Captain Plugg Firetail is a villain in the series who doesn't treat his troops entirely like crap, and his troops are the only ones who don't try to seize power, going into Heroic BSoD when he dies ( seeing Plugg being taken by a trio of adders may have had something to do with the latter).

Brave Scot: Characters from the North are portrayed with a Scottish Funetik Aksent. It's a grim and unforgiving land, and northerners are generally hardened warriors.Blue-and-Orange Morality: The inhabitants of the Land of Ice and Snow from Rakkety Tam don't have a cultural taboo against cannibalism. Askor, for instance, who was apparently a much fairer and more-sympathetic character than his mad brother, Gulo the Savage, while he is dying beneath an incredibly heavy tree, tell the woodland creatures who find him to eat him before he goes bad, and dies lifting it off so that they can get at his flesh. That said, Gulo is still crazy even by their standards: he likes to eat sapient creatures alive, and his hunger is never satisfied.

Artistic License – Military: While the Long Patrol take cues from RAF pilots and use almost exclusively British military ranks, High Rhulain has a hare with the rank of Master Sergeant, which is primarily used by the US army and is absent from Britain. On the non-villainous side, badger lords are often this, although some remain more aloof. The officers of the Long Patrol almost always fit this trope.Averted in Marlfox, which concludes with the rat army, who had hated their lot in life, joyfully tossing out their arms and armor and learning to live as farmers. When the Juskazann clan raids Nimbalo's old home, Dagrab slays Nimbalo's father, presumably because she felt like it. Considering how hateful and abusive he was, no one except Nimbalo missed him.

Vermin armies are a mix, usually of rats mixed with foxes and weasels. But don't foxes and weasels eat rats? The action in the series is pretty basic, as are the narratives. However, Jacques excels in two areas: description and characterization. What I remembered most about this series from reading it as a child, aside from the anthropomorphic animals with weapons, are the descriptions of food. These novels shouldn’t be read on an empty stomach, because the descriptions of feasts and even “basic” picnics or breakfasts scattered liberally throughout each novel will make you incredibly hungry. Everything sounds delicious. Jacques originally wrote these stories to tell to students at a school for the blind, and you can tell. I also suspect that he was quite the foodie, because again, all of the dishes described in the series sound truly, mouthwateringly scrumptious.Hotroot pepper. There is no Real Life British plant known as hotroot, but it seems most likely that the Mossflower variety is a type of particularly strong horseradish. The next day, widespread consternation reigns in Kotir as the vermin discover that the lower levels are flooded. Most of Tsarmina’s soldiers desert and swim through the flooded valley to safety. Brogg and those that remain are crushed as Timballisto’s newly made ballista hurl huge boulders at the sunken fortress. Sure, it's all a bit twee when you remind yourself that most of the cast are soft fluffy animals and like all Redwall books it goes on about food in a way that would give George R R Martin a run for his money. If you're not a fan of anthropomorphic battle mice than nothing I said here is really going to convince you but hey, it's wonderful not to have a memory tarnished, but enhanced, by a re-read of one of your favourite books. Brain Jacques at his best. In the epilogue, Bella finishes telling the story to Gonff, the grandson of Gonff and Columbine. She adds that Martin hung up his sword and forsook the way of the warrior. Aerith and Bob: Martin and Gonff, for example. This is more common in the earlier books when a large number of the characters still had human-ish names.