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== ''A Mighty Fortress'' ==
* Madame Ahnzhelyk Phonda successfully smuggled over 200 potential victims of the Inquisition to safety, some right out of the temple city of Zion, by a combination of [[Crazy Prepared|Crazy Preparedness]] and a level of [[Refuge in Audacity]] that left Cayleb "almost reverent." The first stage of this plan: Smuggle people aboard iceboats carrying shipping with Grand Inquisitor Clyntahn's name on it, right on the heels of Clyntahn's purge of his opponents which necessitated their escaping the city in the first place. Thus ensuring that ''nobody'' would dare disturb it.
* Hauwerd Wylsynn's last stand against the Inquisitors and Temple Guards Clyntahn sent to arrest him, during which he fights and kills five armed and armored men before dying himself, dropping a couple of [[Precision F
* "[[You Shall Not Pass|Remember King Haarahld]]." The subsequent battle probably counts as an [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]].
* The Battle of the Gulf of Tarot. The first battle on the planet to feature the use of {{spoiler|signal rockets}} and {{spoiler|exploding shells}}. Decimating the Navy of God ''just'' as the Church was finally getting back on its feet following the disasters in ''Off Armageddon Reef.'' The Navy of God boasted nearly 140 ships, outnumbering the hastily thrown together Charisian force sent to intercept it about four-to-one. As noted in ''How Firm A Foundation'' less than ''ten'' make it back to safe harbor without being sunk or captured.
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* A [[Dying Moment of Awesome]] for {{spoiler|Prince Nahrmahn}}, whose heroic sacrifice in throwing himself over his wife is the only reason she was the ''sole'' survivor on the attack on their carriage.
* {{spoiler|Gwylym Manthyr}} was captured by the enemy, turned over to the Inquisition, suffered months of travel in highly unhygienic conditions, was brutally tortured, and then taken to be publicly executed. When asked if he had any last statement to make by the Grand Inquisitor (Who knew full well that the man's tongue had been cut out), he spits in his face.
* Sixteen year old lieutenant Hektor Aplyn-Ahrmahk, in the climax of the book, taking command and completing a rescue mission when about two-thirds of the company, including senior officers, were too injured to go on. He also fulfills Cayleb and Sharleyan's proclamation that {{spoiler|Inquisitors would be shown no quarter}}. Also bear in mind that, due to the difference in Safeholdian and Old Terran years, Aplyn-Ahrmahk is closer to fourteen years old. He delivers an epic [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] to the Inquisitor in question before calmly [[Boom Headshot|shooting him in the head.]]
* Sailys Trahskhat may be a Temple Loyalist who thinks of his fellow Charisians as heretics, but his defending his family from a murderous anti-Charisian mob with his lucky baseball bat is pure awesome.
* Merlin introducing the revolver to Safehold by gunning down over a dozen men, including two of Clyntahn's direct subordinates.
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