Summarisation: Amber's parents are not her biological ones. The "crazy madman" on the Rock of Bral is her paternal Grandfather, her real parents are both dead, slain in an attack by Azman, the first (see, Plotlines - Vampires). Her adoptive parents are farmers on Spiral. She is half-sister to Marduke, (alias Shiela), male thief, whom her father sired in an affair before his marriage. Blade, the day-walker, has sworn to protect her, saving her in the above attack by Azman.
Amber's family hails from Druidspace. There her grandfather is the keeper of lore at the circle of light (basically the librarian for the great Druidic prophecies). Her father, like many other inhabitants of Druidspace, was not actually a druid, but a noble (at least as noble as they get in Druidspace), unfortunately indulging himself in a life of typical arrogance, debauchery, and abuse of nature. While the druids do not, in general, particularly like this (see Spheres - Druidspace), they allow such lifestyles in their homelands (explained in the previously listed document).
After many sordid affairs, in one of which he produced the boy, Marduke, he settled down with a very vain, and selfish woman (quite like himself), leaving the sphere, hiring helmsmen, and purchasing a small yacht. They travelled for perhaps five years, throughout many of the known spheres, until their ship was attacked by Azman the first (Plotlines - Vampires), several other vampiric minions, and Blade (PC). Ordering Blade into the sunlight upon the deck where four year old Amber had run, after seeing both her parents harvested (although in actual fact her father was not killed, his blood distasteful, and as such he was instead sold to some drow slavers), Azman was shocked in Blade's betrayal (Plotlines - Vampires). The daywalker leapt from the ship with Amber, and the piece of the Dark Power artifact (Plotlines - Vampires) she wore around her neck as a good-luck charm.
After drifting in wildspace for a time, Azman unable to track them. Rescued by a Tradesman crew, they were dropped on spiral, after Blade swore to protect Amber, to calm her down in her shocked, panicked state. He left her with a farming family, who had no children of their own. As she grew, eventually forgetting the traumatic events, and that she was adopted, something seemed to pull her to nature, and she became a druid. Wandering the planet, after rescuing a young wolf cub, she soon met Giles, soon to be her lover.
Meanwhile, Amber's half-brother Marduke, unknowingly to her, was in the same sphere. Marduke left his family at a young age, after his father discovered, through a divination, that his wife had been unfaithful and that the boy was not his son. He wandered the streets of the city for some years, and became a very adept thief. Eventually, he made his way to Bral (as all good thieve's do), to ply his trade in one of the most exciting cities of all the spheres. Therein, he travelled into Bral's underdark drunk, to prove his "manhood" to a colleague, attempting to steal what he could from some Drow, which he had never heard of (see Plotlines - Two Great Houses).
Soon captured by the three priestess's, Matron Faere, Lady Laela (Both members of House Arabani), and Lady Beanche (a member of the Rogue house, Mylyl, infiltrating Arabani's ranks), he found himself tortured, both of mind and body, and received the intiate attention of the two younger drow, whom took a liking to his form. Citing that, while he would die, at least he had had "a few good fucks with some damn hot bitches", he greatly (obviously) angered the drow, and they took their revenge using an artifact to turn him into a woman. Escaping, unknowing what had happened to him (the drow underestimating the once-males abilities in escape, especially with his slightly thinner bone structure), and was rescued by a noble paladin. The paladin took the half-naked woman to a temple, where she was healed, clothed in simple items, and placed in a bed.
Waking up, startled at her condition, Marduke broke out of the temple through a window, taking her items and money, and racing to a known thief safe-house. Purchasing her items over, she fled the safe-house quickly, and ran towards to docks.
By an extreme coincidence, Marduke ran about the ship Phoenix, of which Amber was part of the crew. Unknowingly, she had just fulfilled a prophecy given only days before by their mutual grandfather, that the boy lost would find his feminine half, and his half feminine, on the rock which holds its course. This, of course, lead the old man into space, to travel to the Rock of Bral, where he hoped to find his wayward grand-children.
From shipping records, rumours, and scattered prophetic images, her pieced together the story of what happened, and eventually made contact with Amber - not revealing his identity - but was unfortunately too late, Marduke was already dead. Saddened by his grandson(daughter)'s death, he was, unfortunately, still bound by prophecies of old to keep his identity hidden, but to approach Amber, and begin to train her, she who would be the Star Child, the bearer of Twins of Dark and Light, the Destroyer of Druidspace, Uniter of the straying Stars and Shadows, The Woman who could not touch the Man, and the Scourge of the Fool.
Amber is, unknowingly to her, currently pregnant with both Giles' and Targis' progenies. The symbiotic lifeform attatched to her, known as the Starwing plant (See the Druidic Faith of Space), normally attaches itself to a member of the opposite sex. In Ambers case however, the Starwing bonded to her is female. Normally, when a druid falls in love, it is typically with another druid, and the female starwing plant the male druid carries, and the female druid herself, become pregnant through sexual act, which is part of their initiation (to experience the creation of life itself, and the balance of both male and female sides) to the druidical heirachy. Amber, of course, fell in love with both Targis (The psionic black dragon known as Aragorn) through magic, and Giles (The forgotten gold dragon known as Enerithan), through similarities of heart and mind.
Having intimate relations with both (Targis for a short time, under his charm potion, and Giles shortly after, once broken free of the enchantment) her Starwing plant took both the seeds and, with time (as Druids normally gestate their children for longer) impregnated her, and itself, with the highly magical seed of each (magical due to the draconic heritage).
Prophecy tells of Amber's children, one of light, and one of dark. They are to be the spheres's redemption, yet Amber is to be Druidspace's destruction. Of the two plants produced by the Starwing (apart from the fact that Starwings only ever produce one seed), one shall become the Wildspace Druid's greatest vision, while the other shall become their nightmare. A prophecy also exists, known only to Amber's grandfather, and the other grand druids of the past, that Amber's Son and Daughter (the girl being Giles' daughter, the boy being Targis' son) will, for a time, fight long, hard, and terrible battles, after Targis steals the half-black dragon boy, and raises him as his own. Eventually, however, they will make peace, and the boy shall prove his allegiance by sacrificing himself in the cause of good, turning against his Blackguard nature, and becoming a Paladin like his twin sister.
Prophecies of Amber tell of her being the greatest, and most internally destructive Grand Druid of all history, and all future. She is to become known as the Star's Child by the recovery of the druids highest mental powers (the ranked druids of wildspace actually semi-multiclass to psionicist). She is to bear the children of Darkness and Light. She is to re-unite the Wildspace Druidic order with the split now known as the Phlogiston Shadow Druids. She is to Destroy the homesphere of the druids to summon the power to defeat the armies of the Vodoni. She is already the only druidess to ever bond with a female Starwing plant. And furthermore, she is to destroy the most powerful Lich ever seen, known as The Fool, by psionically igniting a very Dracolichic Giles, then The Fool's Spelljammer (once he attains his goals, see Plotlines - The Fool), and the oncoming Vodoni fleet of 6 million warriors. Quite a dramatic end, to a lot of plotlines, but It is not the only one.
The last prophecy of Amber, which is to be her first given, is that the Druidic power of prophecy shall manifest itself wholly in her, and never again be seen in space.