Kelemvor because he inherited the portfolio of all three gods of death and thus can overpower Myrkul.

Cloud, because I despise Drizzt, and Cloud can summon KoR.

Yeah, but deja-fu's out (as I specified time-based powers are banned), and Cohen's extremely well schooled in Stick The Sharp End Of The Sword Where The Other Guy Doesn't Want It.

... Since I don't know if anyone'll catch the edit anyway, may as well resubmit

Vimes v Vetinari

Deja-fu is time-based? Thought it ws just a very powerful martial art. Uses all the classic "hit the pressure points and whatnot".

Hmm, tough one. Vetinari is a trained assassin... But Vimes is wise to assassins, plus, he killed a werewolf in hand-to-hand and actually managed to outmatch the Librarian in brute physical strength. I say Vimes.

Nah, it's the art of using time as a weapon.

1. Weatherwax is pretty badass (no pun intended) but i'll give this one to Ridcully, he's got more offensive spells and lots of practice.

2. This fight goes to Cohen. Lu-Tze is good, but without time powers he's nowhere near Cohen's level.

3. The Auditors. They're only weakness is sweets and the Things don't have any.

4. Ooo, this is a tough call. I'm going to assume this is a one on one fight. Ummm, i'll have to give this one to Vimes. Ventinari is probably out of practice and would be a little rusty, yes i know he was a former assassin, but Vimes is very good at dealing with them. I just read Night Watch so many examples of Vime's l33tness are still fresh in my mind.

Dante...............Cyric inherited those portfolios, but since Kelemvor beat Cyric in a swordfight before he (Kelemvor) even became the God of Death, he could still win.

would the Knights really want to hurt someone with alignment so similar to their own?

Drizzt is MUCH faster than Cloud, and he has loads of experience fighting strong, large-weapon wielding fighters and monsters, and he knows the Ghost Step technique (to use Cloud's own blade as a defense to obscure his motions with). He could just cast Darkness, since he has experience fighting in such conditions he would own Cloud even MORE that way.

The thing with Vimes and Vetinari is Vetinari's a bit quicker mentally -- he always catches the one or two things Vimes misses.

Still, I actually do have to say it goes to Vimes. He's the better straight-up fighter -- Vetinari's gift is mainly in making sure everybody agrees that he won without the fight ever actually happening.

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I was going to suggest Vimes vs Carrot, but Vimes trumps King, there's really no way around it.

In Pratchett's world narrative causality rules, especially if narrative causality is wielding an axe.

So sue me for not keeping current with D&D.

Uh... the Knights have no stated alignment, they just come out and kick the ass of whomever Cloud wants them to...

I don't care how fast he is, Cloud can take hits from WEAPON monsters and giant mecha. A couple of scimitar blades, however enchanted, won't hurt much. And if Drizzt tries to block that sharpened surfboard he is going to die.

And we haven't even started talking about Limit Breaks yet...

For clarification I'm the one that said lightsabers are the living force. This is because they are made from force crystals. Non-Jedis could use them because the force is in all things. However, I don't know how they whould activate them because I've never seen anything that looks like an on switch on them.

I wish to add a conteneder to the death debate. That would be Zane from On a Pale Horse. He falls into the role of death when he tries to commit sucide but end up killing death, long story read the book. In the end he ends up beating the Devil and saving his love, who is supposed to be able to tip the world towards good. He has all deaths powers and cannot be killed unless he wishes it so, which is how the death before him died. Not to mention he saves a few lives even as death.

Read the Jedi Academy novels. Hell, read almost any of the later Star Wars books. Lightsabers can be powered by any type of crystal. In the Young Jedi Series, Lowbacca salvages a crystal from an old piece of equipment. One of them goes into a volcano and retrieves a crystal from there. One gets one from a Couresca Gem, which is in the atmosphere of Yavin (The big orange gas giant that Yavin 4 orbits). I have never heard of a "Force Crystal". Also Lightsabers run on a standard blaster battery. In various novels, we see a jedi draining blasters to re-charge their lightsabers. And they have on switches. Some jedi have their switches set so they can be locked into position so the blade stays on when it leaves their grip, while others have it so the button must be pressed and held to keep the lightsaber on.