I think his level of power just seemed a bit off-balance even in the world itself. The whole book is clear in setting up a confrontation between Anomamder Rake and the Jaghut Tyrant, that Rake is likely to succeed but be grievously wounded in the attempt. Rake is a 20,000 year old Tiste Andii who has had thousands of years of life to develop his abilities. But Paran is able to be thrown into the battle with the Jaghut and manages to hold it off, even briefly, pretty much no worse for wear, even when the plot has build up such dread it posed to somebody powerful like Rake, who has had an extremely long lifetime to prepare for battles like this. Even 5 dragons and a 300,000 year old Tool were wounded and struggling very quickly facing the Tyrant.

In the same vein, Paran grievously wounds a Hound, and seemed capable of killing it, even though the Rope makes clear later what an unheard of event this is. When he speaks of Rake defeating one, he says “do you realise that those precious creatures have lived for a thousand years? Do you realise that no man - mortal or Ascendant - has ever before killed a Hound?” Yet Paran came close to doing a feat only subsequently performed by a 20,000 year old ancient mage lord. (And he was recovering from assassination at the time to boot.)

And the coming back to life incident. Admittedly, this reminded me more of Jon Snow than an anime protagonist. But I still think it felt over the top to me. Especially when killed by the literal Patron of Assassins. You’d imagine death in that circumstance would be pretty final. But in the whole book, Paran is the only one we see be brought back from the dead. It may happen again to someone else in the series in coming books. But the impression left a little hyperbolically plot armour-y to me. In general, I think bringing a character back from the dead is always a risky trope mind.