דוורקין

**‎תפריט האתר: אמבר , פרקי הסיפור , דמויות , בני המשפחה , ממשל ומשטר , ההיסטוריה המוכרת , גאוגרפיה ומקומות , כוחות, החיים היקום וכל השאר**

דוורקין ברימן (לבית ברימן) מכשף, כומר או פסיכיאטר, אמן מטורף, גיבן פרוע עיניים וידיד המשפחה. יצר את הדגם ואת הטראמפים.

הם עוצבו כל כך, בפיקודו של אוברון, בידו של האמן המטורף דבורקין ברימן, אותו גיבן פרוע עיניים שהיה מכשף, כומר או פסיכיאטר.

לגבי ההיסטוריה שלו - מסופר כי המלך אוברון הציל אותו בצל מרוחק מגורל של אסון שדוורקין הביא על עצמו. הפרטים לא ידועים, אבל מאז אותה תקופה הוא תמיד היה קצת מטורף. ובכל זאת, הוא היה אמן גדול, ואי אפשר להכחיש שיש לו כוח מוזר כלשהו. הוא נעלם לפני שנים, לאחר שיצר את הקלפים והתחקה אחר הדגם באמבר. נראה שאיש לא יודע את מקום הימצאו. יש אומרים שאולי המלך העלים אותו כדי לשמור את סודותיו.

העוזרות האישית והמשוגעות של **דוורקין**: אורד, ורדנדי, סקולד - שלש אחיות או מכשפות.

**אירועים אחרונים:**

* איש לא ראה אותו מזה שנים.

**אזכורים:**

He was a small man. Tiny, might be even a better word. He was around five feet tall and a hunchback, his hair and beard were as heavy as my own. The only distinguishing features in that great mass of fur were his long, hook nose and his almost black eyes, now squinted against the light.

--Nine Princes in Amber

The second means is the cards, cast by Dworkin, Master of the Line, who had created them in our image, to facilitate communications between members of the royal family. He was the ancient artist to whom space and perspective meant nothing. He had made up the family Trumps, which permitted the willer to touch his brethren wherever they might be. I had a feeling that these had not been used in full accord with their author's intention.

The third was the Pattern, also drawn by Dworkin, which could only be walked by a member of our family. It initiated the walker into the system of the cards, as it were, and at its ending gave its walker the power to stride across Shadows.

--Nine Princes in Amber

They had been so designed, at the command of Oberon, by the hand of the mad artist Dworkin Barimen, that wild-eyed hunchback who had been a sorcerer, priest, or psychiatrist -- the stories conflicted on this point -- from some distant Shadow where Dad had saved him from a disastrous fate he had brought upon himself. The details were unknown, but he had always been a bit off his rocker since that time. Still, he was a great artist, and it was undeniable that he possessed some strange power. He had vanished ages ago, after creating the cards and tracing the Pattern in Amber. We had often speculated about him, but no one seemed to know his whereabouts. Perhaps Dad had done him in, to keep his secrets secret.

--Nine Princes in Amber

Turning, I saw him just beyond the threshold. About five feet in height, hunchbacked. His hair and beard were even longer than I remembered. Dworkin wore a nightshirt which reached to his ankles. He carried an oil lamp, his dark eyes peering across its sooty chimney.

"Oberon ", he said, "is this finally time?"

"What time is that?" I asked softly.

He chuckled.

"What other? Time to destroy the world, of course!"

--Dworkin & Corwin, The Hand of Oberon

"My flight from Chaos to this small sudden island in the sea of night? My meditations upon the abyss? The revelation of the Pattern in a jewel hung around the neck of a unicorn? My transcription of the design by lightning, blood, an lyre while our fathers raged baffled, too late come to call me back while the poem of fire ran that first route in my brain, infecting me with the will to form? Too late! Too late...

Possessed of the abominations born of the disease, beyond their aid, their power, I planned and built, captive of my new self..."

--Dworkin, speaking as if to Oberon, The Hand of Oberon

"I am the Pattern, " he said, "in a very real sense. In passing through my mind to achieve the for it now holds, the foundation of Amber, it marked me as surely as I marked it. I realized one day that I am both the Pattern and myself, and it was forced to become Dworkin in the process of becoming itself."

--Dworkin, speaking as if to Oberon, The Hand of Oberon