Lord Brocktree
core novel 2000 Redwall
Record
| First published | 2000 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.00 (52,233 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780091768775 |
Synopsis
A prequel to the main Redwall timeline, the thirteenth book follows the massive badger warrior Lord Brocktree as he travels in the company of a talkative haremaid named Dotti and an otter called Ruffgar. The story centers on Salamandastron, the mountain fortress traditionally ruled by badger lords, currently held by Brocktree's father, Lord Stonepaw, who has grown complacent after a long peace. When the wildcat warlord Ungatt Trunn leads his invading Blue Hordes in a siege of the undermanned garrison, the fortress falls into enemy hands. Brocktree must gather allies and build a fighting force capable of challenging Trunn's occupying army, setting the stage for a campaign to win back Salamandastron from the invaders and restore the badger lords' stronghold.
Where it sits
- Universe: Redwall
- Series: Redwall core; position 13 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 13 of 22: previous The Legend of Luke (1999) · next The Taggerung (2001)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Redwall
- FantasticFiction: Brian Jacques's Redwall books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Brocktree
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