Editing Courts of Chaos

==History==
A cosmology of the known universe would be difficult to compose depending on your point of view.  As any Lord of Chaos would tell you, ''"Its all a matter of perspective."''

Chaos is massive even on the scale that includes a complete set of infinity with Amber at its center.  Scholars argue, frequently at knife point, over details of cosmology.   They do so in great tomes for libraries full of argument.  But a tiny bit should be told to consider Chaos.

===Creation of Amber===
Dworkin created Amber on the rock Kolvir.  He did so with the Unicorn in attendance, bleeding, playing the lute, with the Jewel of Judgment.   Suddenly the vast diverse shadows and swirls of Chaos had a solid thing, a center place, but it is argued what that entails.  Chaos has had solid things in the past and they disappeared.  Places like [[Paragon]] and [[Calmir]].  But Amber was different.  Unlike the other places it seemed to wash like an ocean against [[The Abyss]] of Chaos,  causing it to become more massive and create something of a border between Chaos and the Shadows of Amber.

Amber was its center of the shadow lands but a sense of it being in the furthest east of them has developed.

In time other places of permanence were created in the Shadowlands such as [[Avalon]], [[Regor]], [[Alparos]], [[Azcala]], [[Vagalorat]].  Even Amber, felt the great Lords of Chaos before the Patternfall War, was just a ship on the seas of shadow and chaos.  It could be destroyed and but remove one tower from the vastly shadowlands, soon as others to be forgotten.

But when they made war on Amber, they lost.   Defeated on the field of battle by Benedict of Amber and the forces he assembled as his kinsman squabbled over who sat at the head of the table at dinner time. Chaos was forced to ''kneel''.


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=='''Rulership''==
*'''High Lord of Chaos is known as <big>'''''Swayvil'''''</big>.'''  The '''''Swayvil'''''.  The name of the first '''''Swayvil''''' was taken as a title, in the manner of Popes taking a Papal name.  The current '''''Swayvil''''', '''''Swayvil''''' VII, was once Lord Aven Tamis anavi Wasana, of the House Wasana.  Upon his assumption he renounced all connection to his former house but that's a thin vernier. 

The Serpent of Chaos and its construct of power, The Logrus, are also rulers of Chaos.  There leadership is as fickle as any in chaos. 
==='''Houses of Chaos'''===
There are many Houses in Chaos and each has its own sway in the politics of chaos and its on ''Sway'' in effecting people living in chaos.  They draw from the Stuff of Chaos to create realms, ''Ways'', dwellings, races, and other things.

There are great houses of course that guide the politics of Chaos.  There are minor houses that may be comprised of a small number of nobles and retainers.  Chaos being a place of great whimsy some houses are obsessed with some activities; art, dance, music, torture, flying, metalwork, magic.

'''''Below is a sampling of Great Houses'''''

====Channicut====
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====Helgram====
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====Adwin====
*Colors :Grey Green Swirls
*House Look : Vampiric
*Head :Duke Asdir Adwin
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*Notables:Sheva Adwin. Logrus Master & Sorcerer 
A minor house with big plans.  Of a vampire race near chaos they are not technically undead. Specialize in Low Order magics.  Have something of an oversized ego for a small house but has a respectable spy network..

====Wasana====
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Shasagale Devvn:  First Ambassador to Amber.  A pro-Amber house deeply involved in the creation of the Amber Cults.

====Bariman====
*Colors :Green & White
*House Look : pale skinned humans
*Head :Random of Amber.
*Heir :Martin of Amber.
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The main notable of House Bariman is Dworkin Bariman.  An ancient member of an early ruling house and considered the main contender for the throne.  He and the Unicorn created the realm of Amber, which embodied too much Order to exist as a realm of Chaos.  He, the Unicorn, and his creation, and all his offspring were declared rebels and exiled as creators of Order.  

After the Black Road War and the death of the great Channicut Swayvil, the new Helgram Swayvil has begun negotiation to clear the banns of exile against the House Bariman.

====Sawall====
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*Notables: Dara, Mandor, Merlin, Despil, Jurt

'''''Below is a sampling of Minor Houses.'''''
====AGSRIQT====
A Minor house based in Ang Ri, a show realm in the Black Zone. Known for commerce with many Black zone worlds they have few nobles but a large body of soldiery used as mercenaries in Black Zone worlds. It received its Charter in the dim reaches of time and historians of Chaos claim the current owner of the charter may not be of the line that earned it. Though the current duke does wield the house stone legitimately. A situation not uncommon in Chaos.
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*Head : Duke Trelbek arso Falqin.
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*Lord Klebble Bock: Relation to the royal line unclear, he leads the Black Wier, a Mercenary army of mixed races. They employ a number of sorcerers and frequently hire Dufiro They usually can field 10k in the field, often with cadres of Spirits of Conflict.

====AMBLERASH====
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====LANDOR====
Entertainers and circus people. The entrance to their ways is a black gothic helter-skelter in a walled patch of ground on the outskirts of the Citadel of Chaos. In sliding down the helter-skelter on a coconut mat, one passes through a shadow veil halfway down, and enters the ways proper. They are known to have performing Fire Angels.
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====Lorca====
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A warrior house, they were neutral in the Black Road war but joined in the war after in progress.  Bitter enemy of Helgram & Hendrake.

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====SEPHARIS==== 
A house of dedicated and highly specialized angelic warriors.
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Archie

====WONKA====
A house known for confections. 
*Colors :Multicolored but mostly red/orange
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*Notables: Willie the Chocolatier

==Houses of Chaos==
There are uncounted Houses in Chaos.  Some great houses that are names of might, fear, respect and influence.  Others are tiny, little more then a single person and his retainers.  The influences vary and the histories of them is deeply varied.  

some Houses of Chaos have disappeared with little noticce leaving Ways floating untended or forgotten in the Stuff of Chaos. 
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=='''The Logrus'''==

As a primal construct the logrus is the artifact of all changing chaos.  It is difficult, even parilous, to attempt to assay it but without doing so one may not operate the higher forms of sorcery in Chaos, nor shadowwalk in the vast realms of the shadowlands. 

*45 Basic Imprint of the Logrus
*90 Advance Imprint of the Logrus
*180 Master Imprint of the Logrus
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=='''Amber Cults'''==

The Amber Cults began as a response to the defeat of Chaos on Battle.

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=='''Chaos creatures'''==
===Chaosian Hunting Cats===
*4 Amber Vitality
*2 Double Speed
*4 Endless Stamina
*4 Combat Mastery
*2 Armor vs Guns
*4 Deadly Damage
*4 Tongues
*2 Danger Sense
*2 Psyche Neutral 
*2 Shadow Path
*4 Mold Reality
*4 Regeneration
*4 Limited Shape Shift
*4 Abilities: Blink 50', Fire Breath, Detect Poisons, Emotional Bond
(46)
*Shadowwide 4
(184)House Hendrake.


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