Triss
core novel 2002 Redwall
Record
| First published | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.03 (13,908 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780399237232 |
Synopsis
The fifteenth book in the series follows Triss, a young squirrelmaid who escapes a life of servitude under a tyrannical ferret family ruling the stronghold of Riftgard, and flees in search of refuge at Redwall Abbey. Her story runs alongside that of the hare Bescarum and the badger Sagaxus, two young adventurers who set off on a seafaring quest of their own, their path eventually crossing hers by way of Salamandastron and a ship at sea. A third thread follows a new peril gathering around Redwall Abbey itself, threatening the community Triss hopes to reach. The narrative weaves these three storylines together as Triss, newly free, tries to find her place and purpose at the Abbey even as danger closes in from multiple directions.
Where it sits
- Universe: Redwall
- Series: Redwall core; position 15 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 15 of 22: previous The Taggerung (2001) · next Loamhedge (2003)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Redwall
- FantasticFiction: Brian Jacques's Redwall books in order
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triss_(novel)
- https://www.fantasticfiction.com/j/brian-jacques/triss.htm
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