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** The Ghosts are another example, and seem to be a combination of the savagest parts of the mid-19th century Native American tribes and Saxon hordes.
** The Ghosts are another example, and seem to be a combination of the savagest parts of the mid-19th century Native American tribes and Saxon hordes.
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** Cosca, while always self-serving and devious, had some morals in his earlier appearances, and was mostly a LoveableRogue. By this book, he has lost any scruples he had and is well on his way to being a CompleteMonster.
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* OneLastJob: Veteran fighter Glama decides that his duel with Lamb will be his last fight, as he will be able to live comfortably off of his pay. [[spoiler: Once he realizes the true identity of his opponent, he knows it will be his last fight for a different reason]].
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* JackOfAllTrades: Temple has been, among others, clergyman, lawyer, and architect/builder.
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After a {{deconstruction}} of HighFantasy with TheFirstLaw trilogy, a take at a {{swashbuckler revenge}} story set against a backdrop of warring city states with Literature/BestServedCold, another take at the [[WarIsHell war novel]] genre with Literature/TheHeroes, RedCountry is JoeAbercrombie's tentative to crack open and end the [[SamuraiCowboy fantasy western genre]]. The nods, homage, parodies and subversions taking from both samurai films and the westerns they inspired – from the split city shown in {{Yojimbo}} to the CattleDrive, from a desperate [[TheSearchers search for missing loved ones]] to a RetiredGunslinger [[AxeCrazy that cannot change]] – are too many to be counted.
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After a {{deconstruction}} of HighFantasy with TheFirstLaw trilogy, a take at a {{swashbuckler revenge}} {{swashbuckler}} revenge story set against a backdrop of warring city states with Literature/BestServedCold, another take at the [[WarIsHell war novel]] genre with Literature/TheHeroes, RedCountry is JoeAbercrombie's tentative to crack open and end the [[SamuraiCowboy fantasy western genre]]. The nods, homage, parodies and subversions taking from both samurai films and the westerns they inspired – from the split city shown in {{Yojimbo}} to the CattleDrive, from a desperate [[TheSearchers search for missing loved ones]] to a RetiredGunslinger [[AxeCrazy that cannot change]] – are too many to be counted.
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A standalone sequel to ''TheFirstLaw'', set a few decades later. It has a marked [[TheWestern Western]] influence, particularly that of the bloody SpaghettiWestern. It features several previous players from the series, often under different names/nicknames.
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->Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering emperors, with world conquering designs. Not crackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, with low methods.
-->RedCountry
In the Near Country, [[ActionGirl Shy South]] has barely managed to [[RetiredOutlaw bury her past]]. She lives a happy life at her farm with her younger siblings and her stepfather, Lamb. An older, slow and big man, Shy thinks him [[ArcWords some kind of coward]]. She would be [[TheSoCalledCoward surprised]] if she knew [[DarkAndTroubledPast his past]]. And she will too, as soon as trouble comes.
The past is also something Temple, lawyer for the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors company of the Gracious Hands]], is trying to forget. He is a coward known for taking the easy way out of every situation. Yet he never seems able [[LovableCoward to silence his conscience]].
A series of coincidences will make their paths cross. Amidst a [[GoldFever gold rush]], the protagonists will take the road [[TheWildWest west towards the frontier and the Far Country]]. They say anyone can start a new life there. But who can really break the shackles of the past?
After a {{deconstruction}} of HighFantasy with TheFirstLaw trilogy, a take at a {{swashbuckler revenge}} story set against a backdrop of warring city states with Literature/BestServedCold, another take at the [[WarIsHell war novel]] genre with Literature/TheHeroes, RedCountry is JoeAbercrombie's tentative to crack open and end the [[SamuraiCowboy fantasy western genre]]. The nods, homage, parodies and subversions taking from both samurai films and the westerns they inspired – from the split city shown in {{Yojimbo}} to the CattleDrive, from a desperate [[TheSearchers search for missing loved ones]] to a RetiredGunslinger [[AxeCrazy that cannot change]] – are too many to be counted.
