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** Janath Anar's revenge on Tanal Yathvanar. After he repeatedly sexually assaults her, she convinces him she has developed StockholmSyndrome towards him. In reality, she has been using his constant sexual assaults of her to learn his behaviour patterns. Then, having lowered his defences, she kills him in the midst of another assault when he is most vulnerable. This is one of the most satisfying {{Karmic Death}}s in the series.
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** Janath Anar's revenge on Tanal Yathvanar. After he repeatedly sexually assaults her, she convinces him she has developed StockholmSyndrome UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome towards him. In reality, she has been using his constant sexual assaults of her to learn his behaviour patterns. Then, having lowered his defences, she kills him in the midst of another assault when he is most vulnerable. This is one of the most satisfying {{Karmic Death}}s in the series.
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* Janath's revenge on Tanal. After he repeatedly sexually assaults her, she convinces him she has developed StockholmSyndrome towards him. In reality, she has been using his constant sexual assaults of her to learn his behaviour patterns. Then, having lowered his defences, she kills him in the midst of another assault when he is most vulnerable. This is one of the most satisfying {{Karmic Death}}s in the series.
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* The finale, Chapter 24, is a series of these:
** Saved by Beak's sacrifice, Fist Keneb's contingent of Bonehunter marines march into Letheras, cutting through the crumbling defences and entering the Eternal Domicile.
** Simultaneously, the main force of the Bonehunters under Tavore Paran herself lands in Letheras and defeats the Letherii troops contesting their occupation almost immediately.
** The riots unleashed by the economic collapse surround the headquarters of the Patriotists, demanding that Tehol Beddict be handed over to them. Karos Invictad, believing that they want to kill Tehol in revenge for his bringing down the economy, has his depleted group of agents throw currency into the crowds so that they disintegrate in a fight for the money. The tactic fails, and as the siege goes on Invictad is left throwing away the wealth he spent years accumulating while his assumptions about human nature turn out to be wrong one after another.
** Tehol reveals that he crafted the puzzle that has kept Invictad obsessed for much of the book, and solves it in a minute's time.
** Janath Anar's revenge on Tanal Yathvanar. After he repeatedly sexually assaults her, she convinces him she has developed StockholmSyndrome towards him. In reality, she has been using his constant sexual assaults of her to learn his behaviour patterns. Then, having lowered his defences, she kills him in the midst of another assault when he is most vulnerable. This is one of the most satisfying {{Karmic Death}}s in the series.
** Saved by Beak's sacrifice, Fist Keneb's contingent of Bonehunter marines march into Letheras, cutting through the crumbling defences and entering the Eternal Domicile.
** Simultaneously, the main force of the Bonehunters under Tavore Paran herself lands in Letheras and defeats the Letherii troops contesting their occupation almost immediately.
** The riots unleashed by the economic collapse surround the headquarters of the Patriotists, demanding that Tehol Beddict be handed over to them. Karos Invictad, believing that they want to kill Tehol in revenge for his bringing down the economy, has his depleted group of agents throw currency into the crowds so that they disintegrate in a fight for the money. The tactic fails, and as the siege goes on Invictad is left throwing away the wealth he spent years accumulating while his assumptions about human nature turn out to be wrong one after another.
** Tehol reveals that he crafted the puzzle that has kept Invictad obsessed for much of the book, and solves it in a minute's time.
** Janath Anar's revenge on Tanal Yathvanar. After he repeatedly sexually assaults her, she convinces him she has developed StockholmSyndrome towards him. In reality, she has been using his constant sexual assaults of her to learn his behaviour patterns. Then, having lowered his defences, she kills him in the midst of another assault when he is most vulnerable. This is one of the most satisfying {{Karmic Death}}s in the series.
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* Lady Envy and her companions' march through the Pannion Domin, obliterating all forces sent to oppose them and forcing [[SorcerousOverlord the Pannion Seer]] to flee Outlook for his newly conquered territories in the north.
--> As in legends of old, hers was a power that rolled in broad waves, stripping the life from all it swept over, devouring rank upon rank, street by street, leaving bodies piled in their hundreds. She was, he reminded himself with something like fierce pride, the daughter of Draconus - an Elder God.
