| rdfs:comment | - Gorath the Flame, a badger living on the Northern Isles, lives a peaceful life of farming with his grandparents, until Sea Raiders, led by the evil Vizka Longtooth, drop anchor on their island and pillage their farm. Vizka kills Gorath’s grandparents, but takes Gorath as prisoner on his vessel, the Bludgullet, hoping to convert him into a Sea Raider and thus become invincible with a powerful badger on his crew.
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| abstract | - Gorath the Flame, a badger living on the Northern Isles, lives a peaceful life of farming with his grandparents, until Sea Raiders, led by the evil Vizka Longtooth, drop anchor on their island and pillage their farm. Vizka kills Gorath’s grandparents, but takes Gorath as prisoner on his vessel, the Bludgullet, hoping to convert him into a Sea Raider and thus become invincible with a powerful badger on his crew. Meanwhile, Lord Asheye, the blind ruler of Salamandastron, receives a prophecy from his predecessors that he will leave the mountain in the autumn, and a new badger is meant to come and lead. He sends his assistant cook (and formidable boxing champion), Mad Maudie Mugsberry Thropple, to find this mysterious badger. Maudie travels out to the Western Plains and meets an owl companion, Asio Bardwing. At Redwall Abbey, a young hedgehog by the name of Orkwil Prink is charged with stealing various possessions from the Abbeydwellers. He is banished from the Abbey for a season as punishment, and his luck plummets after he ends up without supplies and trapped in a swamp. On the Bludgullet, Vizka Longtooth has failed to brainwash Gorath, who has sworn to kill him and his first mate and brother, Codj. Vizka resolves to simply starve the badger. But after hearing about Redwall from a ratwife cook, Vizka makes a new goal: conquer the Abbey and reign over Mossflower Woods. He sails down the River Moss to find the Abbey. Maudie, meanwhile, has joined up with Guosim shrews, who agree to take her down the River Moss to Redwall, where she thinks she will learn about the mysterious badger. Asio was killed by an adder while trying to rescue a shrewbabe named Dupper, and the Log-a-Log Luglug, resolves to help Maudie at all costs, in memory of the owl.
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