While all the protagonists are at least [[AntiHero flawed]] and sometimes even [[HumansAreFlawed petty or despicable]], Abercrombie's talent is in conferring them a healthy dose of humanity and a faint hope for redemption.
As standalone sequel to ''TheFirstLaw'',set a few decades later. It has a marked [[TheWestern Western]] influence, particularly that of the bloody SpaghettiWestern. It it features several previous players from the series, often under different names/nicknames.
-->RedCountry
In the Near Country, [[ActionGirl Shy South]] has barely managed to [[RetiredOutlaw bury her past]]. She lives a happy life at her farm with her younger siblings and her stepfather, Lamb. An older, slow and big man, Shy thinks him [[ArcWords some kind of coward]]. She would be [[TheSoCalledCoward surprised]] if she knew [[DarkAndTroubledPast his past]]. And she will too, as soon as trouble comes.
The past is also something Temple, lawyer for the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors company of the Gracious Hands]], is trying to forget. He is a coward known for taking the easy way out of every situation. Yet he never seems able [[LovableCoward to silence his conscience]].
A series of coincidences will make their paths cross. Amidst a [[GoldFever gold rush]], the protagonists will take the road [[TheWildWest west towards the frontier and the Far Country]]. They say anyone can start a new life there. But who can really break the shackles of the past?
After a {{deconstruction}} of HighFantasy with TheFirstLaw trilogy, a take at a {{swashbuckler revenge}} story set against a backdrop of warring city states with Literature/BestServedCold, another take at the [[WarIsHell war novel]] genre with Literature/TheHeroes, RedCountry is JoeAbercrombie's tentative to crack open and end the [[SamuraiCowboy fantasy western genre]]. The nods, homage, parodies and subversions taking from both samurai films and the westerns they inspired – from the split city shown in {{Yojimbo}} to the CattleDrive, from a desperate [[TheSearchers search for missing loved ones]] to a RetiredGunslinger [[AxeCrazy that cannot change]] – are too many to be counted.
While all the protagonists are at least [[AntiHero flawed]] and sometimes even [[HumansAreFlawed petty or despicable]], Abercrombie's talent is in conferring them a healthy dose of humanity and a faint hope for redemption.
As standalone sequel to ''TheFirstLaw'',
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* InventedIndividual: Subverted. Majud always justifies his miserly attitude by unconvincingly stating that he'd like to be generous, but has to respect the interests of his (unseen) business partner Cumsbick, who is a stickler. Temple and everyone else assumes that Cumsbick is fictional. However, later on, Cumsbick surprisingly shows up, and turns out to be [[UnclePennybags a friendly and generous type]] who refers to Majud as a miser. At the end of the novel, [[spoiler: Temple opens up a general store and borrowing from Majud as an example, names it using his deceased mentor as an imaginary business partner]].
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* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Right before Temple hooks up with Shy for the first time, Lamb tells him to be gentle with her. Temple replies that he's more worried about her being gentle with him. Lamb agrees, but comments that i the relationship goes bad, he won't be breaking ''her'' legs.
* InventedIndividual: Subverted. Majud always justifies by unconvincingly stating that he'd like to be generous, but has to respect the interests of his (unseen) business partner Cumsbick, who is a stickler. Temple and everyone else assumes that Cumsbick is fictional. However, later on, Cumsbick surprisingly shows up, and turns out to be [[UnclePennybags a friendly and generous type]] who refers to Majud as a miser. At the end of the novel, [[spoiler: Temple opens up a general store and borrowing from Majud as an example, names it using his deceased mentor as an imaginary business partner]].
