"'Yes, I remember Avalon,' he said, 'a place of silver and shade and cool waters, where the stars shone like butterflies at night and the green of day was always the green of spring. Youth, love, beauty - I knew them in Avalon. Proud steeds, bright metal, soft lips, dark ale. Honour...'"
Ganelon, talking of the original Avalon, 'The Guns of Avalon', Chapter 1
A roughly 18th Century shadow, peaceful and somewhat idyllic, though with a chequered and violent past. It is a kingdom, but is really ruled by a senate assembled from the noble families of the land. Most buildings are similar to those of shadow Earth in the 18th century; the exception are the houses of the nobles, which are plated with an un-tarnishing silver metal found in the shadow; many of the houses sport tall, ostentatious silver towers.
According to Corwin (in 'The Guns of Avalon', chapter 4), this version of Avalon (and perhaps his original Avalon, too) has a sky like that of Amber, and woodland very much like Forest Arden.
There was a King Corwin in Avalon, long ago, and a Ganelon who was his right hand man.
The city of Avalon, the capital of the shadow, has a somewhat medieval feel to it - most of its buildings are relatively old. It is surrounded by hills, has a population of several thousand people, and lies on a river, which cuts through the city to the south. A dozen or so silver towers jut from the roofs of the Senate House, the Royal Palace and several of the houses of the noble families in the area around it. Flocks of birds wheel over the city, and bright pennons and banners fly from the towers and rooftop flagpoles around the city. A mellow haze usually hangs in the air. In the city are the jewellers who produce the rouge which was used by Corwin as the gunpowder which, at the time, worked in Amber.
Some miles from the city is the Field of Thorns, the site of an old battle, when someone named Ganelon put down a group of bandits led by a man named Jack Hailey.
Benedict is still Protector of Avalon, and maintains several residences there. The small manor house where Corwin stayed lies roughly ten miles from the city. It is an undecorated whitewashed stone manor house with a slate roof, on a hillside with views for a great distance over landscaped grounds, which extend for several miles in all directions. There is a large garden behind the house, divided up by high hedgerows; in one place there is an old stone bench at foot of oak tree. Other parts of the gardens have shrubbery and flowers. Attached to the manor house are stables and assorted other outbuildings. To the left of the manor house as one faces downhill is an orchard, and beyond that a water mill runs off a stream which runs down the hillside. Around the side of the hill to the right as one faces downhill is a grove of saplings in a declivity; where Dara buried the bodies of Benedict's servants.