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** When Silver Sand visits Sheriff Agnew's Irish cousins, he finds that the Protestant planters live behind fortified walls in fear of the native population.
** Doran is a dangerous Irish mercenary and assassin.
** When Silver Sand visits Sheriff Agnew's Irish cousins, he finds that the Protestant planters live behind fortified walls in fear of the native population.
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* BondVillainStupidity: If Doran and Grey Roger had obeyed Hector's orders and killed Silver Sand quickly and quietly, they'd have been long gone before his friends picked up their trail. Instead, they torture him to try to get the location of the tribute Juliana collected from the Romani clans - which ends up leading to [[spoiler:his rescue snd their deaths]].
* ColdBloodedTorture: Doran and Grey Roger inflict this on Silver Sand after kidnapping him. His groans help the Red Killer track them down.
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* DeathOfTheHypoteneuse: [[spoiler:Juliana's]] death ''eventually'' frees [[spoiler:Silver Sand to marry Lilias]], though his sense of honour does delay things.
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* MasterSwordsman: The Red Killer is a match for any two opponents with sword or knife.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hector is quite willing to have his brother Silver Sand murdered and kidnap his infant nephew: but he did ''not'' order his henchmen to torture Silver Sand or steal the Faa revenues, nor does he mean to harm the baby, even though the child's death would make him Silver Sand's heir. And the Red Killer doesn't need to be told any of this - he knows exactly how far Hector would go.
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* RoguishRomani: The [=McKittericks=] are a feared (but honourable) clan of Romani outlaws. Hector Faa is a straight-up bad guy.
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* RoguishRomani: The [=McKittericks=] are a feared (but honourable) clan of Romani outlaws. Hector Faa is a and Grey Roger are straight-up bad guy.guys.
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* {{Oireland}}: Doran of Killibegs speaks with a very stereotypical FunetikAksent.
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* DeathOfTheHypoteneuse: [[spoiler:Juliana's]] death ''eventually'' frees [[spoiler:Silver Sand to marry Lilias]], though his sense of honour does delay things.
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* {{Oirish}}: Doran of Killibegs speaks with a very stereotypical FunetikAksent.
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* CainAndAbel: Hector plots against his brother Silver Sand.
* ForegoneConclusion: Hector's plots are doomed - we know Silver Sand will survive because he's in ''Literature/TheRaiders'' and ''Literature/TheDarkOTheMoon''. Crockett even directly refers to his and Hector's eventual fate.
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* RoguishRomani: The [=McKittericks=] are a feared (but honourable) clan of Romani outlaws.
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''Silver Sand'' is a 1914 [[HistoricalFiction historical novel]] by Creator/SamuelRutherfordCrockett, a prequel {{Prequel}} to ''Literature/TheRaiders''. It was Crockett's last novel published in his lifetime - indeed, it left the presses the day he died - and his last set in his native Scotland (he had a few posthumous publications set in other countries).
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* AlliterativeName: Silver Sand has an alliterative ''nickname''; there's also HistoricalDomainCharacter Andrew Agnew.
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* AlliterativeName: Silver Sand has an alliterative ''nickname''; there's also HistoricalDomainCharacter Andrew Agnew.Agnew, and Mirren [=McNoah=].
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* BadassPreacher: Played with. Walter Dunning and Sandy Peden are both brave men who risk their lives for their faith, but Dunning is quiet, doubt-racked, and hides away, while Peden is hectoring, intolerant, and borderline buffoonish.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Sheriff Agnew is a major figure within the narrative, while several more famous ones (Claverhouse, Lag, two successive Kings) are TheGhost.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Sheriff Agnew is a major figure within the narrative, while several more famous ones (Claverhouse, Lag, two successive Kings) are TheGhost. Peden the Prophet has a cameo.
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* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Silver Sand's status as this, being the son of a Romani father and aristocratic gorgio mother, with a concomitantly mixed education, is much discussed. Indeed, he's this in multiple senses - not just Romani/gorgio but Scottish/French and Protestant/Catholic.
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* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler:Juliana]] rides out to [[spoiler:rescue Silver Sand]] while heavily pregnant... and subsequently dies hours after giving birth.
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* RecognitionFailure: Juliana lets drop that she knew John Bunyan, but is clearly completely unaware of his writings and his fame.
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* InfallibleNarrator: Dominie Crogo isn't present for much of the action, but apparently knows everything that happened. He occasionally mentions which characters he heard particular bits from.
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* InfallibleNarrator: Dominie Crogo isn't present for much of the action, but apparently knows everything that happened. He occasionally mentions which characters he heard particular bits from. He is treated as this for all the events directly depicted, but hinted to be [[UnreliableNarrator somewhat less so]] when expounding upon the character of people he (and the reader) doesn't get to meet.
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* HotGypsyWoman: Juliana is a Romani beauty.
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* KingIncognito: Silver Sand is Romani royalty. He at first conceals this from Jasper until after their fistfight, then passes as "Mr Percy" among the gorgio gentry.
