He is considered the best swordsman in the world, followed by Eric (dead since The Guns of Avalon), then Corwin. Moreover, Oberon declared his marriage with Cymnea null and void, rendering all his children by her illegitimate. He chose to remove himself from the struggle for the crown, leaving Eric and Corwin as the eldest surviving heirs. Benedict is considered the master tactician of the family as well as the unmatched master of all martial weapons. "īenedict is the son of Cymnea and Oberon and the eldest living Prince of Amber. If he were, I believe that I would give up at this moment and pay him homage. It is fortunate that he has no designs upon the throne, or he would be occupying it right now.
Although he is inconvenienced by the loss of his arm, I would not wish to fight with him either with weapons or barehanded. He has commanded armies so vast that you could watch them march by day after day and see no end to the columns. He has often journeyed from shadow to shadow, witnessing variation after variation on the same battle, with but slightly altered circumstances, in order to test his theories of warfare. Can you conceive of a millennium? A thousand years? Several of them? Can you understand a man who, for almost every day of a lifetime like that, has spent some time dwelling with weapons, tactics, strategy? All that there is of military science thunders in his head.
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