12th Abyss – Brownwater

The Twelfth Abyss is ruled by Queen Cymnea, the sister of Swayville the Golden, who was also the first Queen of Amber. Some people also refer to her as Queen Cybelle, for reason that I am not aware of.

There is a complication too, and this is probably the best place to tell you about it. There is a King of the Abyss. He’s apparently King of all of it. However, he seems to mostly be found in the 12th Abyss if you are actually looking for him. Personally, I would recommend not doing that. Pretty much every report I have heard of an ecnouter with him has been a bad news story. However, he is apparently the heir of the ancientg Abyss Kings who ruled the ancient Abyss Empire. Go figure!

Going back to Cymnea, she has a long biography. Cornelius’ daughter, by the Choas Mother of course. Married to Oberon of Amber, mother of Osriuc, Finndo and Benedict. Betrayed by Oberon, as he had an affair with Faella Karm, and ran back to the lovng arms of her brother King Swayville the Golden, and presented him with his daugter Swayvanna. Then had a brief go with her other brother Suhuy, to produce Princess Dáiríne and Prince Dáire, before getting back the serious business of killing sacred husbands, which she has a long track record of.

The nost notable thing about the 12th Abyss, is that if you dive into the Abyss hole that is right next to Thelbane City, and Suhuyways, that is where you always end up. Such oral histories as there are can only tell of one time when that didn’t happen, which was when Brand and Deirdre took their dive. Since the Abyss Storm, this will be even more so, as the kinetic energy of that Storm was used to actually jam the 12th Abyss into the bottom of that Hole, so it would act as a cork in a Champagne bottle, to protect Thelbane from destruction by the Storm. the 12th is now permanently fixed there.

Princess Tarassin of the 9th Abyss