High Rhulain
core novel 2005 Redwall
Record
| First published | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.15 (9,205 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780399242083 |
Synopsis
The eighteenth Redwall novel follows Tiria Wildlough, a young otter at Redwall Abbey who learns that she is destined to become the High Rhulain, leader of the otters of Green Isle, despite a tradition that reserves that role for males. The story moves between the Abbey and Green Isle, which languishes under the brutal rule of the wildcat warlord Riggu Felis, who has enslaved much of the otter population there. Answering what she takes as a calling to help her enslaved kin, Tiria sets out to reach Green Isle and rally the free otter clans and allies from Redwall against Riggu Felis's oppressive regime, beginning a campaign to free the island's captives from his authority.
Where it sits
- Universe: Redwall
- Series: Redwall core; position 18 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 18 of 22: previous Rakkety Tam (2004) · next Eulalia! (2007)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Redwall
- FantasticFiction: Brian Jacques's Redwall books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Rhulain
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