--> The Pannion Seer had thrown sorcerers in her path, he’d heard since, yet they fared little better. She shrugged aside their efforts, decimated their powers, then left them to Garath or Baaljagg. K’Chain Che’Malle sought to reach her, only to wither beneath an onslaught of sorcery. The dog that was Garath made sport of those that eluded Lady Envy, usually working alone but sometimes in tandem with Baaljagg. Both were quicker than the undead hunters, it was said, and far smarter. Three pitched battles had occurred, in which legions of Pannion Betaklites, supported by the mounted Betakullid and by Scalandi skirmishers, as well as the Domin equivalent of Mage Cadres, had engaged their handful of enemies as they would an opposing army. From these battles arose the whispered tales of the T’lan Imass – a creature of which the Pannions had no knowledge and had come to call Stonesword – and the Seguleh, two in the first two battles, but a third appearing for the last one. Stonesword would hold one flank, the Seguleh the opposite flank. Lady Envy stood at the centre, whilst Garath and Baaljagg flowed like ragged capes of darkness wheresoever they pleased.
--> Three engagements, three broken armies, thousands dead, the rest attempting to flee but always caught by Lady Envy’s relentless wrath.
--> As in legends of old, hers was a power that rolled in broad waves, stripping the life from all it swept over, devouring rank upon rank, street by street, leaving bodies piled in their hundreds. She was, he reminded himself with something like fierce pride, the daughter of Draconus - an Elder God.
--> The Pannion Seer had thrown sorcerers in her path, he’d heard since, yet they fared little better. She shrugged aside their efforts, decimated their powers, then left them to Garath or Baaljagg. K’Chain Che’Malle sought to reach her, only to wither beneath an onslaught of sorcery. The dog that was Garath made sport of those that eluded Lady Envy, usually working alone but sometimes in tandem with Baaljagg. Both were quicker than the undead hunters, it was said, and far smarter. Three pitched battles had occurred, in which legions of Pannion Betaklites, supported by the mounted Betakullid and by Scalandi skirmishers, as well as the Domin equivalent of Mage Cadres, had engaged their handful of enemies as they would an opposing army. From these battles arose the whispered tales of the T’lan Imass – a creature of which the Pannions had no knowledge and had come to call Stonesword – and the Seguleh, two in the first two battles, but a third appearing for the last one. Stonesword would hold one flank, the Seguleh the opposite flank. Lady Envy stood at the centre, whilst Garath and Baaljagg flowed like ragged capes of darkness wheresoever they pleased.
--> Three engagements, three broken armies, thousands dead, the rest attempting to flee but always caught by Lady Envy’s relentless wrath.
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* The siege of Coral. Pannion's soldiers, Bridgeburners, undead K'chain Che'malle, Lady Envy and her Seguleh, Tiste Andii and their awesome flying fortress, The First Sword of Imass, Shield Anvil Itkovian... Probably the most awesome chapters of the entire series.
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* The siege of Coral. Pannion's soldiers, Bridgeburners, undead K'chain K'Chain Che'malle, Lady Envy and her Seguleh, Tiste Andii and their awesome flying fortress, The First Sword of Imass, Shield Anvil Itkovian... Probably the most awesome chapters of the entire series.
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* Bottle gets a major one for helping to navigate several dozen survivors through an underground lair of tunnels with nothing more than magical assistance from a rat for guidance, all while the city above them is burning and they are in a race against time to escape death from several different possible causes. Sinn also gets one for insisting that Captain Faradan Sort stay with her, enabling the two of them to rescue the survivors. Finally, Corabb Bhilan Thenu'alas, who had previously hated Malazans, gets one for overcoming this and helping assist Fiddler in the escape, without which the latter would probably have died. On a meta level, this segment includes some of the best fight scenes in the series to date, although later in the book Erikson would top it.
