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* A meta-example would be how the series came to be in the first place. Butcher got involved with an internet argument on a writing forum. The argument was over whether craft or idea was more important to a good novel - basically whether or not a good writer could make a bad idea into a good novelt. Butcher [[TheBet took that as a challenge]] and told the other poster to give him not one but ''two'' bad concepts, and he would write a novel with them. The poster responded with Lost Roman Legions and ''{{Pokemon}}''. That's right, the Furies have their roots in the canon that spawned Pikachu. And he has indeed [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome made it work]].

** Also, his teasing of Tavi as he realizes a few things are... ahem, developing between the young man and his [[{{Tsundere daughter]]. You practically read the anime-esque heart at the end of this sentence.

** Also, his teasing of Tavi as he realizes a few things.

* A meta-example would be how the series came to be in the first place. Butcher has said a friend of his remarked that a bad writer can ruin a good idea, but even a good writer couldn't pull off a bad idea. Butcher [[TheBet took that as a challenge]] and told his friend to give him not one but ''two'' bad concepts, and he would write a novel with them. His friend's eventual choices? The Lost Roman Legion and ''{{Pokemon}}''. That's right, the Furies have their roots in the canon that spawned Pikachu. And he has indeed [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome made it work]].

* Phrygia's stammering son. Seriously, the boy is awesome. And Tavi and Kitai realize this. Which is why they start arguing about who gets him like a couple of budding rapists. The only ways the scene would have been more awesomely hysterical would've been if the boy had miraculously happened to speak Canish, the language they were using to discuss him in front of his back, or if Varg had joined in on the argument.

* First Lord's Fury, Lord Gram's reaction to seeing the Vord Bulks for the first time.

* Tavi gets out of marching with the Legion by breaking his leg. He explains it as a result of a spooked horse. The [[spoiler:ASLEEP]] horse doesn't cooperate.

-->'''Cyril:''' We've only one [[PlayingWithFire Knight Ignus]], and he's currently [[EpicFail being treated for burn wounds.]]

--> '''Kitai''': You are slow and stupid. We both know this. But have I ever deceived you?

** -->'''Gaius''' I adjusted to the demands of my station, of course, but when you speak to Maximus, you might mention to him that in the future, should this situation arise again, he should seek some course ''other'' than [[spoiler: to fondle my wife]]

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* From Captain's Fury comes this gem: Tavi: So... I want you gone, and you want to BE gone. Perhaps we can work something out?
->Nasaug: Perhaps that would be possible in a rational world, But we are in Alera.

Nasaug: Perhaps that would be possible in a rational world, But we are in Alera.

Nasaug: Perhaps that would be possible in a rational world, But we are in Alera.

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Nasaug: Perhaps that would be possible in a rational world, But we are in Alera.

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* ''First Lord's Fury'': Canim giving legionares piggyback rides. Very effective for speedy transportation, but [[{{Understatement}} not the most popular]] of Tavi's ideas. A slightly loopy-from-exhaustion Fidelias had this to say:

* Almost everything Doroga says, especially in the later books.

* In the second book, when Max is [[spoiler:filling in for the First Lord]], he unexpectedly runs into Gaius's (ignored and only married for political reasons) wife, Caria, who is extremely angry at her husband for forgetting her even more than usual. [[spoiler:Max, still shapeshifted into Gaius Sextus, diffuses the situation by making out with and hitting on her.]]
* Capitain's Fury: Ehren in responce to a Just Crazy Enough to Work plan
-->Tavi: are you in?
-->Ehren:The plan is insane. YOU are insane!(sigh)...... I'll need some pants

--->"I am the Master of Arms. I read up on your combat law. It means I come over here and tell you all the rules, even though everyone here knows them better than I do. [[spoiler:Lord Antillus]], there, is the challenged. He gets to choose how the duel will be fought. He's chosen steel and fury, which basically means anything goes, which is how fighting ought to be done in any case. [[spoiler:Isana]] is the challenger, which means she gets to choose the time and place of the duel. She has chosen here and now. Obviously. Or none of us would be standing out here in the wind."

* In ''First Lord's Fury'', when a slightly loopy-from-exhaustion Fidelias is contemplating Tavi's latest crazy plan.

* ''First Lord's Fury'': Canim giving legionares piggyback rides. Very effective for speedy transportation, but [[{{Understatement}} not the most popular]] of Tavi's ideas.
** From the same book, Max throwing a belligerent Cane through a building, while Marcus muses that Max must have been learning diplomacy from Tavi: he threw the Cane through a ''wooden'' building instead of a ''stone'' one.
** Amara [[OutGambitted Out Gambits]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Lady Aquitainus Invidia]], leaving her and her retainers stranded in the woods. Amara calmly and rationally explains to Bernard why they didn't kill her and how she could have made it impossible for them to get charges of treason to stick, and that therefore, this was their best option. Then we get this...
--->'''Bernard:''' Though I feel I must ask... why did we leave them [[NakedPeopleAreFunny naked]]? To slow them down?\\
'''Amara:''' No, because the poisonous bitch deserved it.
** On the subject of sailing around leviathans:
--->"Respect is elder to convenience."\\

** The beginning of ''Princeps' Fury'' features a rather hilarious sequence in which a couple of former members of Kalarus's army are traveling, along with a third who turns out to be Ehren. One of them is babbling incessantly while the other gets more and more annoyed... until eventually Ehren, who has apparently had enough, quietly comes up behind him and breaks a tree branch over his head. [[MoodWhiplash Too bad about what happens next]].
* A meta-example would be how the series came to be in the first place. Butcher has said a friend of his remarked that a bad writer can ruin a good idea, but even a good writer couldn't pull off a bad idea. Butcher took that as a challenge and told his friend to give him not one but ''two'' bad concepts, and he would write a novel with them. His friend's eventual choices? The Lost Roman Legion and ''{{Pokemon}}''. That's right, the Furies have their roots in the canon that spawned Pikachu. And he has indeed [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome made it work]].

* In ''Princep's Fury'', Max complains about the Canim cavalry mounts, which are Bull-sized mules called ''Tuargas''.

* Phrygia's stammering son. Seriously, the boy is awesome. And Tavi and Kitai realize this. Which is why the start arguing about who gets him like a couple of budding rapists. The only ways the scene would have been more awesomely hysterical would've been if the boy had miraculously happened to speak Canish, the language they were using to discuss him in front of his back, or if Varg had joined in on the argument.