The Taggerung
core novel 2001 Redwall
Record
| First published | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.17 (17,264 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780091769284 |
Synopsis
The fourteenth Redwall novel takes place across Mossflower Woods and Redwall Abbey and follows an otter named Deyna, kidnapped as an infant by the ferret leader Sawney Rath and raised among the vermin Juska tribes under the name Tagg. Marked from birth as the prophesied Taggerung, a warrior fated for greatness among the vermin, Tagg instead grows up resisting the violence his upbringing demands of him. When he refuses to embrace his tribe's brutal ways, he becomes a target of persecution and flees, pursued across the land by Juska trackers including the assassin Vallug Bowbeast, while the ambitious stoat Gruven Zann maneuvers for power within the tribes. Along the way Tagg is aided by a harvest mouse named Nimbalo the Slayer as he tries to find his way toward his true identity and kin.
Where it sits
- Universe: Redwall
- Series: Redwall core; position 14 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 14 of 22: previous Lord Brocktree (2000) · next Triss (2002)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Redwall
- FantasticFiction: Brian Jacques's Redwall books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Taggerung
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