#pearls of lutra

[kingdomblade]

Commission from Xenowolf23 to Kelaiah of Ublaz Mad Eyes from the Redwall book Pearls of Lutra! Funny enough I've only drawn one other Redwall character before and it was the protagonist from the same book. I'm happy with how this came out, colors especially!

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[incorrectredwallquotes]

Viola: I'm sorry I hurt your feelings. Tansy: I'd take you more seriously if you didn't put 'feelings' in air quotes.

[redwalltournaments]

This is now my blog for any Redwall themed tournaments I feel like doing or that anyone else may suggest. Best Villain and Most Tragic Death have been done elsewhere but anything else is fair game.

Same mod as @incorrectredwallquotes

Starting out simple with best Redwall book. In order to make the math pretty I’ve included The Great Redwall Feast and A Redwall Winters Tale, additionally the semi-finals will feature triple contestants. Polls will last a week to get some traction.

Match Ups Round 1:

Redwall vs. Eualia Winner: Redwall

Lord Brocktree vs. Marlfox Winner: Marlfox

The Long Patrol vs. Mariel of Redwall Winner: Mariel of Redwall

Rakkety Tam vs. Martin the Warrior Winner: Martin the Warrior

Triss vs. A Redwall Winters Tale Winner: Triss

Mattimeo vs. Outcast of Redwall Winner: Mattimeo

Salamandastron vs. High Rhulain Winner: Salamandastron

Pearls of Lutra vs. Doomwyte Winner: Pearls of Lutra

The Bellmaker vs. Mossflower Winner: Mossflower

The Great Redwall Feast vs. The Sable Quean Winner: The Sable Quean

Loamhedge vs. The Taggerung Winner: The Taggerung

Legend of Luke vs. The Rogue Crew Winner: Legend of Luke

Match Ups Round 2:

Redwall vs. Marlfox Winner: Redwall

Mariel of Redwall vs. Martin the Warrior Winner: Martin the Warrior

Triss vs. Mattimeo Winner: Mattimeo

Salamandastron vs. Pearls of Lutra Winner: Pearls of Lutra

Mossflower vs. The Sable Quean Winner: Mossflower

The Taggerung vs. Legend of Luke Winner: The Taggerung

Match Ups Round 3:

For this round only one contestant will be eliminated, the remaining two contestants will swap competitors and move onto the semi-finals.

Redwall vs. Martin the Warrior vs. Mattimeo Eliminated: Mattimeo

Pearls of Lutra vs. Mossflower vs. The Taggerung Eliminated: Pearls of Lutra

Match Ups Semi-Finals

Contestants have swapped competitors to avoid going against the same book as the previous round.

Martin the Warrior vs. The Taggerung

Redwall vs. Mossflower

Finals

Martin the Warrior vs. Mossflower

[stearleart]

Romsca 20/08/22

Digital depiction of Romsca from Brian Jacques The Pearls of Lutra

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

[wildivymutt]

Romsca : D

[captainmirefleck]

Vote for your favorite Redwall villain! Not who you think would win in a fight, but who you think is most effective as a villain or who you enjoy the most!

[rae1347]

"Mad Eyes will find me, his claws stretch beyond sea and land! Fools that we were to take the Tears of all Oceans, death follows wherever they go! Witless beast that I am, woe to me, 'tis useless to try to escape the vengeance of Mad Eyes!" I am FASCINATED by Graylunk’s misery. I couldn’t resist whipping up a quick humanization because this book has me by the throat /pos

[alexsrandomramblings]

Course I had to do something with Romsca eventually.

[wildivypsychic]

[littlemissinkdrinker]

Pearls of Lutra

This installment of the Redwall series had riddles galore and was a fun read. I loved the far-flung adventures of the Abbot and Viola (though, I was really worried for the Abbot there for awhile).

And, as always, I absolutely loved the otters in this story and the introduction of walruses was a fun bit. Overall, I really enjoyed it.

Read : Nov 1 - Nov 16th, 2022

Rating : 5 stars

[ravennory]

didnt think ublaz legitimately had hypnosis (despite martin's ghost being a thing) and him being handsome was mentioned so i thought lask was just really into him for some reason . i still dont think he has hypnosis vvv the equivalent of it

xtra ublaz doodle below ^_^

i needa decide a design fur him.. i keep changing it. IMPORTANT he has a heart shape on there somewhere as a blotch tho

[incorrectredwallquotes]

Viola, throwing her head into Tansy's lap: tell me I’m pretty!

Tansy, stroking her hair lovingly: you’re pretty fucking annoying, that’s what you are

[redwalltournaments]

Okay I actually don’t know when the next tournament will be up so in the mean time have a mini poll:

[thesablequear]

The Pearls of Lutra

[moonybadger]

It’s been a couple months since I finished rereading Outcast of Redwall and I still don’t know what the fuck BJ was going for with the Veil sections of that book. Like the narrative goes out of its way to say that it’s not the Redwaller’s fault for how Veil grew up and they showed him the same love and care they’d show any baby, he is just too inherently evil??? Weirdly, it doesn’t even seem to be making the point that it’s because he’s a ferret, like I think Bella is the only who dances around bringing it up. Most everyone else is like “well ferretbabe or not, that one’s got a taste for blood” after he bites his sixth person or whatever as a baby.

And honestly all the chapters from his POV are borderline unbearable to slog through, like he’s such an unpleasant mean-spirited person. While Swartt does technically more fucked up things (murdering various rivals, forcing one of his soldiers to force feed a entire dead crow to a fellow solider, his treatment of Sunflash, etc) Veil’s just feel more... personal and nasty? Especially when he nearly kills that grandfather dormouse who JUST finished telling him that his son and daughter-in-law were killed recently and that he’s looking after his grandchildren and offers to share what little food and shelter they have with Veil. Like Veil almost immediately just attempts to crack the guy’s skull open and he would have died if Bryony hadn’t found him. And the way he just beats those two foxes to death and sends their corpses down the river. Bryony’s relationship with him is just straight up abusive too, like I know he ultimately dies saving her at the end of the book but he had already attempted to murder her like... I think twice? And shown absolutely no remorse for it, like it’s just luck and tenacity on Bryony’s part that she and her mole friend survived at all.

It drives me nuts, cause MOST of the book is about Sunflash and Swartt! Like why is Veil even here??? Why is the book named after him, he isn’t even born until like halfway through the story! He barely interacts with Sunflash and Swartt, who I don’t think even remembered he had a son until Veil shows up in the last 30 pages of the book to call him a bitch. He doesn’t act as a narrative foil or have any kind of relationship with either of the two real main characters; like if you took him out of the book, thematically nothing would change. If you really wanna stretch it, I guess you could say that Sunflash came from a really terrible upbringing and turned out fine while Veil came from really kind, loving upbringing and he was evil as fuck? But that’s something you have to infer yourself, it’s not something the book is actively trying to say. You can headcanon that Bryony was just too young to act as a mother figure to him or that the Redwallers were cruel to him, but that’s really not present in the material at all. He’s just evil and horrible and it was ultimately a good thing that he died? That ends up being the point of his character I guess, to die and make Bryony a more emotionally intelligent person I guess.

I just don’t get it, it all ends up just feeling like a plot cul-de-sac that doesn’t go anywhere for anyone and doesn’t actually tie into the main conflict between Swartt and Sunflash beyond getting Bryony into place to help Sunflash out one time at the very end.

I’m also pissed because the Sunflash and Skarlath segments are genuinely some of the best in the entire Redwall series and I gotta suffer through Veil being a little bitch to get to all of them.