Editing Call to the Kin-Ambercon (section)

==In the Early Days of King Random's Reign==

Arlo stands and walks the the wine barrel.  Filling a pitcher of the dark strong kitchen wine Dame Margot uses he walks around filling glasses, returns to fill the pitcher and settles back in to light another cig from the embers of the old one.  

'''"In the early days after the Patternfall War King Random of Amber, First of his Name, had to learn to do a dozen things at once and found he needed help. "

'''"He convinced his sister Florimel to tend to the nobles and the newly arriving dignitaries flooding in to swear fealty and meet the new king. They all seemed to buy town houses in the city. When they came to court they came they brought chests full of formal wear and eligible daughters with an eye on Martin.'''

Elayne laughs from her alcove up in the shelves, '''"Hey, Arlo, remember when that annoying fop, the Ambassador from Diaga, cornered Martin with his annoyingly prim and proper golddigger of a daughter?"'''

Arlo laughs, looks around, '''"Of course.  He told the old frump that he wasn't interested in the daughters of any of the Golden Circle royal or noble families. But if there were a few eligible sons around he might like to meet them."

Elayne laughs harder, '''"And Flora had to deal with shuffling around a score of Golden Circle dignitaries lodgings and offices when they sent new ambassadors who all had eagerly eligible sons."'''

Sergent Darcy, Arloxedra's Elite, pipes up from the sofa he had been sleeping on up the hall,'''"That was when I was his Elite.  He came up to my quarters in the middle of the night and we left into shadow for a year.  He went high tech.  He still has the data jack behind his ear."'''

Arlo continues, '''"Next he coerced Benedict into accepting the role of Marshal of Amber. He ordered Benedict to expand the standing army and to develop technological defenses. That's partly how we got a Star Fleet."

'''"He put Gerard in charge of the Navy, with Caine as his third in command. That Caine was really the Spymaster of Amber was one of the worst kept secrets in the kingdom.  All things considered, If Caine wants a secret known, it gets known for a good reason"

'''"He became a very active monarch and he used his siblings to help improve many aspects of the city, kingdom and empire of Amber. His well known renovations included indoor plumbing, magical street lighting, puzzled stone roadways.  Of Course the puzzled stone roadways were a great idea but they got co-opted by the Jeweled Road when Adrian forged the primal realm of Mandalay."  

<span style=color:red>(For a description of the Jeweled Road see [[The Jeweled Road]])</span>

'''Time went on.  Merlin came to Amber after Patternfall briefly then went out into shadow to gain a liberal education and while doing so met Luke, now known as Rinaldo, son of Brand.  They had some adventures.  During them Dalt turned up, a son of Oberon and Delee the Desecratix and a friend of Rinaldo's.  So there was a new angry uncle that only got tamed after he fought Julian at the Gates of Dawn.  

<span style=color:red>''{For that story see [[Dalt at the Gates of Dawn]]}''</span>

'''"Benedict and Gerard ran across Borlak deep in shadow, and reminded Random of him."

'''Then as part of Merlin's adventures Coral, the daughter of a Begman noblewoman, surprised Merlin by walking the pattern. She was a by-blow of Oberon's, apparently his last."

'''"Chaos had sent Despil, the son of Dara and Gramble Sawall, to Amber as the Ambassador of Chaos and his brother Jurt, followed him and started running a dive bar in the city. Despil quietly informed the King of a collection of Hendrake nobles, descendants Benedict, of which Dara is one. We also know of others of the Benedict-Lintra line of course now; Shaz Far and Vek.

<span style=color:purple>''(Ah, talented and demented Vek, my guy.[[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Vek_Hendrake]]"''</span>

<span style=color:red>''{Just as an aside-In the Jeweled Amber Universe, Merlin did not become King of Chaos.  He is known to be wandering around Avalon}''</span>

'''"Suspicions arose that Osric and Finndo might not be dead, and this reminded many people that two of Oberon's oldest children were alive as well, Cymnea, and Orsolla.  Cymnea was known to have retired to Thelusa and her duchy after Oberon annulled their marriage.  Orsolla had echoed in shadows of Rebma but not turned up in person."

'''"And of course it was well known that Delwin and Sand were somewhere in shadow, avoiding the whole lot of the kinship. Though Benedict had found a son of Delwin's, Vance, who had a love of baseball, military endeavors, going fast & flying things.  The two of them became thick as thieves and suddenly Amber had a entire Star Fleet.[[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Amber_Star_Fleet]]"

'''"Rebma sent their new Ambassador in the person of the dapper Rene Mior Royi, who happened to be the son of Corwin and Moire."

'''"Random told a small gathering about his own full siblings, Mirelle and Giovanni, and that he intended to find them. This caused Gerard, Caine and Julian to bristle when they were reminded these two probably still lived. They did not say why but it is known that the sons of Rilga have little reason to love Random's mother."

'''When in exasperation Random asked, rhetorically, how many children did Bloody Oberon have? Dworkin calmly answered 47. Random took Bleys and disappeared into shadow, telling the court he was going out to get a drink.