Corwin of Amber in Popular Culture
In the game NetHack, Grayswandir appears as a powerful artifact silver saber that protects its wielder from hallucination.
In Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, typing in "Corwin of Amber" activates the game's cheat codes. The summoning of non-human armies from another dimension to lay siege in the case of The Horde in the Warcraft series also closely mirror the events in the climax of Nine Princes in Amber.
In Lost Souls, the magical sword Grayswandir appears as a rare artifact longsword that destroys items of chaos on contact.
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Famous quotes containing the words amber, popular and/or culture:
“Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
To the dead Mother’s face, whose subtile down
You had not seen take amber light alive.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
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—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
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—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)