Heartwarming / The Arts of Dark and Light

• How was it finally determined that elves are beings with souls? Caitlys blushed when Marcus kissed her. After all the sophistries and jargon about spirits and orders of creation and who knows what, the real proof was that they are capable of virtue.
• The Papal bull ruling that elves have souls, and what happens when it's proclaimed. Effectively, the Church is able to stop the brewing war against them by shaming people into recognizing that their enemies are (somewhat metaphorically speaking) human beings, too. This shows both the Church and the Amorran people at their best, with compassion, the charity of faith and human spirit triumphing over jingoism, racial hatred and greed.
• Marcus forgiving the assassin who tried to kill him and sparing his life. It's not necessarily the smartest thing to do, but it's the Marcus thing to do, and shows that for all the brutality he has been exposed to in the military and the escalating civil war, he is and remains still the same fundamentally kind man as he was when he first appeared in the books as a naive young theology student.
• The ending to The Master of Cats. Through the brave example of the monk Herwaldus — much younger, less knowledgeable and inferior in just about every way to the powerful elven sorcerers, but full of honest conviction and concern for them — Bessarias comes to reevaluate his life, and gives up his promising career as a wizard to seek out the deeper truths of the world through philosophy and faith instead.

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