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Red Country

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In the Near Country, Shy South has barely managed to 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 some kind of coward. She would be surprised if she knew his past. And she will too, as soon as trouble comes.The past is also something Temple, lawyer for the 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 to silence his conscience.A series of coincidences will make their paths cross. Amidst a gold rush, the protagonists will take the road 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?Red Country has Joe Abercrombie's delve into the Weird West, where the nods, homage, parodies and subversions to famous western tales - from the split city shown in A Fistful of Dollars to the Cattle Drive, from a desperate search for missing loved ones to a Retired Gunslinger who cannot change – are too many to be counted.While all the protagonists are at least flawed and sometimes even 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 The First Law, it features several previous players from the series, often under different names or nicknames.
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Retired Badass
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Retired Badass: Lamb, who is actually the infamous fighter Logen Ninefingers.
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Afraid of Their Own Strength
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Afraid of Their Own Strength: Lamb, who would rather be known as a coward than fight again.
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City Slicker
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City Slicker: Temple comes from Dagoska and has no idea how to survive in the wild.
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Preacher Man
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Preacher Man: Temple was once a priest.
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Invented Individual
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Invented Individual: 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 Curnsbick, who is a stickler. Temple and everyone else assumes that Curnsbick is fictional. However, later on, Curnsbick surprisingly shows up, and turns out to be a friendly and generous type who refers to Majud as a miser. At the end of the novel, 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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Good Is Not Nice
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Good Is Not Nice: Shy has a hard edge, but is a basically decent person.
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Ambiguously Brown
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Ambiguously Brown: Temple seems to be this in-universe. He professes to be half-Styrian (an Italian Fantasy Counterpart Culture) and half-Dagoskan (vaguely Mystical India), but other characters wonder if he could be Gurkish (The Empire, which includes people of South Asian, Arabian, and African appearances), and one character refers to him as a "black bastard".
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: Subverted with the Dragon People's dragon, an ancient weapon of great power that is present in a climactic moment of the book. It's still at least a few years away from actually working, so it just sits dormant as the Dragon People are slaughtered. Cosca's mercenaries flip it over to get at the treasure beneath it.
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Heel–Faith Turn
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Heel–Faith Turn: Temple.
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Retired Outlaw
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Retired Outlaw: Shy, an unusually young example of a former outlaw gone straight.
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Non-Indicative Name
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Non-Indicative Name: Shy is certainly not shy, which people remark upon. Lamb is very meek when we first see him, but as we eventually realize he's Logen Ninefingers, the most brutal and dangerous man alive. Friendly is still not friendly, though he's not mean either. Temple has become an unscrupulous nonbeliever since his days as a priest, though Character Development makes his name more appropriate again.
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Guile Hero
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Guile Hero: Temple is essentially one, falling back on his varied experience to do so. Probably, he's entitled to be called one for engineering the plan against Cosca in Crease.
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The Dreaded
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The Dreaded: As ever, the Bloody Nine, Logen Ninefingers AKA: Lamb.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: When Cosca orders Friendly to kill children, Friendly at first asks Cosca which to kill, then confesses that he would really rather not kill any of them.
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Implied Death Threat
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Implied Death Threat: When Sweet asks for his share of the booty from Cosca's coffers, it inspires Grega Cantliss to demand his own share. Cosca has Friendly execute Grega on the spot, then innocently asks whether Sweet would like to continue their conversation about his share. Sweet backs down.
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Never Heard That One Before
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Never Heard That One Before: When Temple first meets Shy and she introduces herself, he makes a pun on her name in an attempt to be charming, but then realizes she's probably heard jokes like that a lot.
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Character Development
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Temple has become an unscrupulous nonbeliever since his days as a priest, though Character Development makes his name more appropriate again.
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Rogue Protagonist
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Rogue Protagonist: Cosca, who while still a backstabber in his previous appearances in other books, had some moral standards, which he evidently lost in the intervening years.
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Super-Powered Evil Side
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Superpowered Evil Side: When Lamb is worked into a berserker frenzy, he's nigh unkillable, and kills just about anything in front of him.
