Outcast of Redwall
core novel 1995 Redwall
Record
| First published | 1995 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.95 (22,382 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780091767211 |
Synopsis
Outcast of Redwall opens in the frozen north, where a young kestrel named Skarlath and a badger cub are captured by the cruel ferret warlord Swartt Sixclaw. After escaping together, the badger, renamed Sunflash for the golden stripe running down his snout, becomes Skarlath's devoted companion as the pair make their way south through Mossflower Woods, with Sunflash growing over time into a formidable warrior known as Sunflash the Mace. Two threats develop in parallel: Swartt Sixclaw, now Sunflash's sworn enemy, gathers an ever-larger horde of vermin bent on conquest, while at Redwall Abbey an orphaned ferret named Veil, raised among the peaceful community, begins to show troubling signs of the violent heritage he was born to, creating growing unease within the abbey.
Where it sits
- Universe: Redwall
- Series: Redwall core; position 8 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 8 of 22: previous The Bellmaker (1995) · next The Pearls of Lutra (1996)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Redwall
- FantasticFiction: Brian Jacques's Redwall books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_of_Redwall
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