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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Amber
Message-ID: <1588@shark.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 07:09:05 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 20 07:09:05 1985
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References: <4015@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <282@fear.UUCP>
Reply-To: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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Summary: 

In article <282@fear.UUCP> robert@fear.UUCP (Robert Plamondon) writes:
>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).
>-- 
>		Robert Plamondon

Sorry, but at that time Merlin was an Initiate of the Logrus.
I suspect from hints in Courts of Chaos that a Trump is impossible without
intimate knowledge of the Pattern or the Logrus, and that Rinaldo may be
an Initiate.  It may also be that there are other ways to become a shadow
walker, perhaps by using a magic ring or some such thing?  In any case,
Rinaldo shadow-walks in pursuit of Merlin (ok, so anyone can shadow walk
by following a true Shadowwalker).  But Rinaldo also draws trumps of
places prepared as traps, and this indicates that he can find or create
things in Shadow.  I suspect he would have to get there somehow to do
the trump; Merlin seems to have this limitation.

Hutch