* InventedIndividual: Subverted. Majud always justifies by unconvincingly stating that he'd like to be generous, but has to respect the interests of his (unseen) business partner Cumsbick, who is a stickler. Temple and everyone else assumes that Cumsbick is fictional. However, later on, Cumsbick surprisingly shows up, and turns out to be [[UnclePennybags a friendly and generous type]] who refers to Majud as a miser. At the end of the novel, [[spoiler: Temple opens up a general store and borrowing from Majud as an example, names it using his deceased mentor as an imaginary business partner]].
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* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Right before Temple hooks up with Shy for the first time, Lamb tells him to be gentle with her. Temple replies that he's more worried about her being gentle with him. Lamb agrees, but comments that i if the relationship goes bad, he won't be breaking ''her'' legs.
* InventedIndividual: Subverted. Majud always justifies his miserly attitude by unconvincingly stating that he'd like to be generous, but has to respect the interests of his (unseen) business partner Cumsbick, who is a stickler. Temple and everyone else assumes that Cumsbick is fictional. However, later on, Cumsbick surprisingly shows up, and turns out to be [[UnclePennybags a friendly and generous type]] who refers to Majud as a miser. At the end of the novel, [[spoiler: Temple opens up a general store and borrowing from Majud as an example, names it using his deceased mentor as an imaginary business partner]].
* InventedIndividual: Subverted. Majud always justifies his miserly attitude by unconvincingly stating that he'd like to be generous, but has to respect the interests of his (unseen) business partner Cumsbick, who is a stickler. Temple and everyone else assumes that Cumsbick is fictional. However, later on, Cumsbick surprisingly shows up, and turns out to be [[UnclePennybags a friendly and generous type]] who refers to Majud as a miser. At the end of the novel, [[spoiler: Temple opens up a general store and borrowing from Majud as an example, names it using his deceased mentor as an imaginary business partner]].
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Temple seems to be this in-universe. He professes to be half-Styrian (an Italian FantasyCounterpartCulture) and half-Dagoskan (vaguely SimSimSalabim), but other characters wonder if he could be Gurkish (TheEmpire, which includes people of South Asian, Arabian, and African appearances), and one character refers to him as a "black bastard".
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* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Right before Temple hooks up with Shy for the first time, Lamb tells him to be gentle with her. Temple replies that he's more worried about her being gentle with him. Lamb agrees, but comments that i the relationship goes bad, he won't be breaking ''her'' legs.
* InventedIndividual: Subverted. Majud always justifies by unconvincingly stating that he'd like to be generous, but has to respect the interests of his (unseen) business partner Cumsbick, who is a stickler. Later Temple and everyone else assumes that Cumsbick is fictional. However, later on, Cumsbick surprisingly shows up, and turns out to be [[UnclePennybags a friendly and generous type]] who refers to Majud as a miser. At the end of the novel, [[spoiler: Temple opens up a general store and borrowing from Majud as an example, names it using his deceased mentor as an imaginary business partner]].
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* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: Lamb/Logen decides the best way to keep the ones he loves safe is to leave them.]]
* TheDreaded: As ever, the Bloody Nine, Logen Ninefingers [[spoiler: AKA: Lamb.]]
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* MiserAdviser: LovableRogue: Cosca was this. In the recent years, he's grown...considerably less lovable.
* MiserAdvisor: A pronounced trait of the merchant Majud and Shy, who is an expert at haggling. Both are willing to help Temple, but are very specific about the amount he owes, and make him WorkOffTheDebt.
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* ThatManIsDead.
* ThatManIsDead.
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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: When Shy and Temple hook up for the first time, no one is that surprised, [[BeligerentSexualTension except for them, as they initially didn't think they liked each other that much]].
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** ClassicalAntiHero: Temple is one, being a humorously unlucky coward
** GoodIsNotNice: Shy has a hard edge, but is a basically decent person.
** PragmaticHero: Lamb, sometimes verging on NominalHero. He ''tries'' to be a good guy, but his [[RetiredMonster dark past]] and SuperpoweredEvilSide cause him to pursue nasty methods in order to get his children back.
