Yarlun was born over 200 amber years ago Amber time (about 250 subjective) to ______. His father is Gerard and Yarlun was born three minutes after his twin sister Autumn. In his youth, he was constantly picked on by his sister, who is bigger, much stronger and much stupider (is that a word?). Although this rivalry did settle down a fair bit after Yarlun discovered how to enter someone’s mind and psychically attack them. Autumn was severely taken aback by this stunt. And although Yarlun withdrew after reaching the inside of her outer conciousness, he had proved his point. Relations improved from then on, discounting small rivalries and differences. In most things, Yarlun had to be the brains of the two of them as Autumn can sometimes, how shall we say, be ‘a tad on the slow side’. When the twins were 40, they were introduced to their birth-righ, the pattern in Amber. For many years, the twins spent their time learning all that they could from Gerard about the pattern (while he wasn’t away of course). Eventually he pronounced that we had learnt all that could be tought by him. And so, Autumn and Yarlun leftthe realm of Amber and went their seperate ways.
After a couple of decades, Yarlun discovered his shadow with a combination of hellriding to his shadow of desire with using his budding powers of sorcery to guide him to his ultimate choice.
The shadow that he found was very strange in many ways. First, it has a strange combination between fantasy and technology. Manticores live side-by side with conventional weapons. The fantasy element contains dragons, demons, golems, hydras, mermaids etc. The technology level is about on par with that of Earth (year) 2010. When he first got there there was a thousand ways to get in and out, Yarlun changed all that, leaving only one shadow path leading to Earth. The defenders were the same, ie they existed but spread out in no particular defensive network. Yarlun also fixed that. His mastery of his shadow came slow but sure in a time frame of a century (it’s time [about 1/2 that in Amber]). BTW it’s only a couple of days from earth. It’s metal poor (needs in trade with Castagir for tech increase).
This shadow sparked an increased interest in his sorcery powers and so set off to broaden his horisons. Yarlun so then set off to discover more shadows which contained more useful spells for his sorcery. During this time Yarlun also expanded upon his knowlege of conjuration. This took him about a century shadow time (about a decade or two less Amber time). During this time, while Yarlun was learning about sorcery, he got so ANGRY with a particular shadow that something inside of him snapped, and the shadow was destroyed. Yarlun has no idea whatsoever about how this occured but he has been trying to find out. Also during this time Yarlun discovered the ‘dark circle’, a series of shadows surrounding the courts of chaos. And so, Yarlun discovered Castagir, a strong trading influence in the CoC area. As Castagir was always looking for new trading oppertunities, Yarlun was talked into establishing a trade rout between their two shadows. In return, Castagir gave Yarlun Holdt in return for the favour of a new source of trade resources. So, now Yarlun’s shadow has two shadow path entrances.
After a time, Yarlun finally decided that he had better start getting back to Amber to catch up on the affairs that he had missed. (about a year before NPiA).
Holdt : (holt) is an animal that I recieved from Castagir in return for trading oppertunities from my shadow. His true form is somewhat like a sleek purple (large) cat. This was how Yarlun first saw him, although Castagir did promise that Holdt did have other uses than just looking cute. Yarlun is still surprrised when Holdt accomplishes something strange.