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{{quote| ''"Never trust a relative. It is far worse than trusting strangers. With a stranger there is a possibility that you might be safe." ''}}

{{quote|''"Never trust a relative. It is far worse than trusting strangers. With a stranger there is a possibility that you might be safe." ''}}

Also known as the Chronicles of Amber. A Fantasy series of ten books plus six short stories written by [[Roger Zelazny]], published from 1970 to 1996. Not to be confused with [[The City of Ember]].

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* [[Meaningful Funeral]] - {{spoiler|Oberon}} gets an epic send-off.

* [[Memetic Badass]] - Benedict is of course an epic-scale in-universe example of this, as seen above. Or with all the characters saying that if he ''wanted'' Amber, they'd all just have to roll over and submit immediately.

{{quote| "I fear Benedict. [...] He is the Master of Arms for Amber. Can you conceive of a millennium? A thousand years? Several of them? Can you understand a man who, for almost every day of a lifetime like that, has spent some time dwelling with weapons, tactics, strategy? [...] All that there is of military science thunders in his head. He has often journeyed from shadow to shadow, witnessing variation after variation on the same battle, with but slightly altered circumstances, in order to test his theories of warfare. He has commanded armies so vast that you could watch them march by day after day and see no end to the columns. Although he is inconvenienced by the loss of his arm, I would not wish to fight with him either with weapons or barehanded. It is fortunate that he has no designs upon the throne, or he would be occupying it right now. If he were, I believe that I would give up at this moment and pay him homage. I fear Benedict."}}

{{quote|"I fear Benedict. [...] He is the Master of Arms for Amber. Can you conceive of a millennium? A thousand years? Several of them? Can you understand a man who, for almost every day of a lifetime like that, has spent some time dwelling with weapons, tactics, strategy? [...] All that there is of military science thunders in his head. He has often journeyed from shadow to shadow, witnessing variation after variation on the same battle, with but slightly altered circumstances, in order to test his theories of warfare. He has commanded armies so vast that you could watch them march by day after day and see no end to the columns. Although he is inconvenienced by the loss of his arm, I would not wish to fight with him either with weapons or barehanded. It is fortunate that he has no designs upon the throne, or he would be occupying it right now. If he were, I believe that I would give up at this moment and pay him homage. I fear Benedict."}}

* [[Mind Your Step]] - Gerard insists there is a loose step on the stairs to the Pattern Room. <ref>[[Brick Joke|This one, damn it!]]</ref>

* [[Mirror World]] - Rebma and Tir-na Nog'th, and to a certain extent all of the multiverse apart from Amber and the Courts of Chaos. {{spoiler|And actually even them, although they're the very first shadow of their respective side's ''true'' world.}}

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* [[Tell Me About My Father]] - Dara takes this up to a new height, with a shrine to Benedict in her basement.

* [[The Strategist]] - Benedict is less a master warrior general, more of a primal font from which all such things flow. ''Corwin'' is scared of him. Quoting Random, with reference to a mighty Shadow serpent:

{{quote| "Benedict would not have missed the eye. He would have had one in each pocket by then and be playing football with the head while composing a footnote to Clausewitz."}}

{{quote|"Benedict would not have missed the eye. He would have had one in each pocket by then and be playing football with the head while composing a footnote to Clausewitz."}}

* [[There Are No Psychiatrists]]: Averted. Corwin has been a patient of Freud himself. {{spoiler|Dworkin, however, was placed in solitary confinement after he turned one of his psychologists into a frog. And refused to turn him back.}}

* [[Trickster Mentor]] - Dworkin.