Roger Zelazny's The Dawn of Amber (Dawn of Amber Trilogy)

The first volume in a new trilogy based on Roger Zelazny's Amber universe offers a prequel to the existing novels in the series, chronicling the lives of some of Amber's immortal characters and answering questions about the creation of Amber, the war between Chaos and Amber, and the nature of the universal, sentient forces represented by Amber and Chaos.