** ClassicalAntiHero: Temple is one, being a humorously unlucky coward
** GoodIsNotNice: Shy has a hard edge, but is a basically decent person.
** PragmaticHero: Lamb, sometimes verging on NominalHero. He ''tries'' to be a good guy, but his [[RetiredMonster dark past]] and SuperpoweredEvilSide cause him to pursue nasty methods in order to get his children back.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Temple and Shy's relationship, with Temple as the jerk (well, unscrupulous coward) and Shy as the {{tsundere}}.
* CynicismCatalyst: Temple started out as a student and surrogate son of the benevolent preacher Kahdia in Dagoska, but after [[TraumaCongaLIne his mentor was killed and his hometown destroyed, followed shortly by his wife dying]], [[FaithHeelTurn he lost his faith and some of his morals]]. [[spoiler: He eventually [[HeelFaithTurn regains them]]]].
* DoomedHometown. Dagoska for Temple and The Mayor. The events that made it doomed are detailed in ''Literature/TheFirstLaw'' trilogy.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: When Shy and Temple hook up for the first time, no one is that surprised, [[BeligerentSexualTension except for them, as they initially didn't think they liked each other that much]].
* EvilIsEasy: A consistent theme of the series and very evident in the motivations of Cosca and Temple, who haven't [[BetterLivingThroughEvil prospered]] through doing bad, but have trouble changing (or in Cosca's case have stopped trying to), because being good is even harder.
* EvilIsEasy: A consistent theme of the series and very evident in the motivations of Cosca and Temple, who haven't [[BetterLivingThroughEvil prospered]] through doing bad, but have trouble changing (or in Cosca's case have stopped trying to), because being good is even harder.
* InventedIndividual: Subverted. Majud always justifies by unconvincingly stating that he'd like to be generous, but has to respect the interests of his (unseen) business partner Cumsbick, who is a stickler. Later on, Cumsbick surprisingly shows up, and turns out to be [[UnclePennybags a friendly and generous type]] who refers to Majud as a miser. At the end of the novel, [[spoiler: Temple opens up a general store and borrowing from Majud as an example, names it using his deceased mentor as an imaginary business partner]].
* MiserAdviser: A pronounced trait of the merchant Majud and Shy, who is an expert at haggling. Both are willing to help Temple, but are very specific about the amount he owes, and make him WorkOffTheDebt.
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** RetiredMonster: He used to be TheDreaded, and that side of him quickly comes out after he's called out of retirement.
* RogueProtagonist: Cosca, who while still a backtabber in his previous appearances in other books, had some moral standards, which he evidently lost in the intervening years.
* TheSoCalledCoward: Shy grew up thinking of Lamb as cowardly because of his submissive and unambitious attitude. It turns out Lamb ''had'' to act that way, as doing otherwise would cause his [[SuperpoweredEvilSide nasty side]] to come out.
* WesternCharacters: Lots of them:
** CitySlicker: Temple, of the Tenderfoot variety. Also a former PreacherMan and roughly equivalent to a SnakeOilSalesman in terms of personality.
** MissKitty: The Mayor
** MountainMan: Dab Sweet
** RetiredGunfighter: Lamb fits the personality type, with the caveat that [[DisSimile there are no guns in the setting]].
** RetiredOutlaw: Shy, an unusually young example of a former outlaw gone straight.
** ShopKeeper: The [[MiserAdviser misery]] merchant Majud. [[spoiler: Temple ends up becoming this at the end of the story.]]
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Temple has this reaction when Cosca tells him that he sees Temple as a worthy successor because Temple is even more amoral and cowardly than Cosca himself. [[spoiler: Hearing this is what makes Temple permanently embrace good.]]
** RetiredMonster: He used to be TheDreaded, and that side of him quickly comes out after he's called out of retirement.
* RogueProtagonist: Cosca, who while still a backtabber in his previous appearances in other books, had some moral standards, which he evidently lost in the intervening years.