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* Bottle gets a major one for helping to navigate several dozen survivors through an underground lair of tunnels with nothing more than magical assistance from a rat for guidance, all while the city above them is burning and they are in a race against time to escape death from several different possible causes. Sinn also gets one for insisting that Captain Faradan Sort stay with her, enabling the two of them to rescue the survivors. Finally, Corabb Bhilan Thenu'alas, who had previously hated Malazans, gets one for overcoming this and helping assist Fiddler in the escape, without which the latter would probably have died. On a meta level, this segment includes some of the best fight scenes in the series to date, although later in the book Erikson would top it.
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* TheLastDance at the climax in which [[spoiler:Iron Bars faces off against five Toblakai gods in a fight strangely reminiscent of a Hong Kong kung fu movie]].
* The very end of the book, where [[spoiler: Bugg, shown to be Mael, god of the Sea, stomps up the beach, breaks apart the Crippled God's moody tent, and drags him out into the sun, beating him like a railroad guard bucking a hobo.]]
* The very end of the book, where [[spoiler: Bugg, shown to be Mael, god of the Sea, stomps up the beach, breaks apart the Crippled God's moody tent, and drags him out into the sun, beating him like a railroad guard bucking a hobo.]]
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* Ganoes Paran also gets one for engineering the death of [[spoiler:Poliel, the goddess of plague, with a sliver of [[AntiMagic Otataral]] and the assistance of a few Hounds of Shadow and Darkness, and thereby potentially preventing an entire continent from being wiped out with disease]].
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* Ganoes Paran also gets one for engineering the death of [[spoiler:Poliel, Poliel, the goddess of plague, with a sliver of [[AntiMagic Otataral]] and the assistance of a few Hounds of Shadow and Darkness, and thereby potentially preventing an entire continent from being wiped out with disease]].disease.
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* [[spoiler:Janath's revenge on Tanal]]. After he repeatedly sexually assaults her, she convinces him she has developed StockholmSyndrome towards him. In reality, she has been using his constant sexual assaults of her to learn his behaviour patterns. Then, having lowered his defences, she kills him in the midst of another assault when he is most vulnerable. This is one of the most satisfying {{Karmic Death}}s in the series.
* [[spoiler:Beak's HeroicSacrifice]] saving the lives of hundreds of Malazan soldiers while resulting in the deaths of all of [[spoiler: Lether's most powerful mages]]. While the fall of the empire would likely have happened anyway, [[spoiler: Beak's]] actions enabled it to happen with much less Malazan bloodshed. Some of the soldiers do comment that the loss of a mage of Beak's power will very likely be a huge blow in the future, though.
* [[spoiler:Tehol]] managing to engineer the fall of the entire exploitative Letherii economy, then being effectively ''appointed'' emperor by popular acclaim. He may be the first democratically elected leader in the history of the setting. To be fair, [[spoiler: he had help from Rucket, Bugg, and several others.]]
* [[spoiler:Beak's HeroicSacrifice]] saving the lives of hundreds of Malazan soldiers while resulting in the deaths of all of [[spoiler: Lether's most powerful mages]]. While the fall of the empire would likely have happened anyway, [[spoiler: Beak's]] actions enabled it to happen with much less Malazan bloodshed. Some of the soldiers do comment that the loss of a mage of Beak's power will very likely be a huge blow in the future, though.
* [[spoiler:Tehol]] managing to engineer the fall of the entire exploitative Letherii economy, then being effectively ''appointed'' emperor by popular acclaim. He may be the first democratically elected leader in the history of the setting. To be fair, [[spoiler: he had help from Rucket, Bugg, and several others.]]
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* [[spoiler:Janath's Janath's revenge on Tanal]].Tanal. After he repeatedly sexually assaults her, she convinces him she has developed StockholmSyndrome towards him. In reality, she has been using his constant sexual assaults of her to learn his behaviour patterns. Then, having lowered his defences, she kills him in the midst of another assault when he is most vulnerable. This is one of the most satisfying {{Karmic Death}}s in the series.
