It is implied that nobody could successfully repair the damaged Pattern perfectly, or reproduce it as it originally was – and that their own personality would be inevitably imprinted on it in the attempt.
The Jewel of Judgment is revealed to be the left eye of the Serpent of Chaos, stolen by the Unicorn at some point in the very distant past.
It eventually ends up serving as a replacement eye for Coral, allowing her to see the "clear, cold lines of eternity".
An additional power gained from the successful navigation of the Logrus is the ability to "pull" desired, non-specific objects out of Shadow worlds.
Prospective initiates of the Logrus generally receive advanced training, but success is dependent less on knowledge than on will.
In addition to the danger of dying, some who have attempted the Logrus have experienced permanent cerebral damage, though this fate tends to happen only to those who are weak-willed or not of full chaosian blood.
Dworkin and Suhuy apparently are / were friends; although they seem to be opponents during the later events of the novels, their ambiguous conversation overheard by Corwin[4] hints that they could possibly be secretly collaborating.
Naturally, the Pattern is recognized as a symbol of order in scholarly analysis,[5] and as such has been described "as the antithesis and rival" of the Logrus, the sign of chaos in the novels.
[8] When it is revealed in the novels that the Pattern itself has its origins in Chaos, this may have been written as illustrating Edmund Husserl's arguments regarding the production of that which is considered objective from subjective phenomena.
[9] Krzysztof M. Maj saw the Pattern as the "symbolical gate" linking our empirical world with the fantastic one of the novels, comparable in function to the wardrobe in The Chronicles of Narnia or the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland.
[11] Olga Valikova praised the Pattern as an extraordinary instance where an architectonic image plays a central role in a literary work and compared it to the organizational principle of the novel Singing Stones by Kazakh writer Aslan Zhaksylykov.
[12] Jane M. Lindskold proposed that the ability granted by the Pattern to its initiates, to "create new realities simply by imagining a place and then going to it", could be a metaphor "for Zelazny's thoughts on writing as a form of creation".
[13] In one analysis, the Logrus has been construed as a rival metaphysical entity to the Unicorn of Amber, not the Pattern, with the climax of the Merlin Cycle a conflict between these forces.
[14] Esoterism scholar Kateryna Zorya remarked that the terms "Pattern" and "Logrus" from Zelazny's novels, like other influences from Western fantasy, have found their way into post-Soviet magical practice.
[15] In Pro Perl, Peter Wainwright makes a punning reference to the Logrus and the Pattern in an example of regular expression usage.