Amber with only 2 novels....

[Dilvish]

Suppose that Roger wrote Nine Princes in Amber and then The Guns of Avalon and then quit writing Amber.

How would the Amberverse be different? Would it be better or worse?

[Dilvish]

[glow=red,2,300]A shortened timeline:[/glow]

Nine Princes in Amber
Corwin escapes Greenwood, goes to Flora's house
Corwin finds Flora's Trumps
Flora attempts to return to Amber, fails
Random arrives at Flora's house
Corwin and Random set out for Amber
Corwin and Random take Julian prisoner in Arden, release him
Corwin and Random save Deirdre, go to Rebma
Random sentenced to marry Vialle
Corwin walks Pattern in Rebma
Corwin transports himself to Amber
Corwin and Eric fight
Corwin goes to Bleys, encamped at Avernus
Bleys and Corwin make alliance
Corwin makes deals with Gerard and Caine to open the seas
Corwin contacts Oberon and Brand by Trump, both weakly
Corwin and Bleys build force, attack Amber, fail
Bleys falls off stairs, Corwin taken
Eric crowned
Corwin blinded, imprisoned, fed by Lord Rein
Corwin escapes to Cabra with Dworkin's help
Corwin stays with Jopin at the Lighthouse
Corwin resists Trump contact, decides to leave Cabra

The Guns Of Avalon
Corwin goes to Lorraine
Corwin meets Lance, travels to the Keep of Ganelon
Corwin meets Lorraine, the girl
Someone attempts to contact Corwin once more
Corwin and Ganelon defeat the Black Circle
Corwin and Ganelon travel to Avalon
Benedict romances Lintra, then kills her, losing an arm
Benedict defeats the hellmaids
Dara is born in Chaos (great-grandfather is Benedict)
Corwin and Ganelon meet Benedict
Corwin meets Dara
Ganelon kills Benedict's servants
Corwin gets diamonds and gunpowder
Corwin and Ganelon leave Avalon, encounter Black Road
Corwin saves girl from Black Road
Benedict chases Corwin, fights, loses
Corwin calls Gerard to help Benedict
Corwin gets guns on Earth
Eric begins major battle with Black Road
Corwin visits old house, reads Eric's message
Ganelon and Corwin go to Riik to collect troops
Ganelon and Corwin march on Amber
Dara arrives in Amber
Corwin wins battle at Amber
Eric dies in battle
Corwin and Random go to the Pattern
Dara completes the Pattern
Dara claims "Amber will be destroyed"

[Finarvyn]

Now this is an interesting thought. Just using the two novels as inspiration gets rid of all of the "Merlin Cycle" certainly, and I suppose a lot of the information about the Courts of Chaos.

I was planning on re-reading the Amber series as soon as I finish the new Dresden Files book, and maybe I'll take some notes on this.

[keltset]

There is a lot of discussion about whether the second (Merlin) series is canon or not. Chopping Corwin's series off after two books puts a different spin on it.

So we have Corwin recover, fight up Kolver, get imprisoned, escape, then come back to confront Eric. That does seem to make a nice starting point for a campaign. I assume that the point would be like a Throne War where everyone would then be fighting to be King of Amber in Oberon's absence?