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Rebma, Second Gem in the Golden Circle

(This is for the Jeweled Road and the War of Balance campaign)

Rebma is the watery reflection of Amber beneath the sea. It has many similarities but also has its own wide and bold history that often diverges from the paths of its mighty twin.

Patternfall did not effect Rebma as it did Amber. The Black Road did not have a watery companion.


Ruling Family and Noble Families of Rebma

Rebma is ruled by Queen Moire. She has ruled Rebma for several hundred years, succeeding her mother Mor`sen. The line of the Queens of Rebma goes back deep into the depths of the founding of Amber. The founding Queen of Reba was Moiren, who bore a daughter, Orsalla, to Oberon. Following Moiren was her daughter Moisoal, then Mor`sen.

Mor`sen ruled through the long centuries of Oberon's reign as a constant supporter of Amber if not a familiar presence in its court. Late in life she bore Moire to a noble of the House Moir Terat. Soon after she bore a daughter to Oberon himself, Llewella. Mor`sen died during llewella's birth leaving her to be raised by Moire.

Moire married a lord of the House Moir Unala, Dunthas, to whom she bore a daughter, Morganthe. Soon after Dunthas's death in shadow a distraught Morganthe fell hopelessly in love with the roguish Prince Random. She fled Rebma with him but returned after he discarded her. She bore Martin who was raised by Moire and Llewella.

Currently Queen Moire is affianced to Honosal Moir Tral. Honosal Moir Tral is the head of the powerful Rebman Ducal House of Moir Tral. He has three daughters, Nim, Bela, and a third that is unnamed and is being kept from court. He is also the father of Rene by Moire. This scandalous birth was also kept secret until just after the Patternfall when the young man was sent to Amber to serve as Ambassador from Rebma.

House Moir Tral, led by Duke Honosal, should by the usual matriarchal lines of rulership in Rebma be led by Marla Moir Tral. But for reasons not public she stepped aside many years before Patternfal for Honosol, her grandson. She remains an active member of Moire's court.

House Moir Unala is led by Duchess Unsuva Moir Unala. The house remains popular and well connected to the royal family despite the death of Moire's husband Dunthas.

House Moir Terat Is a significant household with extensive connections to the royal family due to the Marriage of Mor`sen to one of the lesser sons of the house. It is currently ruled by Duchess Telet Moir Teret.

House Moir Alaes The rulers of the city of Moins. Duchess Kiessa Val, a cousin of Queen Viale of Amber.



Powers and Place.

A shadow of the Pattern of Amber resides in a deep chamber in the Castle Rebma. It is the closest reflection of the pattern of Amber not directly in the castle Amber. Its presentation is mirrored but those who have walked both it and its senior state that there is no difference in the feel of it or its effects.

The sorcery of Rebma is largely water based for obvious reasons.

In the Castle Rebma, in its library, is a Mal at Riess Sigil. This is specifically unusual in that usually such sigils are jealously guarded by their masters and almost never available to the public.

Books in the Library of Rebma are printed on a slightly plastic type of sheeting made from sea plants.

Breathing in Rebma and Rebman Shapechanging

The people of Rebman have a nearly identical physiology to Amberites except that they have an innate form of shapechage that shifts naturally from breathing the Airy Water of much of the public areas of Rebma and the normal water of other parts of the realms and the open oceans. They breath air and the Airy Water in the same manner. They manage to survive great depth of water pressure that would crush normal humankind. Rebmans have also been known to be able to manage drastically caustic forms of dense air pollutions and air pressure. They can breath extremely thin air such as that found at high altitudes.

Moins The Kid Sister of Rebma.

Ruled by the family of House Moir Alaes. It is as soggy as Bebma but decidedly more playful. While Rebma has the sophistication and culture appropriate to an Imperial Capital, Moins has the glitz and glamor of a cosmopolitan metropolis. Moins is north of Rebma and stands oppisite the norther Amberian city of Ober. A number of watery paths of commerce pass through Moins though none of the heavily traveled ones.

Yal

This is the western Rebman city opposite the Amberian city of Jal. This is crossroad city of many of the heavy industry waterways as well as the first city on the waterway from Diega. It is a port of call and a extremely busy industrial town.



Commerce in Rebma.

Three main waterways come into Rebma. One is the heavy industrial route from Diega to Yal to Rebma. One is the artistic pathways of jewels and sands and colors annt arts that comes down through Moins to Rebma. One is the military and industrial one that comes in to Rebma from the realms of Remaras and other Green Zone realms.