Who's your favorite character in Mordant's Need?

"Reflect" on Stephen Donaldson's other epic fantasy

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Favorite character in Mordant's Need?

Castellan Lebbick
2
6%
Terisa
2
6%
Adept Havelock
2
6%
Geraden
4
13%
Artagel
9
28%
Artagel
9
28%
The Domne
0
No votes
Prince Kragen
1
3%
King Joyse
0
No votes
The Tor
1
3%
Darsint
2
6%
 
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The Termigan was a flinty old guy... :D

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I voted for Geraden. To me he has all the qualities that I love in a man. (boyish charm and loveability, honesty, loyatly, self sacrificing...sigh) Ok, I know that is sappy but I don't read romance novels and this is as close to romance as Donaldson gets. (in my limited reading..I haven't read any of the short stories - just TCTC, MN & the Gap series) :oops:

I couldn't help but wonder why Teresa was the only woman on the list of choices. My second favorite was Lady Myste. I know she had a pretty minor roll but I really liked her character. Much more so than Elega. She seemed more pure and true. Elega will always have a ring of betrayal surrounding her in my eyes. I know she was justified, at least in her own mind, and forgiven later but I still don't like her actions.
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OOPS! :oops: probably because who ever made this poll is a man and didn't think it throughly through!! I really dug Myste 2. And my secret fav character is: Quiss, actually! If MN Vol III is ever written I'd rather have her run Orison than any1 else...but...u probably couldn't blast her out of Domne w/a nuclear bomb!
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I went for Artagel, too. A very nice guy, very honest and trustworthy. Geraden and Myst are also favorites of mine. :)
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Yes, I liked Geraden and Myste, too. Both very likeable characters.

And what about Torrant? She turned up late in the book, shy and blushing, but really showed she had a lot of spunk and courage!

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Torrent and Myste are both cool. I'm not that crazy about Elega, though. :?

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Prince Kragen. He's my favorite so far. :D
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I am not that crazy about Elega either.

I am on the fence about Prince Kragen.

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I could not find my favourite in the poll :( . When I read MN (rather long ago, and it was quite a while since I reread them too), I fell head over heals in love with Gart. It was probably in a time of my life when I only fell for bad guys (oohh, Alan Rickman... ) :wink: I wrote a short story trying to explain why he became what he became when I was around 14 I think. My teacher at the time did not fancy it... :lol: Still think Gart is fascinating though.

Oh - what nose! Oh - what voice! Oh - what swordsplay! :lol:
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Ylva Kresh wrote:I fell head over heals in love with Gart. /.../

Oh - what nose! Oh - what voice! Oh - what swordsplay! :lol:
I, for my part, got hung up on that nose/swordplay thing and could never get past picturing him as an evil Cyrano de Bergerac... ;)

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i voted for adept havelock, for the simple reason that he was tha man!

i mean, i'd vote for anyone who could walk thru a flat mirror, survive and manage to repell huge chunks of stone propelled from huge catapults with only a mirror... while insane no less!

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Teresa. If any of us were thrown into her circumstances, with her background, I don't think we'd do half as good. She displayed brilliance at times, determination at others, and just plain-old trustworthiness throughout the whole ordeal. Sure she made mistakes, like trusting Eremis, but that only proves how clever she was to figure him out.
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Am VERY late to this topic thread, but what the heck:

I missed Myste being on this list, but that's okay, for I'm not p*ssed, 'twill be the Tor who gets my vote, his empathy deserves my note.
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