1) Caine - While lacking in power and in a great power, the religious fanaticism with a pragmatic leninist disregard for fairplay and telling the truth makes this ruler of Valdrusia (renamed Acquitania) Creation's most evil overlord. Some of his misdeeds include:

Numerous attacks on Haven
the Seth/Simon Caper
The Bucky Mistreatment
Infinite crimes against House Mecklenberg
Shooting Lord Brand in the neck and making him go mad
Writing Das Kapital and leading to the disruption of the whole 19th C world order
The Overthrow of the Romanovs and the murder of millions under Leninism/Stalinism
The circumstances causing the Creation of the Third Reich
Bela Kun's take over in Hungary
The Mullahs of Iran
Sodamned Insane in Iraq
Mohammed's visions and the subsequent attacks on the Byzantine and Persian Sassanid Empires
The revolution in Munich though badly run led to the white terror and later to the politicization of Thule
The sinking of the Titannic
The Mary Celeste
The Iron Curtain across Europe and Eastern European Terror
the Vietcong
the First through to the Thirteenth (sic) Communist International.
The Trillium War
The Circumstances leading to the Massacre in Yggport
The framing of King Blake and the illegal trial by Eric
The storming of Amber City
The destruction of Amber's lands and manors
the burning of bishops and destruction numerous times, of the Church of Amber
Numerous other crimes against the Royal Cornelian Family and its many many many houses.
Cabin boys

2) Delwin

Atrocities against Haven
Kidnapping and petfarming young Reinhard making him into the monster we known and love
Crimes against House Mecklenberg
Atrocities in two world wars and the cold war
Forming the SA in Germany
Practicing black magic and evil black rituals
Human and family sacrifice
Divorcing Jasra and stealing her son, Robert
backstabbing his allies numerously
Making secret treaties with Caine
Assassination attempts on Kelric
Trying to destroy Haven numerously
Kidnapping and causing Queen Claudine of NS to be with child
Kidnapping and trying to immolate Jason
Operating horrible petfarms and conducting numerous abductions

3) Random

Most incompetent evil overlord
Ran out of his kingdom - twice
Beating his wife, Vialle
Being a drunk
Being short
Persecuting Kelric and his friends
Trying to harrass and shut down Haven
Confiscating land belonging to good people
Kidnapping and almost burning young Kirk of Rolandae
Running out on the pregnant Moire's daughter and indirectly contributing to her suicide and fathering Martin.
Being so horrible that his mother hanged herself after he was spawned.
Playing drums horridly and using awful jazz music
Letting Martin go punk.
Being a nitwit when Merlin was trying to get things done.
Harrassing Luke.
Being rude and harassing Queen Jasra
Lowering Amber to condescending levels with the minions of the Golden Circle
Driving Amber bankrupt.
Swearing in Court
being anti Haven and worst yet, Anti Kelric
Trying to destroy the Ghostwheel Project
Patternfall Treaty. A new Verseilles Treaty
Drinks takes drugs and gambles before and after in Texorami
wrecking Flora's furniture many many times
The Rolandae blockade
The Great Division of Creation Conference trying to make Parys and Brandenberg both territory of Amber.

4) Brand

For Making Brandenberg closed off to HBC and shooting reporters
For threatening to take Kelric apart for vivisection to see 'what he's made of'
For trying to spread Brand worship into Haven which is illegal
For making Jasra wear emeralds though she hates them
For making everyone like his whacko art
For his role in Darbin Inc and Grand Design's economic powerhouse role in Earth Prime.
For not killing Caine and for occassionally allying with creep Delwin

5) Bances Amblerash

For being a tiresome old windbag spreading woe.
For calling Haven a liberal radical nest of revolution
For trying to undermine Haven by trying to set up his religion in town
For claiming the throne of Amber because the name sounds like his last name
For manufacturing the massacre at Yggport
For not standing up to Mandor and using Blake to overthrow Merlin
For claiming to be the voice of Swayvillism
For claiming Haven has lax morals
For leading and instigating the killing of Rilga and destroying her soul. This while not undeserved, led to more ferocious Rilgaite activity when the movement was dying.

6) Aven

For trying to kidnap and force Tabitha to marry him
For massacrering thousands of aliens and people at Yggport
For trying to claim innocence and framing his co-conspirator Art
For misrule in Umbria
For stealing money from Bances collections box
For being the prime ritualist in the murder of Rilga and destruction of her soul.
For killing his brothers and sisters in the Linchester explosion moving him to third from the throne.
For having weird eyes and using them as magical items
For trying to blow up Amber

7) Paolo

For the Don Paolo line which keeps Creation from helping influence and guide Amber shadow
For killing Sands grandson
Mordred's ears
Ricks hands
For numerous riots in Amber by Guild members
For sabotaging Blake's canoe factory in Amber City
For punishing his step daughter and slapping her
For executing his wayward wife
For takign holy orders and becoming a Cardinal like Richelieu / Mazarin
For an unholy alliance with Amber
For an unholy alliance with Rolandae
For being the best dressed while appropriate villain

8) Tiberius "Tibby" Von Mecklenberg

For shooting the president of Haven Broadcasting Corporation
For setting up the Bureau of Mecklenberg Affairs
For claiming to be the Boss of all people of Mecklenberg descent
For kidnappings of thousands of high blood and their incarceration in petfarms beginning in 1945.
For continuing to keep these pet farms
For lying about their existance
For instigating the BMA protest at Haven Parliament
For being a greedy redhead who slaps tariffs on Haven
For not having the same treaties and co-operation with Haven that Reinhard has
For claiming to be be King Finndo's legal heir instead of King Kelric.

9) Sand and Julian (tied)

(Similar to Delwin and Caine respectively)

10) Rory

Installing Slavery in Ardor
Killing Haven agents and harrassing others
Being a hypocrite about blood rituals
Getting jollies in rituals while untying ropes upside down in a dark closet while being bled to make gold while having the butler/ritualist throw cold water on his body.
Being Anti Haven
Being a bad influence on Oberon
Spreading Brandism and Brand worship
Secret Petfarms on boats
Piracy
Burning ships at docks
Economic brutality
Being very much a stereotypical greedy talkative redhead giving nice redheads a bad name
dresses like a bum
Married to a male talking cheetah
Sending spies and saboteurs into his brother Jason's territories
Having an affair with Princess Sabine, Pepper, and Zariya at the same time
Writing for the national midnight star
Cabin boys
Being rude to the Mecklenbergs
Being rude to and threatening a Black Wolf

This text is copyright © Craig Lucas; "Amber" is copyright © Roger Zelazny; "Amber" the diceless RPG is copyright © Phage Press. No copyright infringement is intended.

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