History Awesome / ForgottenRealms

** Canthus vs. the werewolf. That is all.

** For instance, [[spoiler:after Jak dies]] near the end of The Twilight War books, Cale [[spoiler:proceeds to cast every single buffing spell in his arsenal, takes one of the Death Slaads responsible for Jak's death to the Shadow Plane, and proceeds to pummel the Slaad with his fists. As the big finish, he's sitting on top of the Slaad jamming his thumbs into the thing's eyes, scrambling his brains! Meanwhile ignoring all pain the Slaad's claws cause as they desperately slash into Cale.]] Then, [[spoiler:Cale goes back to the stolen temple of Cyric, after having torn off the Slaad's head, and throws it at the other Slaad! Next: he rips that Slaad's head in half!]] And if that's not enough, [[spoiler:Cale bearhugs The Sojourner to death while one of the spells the Soujourner has cast on himself reciprocates that damage on Cale!]] Finally, [[spoiler:despite Cale not going through with the resurrection, both he and Riven swear to Mask that if he doesn't provide Cale the power to resurrect, they will kill every. Single. Priest. Of. The God's! ALL OF THEM! And Mask gives him the power!]]
** Riven also has his moments. Specifically when [[spoiler:he and Cale go to rescue Elden Corrinthal, the only son of Abelar Corrinthal, from Malkur Forrin's army. They find the toddler in the tent of a Talos Priest, severely beaten and tied to the ground to four stakes. To make it an even bigger MoralEventHorizon moment, the kid is retarded. Cale teleports out with the boy, but not before casting a silence spell on the sleeping priest so Riven can have a "discussion" with the man. Riven wakes up the man, proceeds to beat the snot out of him, then ''heals'' the guy's wounds so he can do it again! For his Coup de Grace, Riven slowly thrusts a spear through the priest's stomach and leaves him to die bathing in his own shit and blood.]]

** Canthus [[spoiler: vs. the werewolf.]] That is all.

----> '''Elaith:''' If I desired my little empire of sewers to be full of [[spoiler:goddesses, archwizards, and Chosen of Mystra]], I'd have invited them.

* When Midnight!Mystra died, her control over the Weave died with her, and the multiverse was being torn to pieces by the raw power of the uncontrollable magic. Unlike previous incarnations, she had no successor, and no god, not even Shar, was powerful enough or willing to take up her duty. Only Deneir, lesser god of writing and scribe to Oghma, prevented the universe from being rent asunder, by desperately holding the pieces of the Weave together. Ultimately, the strain killed him, but in his final moments, he wrote himself into the Weave, killing himself, but saving the Weave. While he may have only been a minor god, his efforts in pulling double duty as the god of magic prevented the end of the multiverse.

* The second goddess of magic, Mystra. The event known as Karsus' Folly caused the death of the original magic goddess, Mystryl, making all magic momentarily cease working. That moment was enough for every single one of the Netherese flying cities to come crashing down. Mystra only had a moment to adjust to godhood before she caught ''three falling cities the size of mountains''.

* Some of RA Salvatore's attempts at a CrowningMomentOfAwesome come off seeming a little cheesy, but most of the characters he's written still get at least really good one.

* Paul S. Kemp's books also have CrowningMomentOfAwesome in them.

* [[RealNameAsAnAlias Lhaeo]]. It's hard to tell what Khelben expected from him [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive proclaiming]] that now he's called, it's time for the RightfulKingReturns as opposed to "hiding behind the beard of the Old Goat". But apparently did ''not'' expected to see all his [[GuileHero chronic]] [[KnightTemplar vices]] briefly summed up, washed in vitriol and handed to him. Including the fact that he, obviously, ''stolen'' the Royal Regalia he so grandly offered to the would-be king. Lhaeo obviously knew exactly who and what Blackstaff is and still ''flattened'' a semidivine being playing the hand of destiny. AwesomeMomentOfCrowning can wait, but CrowningMomentOfAwesome should never be missed (he got both). Khelben later even apologized for the "theft" in writing... hiding behind "Mystra's grace", of course. With "Your Majesty" and all. [[note]]''Lands of Intrigue'', [[http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads freely available]].[[/note]]

* The short story "Traitors" takes place in -25,089 when elves and humanity are still under the absolute rule of the dragons. The elven rebel Winterflower is involved in a plot by rebel nobles to steal draconic magic. During her mission, she suffers a TraumaCongaLine of being the hostage daughter of a rebel lord, having to pretend to be a gold dragon's consort (consensual, but she was not happy about having to do it), narrowly escaping when her plans to steal his magic grimoires going horribly wrong, her entire rebel army being incinerated by aforementioned PO'd gold dragon when he realizes what she's done, her lover dying in battle against the dragon and finally learning that she was the only one of the runners who survived the destruction of the rebel base. Each of the runners was given one of the stolen grimoires in the hope that some part of their mission to steal draconic sorcery would succeed and that the huge sacrifices made wouldn't be in vain. She crosses the DespairEventHorizon when she realizes that her book isn't even a spellbook and starts to throw it into her campfire but relents. Maybe there's a ''small'' possibility that an abstract treatise on the relationship between dragons, nature and the stars could proved useful. The DistantFinale shows that 89 years later, the gold dragon and his court were watching the night sky when a red star rose in the heavens...

