[Foxics]

I was compelled to make an account just to add...
Any of the Boles!

[Aptorian]

Yeah, I loved when Aranict or what ever the Letherii Ceda was called, looked at the Bole from the Trygalle Guild and said he had Iron in his hands. Explains the crazy dents they put in the Shigalle Assassin.

[Feathersmith]

I'm thinking that "badass" not implies plenty of power, but also a certain attitude. So I wouldn't consider Icarium or Korabas to be really all that badass, because one of them doesn't want her power at all, and the other doesn't remember he has it and feels pretty lousy about using it when reminded. Maybe he'd be a badass if he could control it. I'm not even sure I'd put T'iam on the badass list, since I got the impression that T'iam's formation was something that just automatically happened, rather than something she intended.

I'd even consider people who don't have super power, but do have a lot of attitude, to be more badass than some more powerful people.

Shadowthrone and Cotillion are seriously badass, though they're not out there throwing around mountain-destroying power.

And Hood - super badass. He's got loads of power, and an attitude to match. I think I'd put him top of the list. Especially now that he has the support of Roach. He'll be unstoppable.

[Kim Bookreader]

If this is the revisited list, were is the original. I would like to read the argument for Torvald Nom
Can't find it here.

[Illuyankas]

Of course you can! Here it is.

[Kim Bookreader]

Illuyankas, on 14 April 2011 - 01:47 PM, said:

Of course you can! Here it is.

Thank you, that was some fine reading! =)

[MadrunBadrun]

I made an account here just so I could add... MADRUN BADRUN! How could you forget the best named character in the whole series? That is one of the guys that I really want to find out the back story too, and his bros...

[ranovr32]

Karsa Orlong (I don't have lovers.... only victims)
Tool
Rake (even though i thought it was kind of soft how he let traveller win)
Kalam (can't believe more people didn't mention him, so understated in his awesomeness)

[Lord of Newts]

Beak. The Forrest Gump of high mages.

[Bonecaster]

I don't think anything we've seen can stand up to Korabas. I guess Tiam can, but we didn't get to see. Of course, it's possible that Icarium could, when he was in full-out mode. But my money'd be on Korabas if Icarium is at anything less than that.

Hood is insanely powerful.

Kallor is quite the powerhouse, too. He wiped out the continent in such a short amount of time that K'rul, Nightchill, and Draconus were shocked that it wasn't in its normal state. Don't even know how, but he obviously threw around some outrageous power.

In Tiste Andii form, Anomander Rake is a hugely powerful mage who can probably stand up to anybody. He also wields Dragnipur. In Soletaken form, he's probably also unstoppable.

Still, individually, Korabas can take any of them out.

[POOPOO MCBUMFACE]

re: Kallor, I always assumed he wiped the continent with the use of K'Chain Che'Malle technology or some long-standing ritual safeguard he had set up around his Empire. Not only would that kind of power from any being be utterly unprecedented, but I get the feeling he'd have done it all over again (or on a smaller scale, can't see why it couldn't be adjusted) just to get rid of Silverfox. I don't believe he ever shows any magical power at all; he has to use alchemy that anyone could use in order to stave off the effects of ageing, and he could certainly have used magic during his fights in MoI/TTH.

[Bonecaster]

All true. Maybe he was hugely powerful? Maybe the curses made him unable to do anything but concentrate on staying young, since he didn't want to grow older and older and older and older and older.......

[Use Of Weapons]

Remember Kallor's Empire had temples with him as a focus of the belief of all its residents. He'd set himself up as a kind of Pharaoh. He definitely doesn't have that kind of power now.

[Bonecaster]

Well, having the power to set yourself up such a situation is pretty seriously powerful. Heh. But no, not the same. That situation may have made it possible for him to unleash a huge amount of destructive power onto the continent in a short amount of time, but it likely took a very long time to set up.

But where is all that about the temples with him as the focus revealed? I've missed or forgotten some big things that were flat-out stated, so no surprise that I don't remember this. Heh

[Bauchelain the Evil]

It's in TtH while he's in Bastion and he actually said that he "tried", which seems yo implie he failed.

[Use Of Weapons]

In the Imperial Warren, Kalam and QB come across a temple to Kallor.

[Bonecaster]

Ah. Thanks you two. Yeah, I've only read books 5-10 once, so I'm sure I've forgotten tons from all that. I do remember Kalam running across something in DG that told him that Kallor was serious business. Gotta go find that...

[Judge Pacman]

ranovr32, on 20 May 2011 - 06:03 AM, said:

Karsa Orlong (I don't have lovers.... only victims)
Tool
Rake (even though i thought it was kind of soft how he let traveller win)
Kalam (can't believe more people didn't mention him, so understated in his awesomeness)

Kalam was definitely one of the more badasses.

[Bonecaster]

Actually, proportionally, Kalam has got to be the Baddest Badass of all. Karsa and Kallor are arguably equal, but I prefer Kalam. It's just amazing watching him tear through all the groups he's taken out.

[Darlock]

I think this list is incomplete without "Fiddler, Hedge and crate of cussers". Yes, together as one character