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Ironwill2112

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These are my favorites in varying order.

  1. Kaladin 
  2. Sazed
  3. Hoid
  4. Teft
  5. Tensoon
  6. Lightsong
  7. Dalinar
  8. Vasher
  9. Szeth
  10. Marsh
  11. Adolin
  12. Raoden
  13. Rock
  14. Lopen
  15. Wayne
  16. Spook
  17. Rlaine
  18. Steris 
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Shardsplinter

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Virtually impossible to pick favorites when there's soooo much greatness in the Cosmere! But let's try.

Spoliers for everything the charachter has been on in my thoughts.

16. Adolin Kholin

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Barely didn't make it but he's so just damn lovable. How he cares for Adolin, Shallan, Renarin, Maya, and...well, pretty much everyone is amazing. He's earned his right to Ascend into my list 

15. Steris Harms

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She's just wonderful. I love how prepaired she is for everything and I think Era 2 is greatly improved in Bands with letting her shine a bit more. Not higher on my list 'cause Era 2 is not amongst my prefered Cosmere books.

14. Wan ShaiLu

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Not sure if I love her or I love The Emperor's Soul but tES is so Shai focused that I would find it hard to separate them. Either way, her views on life, art and realmatic theory are fascinating. She's a worthy Spotholder.

13. Sixth of the Dusk

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Great work on a charachter that barely talks and sees the world in a rather specific way. 

12. Lightsong the Bold (Stennimar)

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His charachter arc was my favorite one from Warbreaker. A god that doesn't believe in his own religion is an interesting idea, sure, but here it speaks to much more than just that.

11. Renarin Kholin

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He's a great charachter though I feel we haven't had enough of him to be able to fully tell. Everything happening with him is really interesting. Also, I'm not gonna lie. I'm loving the gay rep.

10. Elend Venture

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First off, I love how much of myself I see in him. That alone is enough for him to join the 16 chosen, but in general I find him to be very well written and with a very compelling and transformarive arc.

9. TenSoon

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My favorite non-human charachter. I love kandra, their culture and idiosyncrasy, and despict being somewhat of a rebel, TenSoon is our window into kandrahood. Other than that he's amazing, the moment he technichally betrays Zane to help Vin makes me weep and he was key to Sazed's recovery from his crisis of faith ( and, no spoilers but good old Saze might be kind of high on my list)

8. Vin Venture

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Is almost cosmerely acclaimed that Vin is one of Sanderson's best initial charachters. He did an amazing job of making her interesting and relatable. Her arc is one of the best crafted and with greater growth....and with so many cool reveals!

7. Navani Kholin.

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The most recent one to Ascend into my list. I always liked her but after RoW I had to give her spot. Her arc with Raboniel and finally accepting she's an amazing scholar was the best of the book. The Mother of Machines is here! Journey before Destination, you bastard!

6. Taravangian

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Best villain ever. Even on tWoK I was already loving his charachter. Note that I don't have to agree with his worldview to think it's very well executed. His machiavellian ways make some sense and I've actually found myself rooting for him at some points. Also, the whole Intelligence vs Passion thing makes for great storytelling. I was a bit disappointed his plans seemed to be defeated after OB but then in RoW....well, let's just say my list is not the onlything Taravangian has Ascended to...

 

5. Szeth.

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Szeth-son-Honor, Skybreaker sworn to the will of Dalinar Kholin, wore white on the day he was to be chosen a favorite charachter. It was love ay first sight...of the pages of tWoK. I read To Kill and insrantly knew this was a complex compelling charachter or whom I needed to know more about. From Truthless to Skybreaker, from enemy assassin to allied bodyguard, no one has paid a higher price to stay in the path of Honor.

4. Lift

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Her first Interlude is my favorite one in all SA. She was so fun, interesting and weird. And she's still surprising me. Then I read Edgedancer and realized how smart she actually is in her own strange way of seeing things. She's going to make an amazing SA backhalf charachter but she's already on my top 5!

Also, pancakes.

3. Hrathen

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Note that I already said Taravangian is my favorite villain. Well, what you are witnessing here is a full fledge hero in all his right. When Sarene says on his funeral something along the lines of "He was right all along. He really did came to save us all" after he said so many times he had come for that purpose and I had always thought "yeah, sure, you manipulative cremling", I cried like a lot.... You went to the Beyond a Hero and a Hero you stand on my list.

