The Best and Worst Gemmell Character

[smeg]

Hi i'm new to this place so hello, i'm a big Gemmell fan and have been since i first read wolf in shaddow and even though i still haven't read legend yet i have read pretty much everything else.

I would be interested to know which gemmell characters rank highly, my own favourites Kaelin and Con, becouse the reader is introduced to them at a much earlyer age than they were with say waylander and so are more emotionally attatched. Thats my reason anyway, also overall i prefered the rigante novels to the drenai, maybe im missing something.

Gemmell is also good at creating characters who you fully dislike but are not the bad guy, like amaziga from the shannow novels, i hated her.

anyway i'm done rambling

 

[Brian G Turner]

Re: best and worst gemmell character

Hi smeg, and welcome to the chronicles network.

Now let's time how many posts it takes before someone says "Druss"...

 

[Skilgannon]

Re: best and worst gemmell character

How you all keeping, i'm new, nice to be be here...

This may come as a surprise but one of my favourite characters was actually the old Gladiator Rage, you remember the guy who trained Bane the *******. If the old axemaster ever had a worthy opponent bare knukle i reckon it would ave been Rage.

 

[Adramalek]

Re: best and worst gemmell character

Best: Druss/Waylander worst:the rigante line is the weak link

 

[Seth God Of Chaos]

Re: best and worst gemmell character

Hmm 2 posts thats gotta be a record

My favourite gemmell character would probably be three swords, he wasnt in it much but he ruled

My least favourite would have to be Ustarte i mean she had all that power and she didnt abuse it AT ALL

 

[a|one]

Re: best and worst gemmell character

best : angel - got badass?

worst : druss - got boring?

 

[Lacedaemonian]

The best Gemmell character - Jaim or Tenaka Khan

The worst Gemmell character - Not sure. I will come back to this one.

 

[Dead Riverdragon]

My faves are Dace/Tarantio and of course Viruk. Not sure about the worst though, but I thought Tenaka Khan was pretty lame.

 

[Lacedaemonian]

What??? I would never have expected to hear those words spoken ever. God forgive you!!

 

[Dead Riverdragon]

Actually I find quite often that his secondary characters are more interesting than the main protagonists- Tenaka, Talaban, Mananan, the guy from Quest for Lost Heroes all spring to mind as more-or-less stock heroes with superior sidekicks. Even the mighty Waylander loses out to Yu-Yu Liang in Hero in the Shadows, imo

 

[Lacedaemonian]

Very true, but I will always harbour doubts of your sanity until the day you retrakt the Tenaka Khan statement.

 

[Seth God Of Chaos]

I FORGOT ABOUT DACE

My favourite is definetly dace

 

[derae]

the best, in my opinion, is definatly parmenion (lion of macedon)
the worse is that girl from ironhand's daughter,cant seem to remember her name
i mean, i realy hated her while reading the book

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

best character for me was Jon Shannow - though I must I agree that Tenaka Khan was fantastic!

worst for me was Kaelin Ring - too 1-dimensional for me (although I guess a few gemmell knockers out there might think they all were!)

p.s. it was sigarni - she was the white-haired daughter of ironhand

 

[Dakeyras]

Of the main characters Waylander was always one of my favourites, but the best in my opinion would be Skilgannon. Haunted by love and guilt he's quite interesting...

 

[Mandate Schoolman]

The best: The Ice Killer

The worst: Iron Hand's Daughter

 

[LancerSr]

I have recently been entrenched in Gemmell's writing for about the last month, reading about ten of his novels. I just can't get through them quickly enough!

I would have to say that my favorite character, his evil sides withstanding, is the Moidart. I think his dialogue was simply hilarious.

Worst character is a bit tougher. Maybe Rek? He just never seemed to captivate me the way that others from Legend did... Like Druss (obviously), Serbitar, Virae, the leader of the outlaws from Skultic (what was his name?), or even Ulric.

I don't know, maybe he was just too much of a whiner for my tastes...

 

[WJKeeling]

BEST: I liked Serbitar, Waylander, Jaim Grymauch, and Jarek Mace.

WORST: It is hard but i will say the characters from Dark Moon.

 

[Dakeyras]

the leader of the outlaws from Skultic (what was his name?)

Bowman...

 

[CrookedMouth]

Its a hard one.It would be easy to just say Druss or Jaim but i liked Huntsekker from the Rigante books.

worst: Segarni was it? from ironhands daughter?