The Keep of the Thirteenth Hour

Introduction

Characters will most likely initially know nothing of Amber or the Courts of Chaos but that depends to a certain degree on whom their Amberite parent is.. They may potentially know nothing or very little of their Amberite parent but if they have Chaosite blood (are a Shapeshifter) they may know anything between everything and nothing of their Chaosite parent (if one of their parents is a Chosite then they need to determine which House - see Choosing a Parent but they also need to read "Chaosites are Everywhere!".). If they knew their Amberite parent, then they last saw them when they were a teenager, some time prior to their 16^th birthday.

Despite your parentage you will not have walked any of the Patterns (broken or otherwise) and will not have assayed the Logrus! If you went to Amber at all, then it was likely before your 12th Birthday and it was only a brief visit (between 1 and 7 days Amber time).

Character Points

Characters will be generated using 160 points. 

Attributes

Characters must allocate between 40 and 80 points to attributes. 

NPCs and Additional Characters

There is one NPC whom is available as a Player Character. This character is a pre-gen with established background. She is critical to certain elements of the plot, so she will always be present even if a Player chooses not to play her. There will be the usual cardre of NPCs in the background, one of whom has other critical roles to play at certain points.
Bringing additional characters in after the Campaign start is difficult and I may opt to add a couple of 'skeleton' NPCs in that a late joining player can take on.

Mundane Skills

Characters should allocate between 10 and 20 points to named mundane skills. These skills should reflect their chosen background.

Choosing a Parent

I'm not going to pick your parent for you. You need to decide who you wish your parent(s) to be. However, there are a few things you need to bear in mind. To be able to walk the Pattern you must be one of Oberon's grandchildren, and to assay the Logrus you must have a parent who is or was a member of one of the Houses of Chaos.

If you have both Blood of Amber and Blood of Chais and your mother was one of Oberon's daughters then you are automatically an orphan brought up somewhere either in an orphanage or by adopted parents. There is no record of who your real parents are, only that you were found abandoned or that you were given up at birth!

If you have both Blood of Amber and Blood of Chaos and your mother was a member of the Courts then she was in human form when she met your father on the shadow where she was either exiled for a capital crime against the Courts or she is or is descended from a member of the Courts who fell through a Crack in the Weys and survived (you did read "Chaosites are Everywhere!". didn't you). If your mother was an exile you are unlikely to be treated well should you enter the Courts and your true parentage is discerned.

Of the daughters of Oberon, Fiona and Florimel are known not to have any children. Of the two, Florimel is unlikely to have abandoned any child and is known to have been on Shadow Earth for the period 1970 through 2003. This means that you would need to have been born prior to this in a 'slow' time shadow.

Corwin's history is also recorded. He arrived in London, England in 1666 during the Great Plague. He stayed in England for a while before travelling in Europe and settling in France, until the Second World War when he moved to back England. In 1970 he moved to America with his English Chinese girlfriend, who in 1973 bore him a daughter. He lives with them until 1977, when he moves to his own residence in, New York. He disappears in 1987. Until his disappearance in July 2002 his whereabouts are chronicled. This means he is unavailable as a Parent.

This leaves the rest of the children of Oberon as potential parents, Brand, Bleys, Benedict, Eric, Caine, Julian, Random, Gerard, and Deirdre; although Dierdre died in June 1995 at the end of the Patternfall War. Having developed the AiRP campaign there is actually another possible parent, or the descendant of another Amberite, but you need to be familiar with the Books and specifically ask as there are complications with this background and it's constrained in terms of starting shadow and timeline.

If you have Blood of Chaos then neither Dara nor Jasra can be your mother. Your Chaosian parent is from one from one of the following houses Hendrake, Helgram, Sawall, Chanicut, Jesby, Amblerash, Barimen, Minobe, or Ballentine.

Whatever your parentage you should arrange your history so that you start the game with an age of between 25 and 35.

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