Good Fathers (or Bad Fathers, Revisited)

Since my Bad Fathers post was so popular, I decided to revisit the topic.  And I did actually come up with an example of a good single father of a daughter in a fantasy novel: Karigan's father in the Green Rider books by Kristen Britain.  There are a few tensions in their relationship but he provides for her, sends her to school, etc.  Caveat: as I remember, Karigan has a number of aunts, who serve as stand-ins for her mother.  And, her father is a wealthy merchant so he doesn't need sons to work the farmlands (though I suppose daughters could do this too...) or supply some local lord when he levies troops.

Another possibility for a good father that didn't go very far because he was murdered early was Liath's father in the Crown of Stars series by Kate Elliott.  He's done some stuff that's put him on the run (it's been a very long time since I read those books), but Liath seems to have a genuinely good relationship with him, even though the economic situation was pretty lean for them at the time he died.  (And, for that matter, Sanglant seems to have done okay with Blessing while Liath was missing.)

I might consider including Angus Lok from the Sword of Shadows by J.V. Jones as a good father; he has a wife and three daughters and after the wife and two of the daughters are murdered, he goes on a quest to find the remaining one (which sort of doubles as a quest for revenge for those who have been lost).

Of course I've also come up with quite a few more bad fathers of daughters, as well:

• Karsa Orlong from House of Chains by Steven Erikson (rapes a mother and daughter; later we find out he's fathered two daughters by them though I haven't gotten around to The Crippled God so I don't know if that storyline picks back up)
• Paks's father from The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon (he's only interested in marrying her off to a neighboring farmer, so she runs away to join a mercenary company, though I believe he's proud of her in the end, and I don't remember whether her mother was still alive or not)
• Penthero Iss from the Sword of Shadows series by J.V. Jones (he finds Ash as a foundling and adopts her only because he wants to exploit her developing magical talents to further his own ambitions)
• Elias from Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams (mostly because he's gone nuts, though -- I think his relationship with Miriamele may have been good at one time)
• Thomas Covenant in the First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson (again, with the rape: his daughter Elena ends up powerful but mentally ill, her mother Lena is also of diminished capacity by the end; I think he does feel guilt about this later and tries to make things right the best way he knows how, though)
• Hekat's father from Karen Miller's Godspeaker Trilogy (another case of selling the female children off)

Of course there are bad fathers of sons, as well (Darken Rahl comes immediately to mind).  But it seems like the daughters get the short end of the stick much more often.