Suhuy
Adapted from Erick Wujcik
He was a small man. Tiny, might be an even 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
Creator of the Trumps. Creator of Pattern. Hunch-backed with an unkempt white beard.
Nutty as a fruitcake.
To know him...
No. You can't really know Dworkin. You might talk to him, you might even get him to do you a favour. You can't understand this guy any more than you can understand a force of nature, or a planet.
This genial old geezer looks pretty dwarf-like, what with his long beard and hunchback and all. Don't let the looks deceive you, Dworkin's powers are deep and mysterious, and he likely knows more about Pattern, and Logrus, and Trump, and Magic, than anyone.
Unfortunately, conversation with Dworkin is risky, for he is quite mad. And, when the fits overtake him, he is likely to take the forms of demons, or worse...
Which kind of explains his whereabouts during PatternFall. Dworkin lived in a cave. A cave located next to the Primal Pattern itself. Occasionally Dworkin was locked in. A monster was always posted at the massive metal door of his cave. The monster is not there to protect Dworkin, nor is it there to protect you from Dworkin.
No, the monster is there to protect the Pattern from Dworkin, just in case Dworkin decides to erase his creation.
Even when Dworkin is sane, lucid, and more-or-less human (though he might be a dwarf, so the rumour goes) he is still dangerous. He may believe a lie, or not, and never let on. He may seem to help by accident, when it may actually serve a grand scheme. With Dworkin, you'll never know.
Dworkin hasn't been seen much since he led Oberon's funeral march into Chaos. Rumours have placed him in the Courts, in Amber City, wandering Shadow, or checking out Corwin's Pattern.
There aren't any Trumps of him, either.
No one knows who Dworkin's family might have been before he created Amber. If you believe the stories, the Unicorn is Oberon's mother! On the other hand, not everyone believes that Oberon was Dworkin's son.
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