Awesome / Lady of the Lake (Sapkowski)

• Yennefer handing Implacable Man Bonhart's ass back to him while stripped of her magic, still regenerating her fingers, and armed with just a dessert fork.
• The Battle of Brenna. We all knew the Nilfgaardians had it coming. That does not at all detract from how darn amazing it was. After a disastrous war that left the whole North burning, the Nordlings finally got together and put an end to this nonsense, driving the invaders out once and for all. The moments of the battle where the Nordling armies charge screaming the names of their homelands and/or their kings is almost enough to bring a tear to your eye.
• Regis in the Very Definitely Final Dungeon. When, for a change, he decides to get dangerous, the effect is awe-inspiring.
• Ciri's duel with Eredin. She knows she's outmatched by the Aen Elle's champion and general, and will ultimately lose any fight she has with him...but she holds out long enough to keep him from noticing the bridge their boat is rapidly approaching that she is small enough to duck under, and that he is not.
• Ciri's final duel with Leo Bonhart. She uses the pendulum training she learned at Kaer Morhen to put Bonhart at a disadvantage and after a prolonged fight in which she manages to land some good hits, much to Bonhart's disbelief, goads Bonhart into a mistake that causes him to lose his footing and fall from the beams they're fighting on, seriously injuring himself. After all his bragging and boasting about his intentions for Ciri, when he's finally beaten, Bonhart is reduced to begging for his life, insisting Ciri is too noble to kill an unarmed man in cold blood. Ciri is content to let Bonhart die of his injuries, but when he makes one last attempt to kill her while her back is turned, Ciri easily dodges Bonhart's knife and opens his throat with her sword, then stands over Bonhart as he bleeds to death so the image of her unafraid of him is the last sight Bonhart takes with him to hell.

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