WARNING: Spoilers are unmarked.
- During Book 2, "The Black Mountains", Chup saves the armies of the West in a series of awesome moments.
- First, Chup decides to defect to the West(Good) even under hopeless circumstances. Chup has no reason to think the West will accept him, but he still decides against serving the East if they insist on slavery rather than his free service. This assumes the West survives its battles with the armies of "Som the Dead" and his Demon ally Lord Zapranoth.
- Chup doesn't have much time to save the West, but he does by deducing where to find Zapranoth's Soul Jar, which will spare the West fighting a Demon Lord. But to arrive in time, Chup must have his head cut off. The medical drones can deliver him in time, but obviously there's a chance he won't heal in time, or even correctly. Chup takes this news like a badass, and overcomes many obstacles to take out the Demon Lord.
- The Death of Orcus
- Orcus: Die.Ardneh: I die, and at the moment of my death let go the change I have held over the world. It is my will that the nuclear energies flow again, that you, hellbomb creature, be as you were when my change first came upon you.
- and then Orcus becomes the bomb he once was, and wipes out his own armies in the ensuing explosion
