DaraIndex | Time Under Chaos | Non-Player Characters | Dara She stood about a dozen paces from me, a tall, slender girl with dark eyes and close-cropped brown hair. She wore a fencing jacket and held a rapier in her right hand, a mask in her left. She was looking at me and laughing. Her teeth were white, even, and a trifle long; a band of freckles crossed her small nose and the upper portions of her well-tanned cheeks. -- The Guns of Avalon  "She told me that Amber, in the fullness of its corruption and presumption, had upset a kind of metaphysical balance between itself and the Courts of Chaos. Her people now had the job of redressing the matter by laying waste to Amber. Their own place is not a shadow of Amber, but a solid entity in its own right. In the meantime, all of the intervening shadows are suffering because of the black road. My knowledge of Amber being what it was, I could only listen. At first, I accepted everything that she said. Brand, to me, certainly fit her description of evil in Amber. But when I mentioned him, she said no. He was some sort of hero back where she hied from. She was uncertain as to the particulars, but it did not trouble her at all that much. It was then that I realized how oversure she seemed about everything-- there was a ring of the fanatic when she talked..." (Martin, speaking of Dara) -- The Hand of Oberon Where is Dara, mother of Merlin, Corwin's demon lover, Benedict's Chaosian secret? As far as anyone knows, not in Amber at all. Nor in Chaos. As far as anyone knows, she disappeared after the Battle of the Abyss, and hasn't been seen again. One popular story is that Corwin killed her - as he did Borel. Another, more secretly whispered, is that she was 'removed', so that she would not have any influence on Merlin. Dead or absent, Dara can be seen as a Chaosian heroine - a role that many would have been reluctant to ascribe to her when she was alive and/or present. What does Merlin think? He has never said. |