* The short story "Traitors" takes place in -25,089 when elves and humanity are still under the absolute rule of the dragons. The elven rebel Winterflower is involved in a plot by rebel nobles to steal draconic magic. During her mission, she suffers a TraumaCongaLine of being the hostage daughter of a rebel lord, having to pretend to be a gold dragon's consort (consensual, but she was not happy about having to do it), narrowly escaping when her plans to steal his magic grimoires going horribly wrong, her entire rebel army being incinerated by aforementioned PO'd gold dragon when he realizes what she's done, her lover dying in battle against the dragon and finally learning that she was the only one of the runners who survived the destruction of the rebel base. Each of the runners was given one of the stolen grimoires in the hope that some part of their mission to steal draconic sorcery would succeed and that the huge sacrifices made wouldn't be in vain. She crosses the DespairEventHorizon when she realizes that her book isn't even a spellbook and starts to throw it into her campfire but relents. Maybe there's a ''small'' possibility that an abstract treatise on the relationship between dragons, nature and the stars could proved useful. The DistantFinale shows that 89 years later, the gold dragon and his court were watching the night sky when a red star rose in the heavens...
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* The short story "Traitors" takes place in -25089 when elves and humanity are still under the absolute rule of the dragons. The elven rebel Winterflower is involved in a plot by rebel nobles to steal draconic magic. During her mission, she suffers a TraumaCongaLine of being the hostage daughter of a rebel lord, having to pretend to be a gold dragon's consort (consensual, but she was not happy about having to do it), narrowly escaping when her plans to steal his magic grimoires going horribly wrong, her entire rebel army being incinerated by aforementioned PO'd gold dragon when he realizes what she's done, her lover dying in battle against the dragon and finally learning that she was the only one of the runners who survived the destruction of the rebel base. Each of the runners was given one of the stolen grimoires in the hope that some part of their mission to steal draconic sorcery would succeed and that the huge sacrifices made wouldn't be in vain. She crosses the DespairEventHorizon when she realizes that her book isn't even a spellbook and starts to throw it into her campfire but relents. Maybe there's a ''small'' possibility that an abstract treatise on the relationship between dragons, nature and the stars could proved useful. The DistantFinale shows that 89 years later, the gold dragon and his court were watching the night sky when a red star rose in the heavens...

* The short story "Traitors" takes place in -25089 when elves and humanity are still under the absolute rule of the dragons. The elven rebel Winterflower suffers a TraumaCongaLine of being the hostage daughter of a rebel lord, having to pretend to be a gold dragon's consort, her plans to steal his magic grimoires going horribly wrong, her entire rebel army being incinerated by aforementioned PO'd gold dragon, her lover dying in battle against it and finally learning that she was the only one of the runners who survived the destruction of the rebel base. Each of the runners was given one of the stolen grimoires in hopes that some part of their mission to steal draconic sorcery would succeed. She crosses the DespairEventHorizon when she realizes that her book isn't even a spellbook and starts to throw it into her campfire but relents. Maybe there's a ''small'' possibility that an abstract treatise on the relationship between dragons, nature and heavenly bodies in the night sky could proved useful. The DistantFinale shows that 89 years later, the gold dragon and his court were watching the night sky when a red star rose in heavens...

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* Most of RA Salvatore's attempts at a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for his characters come off seeming a little cheesy, but most of them still get at least really good one.

* [[RealNameAsAnAlias Lhaeo]]. It's hard to tell what Khelben expected from him [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive proclaiming]] that now he's called, it's time for the RightfulKingReturns as opposed to "hiding behind the beard of the Old Goat". But apparently did ''not'' expected to see all his [[GuileHero chronic]] [[KnightTemplar vices]] briefly summed up, washed in vitriol and handed to him. Including the fact that he, obviously, ''stolen'' the Royal Regalia he so grandly offered to the would-be king. Lhaeo obviously knew exactly who and what Blackstaff is and still ''flattened'' a semidivine being playing the hand of destiny. AwesomeMomentOfCrowning can wait, but CrowningMomentOfAwesome should never be missed (he got both). Khelben later even apologized for the "theft" in writing... hiding behind "Mystra's grace", of course. With "Your Majesty" and all. [[hottip:*:''Lands of Intrigue'', [[http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads freely available]].]]

*** ThisTroper's favorite moment, although not sure whether it was a CMOF or a CMOA was when Jarlaxle was submitted to a "Detect Magic" by a halfling...yeah

** YourMileageMayVary. Lhaeo had originally been willing to entirely skive off the job until Khelben arrived to shame him into it, even Sylune agreed that it was the opportune strategic time to try for a reconquista of Tethyr (when before it would not have been feasible), and returning aleady-stolen property to its rightful owner is ''not'' theft. But Khelben's role ''is'' to be the ButtMonkey in any plot involving Elminster (just take a gander at ''The Fall of Myth Drannor'' for a hilarious example), so, not surprising it happened.

* [[RealNameAsAnAlias Lhaeo]]. It's hard to tell what Khelben expected from him [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive proclaiming]] that now he's called, it's time for ReturnOfTheKing as opposed to "hiding behind the beard of the Old Goat". But apparently did ''not'' expected to see all his [[GuileHero chronic]] [[KnightTemplar vices]] briefly summed up, washed in vitriol and handed to him. Including the fact that he, obviously, ''stolen'' the Royal Regalia he so grandly offered to the would-be king. Lhaeo obviously knew exactly who and what Blackstaff is and still ''flattened'' a semidivine being playing the hand of destiny. AwesomeMomentOfCrowning can wait, but CrowningMomentOfAwesome should never be missed (he got both). Khelben later even apologized for the "theft" in writing... hiding behind "Mystra's grace", of course. With "Your Majesty" and all. [[hottip:*:''Lands of Intrigue'', [[http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads freely available]].]]