#the sable Quean

[incorrectredwallquotes]

Vilaya: The past couple of years, I've done a lot of work on myself. And I've realized that I'll be fine as long as I get constant attention.

[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

[lostmidnightwriter]

Buckler: *complains about Diggs being lazy*

Diggs, a king:

[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!

[wildivypsychic]

[thesablequear]

I can be normal about Vilaya (lie)

Zwilt The Shade and Vilaya  from “The Sable Quean”.

[rozecrest]

i don’t remember a lot of specifics but hunting down and reading every redwall book really shaped a primary taste in fiction for me

[son-of-drogo]

I just re listened to The Sable Quean and Flib is a trans icon.

[moonybadger]

I'm down to the last fourth of Doomwyte and god this is a slog. These villains are the most incompetent and disappointing ones yet. They start off cool and creepy but they are embarrassingly bad at everything they do, like I'm almost done with the book and the majority of the Redwallers are still not even aware that the birds were trying to intimidate them. And the only reason Dubble, Spingo, and Bisky even know is because Zaran told them!

[haveyoureadthismgyabook]

Book 1 of Redwall

Book 2: Mossflower

Book 3: Mattimeo

Book 4: Mariel of Redwall

Book 5: Salamandastron

Book 6: Martin the Warrior

Book 7: The Bellmaker

Book 8: Outcast of Redwall

Book 9: Pearls of Lutra

Book 10: The Long Patrol

Book 11: Marlfox

Book 12: The Legend of Luke

Book 13: Lord Brocktree

Book 14: Taggerung

Book 15: Triss

Book 16: Loamhedge

Book 17: Rakkety Tam

Book 18: High Rhulain

Book 19: Eulalia!

Book 20: Doomwyte

Book 21: The Sable Quean

[the-wolfbats]

Thoughts on The Sable Quean

This is definitely the least interesting of the books I've reread. Not the outright worst (Bellmaker) but I still have all these notes. 

Once again, there is a new chapter art style I totally forgot about. I like the shading but the eyes are lifeless on the creatures where it's not meant to be. One of the chapter art is an otter and it reminds me of the style of The Great Redwall Feast picture book that came out in 1996. 

The names are very interesting this time around. I like them. Tura, Tassy, and Thwissle should probably all be related being squirrels. 

We have a second family of hares who don't talk like the stock types or even fit Salamandastron naming conventions. Knowing that the cartographer in 23 was a hare maiden, hares were really shaping up to be more varied than they had been in literal decades in this series.  Ironic that Diggs is the best hare since Florian. 

This is also the second recent book (at least off the top of my head) where otters have other roles at Redwall other than warrior , Skipper or fisher or random citizen (Fumbril here and Toran in Loamhedge)

I thought the Flitchaye were tiny squirrels but they're tiny weasles?

As soon as I saw the names of Buckler's brother and sister in law, I realized I had been mistaken the ending of this book for the ending of Eulalia. So I don't remember anything about that book. I've started it again and I remember really liking Maudie, but that's another post.

Is this the first mention of cauliflower?

Does anyone else want to hear The Bellringers Burial? 

liars. If I believed ye, I’d finish both of ye right now just t’save any poor beast the misery an’ shame of havin’ the like of you as fathers. Is quite possibly the best drag in any redwall book.

There's more species and social class specific quirks. 

The river’ogs are another concept that's rare, but allus welcome. Trajidia is the best. 

Chapter 9’s art is the tapestry of Martin. It shows the Late Rose, something I don't remember any other book mentioning, but it's possible I simply missed it. I remember it being a stained glass window but maybe that's a TV thing. I know it's an actual rose on the grounds but it's mentioned rarely after Martin the warrior 

This one leans harder into the socialization aspect of fretful females and fighting males than nearly every other book in the series. The only exception is Flib. 

though I recall, your voice sounded rather different.” the rest of the scene plays out and confirms; while animals are possessed by Martin, he also changes their voices to his own. Kind of creepy. 

I'd rather hear about the adventures of Oakheart and Marjoram as children than the rest of the story. 

Forgot that it took 16 books to get a second fighting mole (I consider Arula one) and the first capital Warrior in the series ever. 

And 21 books to have a female badger get the prophetic dreams to go to Salamandastron. Also I knew the name Ambrivina but I forgot who had it. 

Three animals are killed and it seems to be rushed through by the narrative. Lessens the impact. 

This entire concept just has no steam behind it. The children are missing but there's been little to no established outside communities in mossflower in the series so where did these children come from? Are they all orphans?

Some characters are so uninteresting that we’re constantly reminded of their relationship in proximity to the main characters bc they have nothing else. It's very bad regarding Clarinna and Clerun. I will say the scenes with Clarinna and Buckler in the end are very endearing. 

Vilaya has a title and a maid but nothing makes her special besides being the third female antagonist and also a sable I guess. 

[incorrectredwallquotes]

Vilaya: There, was that so hard? Freaking drama queen. Zwilt: You poisoned me! I’d say that’s an adequate amount of drama!

[lostmidnightwriter]

[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!

[muppeteyes1001]

𝐓𝐀𝐆 𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐏𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔'𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑!

𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑(𝐒): Teal, Indigo, Scarlet

𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑(𝐒): Sweet, Mild spice, Umami

𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂: Mostly movie soundtracks, some pop, some hip hop, .. Honestly, I just listen to whatever resonates with me no matter what genre or artist it is.

𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄(𝐒): Beauty and the Beast, Secret of NIMH, X-men: Days of Future Past, Harry Potter films

𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒: The Mandalorian, His Dark Materials, Last of Us, House of Dragon

𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆: Without You by David Guetta

𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐒��𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒: His Dark Materials

𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄: Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆: The Sable Quean by Brian Jacques

𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆: Let's play of Fate/Samurai Remnant

𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐍: Some drabbles and plot stuff

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