Strongest Female Character

Post by **Stead** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 2:39 pm

I had to throw it to Myste. Myste rocks.

I don't count Terisa as a contender, because she's the empty vessel who has to learn from these other role-models.

Post by **Torrent** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:48 am

Edge wrote:
No, just provoke debate. I think I succeeded rather well.

BTW: At this time of year I always feel like reading the MN books. Remember that scene when Terisa first looks out of her chamber window and sees the smoking chimneys, and it's really crisp and cold? It reminds me a lot of the view from my desk at home. And it's starting to get really cold here. I could even take a short walk down the street and go to the Christmas fair and ask for Geraden's favorite dish (Domne-something). Feels like virtually living in Orison.

I wonder if SRD's Orison was based on any actual medieval town/castle? Or at least 'inspired by'? It feels so real. And it must be so completely different from New Mexico or India.

Post by **danlo** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 12:19 am

"She had dreamed once of snow..."

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 12:23 am

Well, Donaldson did live for awhile in the Great Lakes area of the USA, in Ohio. They get a ton of snow down there in northern Ohio. No castles like Orison, though.

Post by **Myste** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:55 pm

I always pictured Orison as looking very like Carcassonne, in France.

Post by **Nathan** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:34 pm

I pictured it smaller.

Post by **matrixman** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:41 pm

Nice photo, Myste. I pictured Orison as being somewhat smaller, too. Not sure why. Maybe because SRD did not describe it in great detail (unlike Revelstone), so I only have a bare, minimal impression of it?

This French castle is quite picturesque (I guess all castles are?). The place should do nicely if a Mordant movie is ever made.

Post by **danlo** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:56 pm

We really should start a new topic where folks can offer castle images.

I like Myste's offering but I picture it higher simply because of the reservior and the vaults above it...

Post by **Myste** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:59 pm

That is a good point--maybe it's time for some Photoshopping!

I like Carcassonne for Orison because it gives the impression of being huge and sprawling, a place you really could get completely lost in for days and days--a place that has been added onto over centuries in a mostly haphazard way, with horrible dungeons and oodles of secret passages....but it does need some more really tall towers, and a place for the reservoir...

Post by **Torrent** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:30 pm

danlo wrote:"She had dreamed once of snow..."

Actually, I did have a 'dream of snow' after you wrote that, danlo.

Now put that mirror down and get out of my bedroom, will you?

Post by **danlo** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:44 pm

woo hoo!

Post by **Revan** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:59 am

Queen Madin, obviously, people are just choosing their favourite female characters, I think. It's said several times that Queen Madin is the strongest female.

(i didn't vote for her because I didn't see the name till it was too late)

Post by **sarah** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:21 pm

Of course Lebbick's wife has presence. It's her that makes Lebbick what he is. I voted for Queen Madin though. When she leaves Joyse she's doing what she thinks is right rather than what she wants to do and she has an influence on all three princesses. Quiss is a good candidiate too in a quiet way.

Post by **Khat** » Mon May 30, 2005 11:57 pm

I had to say Quiss. Being a mom and reading how effortlessly she handled the children, prepared dinner, took care of Da, and helped make Theresa feel at home makes her the strongest woman in mordant.

Post by **Cord Hurn** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 7:25 pm

Khat wrote:I had to say Quiss. Being a mom and reading how effortlessly she handled the children, prepared dinner, took care of Da, and helped make Theresa feel at home makes her the strongest woman in mordant.

This post convinced me! I voted Quiss. Come to think of it, she doesn't have her own topic thread, here. I'll have to fix that!

Post by **Cord Hurn** » Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:25 pm

Cord Hurn wrote:
Khat wrote:I had to say Quiss. Being a mom and reading how effortlessly she handled the children, prepared dinner, took care of Da, and helped make Theresa feel at home makes her the strongest woman in mordant.
This post convinced me! I voted Quiss. Come to think of it, she doesn't have her own topic thread, here. I'll have to fix that!

I really need to make good on this promise, sometime in the not-too-distant future.

Post by **Shuram Gudatetris** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 11:14 am

That's a good point about Quiss.

Myste is probably my favorite character, but I hovered over Elega for quite a while before making my decision. Elega was strong throughout the whole story, but Myste came into her own at the end. She got shot in the face, and she marched into Kragen's camp and stood up to her sister. I felt like she grew to be Elega's equal by the end, which made me see Myste's strength on the rise, while Elega was holding steady, so I was swayed and voted Myste.

I was surprised to see the result after I voted. I thought it was going to be Elega by a landslide! I shoudve voted with my head and not my heart lol

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