Zelany, Nine Princes in Amber
From the Ambercon 2010 Game Book
Three GM's invite up to 15 players who will play the scions of Amber, Pearl, Diamond, Ruby, Lapis, Jade, and/or Jet to help determine what happens when worlds collide and a new chaos is born. What could cause such a thing? Who are these strange people? Why are there so many cities in the sky? And how can you master a world gone suddenly mad?
Setting:
Characters will be the suddenly-thrown-together scions of several alternate jewels of Order in a world gone mad. Contact the GMs to work out details.
Additional Information for Players
The Jewels of Order: Seven Variations on Reality
Each player character hails from one of seven jeweled realms of Order. Some things are common to all the Realms. For one, each Castle is built of its namesake material (including Amber). Each sits atop Kolvir, and each is peninsular, bordered on the west by forest. Each has a reflection in the air and water, and unknown to most are themselves reflections of a Primal Pattern, each of which was drawn by Dworkin. Each has a patron beast. Each is ruled in some fashion by a version of the Royal Family. Also, each of them is/was involved in a conflict when the campaign happened.
Each of the linked descriptions is, of necessity really, mere barebones. A brief description of the place, followed by mentions of its sky and water reflections and applicable rulers, and then thumbnail sketches of the royal family, including notes on any changes and a few cousins.
Take a Tour...
- Diamond, The Pure Realm (Or is it?)
- Pearl, in which Oberon battles Dworkin in The War of Uncreation
- Amber, You May Have Heard of It and its Patternfall War
- Ruby, The bloody realm of The Oberon War
- Lapis, Can the realm of wealth and leisure survive Skyreach Descending?
- Emerald, The madness of the Fiona Wars continues in Chapter XIV: Against All the Demons of Chaos, or Rali’s Revenge
- Jet, The Realm that Was, Is, and Will Be despite (or because of?) its numerous horrors.
Character Generation Guidelines
Credits
Amber: Roger Zelazny
GMs: Scott Whitney, Jeff Trumitch, JP Brannan
Illustration: Lady Meghan of Ruby by Wendi Strang-Frost for a previous test-run of The New Courts.
