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Hello all,

For those more familiar with them than I, a couple of questions about Brian's full-cast Redwall audio books:

• I know that only so many of the books got the full-cast treatment. I have Mossflower, but which of the 21 other books got this treatment? (Brian reading, character voices done by others, songs etc.)
• I think I've seen a couple going online for ridiculous prices, and in cassette format so I couldn't play them anyway. Is there somewhere one can listen to or get the audio books another way?

Hello fellow Redwall fans :)

I want to talk about books that are similar to Redwall, if that is allowed (if it is not mods can delete my post), because I feel like a lot of Redwall fans might read these too. I love Redwall, and I found out about Podkin One-ear last year.

Do any of you also read Podkin One-ear by the author Kieran Larwood? If you do what do you think about it / what is your review ?

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I'm working on some Redwall inspired custom pieces for a ship based miniatures game I love to play (shout out /r/piratescsg ) and since I haven't read any Redwall novels in a while I want to go back and revisit some parts for inspiration. I'm already working on re-reading some of my favorites now, Mariel of Redwall, Martin the Warrior, and Legend of Luke, but since I likely won't be able to read every book, I was wondering if there were any particular "naval moments" that stand out to you all? Favorite ships or captains? Sea battles?

I read this book closer to the middle of the year, but honestly it's my favorite book in the series. It has my favorite character so far with Garth and one of the best supporting casts I think I have seen in redwall books. On top of that the villain alone is really good, and though there is a sense of magic with him which is pretty uncommon for Brian Jacques work, I think it works beautifully.

On top of that it also has some really good and nuanced characters with Romsca, which has become my second favorite character to go from villain to hero.

I understand a lot of people don't like how much nautical stuff is in it, however I feel like a lot less egregious than the over the top military stick stuff in The Long Patrol. I also found the character development of Garth, Tansy(another of my favorite characters) and Romsca to be above and beyond for all the books I've read so far.

It's my favorite book in the series and I'm just curious what other people think about it especially since a lot of people seem to have a lot of negative stuff to say about it.

Honestly the book had one of the most promising openings but I feel like the potential was really squandered. Denya was a promising protagonist but I think it fell too hard into the black and white morality of a lot of his books.

Nimbalo was a great character and I really like Myera, they were pretty strong and I liked them being "on screen" and Cregga is always nice to see. The villains were pretty weak though and not very memorable.

The book was really fun most of the way through, though I think that there was a lot of padding in book 2 and it kinda made the ending a pretty big slog. What do you guys think, is there anything I'm missing? I'd love to hear your opinions. :3

Just curious. I’ll probably just keep reading them, as I’m currently reading Mossflower, but I grew up loving the King Arthur fables, and was wondering if there’s one Redwall novel that follows something like a badger knight.

So I'm working on a long form fanfiction piece and the key part of the story relies on one important crux

Setting the scene, our lord is visiting Redwall for the harvest feast. It is interrupted by the gatekeeper reporting vermin at the gates, so the lord goes to investigate and receives more information from those outside that there is one person by the gates and four more out in the field having chased the one by the gates bust stopped before getting too close to Redwall.

The lord opens the gates and finds a fox in a bad state, who collapses with exhaustion. Is it sensible for the lord to bring her in?

The next day a large horde has formed outside evidently chasing this fox. One of the horde masters servants asks for the fox to be returned and they will leave. The horde leader lies and says that the fox is a murderer, and the lord should give her back. Again is it sensible for the lord to refuse considering how redwall and the long patrol typically treats foxes?

I haven't checked in a while if Brian Jacques old website is still available. Just got the Redwall cookbook, and it seems to be so small. I remember when I was still in middle school or high school his old website had a link where you coukd download a bunch of recipes, and it definitely had way more recipes than the cookbook does. Anyone know if you can still access those?

We know that Chickenhound barely survived his encounter with Asmodeus. The snake venom, coupled with his own delusions, caused him to blame Redwall for all his misfortunes. Many seasons later, even after he reinvented himself, he was hell-bent on taking revenge on Redwall. Anyone with a brain would point out that Cluny the Scourge was actually the one who ordered Chickenhound and his mother to be executed, but Slagar seems to have conveniently forgotten that. My guess is that it's pointless to swear revenge on Cluny when Cluny's been long dead, just like how he couldn't take revenge on Asmodeus because Matthias got to him first.

But what if Cluny had been triumphant in his war against Redwall? What if there'd been some sort of scenario where Matthias and Asmodeus both died and so the Guosim shrews and sparrows were never rallied and thus Cluny triumphed? What if Cluny and his army took charge of the abbey and began a reign of terror in Mossflower?

If that scenario had played out, would Slagar have decided to take revenge on Cluny anyway? And if yes, how would he have done that?