Son of Oberon and Faiella

Missing

Green eyes, black hair, dressed in black and silver, yes. I had on a cloak and it was slightly furled as by a wind. I had on black boots, like Eric's, and I too wore a blade, only mine was heavier, though not quite so long as his. I had my gloves on and they were silver and scaled. The clasp at my neck was cast in the form of a silver rose.

Corwin is the oldest surviving child of Oberon and Faiella - and the first one certain to be legitimate, though Eric was older. Their rivalry and enmity was as legendary as Corwin's song, and ended only with Eric's death.

Though Corwin ruled Amber in essence for a brief time, he did not choose to take the throne; he assisted Random with the mechanics of transfer of power, saw his son Merlin across the Pattern and recognized in Amber, and then vanished. His current whereabouts are unknown, and he does not answer his Trumps.

In the mythology surrounding the royals' Trumps and the Tarot in Amber, Corwin is frequently depicted as Poietes (a card not analogous to any of the Earthly tarot, representing the work of creating and making and crafting of all kinds): he bears a guitar in his hands and a bared sword at his feet, and blood trickles from his fingers to seed roses where it falls.

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