Son of Oberon and Clarissa

Deceased

Then there was a figure both like Bleys and myself. My features, though smaller, my eyes, Bleys' hair, beardless. He wore a riding suit of green and sat atop a white horse, heading toward the dexter side of the card. There was a quality of both strength and weakness, questing and abandonment about him.

Brand was the last child born of the tempestuous union between Oberon and the hotheaded sorceress Clarissa: conceived during a brief reconciliation that preceded their final divorce. An artist in a family of warriors - perhaps he was doomed from the start. He studied forbidden lore, bought terrible secrets at unspeakable prices... was slain, in the end, in a last-ditch effort to prevent him from destroying the world in order to remake it in his own image.

And yet Brand was also one of the better friends in the family, loyal and (barring the pendulum-swing of his moods) dependable. His intellect and insight were considerable. Had his sanity only been equally so, who knows what he could have been?

In the mythology surrounding the royals' Trumps and the Tarot in Amber, Brand is frequently depicted in the Wheel of Fortune card: whether as the man-figure that accompanies lion and eagle and bull in the card's four corners, or as one of the humans sitting atop or being thrown off the spinning wheel.

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The quote above is from Nine Princes in Amber, by Roger Zelazny.