Helm/Awesome


 * Leland de Laal, Warden of the Needle, is the most prolific generator of these:
 * His very introduction, solo climbing the aforementioned Needle, an over-three-hundred-meter granite tower, in order to reach the eponymous Helm.
 * During his Training from Hell, when he figures out how to trick the soldiers assigned to beat him up to hit each other instead.
 * Right after being placed in charge of the mounted infantry unit that he dubs The Eight Hundred, he brings his entire unit of green troops back from the border hours before anyone thought it possible.
 * Turning an ambush with minimal losses to his unit.
 * When he first demonstrates the use of camouflage to his halvidar.
 * When he subsequently uses camouflage to.
 * ...which he subsequently parlays into.
 * ...which in turn he parlays into.
 * Ricard de Laal's Heroic Sacrifice, preventing both
 * The original imprint from the Helm,,.
 * Almost a meta example: the one-page last chapter, wherein Brings tears to this troper's eyes.