Name: Malachi
Amber Parent: Brand
Normal Parent: Nimue
Shadow of Birth: Lavedi
Childhood: Apprenticed to a painter from a very young age. Rarely saw his mother.
Adulthood: Some time during his late teen years, he was discovered engaging in... less than scrupulous... acts with the daughter of his painting master. Kicked out of the only trade he knew, he eventually persuaded a rich socialite to take him in as a painter. Her household magician discovered Malachi's potential and began to teach him; Malachi returned the favor by learning everything he could and then killing the man in an "experiment." During this period, he discovered the Broken Pattern and someone to take him to it; he rarely uses its power to travel, instead concentrating on controlling his home Shadow.

Name: Panthea
Amber Parent: Osric
Normal Parent: Rebecalla, daughter of General Lewis of Amber
Shadow of Birth: Northern Plains of Amber
Childhood: General Lewis settled with his pregnant daughter just south of the plains,

in a frontier town, right after the war finished. He had earned retirement and took it and the pension, beginning a life of gardening with his daughter. This provided sufficient income to keep both Rebecalla and her daughter Panthea in high style. Panthea's childhood was spent gardening, and traveling to the memorial built to her father and his brother. She always knew she was a child of Amber.
Adulthood: After the death of her grandfather, her mother wasted away and died as well. Finding nothing else to bind her to her home, Panthea set out for Amber, determined to find a way to walk the Pattern. She did, by taking the ghostly Pattern in Tir-na Nog'th with no knowledge of how to do it, except that gleaned from a ghostly version of her father. She traveled then, out of Amber and into Shadow.

Name: Shae
Amber Parent: undiscovered
Normal Parent: Aleanor, daughter of an assassin-friend of the king
Shadow of Birth: Al-Rassan
Childhood: Little is actually known about her childhood. This indicates either that she is extremely old, or has managed to obliterate all who knew her then.