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From: robert@fear.UUCP (Robert Plamondon)
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Subject: Re: Amber
Message-ID: <282@fear.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 11:00:36 EDT
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Summary: Rinaldo didn't have to walk the Pattern

In article <4015@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>, SBALZAC%YKTVMX.BITNET@UCB-VAX.Berkeley.EDU writes:

> Someone brought up the point that Rinaldo could have walked Corwin's
> pattern and then destroyed it.  First of all, to walk Corwin's pattern
> supposedly requires being of Corwin's blood (ie his descendant), in
> which catagory only Merlin falls.

Why assume that Rinaldo walked the pattern at all? If my memory
serves me, he is never shown walking through Shadow; he draws Trumps
and uses them instead. Trumps can be drawn by people who have never
walked the Pattern --  Merlin drew a number of Trumps while still at
the Courts of Chaos (see The Courts of Chaos, Chapter 1).
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		Robert Plamondon
		{turtlevax, resonex, cae780}!weitek!robert