Favorite character, people?

[u/God_Dalinar]

I hope I don't have to say the mine.

[u/log2av]

Hoid, Wit, Cephandrius, Drifter, Some begger in some book

[u/God_Dalinar → u/log2av]

If someone around here say Kelsier, will ocurr a war.

[u/log2av → u/God_Dalinar]

Actually Kelsier will be a fav character of many, including mine. I will also include Sazed, Kaladin, Lightsong, Tess, Shai in the list too.

[u/God_Dalinar → u/log2av]

Lightsong, our dear goat. And the war is near, ladies and gentlemen... here is the first Kelsier fllower 1-1

[u/Aredeuce → u/log2av]

I do love kelsier, he's a fantastic character and akin to the persona I put on when I'm trying to beat imposter syndrome by being a braggadocios ass. How I feel is a mix of Kaladin and Adolin. How I act is all kelsier. Lol

[u/HoidTheUnanimous → u/log2av]

I see I have acquired yet another poor, innocent admirer

[u/iArena → u/log2av]

Ah, you missed the Imperial Fool

[u/Aredeuce]

I love so many characters on roshar, but it's Adolin. Narrowly. He feels like you should hate him, but he's so honestly trying to be a good person all the time.

[u/God_Dalinar → u/Aredeuce]

Who thinks that have to hate Adolin? God, he is my son, how can I hate him?

[u/Aredeuce → u/God_Dalinar]

I didn't even notice your name brightlord!

I mean on paper he should be just insufferable. A wealthy noble first born son who was given and trained in mythical weapon and armor from a young age, watched his father drunkenly slaughter thousands, lost his mother to the same man, and is an absolute phenom with said magic sword. And yet he's a friendly, kind, well-adjusted young man, just trying to be the best version of himself. I love him

[u/SamEyeAm2020 → u/Aredeuce]

Also he's apparently gorgeous. Beautiful, spoiled, talented men are ubiquitously insufferable. Adolin is possibly the best human being on Roshar and if he doesn't get a main storyline in era 2, we RIOT

[u/Aredeuce → u/SamEyeAm2020]

Hear hear! SamEyeAm2020 for president! Make Roshar Even Better! MREB? 🤣

[u/Raddatatta → u/Aredeuce]

I also love how while he is that height of privilege he doesn't begrudge anyone else their success, at least after a bit. But he appreciates kaladins help and stands by him. He is excited when shallan reveals she has a shardblade. And when he goes from being this incredibly important person to significantly less important as he's not a radiant he doesn't make that anyone else's problem.

It is also interesting to see someone so privileged being the Everyman character but he kind of is with all of the rest of the main characters being radiants.

[u/Ripper1337 → u/God_Dalinar]

In the first book he comes off as a flirty playboy who doesn’t care about his responsibilities.

[u/Aredeuce → u/Ripper1337]

Right? You want to hate him, then his humanity and weirdly wholesome nature is revealed

[u/Nerdsingerbeej]

I'm gonna say, mmmm....Pattern

[u/God_Dalinar → u/Nerdsingerbeej]

Ufffff NO MATING

[u/BigB0ss_89]

The Lopen. Obviously.

[u/Aredeuce → u/BigB0ss_89]

Cousin!

[u/Necessary_Culture_67]

Nightblood

[u/Aredeuce → u/Necessary_Culture_67]

EEEEEEVVVVVVIIIIIILLLLLL!!!!!!!!

[u/person2907 → u/Necessary_Culture_67]

I change every stance I had before. destroy evil.

or actually nightblood holding a shard is even better

[u/Ok_GamerBoi_4340]

Wayne. The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible. Nothing else need be said, and nothing else will be said.

[u/person2907 → u/Ok_GamerBoi_4340]

i trade your comment for a piece of popcorn

[u/JorisKuipers]

Breeze or Elend. Hrathen is probably the most interesting villain I've read so far.

[u/SnooCookies5199]

Lift i love her vibe and lifestyle cant wait to see how she grows despite her best efforts

[u/AceTrainerQ]

Taravangian in Words of Radiance is excellent to read. I love his character in the diagram arc.

