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Just what the title says. Who is your favorite professional killer in fantasy? My vote goes to Kalim of the Malazan Books of the Dead. Loyal, badass, partnered with High Mage Quick Ben, and knows the love of a good woman. He's a soldier, motivated by loyalty not by money.

When it comes to assassins...

Probably Artemis Entreri from the Forgotten Realms or Pteppic from Discworld.

Entreri, before he went all emo-fied.


Unless you want to count Jarlaxle as an assassin.

Pteppic of Djelibeybi would defeat Entreri. Why? Living god, baby.

Pteppic of Djelibeybi would defeat Entreri. Why? Living god, baby.

Nitram, I thought you knew better than to state the pretty obvious fact that Discworld pwns anything in existance

Dakarne wrote:

Pteppic of Djelibeybi would defeat Entreri. Why? Living god, baby.

Nitram, I thought you knew better than to state the pretty obvious fact that Discworld pwns anything in existance

Some people are dumb.

Some people are dumb.

You may accept my concession as I leave

Well if we're including gods, then I have to bring in Cotillion from the Malazan series. Patron of Assassins baby. Got to love the Rope.

Well, as a superhero I'm naturally somewhat unfond of assassins but-assuming we're not limiting this to still operating ones which would exclude Pteppic, by the way- I'd have to say my least unfavourite one is Havelock Vetinari.

Cynical Cat wrote:Well if we're including gods, then I have to bring in Cotillion from the Malazan series. Patron of Assassins baby. Got to love the Rope.

Ah, but has he acted and trained as one? pTeppic(Figuring out the right way to spell it as he changes the pronounciation in the book is fun) survived the full time in the Assassin's Guild(Yes, I said survived, not passed), and was rather a good Assassin. He just happened to be an Eygptian-esque Pharoah in a world where Belief COUNTS.

SirNitram wrote:

Dakarne wrote:

Pteppic of Djelibeybi would defeat Entreri. Why? Living god, baby.

Nitram, I thought you knew better than to state the pretty obvious fact that Discworld pwns anything in existance

Some people are dumb.

Never said Artemis would win. I simply like him a lot.

SirNitram wrote:[
Ah, but has he acted and trained as one? pTeppic(Figuring out the right way to spell it as he changes the pronounciation in the book is fun) survived the full time in the Assassin's Guild(Yes, I said survived, not passed), and was rather a good Assassin. He just happened to be an Eygptian-esque Pharoah in a world where Belief COUNTS.

He was head of the Talon (one of the two Malazan government assassin organizations), widely regarded as one of the most badass people on the planet, and survived an assassination attempt to Ascend and become a god.

For my favourite assassin god...

I suppose Cyric of Forgotten Realms fame isn't so bad for an assassin god

Hugh the Hand, Deathgate Cycle.
There's a man who be my favorite.

Batman wrote:Well, as a superhero I'm naturally somewhat unfond of assassins but-assuming we're not limiting this to still operating ones which would exclude Pteppic, by the way- I'd have to say my least unfavourite one is Havelock Vetinari.

/was going to suggest Vetinari, dammit /

As long as we're on a Discword theme, I vote Mr. Teatime (It's Tea-ah-tim-eh!). The man made detailed plans on how to kill gods.

Masterharper wrote:Hugh the Hand, Deathgate Cycle.
There's a man who be my favorite.

Although he is a dirty dirty thread necromancer. I am forced to agree with Harper. Hugh the Hand was awesome. He probably doesn't compare to some in this thread. But he's still fucking awesome.

Pcm979 wrote:As long as we're on a Discword theme, I vote Mr. Teatime (It's Tea-ah-tim-eh!). The man made detailed plans on how to kill gods.

Even better, he spent holidays planning how to kill abstracts.
While the head of the assasains guild waited for sleighbells, Te-ah-tim-eh worked out how to kill the Hogsfather

I've read the bleedin' book, I was just simplifying it for those who, unfortunate souls that they are, haven't read Discworld and thus don't know what the hell we're talking about.