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* The two duels at the climax of ''Toll the Hounds''. Annomander Rake vs Dassem Ultor is awesome enough [[spoiler: although diluted somewhat by Rake letting himself lose]], but the truly impressive match is the sideshow: Kallor vs Spinnock Durav, one of Rake's Tiste Andii. Rake has ordered Durav to prevent Kallor from entering the city no matter what the cost, and Durav, with nothing but his [[{{Determinator}} stubborness]] and sense of obligation to his master manages to hold Kallor back for an entire night, despite getting cut to pieces in the process. He doesn't even manage to scratch Kallor, yet his sheer determination is awe-inspiring. Kallor himself gets his shortly afterwards, when Orfantal, a freakin' dragon, swoops in and carries him off in revenge for the death of his sister's lover. Kallor's response? He ''stabs Orfantal in the head, causing them both to crash''. And ''survives''. That chain of events alone made ''Toll the Hounds'' worth buying for me.
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* The two duels at the climax of ''Toll the Hounds''. Annomander Rake vs Dassem Ultor is awesome enough [[spoiler: although diluted somewhat by Rake letting himself lose]], lose, but the truly impressive match is the sideshow: Kallor vs Spinnock Durav, one of Rake's Tiste Andii. Rake has ordered Durav to prevent Kallor from entering the city no matter what the cost, and Durav, with nothing but his [[{{Determinator}} stubborness]] and sense of obligation to his master manages to hold Kallor back for an entire night, despite getting cut to pieces in the process. He doesn't even manage to scratch Kallor, yet his sheer determination is awe-inspiring. Kallor himself gets his shortly afterwards, when Orfantal, a freakin' dragon, swoops in and carries him off in revenge for the death of his sister's lover. Kallor's response? He ''stabs Orfantal in the head, causing them both to crash''. And ''survives''. That chain of events alone made ''Toll the Hounds'' worth buying for me.
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* Fiddler is called upon by the Adjunct to perform a reading of the Deck of Dragons for the leadership of the Bonehunters. What follows reads as a bizarre, drunken, and non-sensical card game where Fiddler is both a dealer and referee of a card game, spelling out who wins and loses with no clarity of rules. Doubles as a GeniusBonus when, upon finishing the series, you realize that the bizarre reading is somehow a spoiler-free spoiler session for how the characters find themselves at the end of the series...
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* The demon Apt rescuing 1,300 crucified Malazan children in the space of a single night without anyone noticing they were gone until morning. Okay, so [[MagnificentBastard Shadowthrone]] plans to turn them all into TykeBombs, but still...
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* The two duels at the climax of ''Toll the Hounds''. Annomander Rake vs Dassem Ultor is awesome enough [[spoiler: although diluted somewhat by Rake letting himself lose]], but the truly impressive match is the sideshow: [[BadassGrandpa Kallor]] vs Spinnock Durav, one of Rake's Tiste Andii. Rake has ordered Durav to prevent Kallor from entering the city no matter what the cost, and Durav, with nothing but his [[{{Determinator}} stubborness]] and sense of obligation to his master manages to hold Kallor back for an entire night, despite getting cut to pieces in the process. He doesn't even manage to scratch Kallor, yet his sheer determination is awe-inspiring. Kallor himself gets his shortly afterwards, when Orfantal, a freakin' dragon, swoops in and carries him off in revenge for the death of his sister's lover. Kallor's response? He ''stabs Orfantal in the head, causing them both to crash''. And ''survives''. That chain of events alone made ''Toll the Hounds'' worth buying for me.
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* The two duels at the climax of ''Toll the Hounds''. Annomander Rake vs Dassem Ultor is awesome enough [[spoiler: although diluted somewhat by Rake letting himself lose]], but the truly impressive match is the sideshow: [[BadassGrandpa Kallor]] Kallor vs Spinnock Durav, one of Rake's Tiste Andii. Rake has ordered Durav to prevent Kallor from entering the city no matter what the cost, and Durav, with nothing but his [[{{Determinator}} stubborness]] and sense of obligation to his master manages to hold Kallor back for an entire night, despite getting cut to pieces in the process. He doesn't even manage to scratch Kallor, yet his sheer determination is awe-inspiring. Kallor himself gets his shortly afterwards, when Orfantal, a freakin' dragon, swoops in and carries him off in revenge for the death of his sister's lover. Kallor's response? He ''stabs Orfantal in the head, causing them both to crash''. And ''survives''. That chain of events alone made ''Toll the Hounds'' worth buying for me.
