WoT Favorites: Final Poll (Long overdue)

[Dionysus]

Over a year ago, I started a 10 part poll series to determine who was the favorite characters in Wheel of Time, the categories ranged from your favorite Asha'man and Aes'Sedai to your favorite Forsaken.  Once all 10 polls were completed I fell off the face of the earth due to work and real life constraints.  I figure, better late than never, and will finish off the poll series with this finale.

 

Note: Rand and Tam gain entrance because Lan and Mat won multiple polls.  I will also allow voters to vote two times (hehe, think I forgot to check that, can I change it now?).

 

To recap the results from the previous polls (you can click on the poll question to go back to the poll and read the comments on the old forum):

 

Who was your favorite Forsaken.

Ishamael/Moridin   25% [ 25 ]

Lanfear/Cyndane    24% [ 24 ]

Graendal           15% [ 15 ]

Demandred          12% [ 12 ]

Aginor/Osan'gar    5%  [ 5 ]

Moghedien          5%  [ 5 ]

Semirhage          4%  [ 4 ]

Mesaana            4%  [ 4 ]

Sammael            3%  [ 3 ]

Belthamel/Aran'gar 2%  [ 2 ]

Total Votes : 99

 

Who is your favorite Military Leader?

Mat           62%  [ 48 ]

Gareth Bryne  15%  [ 12 ]

Ituralde       9%  [ 7 ]

Bashere        7%  [ 6 ]

Rhuarc         2%  [ 2 ]

Rand           1%  [ 1 ]

Perrin         1%  [ 1 ]

Demandred      0%  [ 0 ]

Sammael        0%  [ 0 ]   

Karede         0%  [ 0 ] 

Total Votes : 77

 

Who is your favorite Aes Sedai

Moiraine 43%  [ 36 ]

Verin    19%  [ 16 ]

Egwene    9%  [ 8 ]

Cadsuane  8%  [ 7 ]

Nynaeve   6%  [ 5 ]

Siuan     4%  [ 4 ]

Elayne    3%  [ 3 ]

Alviarin  2%  [ 2 ]

Elaida    1%  [ 1 ]

Pevara    0%  [ 0 ]

Total Votes : 82

 

Who is your favorite Land Ruler

Berelain - Mayene                                  22%  [ 16 ]

Rand - King of Illian                              15%  [ 11 ]

Tuon - Daughter of the Nine Moons                  11%  [ 8 ]

Egwene - Amyrlin of Rebel Aes Sedai                11%  [ 8 ]

Perrin - Lord of Two Rivers, possibly Manetheren    9%  [ 7 ]

Bael - Clan chief of the Goshien Aiel.              9%  [ 7 ]

Elayne - New Queen of Andor                         8%  [ 6 ]

Morgase - Queen of Andor                            5%  [ 4 ]

Niall - Whitecloaks                                 4%  [ 3 ]

Darlin - King of Tear                               1%  [ 1 ]

Total Votes : 71

 

Who is your favorite Post-Breaking Pre-Rand Character?

King Aemon               37%  [ 21 ]

Artur Hawkwing           28%  [ 16 ]

Queen Eldrene            10%  [ 6 ]

Guaire Amalasan           8%  [ 5 ]

Mordeth                   7%  [ 4 ]

Luthair Paendrag Mondwin  3%  [ 2 ]

Bonwhin Meraighdin        1%  [ 1 ]

Ba'alzamon                1%  [ 1 ]

Elisane Tishar            0%  [ 0 ]

Total Votes : 56

 

Who is your favorite Blademaster?

Lan al'Mandragoran   52%  [ 40 ]

Tam al'Thor          19%  [ 15 ]

Rand Al'Thor         10%  [ 8 ]

Galad Damodred        7%  [ 6 ]

Be'lal                3%  [ 3 ]

Toram Riatin          2%  [ 2 ]

Eamon Valda           1%  [ 1 ]

Jearom                1%  [ 1 ]

High Lord Turak       0%  [ 0 ]

King Laman            0%  [ 0 ]

Total Votes : 76

 

Who is your favorite of the original travellers?

Mat       35%  [ 23 ]

Rand      15%  [ 10 ]

Moiraine  12%  [ 8 ]

Thom       9%  [ 6 ]

Egwene     6%  [ 4 ]

Bela       6%  [ 4 ]

Nynaeve    6%  [ 4 ]

Perrin     4%  [ 3 ]

Lan        4%  [ 3 ]

Total Votes : 65

 

Who is your favorite Warder?

Lan            38%  [ 19 ]

Birgitte       20%  [ 10 ]

Rand           12%  [ 6 ]

Jahar Narishma 12%  [ 6 ]

Elyas          10%  [ 5 ]

Damer Flinn     4%  [ 2 ]

Tomas           2%  [ 1 ]

Eben Hopwil     2%  [ 1 ]

Fen Mizar       0%  [ 0 ]

Jaem            0%  [ 0 ]

Total Votes : 50

 

Who is your favorite Asha'man?