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Bandito
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Bandito: The Rebels, who rob in their efforts against the Union, are a sympathetic portrayal
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Took a Level in Kindness
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Took a Level in Kindness: Glama Golden was The Fighting Narcissist and an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy in his previous appearance, but shows up here as a rather broken man who is considerably wiser and kinder. In a Heel Face Doorslam, he agrees to duel Lamb and dies a horrible death at the hands of The Bloody Nine
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Son of a Whore
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Son of a Whore: Temple evidently is one and when someone calls him this, he retorts that he has no shame in his mother's profession.
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Captain Obvious
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Captain Obvious: Several characters state the obvious, and it's lampshaded each time. For example, when confronted by armed men with blue tattoos peaking from their collars and sleeves, someone uselessly announces, "It's the rebels!" which provokes an annoyed response.
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Wretched Hive
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Wretched Hive: Crease is a gold mining boom town of vice and gang violence.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Shy and Temple are together and Pit and Ro are safe. On the other hand, lots of people have died, Ro has been alienated from her family and might never fully recover, and Lamb leaves, realizing he can't escape the past.
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Doomed Hometown
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Doomed Hometown. Squaredeal is sacked by bandits and children are hauled off, causing Shy and Lamb to set forth on their adventure.
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Broken Ace
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Broken Ace: Glama Golden, despite being The Dreaded is a sad, broken man who loathes his reputation.
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Towards the end of the book, Iosiv Lestek, an actor with a long and distinguished career, says that he didn't care much for happy endings as a young man, but came to appreciate them more and more as he got older. Considering that Red Country has a much more optimistic ending than the previous books in the series, it seems like this is Joe Abercrombie himself expressing his personal experience through the character.
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "I've killed better men for worse reasons." "I’ve a better offer."
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Affably Evil
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Affably Evil: Both Papa Ring and the Mayor are very friendly in spite of being ruthless crime lords. Shy notes how the Mayor puts her at ease. Papa Ring has a much more unwholesome feel, but he's still persistently polite in conversation. Cosca, who is still as friendly and humorous as ever. His smile is said to radiate good humor and intentions in spite of being an proud opportunist of the highest order.
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The So-Called Coward
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The So-Called Coward: 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 nasty side to come out.
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Fantasy Counterpart Culture
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Fantasy Counterpart Culture: 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.
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Intrepid Merchant
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Intrepid Merchant: Majud is a pioneer who plans to open up a business enterprise with his partner, Curnsbick.
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The Berserker
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The Berserker: As in the main trilogy, Lamb is prone to letting his Superpowered Evil Side take over during fights, at which point he kills without prejudice. He smashes in the head of the referee after he kills Glama Golden, and nearly kills Ro.
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Sacrificial Lamb
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Sacrificial Lamb: Sufeen dies pretty early on, but by the end of the story it seems his sacrifice was not in vain. Leef dies in a Ghost attack fairly early in the story.
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Army Scout: Sufeen is a former scout.
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We Named the Monkey "Jack"
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We Named the Monkey "Jack": Lamb named his oxen Calder and Scale, after Bethod's sons, probably as a private insult against the pair.
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Mook Horror Show
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Mook Horror Show: Jubair vs. Bloody Nine (‘God...’ whimpered Jubair, stumbling back towards the steps, and suddenly there were arms around him. ‘Gone,’ came a whisper. ‘But I am here.’)
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One Last Job
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One Last Job: Veteran fighter Glama Golden decides that his duel with Lamb will be his last fight, as he will be able to live comfortably off of his pay. 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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Cynicism Catalyst
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Cynicism Catalyst: Temple started out as a student and surrogate son of the benevolent preacher Kahdia in Dagoska, but after his mentor was killed and his hometown destroyed, followed shortly by his wife dying, he lost his faith and some of his morals. He eventually regains them.
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Miser Advisor
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Miser Advisor: 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 Work Off the Debt.
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Private Military Contractors
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Private Military Contractors: Cosca's Company of the Gracious Hand are mercenaries, supposedly under the employ of the Inquisition of the Union.