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** The death of Itkovian deserves mention as well. MomentOfAwesome and TearJerker combined.
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** The death of Itkovian deserves mention as well. MomentOfAwesome SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome and TearJerker combined.
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* Udinaas finally asserting to everyone that ''he is not a slave anymore'', in any way, shape or form. In the span of an hour or so, he banishes Menandore, a goddess who's previously raped him, from his dreams, tells Feather Witch where she can stick her misguided seduction attempts, teaches Seren Pedac that spying on his dreams -- the only way for him to have some privacy -- is off-limits and stands up to his former master Fear Sengar as well as self-proclaimed Mortal Sword Clip. Granted, he's still miserable afterwards, but that's Udinaas for you and at least it's self-imposed misery and is the start of him recovering mentally from the events of ''Literature/MidnightTides''.
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* Udinaas finally asserting to everyone that ''he is not a slave anymore'', in any way, shape or form. In the span of an hour or so, he banishes Menandore, a goddess who's previously raped him, from his dreams, tells Feather Witch where she can stick her misguided seduction attempts, teaches Seren Pedac that spying on his dreams -- the only way for him to have some privacy -- is off-limits and stands up to his former master Fear Sengar as well as self-proclaimed Mortal Sword Clip. He also casually mentions sending ''the Errant'', Elder God of Fate, scampering. Granted, he's still miserable afterwards, but that's Udinaas for you and at least it's self-imposed misery and is the start of him recovering mentally from the events of ''Literature/MidnightTides''.
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There's no attempted rape happening. Menandore has lost all interest in Udinaas after Midnight Tides, because what she wanted from him was the Wyval blood, which he doesn't have anymore, Feather Witch offers herself to him rather blatantly (by getting naked and trying to kiss him) and gets told that whatever he may have felt for her once, it's over and done with, and Seren spies on his dreams, which he *compares* to rape to make her understand how much her spying hurts him. If anyone can be accused of anything, then it's Udinaas crawling into Seren's bed, nearly chocking her and threatening her to make his point about "spying on his dreams = rape of his privacy". It teaches her the important lesson that while she may be able to spy on others magically, the morals of the act should be considered.
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* [[spoiler:Janath's revenge on Tanal. After he repeatedly sexually assaults her, she convinces him she has developed StockholmSyndrome towards him. In reality, she has been using his constant sexual assaults of her to learn his behaviour patterns. Then, having lowered his defences, she kills him in the midst of another assault when he is most vulnerable. This is one of the most satisfying {{Karmic Death}}s in the series.]]
* [[spoiler:Beak's HeroicSacrifice saving the lives of hundreds of Malazan soldiers while resulting in the deaths of all of Lether's most powerful mages. While the fall of the empire would likely have happened anyway, Beak's actions enabled it to happen with much less Malazan bloodshed. Some of the soldiers do comment that the loss of a mage of Beak's power will very likely be a huge blow in the future, though.]]
* [[spoiler:Tehol managing to engineer the fall of the entire exploitative Letherii economy, then being effectively ''appointed'' emperor by popular acclaim. He may be the first democratically elected leader in the history of the setting. To be fair, he had help from Rucket, Bugg, and several others.]]
* [[spoiler:Janath's revenge on Tanal. After he repeatedly sexually assaults her, she convinces him she has developed StockholmSyndrome towards him. In reality, she has been using his constant sexual assaults of her to learn his behaviour patterns. Then, having lowered his defences, she kills him in the midst of another assault when he is most vulnerable. This is one of the most satisfying {{Karmic Death}}s in the series.]]
* [[spoiler:Beak's HeroicSacrifice saving the lives of hundreds of Malazan soldiers while resulting in the deaths of all of Lether's most powerful mages. While the fall of the empire would likely have happened anyway, Beak's actions enabled it to happen with much less Malazan bloodshed. Some of the soldiers do comment that the loss of a mage of Beak's power will very likely be a huge blow in the future, though.]]
