Vance-AoS

Greetings King Random,

Sire, I come new to Amber.

My father was a strange man and he and my aunt did not speak well of Amber. In truth they spoke little of it. I left the world of my birth at 22 and till that time my father Delwin and my Aunt Sand had only spoken of Amber in anger. They hated the way their mother was treated by Oberon. They hated the way they were treated by their siblings. They hated the way they were treated by the nobles who, despite their mother being Queen of Amber, were not kind, as if they knew how temporary their place in Amber was.

Soon before i left my home my father said something i'll always remember. He said that He and Sand had their experiences with Amber and I would have my own. In the end it makes no sense to bring their grievances to the center of the universe, so close to the Pattern. He did not want his hatred to be the source of family strife reflected out into shadow as conflict and tragedy and sadness in the lives of millions of innocent lives.

So they left of their own accord when their mother's health began to fail. Her health failed, Delwin told me, because the function of enthusiasm, caused by the Pattern, that keeps those in Amber young and vital for centuries beyond their normal lifespan can also cause one to age quicker then the norm of their race. So she returned home in despair. On her deathbed she bid her children to hold no grudge. They tried, but it was never easy for them.

So i made my way in the universe and did my grandmother's bidding.

I shall not put in this Article how i Walked the pattern the first time. You know that details of that and where i found a functioning full shadow of the pattern, tucked away in a backwater world.

In time i met Prince Benedict. He found me because he had spent a long drunken month in one of Princess Flroimel's homes on Earth, watching Star Trek in its many varieties. He apparently become obsessed. He hunted down the series in a dozen shadows. A vast array of similar versions of the theme.

In one of them was Vulsar Base. He went to the Pattern, walked it, and piled his might into a single desire to find the best version of Vulsar base and he transported himself there. It turned out the best version of Vulsar base was the one that had a Grandson of Oberon as an Admiral in Star Fleet.

There he found me, a seat on the Federation Council and an Admiral of the Fleet. We spoke long into the night. I learned of Amber from him. I learned that it meant more then i knew. He swayed me.

I told him of my battles where Patternfall effected Vulsar Base and the Federation i had grown to manhood in. Our battles were not fought at the foot of Kolvir, nor at the precipice of hte Abyss.