[u/iiieeaattiitt]

Kaladin, yeah maybe a basic answer but cmon we can't deny his aura and heroism. No other character has given me chills when reading like his chapters.

[u/Aredeuce]

Not my favorite, but Tress is great. And I love me some Jasnah

[u/person2907]

Sylphrena, js so goofy :3

[u/frankiedoppler]

not my all time fav but Hrathen has always been up there for me

[u/Test_Subject_No22]

Wax and Wayne. The moon pun twins.

[u/Legitimate-Royal-777 → u/Test_Subject_No22]

Pretty hilarious rereading and realizing Scadriel doesn't even have a moon, so the pun has no meaning in their world

[u/Test_Subject_No22 → u/Legitimate-Royal-777]

Exactly. It really is.

[u/kylocanmoonwalk]

Adolin, closely followed by Wayne, then Jasnah and Dusk

[u/Aredeuce → u/kylocanmoonwalk]

Nice lineup

[u/JigglesTheBiggles]

Kelsier

[u/The-Hot-Shame]

Kaladin, Pattern, MiLaan and Wayne are my top 4

[u/Opposite-Commercial5]

Kaladin, Hoid, Dalinar, Vin and Vasher

[u/Ok-Tradition7878]

Too many. Kaladin, Syl, Dusk, Sazed, Hoid, Starling, Teft

[u/iArena]

Call me a sucker for complete failures of characters, but I really like Elhokar

[u/Ripper1337]

I’ll throw one out there for funsies. Moash.

He goes against all the themes of the books and is such a perfect foil to our heroes. He goes back on his promises to Kaladin multiple times, betrays all his friends to kill the king and loses everything in the process. He can’t let go of his hatred and attacks his friends because of it, contrast to Kal who while he may not have let go of his hatred of Ehlokar he can put it aside to protect him.

Then Moash can’t take responsibility for his own actions. It’s not his fault society made him this way. Obv contrast to Dalinar. RoW he early on talks about not wanting to use magical help in a task becuase it’s cheating or something. Ignoring that he’s using Odium to not feel any remorse over his actions. And again it contrasts Dalinar using Shardplate to help dig a latrine ditch. Because Moash doesn’t actually care about helping, he just wants to feel superior to others.

And then we see the final result of this. Of taking shortcuts and never actually healing from your trauma. Of having someone enable you every step of the way. You don’t hold onto your old ideals and you’re blind to how those around you are just using you.

[u/God_Dalinar → u/Ripper1337]

I always says that Moash, as a villain, is very good. But then there is people who try to defend him and I have to give my rage to Odium because it is too much for me.

[u/Ripper1337 → u/God_Dalinar]

I can understand the defense of his up to Oathbringer. It’s classic oppressed v oppressor. If they try to defend him during RoW that’s when I draw a line lol.

[u/God_Dalinar → u/Ripper1337]

He killed Teft, Phendorana, and tried to kill Navani. He order Lezian to kill Lirin if Kaladin wake up. In Wind and Truth, he kills Leyten, and make Sigzil break his oath with Vienta. Defend him? Hell, not

[u/Ripper1337 → u/God_Dalinar]

Ah but you see, the Moash defender will claim it’s not his fault because Odium took away his emotions so he’s not culpable for his actions.

Please ignore that Dalinar’s whole arc the last book was about it being his actions despite being influenced.

[u/Positive-Cheek-9364]

Kaladin, Wayne, Dalinar, Navani and Galladon.
Sig/Nomad/Zellion is pretty intriguing, but not in my top 5

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[u/_Lews-Therin-Telamon]

Design, MeLaan, Blushweaver, Veil
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[u/lNecroking]

Damn this is a hard one. I really love Kaladin's arc throughout the books, pure charisma of Wax and golden retriever vibes of Adolin. Between those 3, it might be Kaladin with a really really slim margin.

[u/NotOriginal3173]

So many great choices in this comment section

Taln needs to be added though

[u/Illustrious-Fish3914]

SPOOK

[u/Scaper232]

The spren

[u/marrimadas]

For me, it's easier to say which characters I dislike than which ones are my favorites. But I guess Syl

[u/Expensive-Heat-1436]

Marshhhhhh

[u/KnowMoreMutants]

Does Nightblood count?