On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Robyn, Duke of Amber wrote:

 A seies of novels by Roger Zelazny....
 The first chronicles a great guy Corwin and his epic struggle to gain a
throne in a multi-verse sort of like the reality of Plato's cave. (until
you realize that with the first
person perspective ..well...maybe he's not that great... but then neither
are any of the other characters...
 The second series of books is about his son Merlin... who is actually a
quite a
bit nicer....bit still has his bad points...he has the tendancy to turn
into a...well a...deamon when he gets pissed off....it's all his mother's
side of the families fault...
     There is also a diceless game (which of course stresses character
over statistics) which usually is considered to take place with the
(nonexistant) relatives of Merlins' generation.

I'll find them and read them, but from the looks of things, it will not
fit well except as a subsection of the omniverse that we've created.  It
is based somewhat on documents of a historical group.  Ask Jeanne for
details.

Hitomi

Ichinohei Hitomi
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