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Theft of Swords
Crown Conspiracy
- The opening chapter where the two titular thieves encountered a shabby road blockade and waylaid by another group. They were so unimpressed by the group's skill that the two had to gave them advice.
- Esrahaddon a 900 year old wizard speaks in an older Shakespearean-esque tongue, much to the rest of the party's confusion. He himself gets annoyed by the inconsistency of the new language.Esrahaddon: How be it that easy forms the opposite of hard? Sense this makes not.
Avempartha
- Princess Arista gets word of her Bishop sending her now-king brother a list of rich nobles to marry her and storms off to find him inside a locked room. She ends up shouting loud enough for the poor king to burst out and confront Arista. When Alric tells her he's going to send Arista into an even worse kingdom, she gets horrified. He sternly tells her to stop moping around do this job, to her shock. She berates her brother for his insensitivity and choosing such a poor place for her to marry into when... Turns out he was just making her the new ambassador of their own kingdom.Princess Arista: Do you hate me that much? Am I that horrible that you must marry me to some no-account duke in a backwater kingdom? Even Father wouldn’t have done that to me—why—why are you laughing? Stop laughing, you insensitive little hobgoblin!”
- In the poor village of Dahlgren, Hadrian manages to manipulate the utterly inept deacon and stewart into providing protection for the villagers. Hadrian proposes letting the villagers into the former lord's stone manor, and after an implied refusal, offers to lend the deacon a sword to fight the beast terrorizing them.Deacon Thomas: I—I don’t recall saying that lodging the people in the manor at night was out of the question!
Rise of Empire
Nyphon Rising
- In a callback to the first chapter of the series, an imperial courier encounters a stronger blockade made by two "imperial sentries"note . They unceremoniously toss the courier out of his horse, break the seal of the letters, and let him run off to the commander — with the suggestion to reseal the letters with the excuse of the heat melting the insignia.
- Royce, Hadrian, and Arista's arrival to Sheridan University.
- They overhear a student talking about his experiment's failure. It involved a frog that was fed a mix of nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and glycerinnote . The professor Arcadius (who proposed this experiment to his students) chuckles after hearing their results.
- After all the students left, Hadrian locks the doors and Royce suddenly walks up to Arcadius. To Arista's horror, Royce announces he plans to murder him for knowing too much. Arcadius begs for his last words, to which Royce agrees and then... Arcadius cheerfully asks about Gwen'snote health. Naturally, Arista isn't pleased.
The Emerald Storm
- Arista's antics while donning the form of Regent (former Bishop) Saldur. Made even funnier in the audiobook version where you can hear her speaking in his voice.
