[OB] Best Battle/Fight In Stormlight

[ICanDream]

I just wondered which one is the most popular. My money is on four on one duel, Battle of Narak or Battle of Thaylen Field winning.

(For those who are unaware, the battle of Thaylen Field is the battle during the avalanche of Oathbringer.)

[insert_anagram_here]

I wanted to vote 2. The battle of the Tower and the Kholinar Palace. Both of them had heart crushing moments and that's why they felt all the more real to me. 

[Greywatch she/her]

I have to say the four-on-one duel. It was a brutally crushing beginning to the fight to have Adolin have that realization that Sadeas did him like that, to the realization that the woman reffing the duel was just going to let it go on, to Renarin and Kaladin both realizing that they have to do something... "Honor is dead... But I'll see what I can do." It was a small enough scope that I felt I could easily concentrate on all parts of it, which is something I don't do well in the big battle scenes (trouble holding onto all parts of it), but the stakes felt high. I was in this scene's grip the whole time.

[Farnsworth]

There was so much going on in the battle at the Thalyan fields. So many POVs, so much going on constantly.

[Andy92]

I voted for The Tower. The newest battle scene at Thaylen Field is the largest scale fight to date, but the emotion behind the betrayal/eventual rescue at The Tower makes it my favorite. 

I did prefer the newest scene at Thaylen Field to Narak though. 

[I Am Witless she/her]

It's kind of hard to separate out the individual pieces of a 100 page long battle scene.

[Matt Snow he/him]

Gotta go with the Four v One duel. The first time you read it and (if you're like me) get as shocked as Adolin, then you start to feel like he could actually do it. Then BAM, he get's hit goes down and tries to surrender. Then Kaladin says maybe my favorite line in the books "Honor is dead, but I'll see what I can do" (Which I love because Kaladin doesn't know that Dalinar knows that Honor is dead), and then you just know they're gonna win. And finally I love Kaladin's joy and then devastation at the end of the fight, especially when he says never again.

[Awesomness]

Difficult decision, but I went for Battle of the Tower because  “Somebody has to start, son. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right. If nobody starts, then others cannot follow.”

 

[Shuffel]

How does Kaladin jumping into the dueling arena with only a spear lose against any of these.

"Does no one here have honor"

"Honor is dead"

*Jumps in arena*

Totally paraphrased this

[IllNsickly he/him]

Tower. Hands Down.

 

Dalinar and Adolin bith knew that they had been betrayed and that THIS was their last stand.

And they kept fighting. 

This was for everyone else. They knew that this was their end and they kept fighting.

When all else has failed and it come to YOU to continue the fight, knowing that your end has come regardless of the outcome... What will YOU do?

[Windrunning he/him]

Gotta say I loved all of Adolin's duels in WoR. The differences between them all, the stances shown and even the politics behind them. Just some of the smartest writing I've seen. 

The fact that they even culminated in one of the most exciting moments of the series so far shows how cool they are. Plus, there was no "Swear an Ideal and therefore win the fight/battle". It was just three desperate men against four jerks with super weapons. 

It had betrayal (former friends of Adolin's).

It had drama.

It had some top dialogue (Dalinar's cry for help then "Honor is dead" from Kal).

It had the start of a bromance.

It had the lot.

 

Also, these duels are where we learned so much about Adolin, Maya, his routines, his blade and plate...

[Greywatch she/her]

Oh yeah, the Battle of the Tower is my second-runner up. It has the betrayal, it has Adolin roaring "I told you Sadeas was bad!" to Dalinar, the desperation and awful as Dalinar and Adolin and the entire Kholin army realizes they're going to die there. And then Kaladin steps in, owed nothing, knowing they might have given away their freedom forever... and saves them. Also very very good! 

[Farnsworth]

Thalyn fields. I’m a huge fan of long, complicated battle scenes. There are some great ones in Lord Foul’s Bane, (awful name, I know) and this one blew them all away. It brought everything together, everybody was there acting badchull, and SO MUCH HAPPENED! 

[OldFilthyCasual]

Four on one duel. "To Kill the Wind" is hands down my favorite chapter in the series so far.