Favourite Amberite?

[Richiehead]

Originally Posted by ghost8772

I liked Fiona.......... but then again I was always a sucker for a redhead.

Me too !

From the second series charcters, I have a soft spot for Luke

[kshRox]

Corwyn of course is my favorite Amberite.
The true hero overcoming his personal demons to then protect the realm and that onery bunch of buzzards and witches, er - uh-hmmm, I mean his family.

Eric is my second favorite.

Come on everybody, even Corwyn came to realize he wanted Amber because Eric had it, not because he wanted to serve the Kingdom.

Eric also did the right thing when he was dying and it came to the well being of Amber which Corwyn initially did not. It was his own curse manifested by Brand he had to save Amber from.

Corwyn could have been or become Eric had he been the better swordsman before spending a few centuries in the dimension of Earth practicing his martial art.

Eric could have also killed Corwyn twice, both times however he spared his life and banished him - once physically without his memory, the second time firguratively by taking away his ability to control shadow.

After Eric my favorite Amberite was Oberon.

One tough SOU (son of a Unicorn) who put that ignorant idiot Gerard back in his place when he needed it. He left Amber often because with his scheming children staying in Amber too long at a time he probably would have wound up with a permanent bedroom in the family graveyard.

Corwyn also acknowledged that had Oberon designated an heir that most likely would have been the equivalant of signing a death warrant.

After Oberon I liked Brand.

Yea, Brand was the villain but he took them all on and damn near came out on top. Only Corwyn was able to match him and that was as much by sheer will, cunning and luck as it was by talent and strength. Brand had become a living trump, the ultimate sorcerer.

1. Corwyn
2. Eric
3. Oberon
4. Brand

Oh my God, thinking about it makes me want to read it again.
To me The Chronicles of Amber will always be the first 5 novels.

I'm not sure what the second five were or were all about but they certainly weren't Zelazny.

[Snowdog]

I pretty much liked them all from the first five books, they were all so distinctive. Corwin comes first of course, second would be Caine.

In the second set there were some characters I didn't like. Merlin was only just OK but I took a dislike to Luke and kept hoping someone would bump him off (especially as he killed Caine!).