Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns/Awesome

The author seems to have made a point of investing much of the massive word count into both arranging situations of awesome, as well as put them in words in such ways that they aren't easily dismissed once read. The tale being so long, characters should probably be getting their own section.
 * Raonar Aeducan, the dwarven noble protagonist understandably has quite a few.
 * The first would be how, once he, after which he Soon after, he and Gorim
 * The way he reacts when Bhelen tries to play him against Trian. Basically, he then proceeds to  Not so coincidentally, that's exactly what they do the very next day. Just As Planned, even though it sucked to be him.
 * The way he goes about the expedition. Throughout it all, after failing, as expected, to get Endrin to see reason, he strong-arms him into giving him Baizyl Harrowmont as an officer in his troops. He then proceeds to His performance was good enough  when he decides to
 * His Big Damn Heroes moment that Trian They end up fighting an army of mercenaries immediately afterwards.
 * True, it's an instant WTF moment when it happens, but its CMOA nature becomes evident at the end of the next chapter, when you realize it was not fatal and actually part of his plan to
 * Chapter 06. In the following order, he And it's later heavily implied that he had other plans in place in case any of those were to fail, only one of which was
 * Basically, he and it was all mostly because he
 * In Ostagar, he This ultimately  He also gets to know Cailan enough that
 * He breaks out of his Fade dream, breaks everyone else out (with Alim's help) and, later, when the demon is beaten (by Faren), he.
 * He plans the most epic prank Thedas has ever seen, one that is carried out in chapter 34.
 * He
 * After the first psychic problem starts, he Said Razor Wind had, coincidentally, done something similar to an enemy that happened to be in the way.
 * He duels a alone. True, he loses, even after cheating like crazy (lures it into a trap field and collapses a building on top of it, with Alim's helpful trap wards, among other things), but he'd prepared for it.
 * He duels a alone. True, he loses, even after cheating like crazy (lures it into a trap field and collapses a building on top of it, with Alim's helpful trap wards, among other things), but he'd prepared for it.


 * Faren Brosca is the runner up for awesome moments.
 * He duels on equal footing, even though he was dual wielding a sword and dagger, a weapon combination he isn't that used to (he usually employs dual daggers, chained together even). It should be mentioned that the DN was using a sword and shield, the same sort of getup he's used on every other occasion so far. And Faren had been in a cell for days and was probably starving. Yeah.
 * He has a Big Damn Heroes moment in chapter 4, when he turns out to be He turns on them instantly (he'd planned to use them to find the guys, which he did), kills them all in about five seconds and then provides a healing potion to get the DN back to consciousness.
 * During the Ostagar battle, when he throws two daggers into  Too bad it's not enough to avert Doomed by Canon.
 * He uses a fairly flashy way to expose himself in the He is not pleased with them, no sir.
 * When trapped in the Fade, even though he
 * After the Fade, he becomes more or less immune to magic, something that comes into play often.
 * During the Ferelden National Prank, he basically becomes a fusion of James Bond and Altaïr ibn La-Ahad(he even has wrist blades by this point). And, even as he, he wears the Dark Wolf's attire proudly (black cloak, headband/mask and scarf billowing magnificently in the air behind him).
 * He wins the Grand Proving in Orzammar, wearing the same Dark Wolf attire, and only at the end exposes himself, at which point he Cue slack-jawed audience. Two of his fights are curbstomps too.
 * Alim Surana, since he's practically the strongest character in the story, has quite a few of his own too.
 * During the joining, he follows
 * He does a few things before this, but his first real spotlight, and the one that he has yet to top, is his performance during the battle of Ostagar. On the frontlines with everyone else (only Alistair and Gwen went to the Tower of Ishal), just when things are about to get bad, Alim This was supposedly his attempt at a Heroic Sacrifice, since he was burning off his life force, but he didn't get off that easy because of certain factors. He's still alive after all.
 * He is too strong-willed and aware of things
 * When dealing with Connor, he exorcizes him by
 * Pretty much everything else he does in any fight after that, although his real next spotlight was
 * The way he manages to contact two certain parties in order to gain the power and knowledge to save the protagonist from his Heroic RROD episodes no doubt qualify.