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* CurbStompBattle: Jasper expects a boxing bout with Silver Sand to be this. It is... but [[TheWorfEffect not the way round]] Jasper had in mind.
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* NotInThisForYourRevolution: DownplayedTrope. Silver Sand doesn't share the Covenanters' beliefs, but he isn't helping them for selfish reasons either - rather, from a general objection to oppression.
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* InfallibleNarrator: Dominie Crogo isn't present for much of the action, but apparently knows everything that happened. He occasionally mentions which characters he heard particular bits from.
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* SlowPacedBeginning: Eschewing his usual faster pace, Crockett spends 200-odd pages (well over half the novel) developing the character relationships before properly getting into the action of the story.
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* RoguishRomani: The [=McKittericks=] are a feared (but honourable) clan of Romani outlaws.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Crockett's depiction of seventeenth century Romani marriage customs is clearly designed to be shocking and alien to his readers. An Edwardian audience may have been more shocked than a modern one by women proposing to men, but the apparent acceptance that such a proposal is enforced by the implicit threat of suicide, and that the woman who thus coerces a man will then surrender completely to an authority he is expected to enforce with violence, is if anything more shocking today.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Previously, for instance in ''Literature/MenOfTheMossHags'', Crockett had depicted John Graham of Claverhouse as something of a NobleDemon, on the wrong side but much less cruel than other persecuting dragoons. Here, he seems to have been [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderised]] into a corrupt, sadistic monster... except that we're getting that picture from the editorialising pen of [[UnreliableNarrator Crockett's narrator Dominie Crogo]].
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Previously, for instance in ''Literature/MenOfTheMossHags'', Crockett had depicted John Graham of Claverhouse as something of a NobleDemon, on the wrong side but much less cruel than other persecuting dragoons. Here, he seems to have been [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderised]] into a corrupt, sadistic monster... except that we're getting that picture from the editorialising pen of [[UnreliableNarrator Crockett's narrator Dominie Crogo]].Crogo]], who clearly hates him.
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Perceiving that Silver Sand loves Lilias, Juliana would rather woo the other lady on his behalf than demand his fidelity.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Timothy [=McKitterick=] is known as the Red Killer. One of his clansmen goes by "Viper".
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''Silver Sand'' is a 1914 [[HistoricalFiction historical novel]] by Creator/SamuelRutherfordCrockett, a prequel to ''Literature/TheRaiders''. It was Crockett's last novel published in his lifetime - indeed, it left the presses the day he died - and his last set in his native Scotland (he had a few posthumous publications set in other countries).
It tells of the youth and first love of John "Silver Sand" Faa, against the backdrop of the "Killing Times" in the 1680s.
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* TheCavalierYears: Set in the mid 1680s.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Previously, for instance in ''Literature/MenOfTheMossHags'', Crockett had depicted John Graham of Claverhouse as something of a NobleDemon, on the wrong side but much less cruel than other persecuting dragoons. Here, he seems to have been [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderised]] into a corrupt, sadistic monster... except that we're getting that picture from the editorialising pen of [[UnreliableNarrator Crockett's narrator Dominie Crogo]].
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* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Lilias is an invented niece of Sheriff Andrew Agnew.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Sheriff Agnew is a major figure within the narrative, while several more famous ones (Claverhouse, Lag, two successive Kings) are TheGhost.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Sheriff Agnew is a major figure within the narrative, while several more famous ones (Claverhouse, Lag, two successive Kings) are TheGhost.
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''Silver Sand'' is a 1914 [[HistoricalFiction historical novel]] by Creator/SamuelRutherfordCrockett, a prequel to ''Literature/TheRaiders''. It tells of the youth and first love of John "Silver Sand" Faa, against the backdrop of the "Killing Times" in the 1680s.1680s.
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* AlliterativeName: Silver Sand has an alliterative ''nickname''; there's also HistoricalDomainCharacter Andrew Agnew.
* TheClan: It being Early Modern Scotland, sundry literal clans fit the trope, notably the Faas, [=McKittericks=], and Grahams.
* IllegalReligion: Like many Crockett novels, it's set during the persecution of the Covenanters.
* SceneryPorn: Full of Crockett's usual lyrical descriptions of the Galloway landscape.
* SweetPollyOliver: Juliana first disguises herself as Silver Sand's "secretary-page" "Julius" to bring him the tribute of the Romani clans, then adopts male guise again to lead the attempt to rescue him from the dragoons.
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* AlliterativeName: Silver Sand has an alliterative ''nickname''; there's also HistoricalDomainCharacter Andrew Agnew.
* TheClan: It being Early Modern Scotland, sundry literal clans fit the trope, notably the Faas, [=McKittericks=], and Grahams.
* IllegalReligion: Like many Crockett novels, it's set during the persecution of the Covenanters.
* SceneryPorn: Full of Crockett's usual lyrical descriptions of the Galloway landscape.
* SweetPollyOliver: Juliana first disguises herself as Silver Sand's "secretary-page" "Julius" to bring him the tribute of the Romani clans, then adopts male guise again to lead the attempt to rescue him from the dragoons.
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