Salamandastron
core novel 1992 Redwall
Record
| First published | 1992 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.11 (32,608 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780091764333 |
Synopsis
Salamandastron unfolds across two settings at once: at Redwall Abbey, a sudden fever outbreak threatens the community just as the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior is stolen by two deserting stoats, and at the mountain fortress of Salamandastron, the badger lord Urthstripe the Strong faces the advance of Ferahgo the Assassin, a ruthless weasel warlord, and his son Klitch, who lead an army of raiders against the stronghold. The young squirrel Samkim and his mole companion Arula set out to recover the stolen sword, while the badgermaid Mara and her hare friend Pikkle leave Salamandastron on a quest of their own. As the fever spreads at the abbey and Ferahgo's horde closes in on the mountain, the separate groups of heroes must find ways to address both crises before they overwhelm their respective homes.
Where it sits
- Universe: Redwall
- Series: Redwall core; position 5 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 5 of 22: previous Mariel of Redwall (1991) · next Martin the Warrior (1993)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Redwall
- FantasticFiction: Brian Jacques's Redwall books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamandastron
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