A TIMELINE OF EVENTS
All events in Amber time.
- The End of the Patternfall War (0 Post-Patternfall [PPF]). The war ends with the defeat of Chaos at the edge of the Abyss. Brand and Deirdre die as they fall into the Abyss. The Unicorn selects Random as King; all the elders who are present swear loyalty to him, as does Merlin. Dworkin is seen entering Chaos driving the hearse carrying the body of Oberon. He is not seen leaving, and has not been seen since. As far as anyone can tell the Primal Pattern is somehow sealed off, and inaccessible. Following soon after Oberons funeral cortege, the elders enter the Courts. Benedict leads the forces of Amber in. The place seems deserted. All of the Houses of Chaos seem to have retreated into their closed realms, and sealed themselves in. The elders arrive at a plaza on the far side of the Courts as Dworkin is about to consign Oberons body to the Abyss. Dworkin mumbles something. Corwin speaks a eulogy, as does Random, then the body is consigned to the Abyss. Benedict sets up a huge occupying garrison in Chaos and the surrounding shadows. The prisoners who were captured at the battle by the Abyss are imprisoned in camps set up in inhospitable areas a few shadows away from the Courts.
- Between now and 12 PPF Gerard is Regent of Amber, with the assistance of Vialle, who he recruits to help him. He spends much of that time trying to keep the Golden Circle together, and deal with the large numbers of Chaos stragglers who were left behind after the war. For the first year or so of his Regency there is starvation in Amber as food shipments from outside are cut off, but this stops once Gerard re-maps the shadow paths into Amber from outside.
- 12 PPF. After Corwin and Random make Trump contact with Gerard (as far as they are concerned, right after the end of the War), most of the family of Amber return the Amber City. Fiona and Benedict do not. Random is crowned King in Amber. Gerard swears loyalty to him. After considerable study, Fiona manages to disassemble one of the smaller closed realms. It seems there could be whole worlds within the larger ones. Benedict begins to set up fortifications and the like around Chaos. He also advises on new defences for Amber itself. Corwin travels to his Pattern with Fiona and has what becomes as Castle Rosa built there.
- 13 PPF. Armies, apparently led by Dara, boil out of several of the entrances into the closed realms of the lords of Chaos. Benedict drives most of them back, but not without losses. He does not seem happy to be fighting Dara. Fiona attempts to open one of the closed realms to Benedict's forces. She screams 'No!' and falls catatonic. Fiona is brought back to Amber to be cared for.
- 16 PPF. Corwin and Merlin go to explore whatever lies beyond Corwins Pattern. They have not been heard from since.
- 18 PPF. Random sets up a garrison force to guard and watch Corwins Pattern, under the command of Lord Rein.
- 20 PPF. Julian's daughter Margot is born.
- 23 PPF. The last time Martin is heard from. No-one has been able to contact or find him since.
- 32 PPF. Benedict leaves the occupying forces under the command of Lord Shannon Feldane, and leaves into Shadow.
- 41 PPF. Simultaneous attacks from many of the closed realms in Chaos nearly drives the Amber forces out of Chaos before Benedict is called in, and decimates the Chaos attackers, driving them back into their realms. In the process, despite attempting to avoid it, he kills the Chaosites leader, Princess Dara, in single combat.
- 52 PPF. Bringing in a small army of creatures from Shadow, Bleys attempts to take the throne of Amber. He Trumps an elite force into the Castle itself, and attempts to take the throne in a surgical strike to remove Random and Vialle and replace them with himself. Only Caine's raising of the alarm stops this from occuring, leading to hours of bitter and bloody battle through the castle, before Bleys flees (after which his troops are quickly defeated). With him he takes the catatonic Fiona. Neither one has been seen since. Julian spends several years hunting Bleys through shadow, to no avail - all of his known haunts (such as Avernus) seem to have been deserted, and the trail is cold...
- 60 PPF. Julian's daughter Esmée is born.
- 71 PPF. Several shadows, formerly on the fringes of the Golden Circle and which used the chaos after the Patternfall War to break away from Amber, march on Amber. They are led by some kind of vast, very real, dragon-creature. They lay siege to Amber.
- 72 PPF. Benedict leads an army raised in Shadow while Gerard and Caine take on the dragon. Caine distracts it while Gerard lands the killing blow. With the dragon dead, the other attackers are routed, and their shadows occupied, forcing them into the Golden Circle anyway. The bones of the dragon are still a hazard to shipping, poking out of the water about ten miles out to sea from Amber.
- 75 PPF. Caine's son Caleb is born.
- 80 PPF. After a period of political upheaval in Rebma, Llewella emerges as Queen of Rebma. The fate of Moire is never discovered.
- 103 PPF. An ambassador, Morred Telgadi, appears from one of the locked realms in the Courts of Chaos, wishing to negotiate with Amber for the removal of the occupying forces from Chaos. With him he brings Evander, apparently a son of Brand born in the Courts. Telgadi's negotiations fail and he returns to Chaos.
- After the return of Morred Telgadi to Chao, the destruction of the Courts of Chaos takes place, apparently at their own hand. With their destruction, the vast majority of the Amber
military forces who occupied that end of reality are stood down, leaving only a nominal garrison force.
- Between 103 PPF and 112 PPF. Random declares an amnesty for the Chaos prisoners, now that their home is no more, and they are released into more hospitable shadows. Evander walks the Pattern, several times in fact. He also spends a good deal of time off exploring shadow.
- Amber's housing laws are reformed.
- Shadow becomes a generally nicer and more just and more law-abiding place, in reflection of Amber doing the same.
- 112 PPF. Now. The centenary of Randoms taking the throne of Amber is soon to be marked with huge celebrations in Amber and throughout the Golden Circle.
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