Fav 1st Chrons Character?

Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:46 am

I couldn't fit any more but I think I got all the main players.

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:57 pm

Foamfollower.

Post by **[Syl]** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:33 pm

No Covenant?

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:08 pm

I wasn't gonna mention that...

Choosing between Foamfollower and Mhoram is impossible. And really, Amok is way up there for me, too. If any of those three hadn't already been taken, it would have been my name here.

Post by **AjK** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:15 pm

I had to go with an "other": Caerroil Wildwood.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:25 pm

Excellent choice.

Post by **AjK** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:34 pm

Good call on Amok, too! His aging and whistful sadness once his purpose had been served was very touching.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:40 pm

Yeah, definitely! Here's my favorite Amok bits. (Pasted from another thread. Heh.)

The Ranyhyn were eager for a run after long days of constricted climbing, and they cantered out onto the flat rock. With surprising fleetness, Amok kept ahead of them. He laughed as he ran, and even increased his pace. The Ranyhyn stretched into full stride, began to gallop in earnest, leaving Covenant's mustang behind. But still Amok's prancing step outran them. Gaily, he led the riders east and then south down the center of the plateau.

"By hell," Covenant muttered. "By hell."

"Indeed?" said Amok with a boyish grin that seemed to light up the laughing curls of his hair. "Well, that is not for me to say."

Irritated by Amok's riddling, Drinishok interposed, "Boy, do you bear knowledge that belongs to the Warlore?"

Amok laughed. "Old man, I was old when the grandsire of your grandsire's grandsire was a babe. Do I appear to be a warrior?"

"Can it be used to defeat the Despiser?"

"Power is power. Its uses are in the hands of the user."

"Amok," Amatin said, then hesitated. She seemed almost afraid of her next question. But she clenched her resolve, and spoke it. "Does the Seventh Ward contain knowledge of the Ritual of Desecration?"

"Lord, Desecration requires no knowledge. It comes freely to any willing hand."

Abruptly, she lifted the Staff of Law, held it horizontally before her like a weapon. "Amok," she commanded, "place your hands upon the Staff."

The youth looked without flinching into the authority of her face. Slowly, he obeyed. His hands rested lightly between hers on the rune-carved wood.

She gave a high, strange cry. At once, fire blossomed along the Staff; viridian flames opened from all the wood. The blaze swept over her hands and Amok's; it intensified as if it were feeding on their fingers. It hummed with deep power, and radiated a sharp aroma like the smell of duress.

"Kevin-born Amok!" she exclaimed through the hum. "Way and door to the Seventh Ward! By the power of the Staff of Law - in the name of High Lord Kevin son of Loric who made you - I adjure you. Tell me the name of the Seventh Ward's power!"

Covenant felt the force of her command. Though it was not leveled at him - though he was not touching the Staff - he gagged over the effort to utter a name he did not know.

But Amok met her without blinking, and his voice cut clearly through the flame of the Staff. "No, High Lord. I am impervious to compulsion. You cannot touch me."

"By the Seven!" she shouted. I will not be denied!: She raged as if she were using fury to hold back a scream. "<I>Melenkurion abatha!</I> Tell me the name!"

"No," Amok repeated.

Savagely, she tore the Staff out of his hands. It's flame gathered, mounted, then sprang loudly into the sky like a bolt of thunder.

He gave a shrug, and disappeared.

And, his final moment:

"Ah, Kevin! Life is sweet, and I have lived so short a time! Must I pass away?"

Post by **Seven Words** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:04 pm

I went with Mhoram. Something incredibly MOVING about his charge against Satansfist, the narration, knew himself to be capable of Desecration, and refused to be driven to it.

Post by **danlo** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:08 pm

Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:48 am

I wasn't going to include Cov...he's the 'tagonist.

Post by **[Syl]** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:08 am

Then I vote Bannor.

Post by **AjK** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:21 pm

Fist and Faith wrote:And, his final moment:
"Ah, Kevin! Life is sweet, and I have lived so short a time! Must I pass away?"

Beautiful.
Must we all.

Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:57 pm

Looks like A might give M, FF and B a run for their money

Post by **danlo** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:03 pm

Well, my other vote still counts as I pick Trell.

Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:10 pm

If Other is one of the top picks, I'll probably do a top four+others to make sure (30 day poll, here).

So, if one of the Other is really your fav, go ahead and cast a second vote. I think M, FF and B will blow the rest away though.

Post by **Blackhawk** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:27 pm

Looks like I evened up the popularity of Mhoram and Foamfollower.

I had a hard time choosing between Mhoram and Foamfollower but Foamfollowers run through the lava and burning off all his old injuries mental and physical topped it for me.

Post by **Zarathustra** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:40 pm

This poll is the most difficult of all the recent polls. The 1st Chrons had the best characters. I love Troy, Elena, Amok, Mhoram, FF, the giant ravers, Wildwood, Bannor . . . all the them. I can't decide.

Post by **matrixman** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:12 am

I would have to go with Bannor. His personal journey moved me the most (besides Covenant's).

That doesn't diminish the awesomeness of some of the other major characters, but Bannor is my guy.

Post by **Prince of Amber** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:05 pm

Foamfollower - what can I say? I love those Giants.

Kevin's Watch

Kevin's Watch