| Dear Marguerite,
Thanks for writing!
Even a day late and a dollar short, we managed to get
the website up and working...
Marguerite, we'll try to keep you exciting, by keeping
the Amber books in print, for the forseable future...
So good of you to offer to help!
We're working on a 'links' page, so if there are any
links in particular you'd like to see, let us know.
Also, I'm planning on starting up a 'Phage Press Web
Button Contest.' Basically we'll invite people to do different
visual links (buttons, banners, etc.) to the Phage website,
and offer some fabulous, fabulous prizes (okay, just some
t-shirts, but still...).
Please feel free to send along any suggestions. The website
is still pretty stark and functional, but we're open to lots
of ideas!
yours,
Erick
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| Dear John,
I'll do what I can...
The answer to how many children Oberon had is...
...something We will never know.
At one point some ghost or vision of Oberon gives a number
(47?), but it may, or may not be Oberon, and it may, or may
not, be accurate.
Based on my conversations with Roger, I know he was definitely
planning on revealing more of Oberon's offspring, and I certainly
always add at least a couple of extra into every campaign
I run. In my first Amber campaign, there were the original
9 Princes, the 4 Princesses, Osric & Finndo, Batella (the
eldest), male & female twins (next after Batella, who
were meant to inherit, before something went horribly wrong),
Reaper, Edmund and another brother, plus a sister/sister combination...
but I did not have Sand & Delwin.
As to whether there is a "degraded version of the
Logrus in shadow. Somthing similar to the Broken Patterns..."
That's a wonderful philosophical question, and I've come
up with very different answers for different campaigns.
Answer #1: There can, potentially, be an infinite number
of Patterns, because Pattern's are each symbols of order.
Each intact Pattern creates a complete universe, while each
defective (broken) Pattern merely warps a small piece of a
greater Pattern Universe. At the same time the Logrus, constantly
changing, infinitely shifting, is absolutely unique; all aspects
of the Logrus are contained within the Logrus itself; thus
we have come to name the place of the Logrus weilders as the
Courts of Chaos -- plural, to indicate their many and varied
forms. There is but one Logrus, and it contains all possibilities
of itself.
Answer #2: All Patterns, whether intact or broken, are
all aspects, are all clever three-dimensional slices, of the
ultimate, multi-dimensional Pattern... the Pattern that is
contained within the Jewel of Judgement. While simple beings
like Amberites see different 'Patterns,' each that they see,
or walk, is just another facet of the one, shinning, universal
Pattern. The polar opposite of Pattern is Logrus, which is
infinite in number, and so we have the Courts of Chaos to
indicate that there are numberless different places, each
with it's own Logrus.
See? You can play it either way... and there is no 'right'
answer...
Thanks! They're fun questions...
Erick
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