He met a tribe of squirrels who decided to help him gather an army. The third branch of the story is about a hare scout sent out by Lord Stonepaw to gather more troops before Ungatt Trunn attacked. They then met the cast of the third branch of the story.

After meeting the shrews, who had also seen the baby in the water but couldn't do anything about it, the shrews all decided to join Lord Brocktree and help him on his quest. Ruff wrestles the pike until they can rescue the baby hedgehog. After traveling a little longer, they come across a baby hedgehog stuck in the water with a pike coming towards it. One of the sons, Gurth, joins their group. After traveling for a while they meet a mole family who let them stay and eat for a while. Ruff helps them traverse the land even faster by using a boat. They soon meet an otter named Ruff and he joins their party on the journey to the mountain. Both creatures are headed for Salamandastron. The second branch is about Lord Brocktree, who meets a young haremaid named Dotti. The hares escape the mountain and meet an otter clan who help them try to starve out the army that took Salamandastron. Fortunately they do before they starve, as there was no food in that cellar, but Lord Stonepaw had to sacrifice himself to give his remaining hares the time to escape. Lord Stonepaw is soon overpowered and retreats to the secret cellars of the mountain, where they hide until they find a way to sneak out.

Seeing this weakness, Ungatt Trunn, a wildcat, decides to take Salamandastron with the massive army he commands. As most of the young hares have left in search of adventure, there is none to defend it but Lord Stonepaw and the older fighting hares. The first branch of the story is about an old badger named Stonepaw, who rules the mountain Salamandastron. Lord Brocktree is mostly about a badger named, you guessed it, Lord Brocktree. Brocktree is visited with prophetic dreams, as is the villain Ungat Trunn.Since this book does have split storylines that connect in the end, I will just sum the story up as a whole. If he is to rescue the mountain from the dark days of vermin rule, Brocktree must raise an army capable of combating Trunn's formidable Blue Hordes.Īs ever, Brian Jacques makes a fantastic story. Salamandastron's only hope is the badger Lord Brocktree who is drawn to the fortress by an undeniable sense of destiny. Ungatt Trunn can make the stars fall from the sky, the very earth shake underfoot, and with a horde of vermin as numerous as the leaves in autumn, the wildcat appears unstoppable. Salamandastron, ancestral home of the Badger Lords, is under threat from an enemy whose power would seem to be absolute and whose evil knows no bounds. Something inside me says that trouble such as these shores have never known is headed our way.' Chronologically the first book in the Redwallseries, it was published after many of the other books in the series.

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