Awesome / The Dark Profit Saga

• Gorm "Pyrebeard" Ingerson curb-stomping Brunt the Ogre in a fit of berserker rage and then proceeding to carve his way through two battalions of mercenaries. It's pointed out that you do not fuck with a Dwarf-berserker, especially if his nickname is Pyrebeard.
  "Pyrebeard," Kaitha whispered.
  He ran toward the Ogre now, his axe hammering on his shield with every step, a bestial roar in his throat. Brunt responded with a bellow of his own and lumbered forward.
  "This is madness," said Jynn.
  "Yes," agreed Kaitha as the combatants met. "Brunt should have run."
  Gorm was a whirlwind with a manic grin, ducking and weaving and striking around the bellowing Ogre. Kaitha couldn't actually see the Dwarf moving, but Brunt jerked and shuddered like a broken marionette under the onslaught. He staggered from an axe blow to the shoulder, reeled from a shield bash to the nose, doubled over at a strike to the kidneys, and was knocked back by a steel-toed boot to the face.
  The assembled mercenaries fell silent when Gorm finally landed, still howling like a madman. A moment later, Brunt toppled into the dust behind him.
• At the end of book 2, Jynn getting enough courage and resolve to Rank Up to The Archmage of omnimancy and defeat his father, a powerful liche, in a duel.