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I had an idea which might be kind of ASB. The Reivers were a group of raiders and pillagers who lived on the Anglo-Scottish Borders. Now, what if rather than crushing them, they become the heart of a united British identity, with 'reiving now taking place at sea against the Spanish or whoever. They then settle in the New World where reiving takes a new form as Wild West banditism. By the present day, The Reiver is a British stereotype and romanticised, rightly or wrongly, by Britons today.
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