* 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 TrainingFromHell, when he figures out how to [[DeadlyDodging 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 [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Eight Hundred]], he brings his entire unit of green troops back from the border hours before anyone thought it possible.
** Turning an ambush at the inn in Noram City with minimal losses to his unit.
** When he first demonstrates the use of camouflage to his halvidar.
** When he subsequently uses camouflage to kidnap the ''leader'' of the Rootless clans.
*** ...which he subsequently parlays into initiating peace talks.
*** ...which in turn he parlays into sending the Rootless to attack Cotswold, the country that invaded his own.
* Ricard de Laal's HeroicSacrifice, preventing both himself being turned by the imprinter and Laal's spies being blown by their turned spymaster.
* The original imprint from the Helm, Michaela Herrin, taking over the line so as to protect Leland from Sigfried's brainwashing.
* The one-page last chapter, wherein an the environmental probes reports back to [[EarthThatWas the survivors of the destruction of Earth]] that Epsilon Eridani II, also known as Agatsu, the planet where the rest of the story had taken place, is a viable colony. Meaning that [[BittersweetEnding humanity will survive]].