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Good Feels Good
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Good Feels Good: Shivers opting to drop his feud with Logen Ninefingers and leave him in peace muses on how it feels nice to do the good thing some days.
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Retired Monster
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Retired Monster: Shy was once a ruthless bandit called Smoke, but she's put that behind her. Lamb is actually Logen Ninefingers, called the Bloody Nine for the litany of atrocities he's perpetrated over the years.
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Belligerent Sexual Tension
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: Temple and Shy's relationship, with Temple as the jerk (well, unscrupulous coward) and Shy as the tsundere.
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Duel to the Death
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Duel to the Death: Lamb and Glama Golden fight as champions to determine the fate of Squaredeal.
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Mountain Man
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Mountain Man: Dab Sweet
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: Cosca, as always. One of the stories in Sharp Ends is him criticizing Sworbeck's already extremely hammy account of Glorious Hand falling on a frontier town for not being hammy enough.
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If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...
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If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: 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 if the relationship goes bad, he won't be breaking her legs.
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Retired Gunfighter
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Retired Gunfighter: Lamb fits the personality type, with the caveat that there are no handguns in the setting.
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That Man Is Dead
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That Man Is Dead: Lamb and the Mayor are strongly implied to be, respectively, Logen Ninefingers and Carlot dan Eider. However, neither's old name is actually stated at any point, and the Mayor even comments that she'd lost everything, including her name.
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Rancher
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Rancher: The Buckhorms are ranchers.
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Took a Level in Jerkass
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Took a Level in Jerkass: Brint, now a General, was introduced in The First Law as a lovable Upper-Class Twit appears briefly here, and is described as having lost (during the events of The Heroes) "most of his arm and all of his sense of humor" (in addition to having his wife kidnapped and experiencing a presumed Fate Worse than Death). Brint behaves like a Politically Incorrect Villain when he interacts with Temple, and is in charge of the soldiers, Inquisition Forces, and Cosca's mercenaries, who he tasked with brutally crushing rebels who don't want to be ruled by the Union.
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Token Good Teammate
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Token Good Teammate: Sufeen is the only mercenary with a conscience in the Company of the Gracious Hand. His idealism has an influence on Temple.
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When Grega Cantliss demands a share of the booty he helped lead the Company of the Gracious Hand to, Cosco immediately orders Friendly to kill him. Cosco then innocently asks whether Sweet would like to continue inquiring about his own share.
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Clockwork Creature
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Clockwork Creature: The Dragon People's dragon is implied to be one, given the faint internal clicking sounds it makes. However, it apparently needs some sort of additional power source.
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Evil Is Easy
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Evil Is Easy: A consistent theme of the series and very evident in the motivations of Cosca and Temple, who haven't prospered through doing bad, but have trouble changing (or in Cosca's case have stopped trying to), because being good is even harder.
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The Pioneer
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The Pioneer: The Fellowship is a pioneer convoy into the Far Country.
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Heel–Face Revolving Door
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Heel–Face Revolving Door: Shivers shows up at the end, continuing his story arc from Best Served Cold and The Heroes. He's back to the attitude he had before he lost his eye, trying to be a better man. As his appearance in A Little Hatred illustrates, it doesn't last.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: "I believe my greatest performance is yet in front of me."
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Stockholm Syndrome
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Stockholm Syndrome: Pit and Ro take to their new lives among the Dragon People very quickly. Ro in particular continues feeling aligned with her surrogate family long after she's rescued.
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Cool Sword
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Cool Sword: Waerdinur carries a sword made by the Master Maker, just like the one Bayaz gave to Logen. Lamb takes it after he kills Waerdinur.
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Classical Anti-Hero
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Classical Anti-Hero: Temple is one, being a humorously unlucky coward
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: 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. Hearing this is what makes Temple permanently embrace good.
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Work Off the Debt
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Work Off the Debt: Temple finds himself in debt to Shy when she saves his life and buys him a space on the caravan, and spends much of the book working it off.
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Chekhov's Skill
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Chekhov's Skill: Temple's previous professions include priest, architect and butcher. He uses all three skills in the course of the story.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: Glama Golden when he realizes he is fighting the Bloody Nine, and he is going to die.