* TheSoCalledCoward: Shy grew up thinking of Lamb as cowardly because of his submissive and unambitious attitude. It turns out Lamb ''had'' to act that way, as doing otherwise would cause his [[SuperpoweredEvilSide nasty side]] to come out.
* WesternCharacters: Lots of them:
** CitySlicker: Temple, of the Tenderfoot variety. Also a former PreacherMan and roughly equivalent to a SnakeOilSalesman in terms of personality.
** MissKitty: The Mayor
** MountainMan: Dab Sweet
** RetiredGunfighter: Lamb fits the personality type, with the caveat that [[DisSimile there are no guns in the setting]].
** RetiredOutlaw: Shy, an unusually young example of a former outlaw gone straight.
** ShopKeeper: The [[MiserAdviser misery]] merchant Majud. [[spoiler: Temple ends up becoming this at the end of the story.]]
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Temple has this reaction when Cosca tells him that he sees Temple as a worthy successor because Temple is even more amoral and cowardly than Cosca himself. [[spoiler: Hearing this is what makes Temple permanently embrace good.]]
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* BashBrothers: Briefly Logen and Savian
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A standalone sequel to ''TheFirstLaw'', set a few decades later. It has a marked [[TheWestern Western]] influence, particularly that of the bloody SpaghettiWestern. It features several previous players from the series, often under different names/nicknames.
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A standalone sequel to ''TheFirstLaw'', set a few decades later. It has a marked [[TheWestern Western]] influence, particularly that of the bloody SpaghettiWestern. It features several previous players from the series, often under different names/nicknames.names/nicknames.
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!! This work provides examples of :
* ActionGirl: Shy, certainly.
* AntiHero: par for the course for Abercrombie's works
* ArcWords: "Always said you were some kind of coward."
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Well, Lamb once had one. [[spoiler: Logen Ninefingers, AKA: the Bloody Nine.]]
* BadassGrandpa: Lamb and Savian both
* BaldOfAwesome: Lamb after he shaves his head.
* BarbarianHero: Lamb was once one.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Shy and Temple are together and Pit and Ro are safe...but Lamb leaves, realizing he can't escape the past.]]
* DuelToTheDeath: Between Lamb and Glama Golden
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Ghosts/The Folk, who, appropriate to the Medieval Fantasy meets Wild West setting, are sort of Native Americans that look like Celts (pale skin, reddish hair, blue warpaint). They cut off ears instead of scalps.
* FieryRedhead: Shy South
* HeelFaithTurn: [[spoiler: Temple.]]
* NoDoubtTheYearsHaveChangedMe
* TheRainman: Friendly.
* ReliableTraitor: Cosca
* RetiredBadass: Lamb.
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!! This work provides examples of :
* ActionGirl: Shy, certainly.
* AntiHero: par for the course for Abercrombie's works
* ArcWords: "Always said you were some kind of coward."
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Well, Lamb once had one. [[spoiler: Logen Ninefingers, AKA: the Bloody Nine.]]
* BadassGrandpa: Lamb and Savian both
* BaldOfAwesome: Lamb after he shaves his head.
* BarbarianHero: Lamb was once one.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Shy and Temple are together and Pit and Ro are safe...but Lamb leaves, realizing he can't escape the past.]]
* DuelToTheDeath: Between Lamb and Glama Golden
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Ghosts/The Folk, who, appropriate to the Medieval Fantasy meets Wild West setting, are sort of Native Americans that look like Celts (pale skin, reddish hair, blue warpaint). They cut off ears instead of scalps.
* FieryRedhead: Shy South
* HeelFaithTurn: [[spoiler: Temple.]]
* NoDoubtTheYearsHaveChangedMe
* TheRainman: Friendly.
* ReliableTraitor: Cosca
* RetiredBadass: Lamb.
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A standalone sequel to ''TheFirstLaw'', set a few decades later. It has a marked [[TheWestern Western]] influence, particularly that of the bloody SpaghettiWestern. It features several previous players from the series, often under different names/nicknames.
