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IMC: Coveting Amber

posted by Ginger at 11:19 AM, June 22, 2003 | Filed under : IMC , Traveller's Guide to Amber , Traveller's Guide to Paris | Comments and Followups

I’m skipping the first topic in the IMC meme on the grounds that nobody has been to Tir yet and talking about it could disclose many, many campiagn spoilers. I’m putting discussion of the second topic in the extended entry so people with spoiler allergies can avoid it.

Since the Sundering, many people have noticed that Amber isn’t quite what she used to be. Returning Amberites like Conner and Robin have noticed that things aren’t so grand, and even those who have remained have noticed that Amber is a little shabby, as if she suffers from a certain genteel and declining poverty.

Meanwhile, visitors to Paris, Corwin’s city, are reporting a different sort of experience. The following quotes are from a conversation between Jerod and Martin, the day before the coronation:

Valeria also made an unusual comment, something that got me wondering. She mentioned that Paris seemed much more alive, and vibrant. The kinds of comments you’d expect of someplace that was real.

There’s obviously a Pattern at Paris, because Merle walked one, and his description of Paris jibes with Valeria’s: alive and vivid in a way that Amber’s not any more.

So there are clues that suggest that the vibrancy and draw of Amber were linked to its Pattern and that the loss of the Pattern has somehow destroyed Amber’s allure. Only further exploration and the passage of time will see whether that theory will be borne out and supported by additional evidence.

Follow up: the trackback URL for this entry is: http://www.whiterose.org/MT/mt-tb.cgi/1839

1 Comments

Arref
Jun 23, 2003 4:22 PM

Oh, that's damn cool. Especially the tiny tidbits coming out in play. I love that kind of stuff.

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