Damer Flinn     30%  [ 17 ]

Logain Ablar    23%  [ 13 ]

Jahar Narishma  21%  [ 12 ]

Rand Al'Thor    16%  [ 9 ]

Mazrim Taim      5%  [ 3 ]

Corlan Dashiva   1%  [ 1 ]

Karldin Manfor   1%  [ 1 ]

Peral Torval     0%  [ 0 ]

Jur Grady        0%  [ 0 ]

Charl Gedwyn     0%  [ 0 ]

Total Votes : 56

 

Who is your favorite foreigner?

Loial      37%  [ 20 ]

Rhuarc     22%  [ 12 ]

Tuon       20%  [ 11 ]

Aviendha   12%  [ 7 ]

Amys        3%  [ 2 ]

Sorilea     3%  [ 2 ]

Chiad       0%  [ 0 ]

Couladin    0%  [ 0 ]

Renaile din Calon Blue Star     0%  [ 0 ]

Alivia      0%  [ 0 ]

Total Votes : 54

 

[Cadsuane]

I'm going to guess that Mat wins, with Ishy and Moiraine being the next highest, in either order.

[dmanmiller34]

My favorite Charaters Perrin and Faile are missing from your poll.... (sigh)

[Luckers]

I chose Moiraine, but in truth my favourite character is Cadsuane.

[GrandpaG]

I vote for Thom. ;D

[Vambram]

I voted for Rand. yeah, I know everyone loves Mat, and I like him too. But does anyone honestly believe that Mat would NOT have gone through the same sort of emotional & personality changes if the roles were switched, and he was the Dragon Reborn, and thus experiencing everything that Rand has had to suffer?

Ever since tEoTW, Rand al`Thor has been my favorite character. From the first book when I first read it in 1991 all the way through to the eleventh book when I read it in October 2005; Rand was my favorite character in the beginning, and he still remains my own personal favorite character.

[Vambram]

*bump*

[Ealdur Tinuviel]

I vote Moridin. I mean, come on, doesn't everyone have a little insanity in them?

 

Anyways, he's definitely the most awesome guy, because he's willing to go to great lengths (destroying the wheel) to further his beliefs.

[Mashiara O Aan.a--ein]

Aw, come one, ya gotta love Nynaeve + Lan ::) *heart*

 

how come Nyn doesn't make top 10? It's okay, I voted Lan.

 

Moirane's cool too...she's a close second, very hard choice

[Ealdur Tinuviel]

Love Nynaeve? lol. Maybe if she got knocked down a notch or two and stopped looking down her nose at men, I would like her. ;) Just kidding.

 

No, but her braid tugging gets really annoying.

[Mashiara O Aan.a--ein]

Give the gal a break. So she has some anger management issues, but don't we all?  ;D

Just kidding  ;), really though, she has a good heart and truly cares about people.

[Charlz Guybon]

Voted Mat, though I will note your military poll lacked Agelmar Jagad!  >:(

[Charlz Guybon]

Love Nynaeve? lol. Maybe if she got knocked down a notch or two and stopped looking down her nose at men, I would like her. ;) Just kidding.

 

No, but her braid tugging gets really annoying.

I think she's mellowed out alot since she got laid.

[Vambram]

Well, thats a bit crude, but oh so very true!  ;D

[Ealdur Tinuviel]

Yeah, I have to agree that finally falling in love makes her esteem for the male race a tiny bit higher...

[Avendoraldera]

Mat all the way!!!  ;D

[Ealdur Tinuviel]

Ahh. Curse you! :) Mat is cool, but Ishamael is awesome! Semi is second-best chosen, too.

[Littel me]

Ther is only on thing to say:

 

              [move]MAT RULES[/move]

 

;D

[Ealdur Tinuviel]

No! Blast you and your marquee text!  >:(

[Vambram]

Everyone knows that

 

 

[move]Rand al`Thor RULES  8)  :D 8)[/move]

[Destrus]

Gotta agree...because he's the character in the books who's the most like me!

 

 

[move]MATRIM CAUTHON IS DA MAN![/move]

[Darkness Incarnated]

Rand all the way. Don't get me started on his praise.

I love Moridin as well, the man is just awesome, a worthy opponent to Rand al'Thor. He's probably the only Chosen who doesn't p*ss his pants when he's going to see the Big Boss in Shayol Ghul District.

I initially didn't like Matt, it was only after Perrin became a [insert demeaning word of choice here] that I started to like him; he grew on me.

[Ealdur Tinuviel]

Gotta agree...because he's the character in the books who's the most like me!

 

 

[move]MATRIM CAUTHON IS DA MAN![/move]

 

Mat is damane? What?

 

lol. jk.

[Destrus]

Yeppers....put a leash on him!

[Ealdur Tinuviel]

Whoa, guys. Look who is winning now.

 

[move]Yes!! Go Moridin![/move]