2. Jasnah Kholin

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Is Jasnah. Do I even have to say anything else? Count me in for a Jasnah fan club any day now. As a fellow Elsecaller, she's everything I wish I were. Counting the minutes until we get more of her in the back half. 

Also, I had to beg her not to make me smoke for giving her the second place...

1. Sazed

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May Harmony be with us. The theologist turned God is the best charachter arc ever. FIGHT ME.

Jokes aside, his arc really is incredibly  well crafted. So many things about him appealed to me reading Mistborn. His speech pattern, his faith (and lack of ir ay times), his quiet but rebellious spirit, his love of knowledge and of teaching.

Sazed, you are one of the greats. Never fade from human memory. If only one Coppermind must survive I hope it speaks greatly of you.

PS: I could've talked forever about this charachter; but this was just enough to explain my order without going into too much detail, I think.

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PS2: I asked Midius to Ascend into my 16 as he is, of course, one of my favorite charachters ever; but he refused. Apparently he has a reputation of rejecting this sorts of offerings that he has to uphold. 

Also, something about having to go 'cause Design didn't know where to put the coats on her bar. Weird.

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Duxredux

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I'll give a cheater answer like Brandon and say that my favorite character changes based on which book I'm currently reading and which character I'd like to be more like based on what's going on in my life. A lot of my favorite characters have attributes that in one way or another I try to emulate. The ones with character moments that I end up going back and rereading include: Dalinar, Kaladin, Kelsier, Vin, Lightsong, Taln, Raoden, Elend, Leras, Spook... 

If I had to narrow it down based on number of rereads... Kelsier, Kaladin, Leras, Dalinar, Taln.

I'm idealistic. 

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Rune

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Widely varying

1. Kaladin

2. Szeth 

3. Lightsong 

4. Hoid 
5. Painter/Nikaro

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Beodrakis

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On 5/9/2022 at 8:19 AM, AFdooda said:

3. Hoid (Participation award)

XD Participation

My list:

  1. Kaladin
  2. Dalinar
  3. Syl

My list of worst characters:

Moash,

Amaram

Sky Breaker

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1.  Wayne

2. Vyre 

3. Bridge four no particular order

4. Szeth ( but only in the first two) tied with Dilaf

5. Amaram 

6. Rashek 

7. Hrathen 

8. Taravangean

9 Rayse

10. Jezerian I like his conversation with dalinar when he’s ahu

 

 

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Ati16

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  1. Kelsier
  2. Vin
  3. Wayne
  4. Hoid
  5. Adolin

I need to put more thought into this, but these are the first top five I could think of.

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Faerie Braids

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This is really difficult! I love so many of them, and my list would probably be different every time someone asks, but here are my thoughts right now:

1. Shallan

2. Kaladin

3. Lift

4. Navani

5. Vin

With the back five being:

6. Dalinar

7. Wayne

8. Lightsong

9. Marasi

10. Yumi

And honourable mentions for Shai and Vivenna.

Ninth of the Night

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On 5/16/2022 at 7:36 AM, Toaster Retribution said:

I also just find villains/morally ambigous characters generally interesting. 

I agree with you completely. After several rereads I have grown to appreciate Amaram more and more. He's not among my overall favorites, but I see him as someone with good intentions who was heavily misguided. To the point that his ultimate fate is one of the saddest in the cosmere. If it wasn't for the outside manipulation he could have turned out to be a true hero, unfortunately he took the wrong path.

I also feel similarly about Moash, in fact I feel that way about every villainous entity in the cosmere. They're all just a product of one bad day. Makes them much more complex and interesting and that's why in order to list my favorite characters I gotta split it up between heroes and "villains" (of which I don't believe there are any truly evil characters in the cosmere... Except people like the Cinder King I guess).

 

The "good" guys

1. Kaladin

2. Hoid

3. Vin

4. Dalinar

5. Pattern

6... Lopen, Kelsier, Adolin, Shallan, Jasnah, Wax, Aux, Nightblood, Teft, argh too many fantastic characters!

 

Now for the "bad" guys

1. Lord Ruler

2. Amaram

3. Odium

4. Moash

5. Captain Crow? Enchantress? I dunno, cosmere needs some more bad girls I think

 

List is subject to change on any given day, aside from Kaladin who is locked in at #1.

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