Rien being book dumb provides a lot of these. Both Bastien and Lammert dip into Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness just to confound him, and Bastien in particular amuses himself by telling Rien the wrong definitions of various terms. Rien's reaction to finally learning what nonpareil means after using it as his favorite insult for months is priceless.
Rien complaining that manacles are uncomfortable. Bastien is not the slightest bit sympathetic.
Aurel : You’re saying Marinus Draak, the River Dragon, raided this castle... by accident?
Bastien : Spend a week in his company and you won’t find that so unbelievable.
After repeatedly showing just what a badass he is, Rien gets taken down by an eight year old girl.
Rien does not do well in captivity
Rachel vs Solsthriem fashion
Rien having Rachel tie Bastien up, then getting Distracted by the Sexy and leaving him that way all night
Rien tells Bastien he has a plan. Bastien is very apprehensive about the plan until Rien tells him it's Rachel's plan. Then he just shrugs and asks what Rien needs him to do.
Various people calling Lammert a son of a bitch. He just nods and agrees.
Blood and Ashes
Efua merrily trolls the entire group by telling them all about how dangerous and tricky the Ilael are, prompting Rien to decide he needs to avoid the Ilael at all costs to protect Liam. Liam's ability to keep a straight face during the conversation proves his Heroic Resolve is on par with Bastien's. Liam is the King of the Ilael
Rien and Bastien have almost the exact same conversation about Solsthriem fashion that Jurgen and Wendel did twenty five years earlier.
Rien: It's trying to kill me
Bastien: It's not trying to kill you
Stone and Fire
Jurgen meets Diantha. Diantha breaks Jurgen's nose. Jurgen immediately falls in love
Lammert's reaction the first time he sees an elephant
Jurgen meets Pauwel, the man who becomes Rien's father. It becomes immediately clear that some apples don't fall far from the tree.
Liam is about a foot taller than most Ilael. Ilael women are increasingly curious to learn if he's 'proportional'.
Pretty much anytime Pauwel is around a small child. Tends to double with heartwarming.
Adaeze's reaction to Liam fighting a basilisk is to tie him up and refuse to let him out of the cabin again until he learns his lesson.
Liam: I will not leave the ship without either you or your designated watcher accompanying me. I will not get more than a hundred feet from you without your permission. I will explain any plans to your satisfaction and will not carry them out unless I have your approval. I will not be a fucking stupid jackass. I will listen to Adaeze and do what she tells me because she is my wife and my captain, and knows what is best for me.
The entire trip to Uhses is an exercise in hilarity and heartwarming. They save the village, then spend the rest of their visit trying to convince the villagers that they aren't actually gods.
The care and precision Liam, a nigh omniscient prophet, takes to avoid having to acknowledge that his adopted little sister is sleeping with his surrogate little brother is made even funnier by the fact that they all know he knows, but play along with it anyway.
Made funnier by the very next scene being Jurgen retrieving Rien from an orgy without so much as batting an eye at the fact his little brother is in bed with at least three other people. Considering Rien has to go through trousers to figure out which ones are his, some or all of the people involved were not female.
The Duchess
All the bickering between Jurgen and Markus AKA Wendel when they are captured.
The final parts of the fight become hilarious when you realize Jurgen was naked the entire time
Markus: I swear, this is the last time I’m going into a fight with you while you’re naked.
Jurgen: You said that last time
Gian knocks Jurgen out with a tree branch from behind.
The story of the previous meeting between Jurgen and Ruarc. Ruarc has Jurgen at his mercy when one of Ruarc's own crossbowmen shoots Ruarc by accident. Jurgen finds it so funny he actually gets Ruarc to a healer and then lets him go.