* [[spoiler:Tehol managing to engineer the fall of the entire exploitative Letherii economy, then being effectively ''appointed'' emperor by popular acclaim. He may be the first democratically elected leader in the history of the setting. To be fair, he had help from Rucket, Bugg, and several others.]]
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** Karsa gets a second one for his PayEvilUntoEvil moment against Bidithal, one of the series' rare utter villains, and the [[KarmicDeath incredibly karmic]] way in which he does so. This effectively solidifies Karsa's transition from a VillainProtagonist to an AntiVillain/dark AntiHero. Hood follows this up with one of his own, thanks to what he does to Bidithal after his death.
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** Karsa gets a second one for his PayEvilUntoEvil moment against Bidithal, one of the series' rare utter villains, and the [[KarmicDeath incredibly karmic]] way in which he does so. This effectively solidifies Karsa's transition from a VillainProtagonist to an AntiVillain/dark AntiHero. Note that when we first met him, Karsa was an unrepentant serial rapist and it appears that he does not rape anyone ever again in the series after this point. Hood follows this up with one of his own, thanks to what he does to Bidithal after his death.
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* [[spoiler:Udinaas somehow fending off {{Attempted Rape}}s from Menandore, Feather Witch, and Seren Pedac in the midst of ''a few pages''. Note that the former of the three was a goddess who had already raped him once and he had previously been hopelessly in love with the second. His WhatTheHellHero moment to Seren in the moment afterwards very likely kept her from crossing the MoralEventHorizon, as well.]]
* [[spoiler:Janath's revenge on Tanal. After he repeatedly sexually assaults her, she convinces him she has developed StockholmSyndrome towards him. In reality, she has been using his constant sexual assaults of her to learn his behaviour patterns. Then, having lowered his defences, she kills him in the midst of another assault when he is most vulnerable. This is one of the most satisfying {{Karmic Death}}s in the series.]]
* [[spoiler:Beak's HeroicSacrifice saving the lives of hundreds of Malazan soldiers while resulting in the deaths of all of Lether's most powerful mages. While the fall of the empire would likely have happened anyway, Beak's actions enabled it to happen with much less Malazan bloodshed. Some of the soldiers do comment that the loss of a mage of Beak's power will very likely be a huge blow in the future, though.]]
* [[spoiler:Tehol managing to engineer the fall of the entire exploitative Letherii economy, then being effectively ''appointed'' emperor by popular acclaim. He may be the first democratically elected leader in the history of the setting. To be fair, he had help from Rucket, Bugg, and several others.]]
* [[spoiler:Udinaas somehow fending off {{Attempted Rape}}s from Menandore, Feather Witch, and Seren Pedac in the midst of ''a few pages''. Note that the former of the three was a goddess who had already raped him once and he had previously been hopelessly in love with the second. His WhatTheHellHero moment to Seren in the moment afterwards very likely kept her from crossing the MoralEventHorizon, as well.]]
* [[spoiler:Janath's revenge on Tanal. After he repeatedly sexually assaults her, she convinces him she has developed StockholmSyndrome towards him. In reality, she has been using his constant sexual assaults of her to learn his behaviour patterns. Then, having lowered his defences, she kills him in the midst of another assault when he is most vulnerable. This is one of the most satisfying {{Karmic Death}}s in the series.]]
* [[spoiler:Beak's HeroicSacrifice saving the lives of hundreds of Malazan soldiers while resulting in the deaths of all of Lether's most powerful mages. While the fall of the empire would likely have happened anyway, Beak's actions enabled it to happen with much less Malazan bloodshed. Some of the soldiers do comment that the loss of a mage of Beak's power will very likely be a huge blow in the future, though.]]
* [[spoiler:Tehol managing to engineer the fall of the entire exploitative Letherii economy, then being effectively ''appointed'' emperor by popular acclaim. He may be the first democratically elected leader in the history of the setting. To be fair, he had help from Rucket, Bugg, and several others.]]
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* Ganoes Paran also gets one for engineering the death of [[spoiler:Poliel, the goddess of plague, with a sliver of [[AntiMagic Otataral]] and the assistance of a few Hounds of Shadow and Darkness, and thereby potentially preventing an entire continent from being wiped out with disease]].