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Pyrrhic Victory
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Pyrrhic Victory: The Mayor, having beaten Papa Ring, finds herself presiding over a burnt-out ghost town. She's forced to hand Ring's side of town over to Curnsbick's coal operation to prevent Crease from completely vanishing.
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Outlaw
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Outlaw: Grega Cantliss
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Very par for the Abercrombie course.
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Pragmatic Hero
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Pragmatic Hero: Lamb, sometimes verging on Nominal Hero. He tries to be a good guy, but his dark past and Superpowered Evil Side cause him to pursue nasty methods in order to get his children back.
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No OSHA Compliance
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No OSHA Compliance: Ashranc features long narrow bridges spanning seemingly bottomless chasms with no safety features whatsoever. Lampshaded by Shy:
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Fiery Redhead
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Fiery Redhead: Shy South has red hair and a bold personality.
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Knight Templar
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Knight Templar: Inquisitor Lorsen. His eyes shine with the zeal he has for stomping out all resistance to the Union. He butts heads with Cosca, who is employed for this purpose but is only interested in money.
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Berserk Button: Don't harm Shy. You'll find out that Lamb isn't that nice.
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The Bartender
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The Bartender: Several populate Squaredeal.
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Injun Country
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Injun Country: The Far Country is still home to the Ghosts, a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Native Americans with some Celtish flavor. They attack settlers to their lands, but are fighting a losing battle.
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Anti-Hero
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Anti-Hero: Shy is a former bandit who now is just trying to hold her family together.
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Happily Married
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Happily Married: Lamb and Shy's mother before her passing.
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Temple's incredible plan to keep the Company of the Gracious Hand out of Crease.
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Lighter and Softer: Compared to the other books in the series. Sure, it's still pretty dark and cynical, but there are plenty of characters who are basically nice (or at least harmless) people rather than violent thugs, most of the good guys get mostly good endings, most of the bad guys get mostly bad endings, and just generally the world seems more realistically bleak than over-the-top Crapsack.
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Lovable Rogue
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Lovable Rogue: Cosca is still as witty and Affably Evil as ever. However, because he's standing in the way of our heroes this time around, he's considerably less lovable.
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No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me
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No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me: The aging and grey-haired Lamb is actually Logen, over a decade older.
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Not So Harmless: Oh, that meek, gentle old man Lamb? He's the Bloody Nine and more than willing to tear you apart if he slips into his Superpowered Evil Side.
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Action Girl
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Action Girl: Shy, who has some experience with violence that she'd rather leave in the past.
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Everyone Can See It
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Everyone Can See It: When Shy and Temple hook up for the first time, no one is that surprised, except for them, as they initially didn't think they liked each other that much.
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Barbarian Hero
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Barbarian Hero: Lamb was once Logen Ninefingers, the most infamous barbarian warrior in memory.
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Saloon Owner
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Saloon Owner: Papa Ring, though his headquarters is officially a general store.
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Miss Kitty
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Miss Kitty: The Mayor, a former madame.
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Expy
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Expy: Sworbreck is clearly a fantasy version of W. W. Beauchamp from Unforgiven: both are nebbishy authors of pulpy tall tales who follow around a living legend to document the real story only to find that the wild frontier is a lot less romantic than they'd expected.
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Prospector
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Prospector: Some of the pioneers are after gold.
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Sufeen insists on giving the people of Averstock a chance to surrender before the Gracious Hand attacks. They attack while Sufeen is still trying to establish a dialogue, and the locals kill him.
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But Now I Must Go
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But Now I Must Go: Lamb/Logen decides the best way to keep the ones he loves safe is to leave them.
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Dark and Troubled Past
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Dark and Troubled Past: Lamb. The fact that he was once the feared Bloody Nine and the utter hell he went through in The First Law alone. Shy. The reader quickly learns that she had a past as a outlaw, but left it behind her. We don't find out until much later that it's because another woman was mis-identified as her outlaw persona and hanged in Shy's place.
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