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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9250009" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>You forgot the most ridiculous of all Malazan warriors, Anomander Rake, who is what would happen if you got a 14-year-old to eat a whole bucket of halloween candy and then try and come up with "A BETTER ELRIC".</p><p></p><p>Details (in all caps because that's kind of how I feel the author thought of them in whatever D&D/GURPS campaign Anomander is from):</p><p></p><p>ANOMANDER RAKE IS A COOL DROW NOT A LAME MELNIBONEAN</p><p>ANOMANDER RAKE IS SEVEN FEET TALL</p><p>ANOMANDER RAKE IS BUILT LIKE A WWE WRESTLER NOT AN UNHEALTHY WIMP</p><p>ANOMANDER RAKE ALSO HAS A SWORD THAT EATS SOULS BUT ITS WAY BIGGER THAN STORMBRINGER AND WAY MORE POWERFUL</p><p>ANOMANDER RAKE HAS A WHOLE ASS FLYING CASTLE NOT A LAME EARTH BOAT</p><p>ANOMANDER RAKE CAN TURN INTO A DRAGON AND ITS WAY TOUGHER AND BIGGER THAN OTHER DRAGONS</p><p>ANOMANDER RAKE IS ALSO A SUPER POWERFUL WIZARD NOT A WEAKSAUCE ONE LIKE LAME ELRIC</p><p></p><p>And that's kind of the tip of the iceberg.</p><p></p><p>Most of the best fantasy and mythological warriors have already been discussed, but I always liked Ash from the Book of Ash series by Mary Gentle. Continuing the "obscure books" theme, I really liked Asmander and Venat from Adrian Tchaikovsky's least-read series, Echoes of the Fall, about shapeshifters involved in series of fairly desperate wars. I don't think any of them are top-tier but they're pretty cool.</p><p></p><p>I'm excluding assassins because I could list a lot of extremely cool assassins, but I feel like that's a different genre (and pretty much rules out 90% of Unhewn Throne characters for example).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9250009, member: 18"] You forgot the most ridiculous of all Malazan warriors, Anomander Rake, who is what would happen if you got a 14-year-old to eat a whole bucket of halloween candy and then try and come up with "A BETTER ELRIC". Details (in all caps because that's kind of how I feel the author thought of them in whatever D&D/GURPS campaign Anomander is from): ANOMANDER RAKE IS A COOL DROW NOT A LAME MELNIBONEAN ANOMANDER RAKE IS SEVEN FEET TALL ANOMANDER RAKE IS BUILT LIKE A WWE WRESTLER NOT AN UNHEALTHY WIMP ANOMANDER RAKE ALSO HAS A SWORD THAT EATS SOULS BUT ITS WAY BIGGER THAN STORMBRINGER AND WAY MORE POWERFUL ANOMANDER RAKE HAS A WHOLE ASS FLYING CASTLE NOT A LAME EARTH BOAT ANOMANDER RAKE CAN TURN INTO A DRAGON AND ITS WAY TOUGHER AND BIGGER THAN OTHER DRAGONS ANOMANDER RAKE IS ALSO A SUPER POWERFUL WIZARD NOT A WEAKSAUCE ONE LIKE LAME ELRIC And that's kind of the tip of the iceberg. Most of the best fantasy and mythological warriors have already been discussed, but I always liked Ash from the Book of Ash series by Mary Gentle. Continuing the "obscure books" theme, I really liked Asmander and Venat from Adrian Tchaikovsky's least-read series, Echoes of the Fall, about shapeshifters involved in series of fairly desperate wars. I don't think any of them are top-tier but they're pretty cool. I'm excluding assassins because I could list a lot of extremely cool assassins, but I feel like that's a different genre (and pretty much rules out 90% of Unhewn Throne characters for example). [/QUOTE]
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