Trying to find a book with a character called 'Random'

[Angreal28]

Hi everyone. Long time follower and I posted a bit a while ago but misplaced my account details...anyway...

Read a book a few years ago that I can't remember the author for. I assure you this is not the ramblings of a mad man...

The premise was a group of brothers / sisters lived in a house / castle in their own world. They had the ability to change plains effectively and live in different times / places in different worlds. They were always at each others throats (literally trying to kill each other) to be king/queen or in charge of something. They spot a unicorn in the woods a couple of times and there are a few battles, one eventually being on their front door.
One of the brothers (main character I think), get's captured at one point, blinded and put in prison. He eventually heals, draws a picture on a wall then walks through it and ends up on a beach near a light house (nuts, huh?).

Can't remember the name of anything but one of the brothers who was called 'Random'

Any idea what this might have been please?

 

[Hex]

It's Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny. Yey! One I knew.

(though I'm not sure I remember the unicorn...)

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

The unicorn might be in one of the other books in the series. But this part:

One of the brothers (main character I think), get's captured at one point, blinded and put in prison. He eventually heals, draws a picture on a wall then walks through it

is definitely, as Hex says, Nine Princes in Amber.

 

[Angreal28]

Yes yes yes thank you, exactly the one!

Amber was the place I was trying to remember.

Cheers both!

 

[Ray McCarthy]

one of the other books in the series

I've read a different book in the series and certainly I felt it was this series, but not the one I read. I look forward to reading the rest of them.

 

[SilentRoamer]

Yeah I read this one only last year. Very enjoyable adventure.

 

[HareBrain]

There's a unicorn on the cover of my collected Chronicles of Amber, so there must have been one somewhere in the sequence, but I don't recollect it.

 

[SilentRoamer]

I have only read the first book Princes in Amber and definitely no Unicorns in the first volume.

Maybe the OP read one of the collections (I think the first 5 books make one of the collections).

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Amber is exporting ...
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e5a7/

Available from Amazon.

 

[ashewyntr]

The unicorn is sacred to the house of Amber; considered a symbol of the Pattern. It has appeared to nominate the true heir to the throne, and at moments of import.

 

[Hex]

I totally forgot that. On the other hand, I read them when I was a teenager, so I'm allowed to have forgotten some of the things I read then. Never forgot Corwin's blinding and imprisonment, though, or Random.

 

[Angreal28]

The unicorn is sacred to the house of Amber; considered a symbol of the Pattern. It has appeared to nominate the true heir to the throne, and at moments of import.

its the moments of import bit I remember. Only makes a couple of appearances if I recall.

I can't entirely remember if I read all or one of the books. I know it was pretty long whatever it was there was a a fight on a round stone plateau or something guarded by a dragon type thing towards the end.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I can't entirely remember if I read all or one of the books

If you read them all, I think you would remember. It's a very long series.