Some Recent History in the Courts

Some important recent political events, liberally interspersed with some good gossip. Chances are that anyone who doesn't have their head in the sand has heard all this.

• Duke Shemiaka Chanicutt siezes the lands of the Orange Brotherhood and has their captain executed for treason.
• The Captain of the Orange Brotherhood curses Shemiaka and all his children with his dying breath.
• Shemiaka dies suddenly at a state dinner.
• King Vere Swayvil marries Sive Jasby.
• Rebecca Minobee, the unmarried daughter of the Duke, gives birth to a son. No father is acknowledged.
• Duchess Madelen Chanicutt dies of a wasting sickness. Unusually, she is succeeded by her brother rather than her daughter.
• Queen Sive Jasby Swayvil commits suicide by throwing herself from the top of Thelbane.
• Vere Swayvil assasssinated by Uriel Jasby at the Queen's funeral. In addition to most of the important members of House Swayvil, members of a number of other houses are killed in the confusion. Storm Minobee manages to get the more important members of some of the other Houses to safety.
• Uriel Jasby declares himself Emperor. Houses Minobee, Bariman, and Nyborg support Uriel. Other Houses grudgingly acknowledge Uriel when they realize Minobee has a number of their heirs and other important members as their "guests".
• Duke Tybalt Minobee named Lord Chancellor of Chaos.
• House Swayvil systematically destroyed.
• House Hlurle raised to a duchy and given the old Swayvil lands.
• Baron Jakov Harnack, Lord General of Chaos, begins to publically call for the forces of Chaos to destroy Amber.
• Chaos goes to war with Amber.
• Rebecca Minobee gives birth to a daughter. Again, no father is acknowledged.
• The forces of Chaos lose a major offensive against those of Amber in a battle at the foot of Kolvir.
• Uriel Jasby is overthrown and arrested by a coalition of Great Houses. He commits suicide in prison. Jakov Harnack is killed resisting arrest.
• Uriel Jasby's daughter Morganna is assassinated before she can be arrested.
• The coalition makes Staffan Helgram King of Chaos.
• The forces of Amber launch at offensive against Chaos proper. After a token battle, in which the Keeper of the Logrus is killed, Staffan surrenders to Amber.
• Brand and Deirdre fall into the Abyss.
• The funeral procession for Oberon Bariman passes through Chaos.
• King Staffan appoints his cousin Suhuy Helgram the new Keeper, with the support of the Dukes of Hendrake, Sawall, and Minobee.
• King Staffan and the new king of Amber, Random, make a treaty of peace. The forces of Amber return home.
• Staffan bans meddling in certain risky and poorly understood magics.
• Rebecca Minobee gives birth to another daughter, whom she names Kamil.
• Duke Gramble Sawall formally adopts his stepson, Merlin Helgram, son of Dara Helgram Sawall and Corwin of Amber.
• Staffan begins to strengthen the power of the crown by taking a more active role in happenings in and around Chaos.
• Rebecca Minobee is challenged to a duel by Harrison Hendrake, apparently on behalf of his cousin Kamil, with whose husband Rebecca is reputedly having an affair. Rebecca is killed in the duel.
• Staffan is assassinated. His bachelor son Edward becomes King of Chaos.
• Gramble Sawall dies. Merlin becomes Duke of Sawall. The Harnacks complain loudly, but are largely ignored.
• The nephew of the Duchess of Ardas narrrowly escapes being poisoned. The suspected poisoner commits suicide.
• Kamil Minobee is kidnapped from her home.
• Duchess Tore Ardas is assassinated. She is succeeded by her brother, Laurent.
• Kamil Minobee turns up unharmed in her home.
• Laurent Ardas is invested as Duke, acknowledging his son Tomas as his heir and presenting hitherto unknown son Jarath to the guests.
• A number of young lords of Chaos are presented to the King and court.
• The Keeper of the Logrus and Tomas Ardas are badly injured in an accident in the Logrus. Rumor abounds that it was assassination. The Logrus becomes highly unstable for several days until Suhuy recovers and stabilizes it.
• The Duke of Hendrake is rumored to have fought (and beaten) Dara Sawall in a twelve hour duel.