History Funny / HeraldsOfValdemar

* The tales of the telecaster at the beginning of ''Into the West''. First of all, two people using it to give cooking lessons turned out to be a surprise hit. Second, one of the cats, Sydney, regularly sleeps in the camera lens equivalent and the device sometimes randomly activates. The latter keeps happening right when Syndney is licking its genitals.
* Kordas still refers to Sydney as "Sydney-You-Asshole" from scene from the previous book in which Jonaton got so mad at the cat that he called him this.

* It turns out that Jonaton's worst resentment towards the Empire is the outfit had to wear while being one of its mages.

* The tales of the telecaster at the beginning of ''Into the West''. First of all, two people using it to give cooking lessons turned out to be a surprise hit. Second, one of the cats regularly sleeps in the camera lens equivalent and the device sometimes randomly activates. The latter keeps happening right when said cat is licking its genitals.

* In ''Storm Warning'', Karal meets Herald-Captain Kerowyn, who is TheDreaded in Karse because of the military defeats she and the Skybolts handed them. He's terrified. (And turned on.) By ''Storm Rising'', however, he muses that her reputation for eating Karsite babies on toast for breakfast is exaggerated -- toast, sure, but no babies until lunch at the earliest.

* Kordas and Isla are trying to find an idea to keep the Empire's attention away from their Duchy-wide escape plan. The idea the Dolls's HiveMind comes up with? That Isla and Hakkon have and affair to distract anyone spying on the Valdemar Duchy from anything else that might be going on. The suggestion is made only knowing of Hakkon's ''existence'', which means the Dolls are unaware that Hakkon ''already'' is in a realtionship the Empire wouldn't approve of. With Jonaton, who is absent due to being part of the team getting the first temporary settlement ready.

* Kordas and Isla are trying to find an idea to keep the Empire's attention away from their Duchy-wide escape plan. The idea the Dolls's HiveMind comes up with? That Isla and Hakkon have and affair to distract anyone spying on the Valdemar Duchy from anything else that might be going on. The suggestion is made only knowing of Hakkon's ''existence'', which means the Dolls are unaware that Hakkon ''already'' is in a realtionship the Empire wouldn't approve of. With Jonaton, who is absent due to being part of the team getting the first temporary settlment ready.

* Myste is an AuthorAvatar! (Who was blatantly -- and successfully -- given some of the author's physical disadvantages in order to avoid MarySue-ism.)

* In ''Storm Warning'', Karal meets Herald-Captain Kerowyn, who is TheDreaded in Karse because of the military defeats she and the Skybolts handed them. He's terrified. By ''Storm Rising'', however, he muses that her reputation for eating Karsite babies on toast for breakfast is exaggerated -- toast, sure, but no babies until lunch at the earliest.

* During the escape, Kordas views taking the animals from Merrin's farms without the latter's knownledge as a way of getting back to him for being the local Imperial spy. At the end of ''Beyond'', when the Valdemar Duchy's former lands are left in the care of a GoodAllAlong Merrin, Kordas gives Merrin a few suggestions for a new prime export. In the middle of it, he realizes out loud that it may be a little hard for Merrin to follow his suggestions if he doesn't return his cattle.

* While putting up his "country bumpkin" act, Kordas spins a very extensive tale about the manor that was built for his family on the Emperor's orders in which it is only a quarter occupied, with the rest very much overrun by vermin. As in so much vermin that about half of it is keeping the other half in control, while he doesn't mind the colony that is in the wine cellar because it keeps the servants from stealing wine and likes how easy it is to get pigeon meat or eggs.

* While putting up his "country bumpkin" act, Kordas spins a very extensive tale about the manor that was built for his family on the Emperor's orders in which it is only a quarter occupied, with the rest very much overrun by vermin. As in so much vermin that about half of it is keeping the other half in control, while he doesn't mind the colony that is in the wine cellar because it keep the servants from stealing wine and likes how easy it is to get pigeon meat or eggs.

* While putting up his "country bumpkin" act, Kordas spins a very extensive tale about the manor that was built for his family on the Emperor's orders is only a quarter occupied, with the rest very much overrun by vermin. As in so much vermin that about half of it is keeping the other half in control, while he doesn't mind the colony that is in the wine cellar because it keep the servants from stealing wine and likes how easy it is to get pigeon meat or eggs.

* During the escape, Kordas views taking the animals from Merrin's farms without the latter's knownledge as a way of getting back to him for being the local Imperial spy. At the end of the book, when the Valdemar Duchy's former lands are left in the care of a GoodAllAlong Merrin, Kordas gives Merrin a few suggestions for a new prime export. In the middle of it, he realizes out loud that it may be a little hard for Merrin to follow his suggestions if he doesn't return his cattle.

* the RunningGag of someone asking incredulously, "Did you just make a joke?" and Alberich replying, "Of course I didn't. Everyone knows I have no sense of humour."

* the NeverLiveItDown story about Kris and the chicken; during his first shift in the kitchens as a Trainee, the nobleborn bookworm Kris was asked to prepare a chicken for cooking by stuffing it. After he cut the chicken open, he said, "I don't need to stuff it, it's already full!"

* Kordas and Isla are trying to find an idea to keep the Empire's attention away from their Duchy-wide escape plan. The idea the Dolls's HiveMind comes up with? That Isla and Hakkon have and affair to distract anyone spying on the Valdemar Duchy from anything else that might be going on. The suggestion is made only knowing of Hakkon's ''existence'', which means the Dolls are unaware that Hakkon ''already'' is in a realtionship the Empire wouldn't approve of. With Jonaton.

* Kordas's mage Jonaton is a crossdresser who also has a bad case of StickyFingers. Jonaton was officially first found running away from a mob that was after him for wearing women's clothing. To this day, Kordas isn't entirely sure of the dress-wearing to dress-''stealing'' ratio that was present in the mob's motivation.

* Vanyel's grumbling about his mostly self-inflicted celibacy during Magic's Promise.

** Then he agrees to [[FisherKing the binding ritual]], thinking it'll be empty words. The next morning he is in psychic shock due to a combination of the new Gift and the wretched state of the land itself -- which becomes funny once Elspeth and Darkwind coach him through the worst of it and he admits he really ''should'' have been paying attention earlier.
** And later, when he needs to use his Earth-sense to scout the magical Nodes (a task he's dreading), High Priest Solaris herself scolds him like a mother, with implications that ''Hardon'' is telling him to man up.

* The song "It Was A Dark And Stormy Night". A HenpeckedHusband having to deal with his wife's pretensions of musical genius, until she dies under [[BlatantLies mysterious circumstances]], but everyone who lived within listening distance gladly provided an alibi for the husband, leaving the investigators wondering how she managed to [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch eat her lute.]]

** Then he agrees to the binding ritual, thinking it'll be empty words. The next morning he is in psychic shock due to a combination of the new Gift and the wretched state of the land itself, coupled with the embarrassment of not taking any of this seriously until it was too late.
** And later, when he needs to use his Earth-sense to scout the magical Nodes (a task he's dreading), High Priest Solaris scolds him like a mother, with implications that Hardon herself is telling him to man up.

--> '''Kerowyn'' (thinking): I'll have to remember to tell her he snores when he's drunk.