- Any time Templar!Trace takes over, up until the first tower shows up...
- Laura, the pacifist, gets one by using the General's magic focus as a garrote.
- Trace yelling "Shut Up" during Flora's Pregnancy confession seems like a ship-sinking moment at first. Trace, however, takes full control of the situation by declaring that he's not mad, nor doesn't care how absurd the whole thing sounds.Trace: I know you. You don't have to explain yourself to me - or to anyone else for that matter! If you say it's the truth, then I believe it!
- Followed up by explaining that his outburst was directed at his Superpowered Evil Side.
- Red and Sythe devising a plan to take out the assassin that's after them. Their acting is good enough that Raine thought Sythe was really serious about abandoning them. Next thing you know Natani's brother Zen is on the ground with a concussion.
- This deserves admiration for just how they did it. As in, Red went right out of the tent, having just called Sythe a 'nutcase' for talking to a squirrel, but the two were suddenly able, within the span of a few seconds, to come up with a believable and workable plan right under Zen's nose! Bonus points for the fact that even as he was luring Zen away, Sythe continued talking as though he was going for good, just to make absolutely sure that Red could come up behind Zen while he was occupied. Result: One assassin, served concussed with a sprinkling of knockout.
- Trace rescues Maeve's mother, then terrifies an entire squad of Templar extremists out to obliterate the town he's in because there's a peace conference going on with the nearby tiger Keidran for an Enemy Mine alliance. And he does it all by simply causing their rain of fire spells to crash into each other. The leader of this sect tries desperately to keep the other members from running away, until he starts to panic when a dragon shows up.Trace
: I am the Grand Templar. You will obey me. And I said... STOP!" - The Dragon, Reni, gets one also when the templar's leader tries to convince his remaining followers not to panic and flee because their magic shields can handle a "juvenile" dragon's breath. She goes and slams one of them to the ground with her sheer bulk. The leader then declares they've completed their mission and zaps out.
- After snapping out of his Journey to the Center of the Mind, Natani finds himself stuck with Katherine on a burning ship. Despite not knowing what's going on, he grabs the hybrid keidran and pulls her to safety mere moments before the ship explodes.
- A subtler but no less awesome moment is what happens when this results in his physical gender being revealed: he calmly explains that he's had this body all along, he just prefers they think of him as a male. Then he goes on to show off his relationship to Keith by kissing him in front of everyone, when he couldn't even stand to call what they had a relationship before his coma because he was that uncertain of it. Character Development for the win!
- With the B-team trapped in a magic force field by an assassin, Mrs. Nibbly has run away. Except she didn't. She was hiding, and attacked the assassin in the face, going for the eyes. That's one hell of a pet.
- Zen uses his magic-nullifying shackle to try to get through the force field. The strain of the magic rapidly heats up the shackle, yet Zen keeps pushing even as the burning metal starts melting around his leg. And he successfully breaks through, smashing the crystal that maintains the field.
- And that's not half of it... right after that, just as Carver has thrown Mrs Nibbly into a tree and seemingly kills her (she gets better), the field comes down, and Raine, shocked at having seen this, goes BALLISTIC. How ballistic? She undergoes a magic surge that transforms her from her Keidran form back into her human form, gives one hell of a baddass boast to Carver, and as he tries to teleport away, pushes him with all her magic...TO THE BASITIN ISLANDS. Hundreds of miles away. Without even knowing where she sent him. Way to go, Raine.
- And another thing... Remember the moment when Mrs Nibbly appeared to have broken her neck, only to hop up fine just after Raine showed her to Sythe? It's implied that Raine's raw magic actually brought Mrs Nibbly back from the dead, in that it healed the injury before Nibbly really died.
- Rose sees Raine's partially transformed figure and immediately figures out that both of the girl's parents had neglected her in various ways, from that alone.
- Rose then offers to teach Raine how to control her power, her method for which involves using a slave collar, one of Trace's. After Raine makes zero progress, the possibility of her bare chest being seen by Red causes Raine to not only resist the collar and to regain her fully human form, but also to break the slave collar. Yet again, it was made by Trace himself. Even The Stoic Roselyn had a Double Take from that one.
- Miss Nibbly GROWLING at one of Clovis's Wolf Keidran Thugs threatening Sythe, and then proceeding to make like a squirrel, and gather nuts. Badass Adorable, thy name is Miss Nibbly.
- Kathrin, cornered alone in a room with Romulus, another one of Clovis's thugs, cuts off his pre-attack speech by shouting "STEAK!", activating a nearby summoning table. While Romulus is disoriented by the interruption and magical flash of light, Kat grabs the knife that came with the meal and stabs him with it. That's some quick thinking.
- Even Romulus was impressed, though sadly it didn't work. Though the stab to the arm probably hurt like hell, Romulus was tough enough to shrug it off and catch Kat before she could get away. However, it gave Zen the chance for a Moment of Awesome.
Romulus: "...word of advice, if you're gunna get the drop on someone... Maybe try an make sure you hit something more vital next time?" (thunk!) "Urk-!"
Zen: "Noted."
