Doomwyte
core novel 2008 Redwall
Record
| First published | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.04 (5,657 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 373 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780399245442 |
Synopsis
The twentieth Redwall book takes place in and around Redwall Abbey and follows the young mouse Bisky, the red squirrel Dwink, and the hare Bosie McScutta as they become drawn into a quest sparked by the tale of an ancestor who once stole four jewels from an idol. When the raven Korvus Skurr, leader of a cult known as the Doomwytes, learns of the hidden treasure, he strikes a pact with the giant adder Baliss and sets out to find it himself. As word of the jewels spreads, the Abbey's young defenders and the Doomwyte forces converge on the same search, each racing to uncover the jewels' location before the other, with escalating clashes breaking out between them along the way.
Where it sits
- Universe: Redwall
- Series: Redwall core; position 20 of 22 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Brian Jacques
Notes
- From the series record (Redwall): Brian Jacques's 22-novel high-fantasy sequence of anthropomorphic animals centered on Redwall Abbey, one continuous author-written saga (1986-2011; Jacques died shortly after The Rogue Crew's publication, completing the series). Listed here in original publication order; internal chronology deliberately left unpopulated -- the series' own well-documented publication-vs-internal-chronology divergence (e.g. Mossflower and Martin the Warrior are set generations before Redwall itself) is stated in prose per the same convention already applied to Valdemar's Last Herald-Mage set. Registered per the genre-boundary-transparency convention (talking-animal fantasy, same treatment already extended to Pern's dragons) -- this canon's marketing/critical consensus treats Redwall unambiguously as fantasy, not an animal fable in the Watership Down sense. No independently confirmable award history found.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Redwall: position 20 of 22: previous Eulalia! (2007) · next The Sable Quean (2009)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Redwall
- FantasticFiction: Brian Jacques's Redwall books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomwyte
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