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* {{Foil}}: She's essentially the Felldoh to Luke's Martin. The difference is that Ranguvar listens to good sense and because of that, is able to support Luke to the end.

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* {{Foil}}: She's essentially the The Felldoh to Luke's Martin. The difference is that Ranguvar listens to good sense and because of that, is able to support Luke to the end.


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* DidntThinkThisThrough: A recurring problem with Luke. Luke will occasionally make leadership decisions without enough research and end up in over his head. He didn't know that his chosen home was subject to raids, something other inhabitants of the area knew. He sailed out to hunt Vilu Daskar and is outmatched against a lifelong pirate. He leads Daskar to his tribe, not knowing what happened to them and had his hopes dash.


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* FailureHero: Very similar to Martin in that respect. Luke and his tribe was chased out of Mossflower. He led them north in hopes to find a peaceful home, only to inadvertently lead them to pirate hunting grounds who raid the tribe killing his wife. Luke assembles a crew with most of the male warriors to hunt down Vilu Daskar, only for Vilu to sink the ship in the night, killing almost everyone. Meanwhile, his tribe lacking leadership and warriors end up disbanded and enslaved and Luke leads Vilu home only to find it abandoned and his tribe gone. He then plots to sink the ship as a final act of revenge killing both the pirate crew and almost all the slaves, leaving only a handful of survivors.


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* OneDegreeOfSeparation: The warlord that forced Luke out of Mossflower was Verdauga Greeneyes.
* PyrrhicVictory: His victory against Vilu Daskar. He might have killed Daskar but lost his tribe, crew, slave allies and his life.

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* {{Foil}}: She's essentially the Felldoh to Luke's Martin. The difference is that Ranguvar listens to good sense and because of that, is able to support Luke to the end.



* TheStrengthOfTenMen: An oar aboard Daskar's ship requires multiple creatures to row. Ranguvar is solo chained to an oar. It doesn't slow her down one bit and she's never shown growing tired or weary.

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* TheStrengthOfTenMen: An oar aboard Daskar's ship requires multiple creatures to row. Ranguvar is one of two creatures solo chained to an oar. (Luke is the other) It doesn't slow her down one bit and she's never shown growing tired or weary.

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* TheBerserker: She could give Felldoh a run for his money.

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* TheBerserker: She could give Felldoh a run for his money. The description of her final battle implies that she might be one of the few non Badgers that suffer from Bloodwrath.
* TheBigGuy: Serves this role amongst the slaves. Ranguvar provides muscle and strength, almost singlehandedly holding the entire crew back so Luke can have his revenge.
* DeathGlare: Gives death glares to Bullflay while threatening him. It frightens him enough to back down
* {{Determinator}}: Bullflay does everything he can to try to break her spirit. He not only fails but pisses her off more.



* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time she seen, she's being restrained by multiple searats who are so frightened of her they don't want to come near. She's dragged off while shouting threats at Daskar.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time she seen, [[TakesTenToHold she's being restrained by multiple searats searats]] who are so frightened of her they don't want to come near. She's dragged off while shouting threats at Daskar.


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* TheStrengthOfTenMen: An oar aboard Daskar's ship requires multiple creatures to row. Ranguvar is solo chained to an oar. It doesn't slow her down one bit and she's never shown growing tired or weary.
* UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem: Strangles Bullflay with his own whip.
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* StrongFamilyResemblance: To his son Martin. In the framing device multiple old friends of his mistake Martin for his father.
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* FortheEvulz: He blatantly confesses to having massacred Luke's tribe for fun and even routinely has whoever isn't strong enough to haul the log walk the plank to either drown to death or be devoured by the big fish after having sailed the ship far from any land to ensure they do indeed die for his own sick twisted amusement.
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Ranguvar Foeseeker. Also serves as a NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast.
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* SociopathicHero: Hoo boy.

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Vilu Daskar was around for one-third of one book, but his slaughter of Luke's tribe and wife set off a chain of events that leads to the series as we know it. Without Daskar's attack, Luke doesn't abandon his son and Martin doesn't inherit his father's sword, get captured by Badrang, and eventually make his way to Mossflower to confront Tsarmina and help found Redwall.

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Vilu Daskar was around for one-third of one book, but his slaughter of Luke's tribe and wife set sets off a chain of events that leads to the series as we know it. Without Daskar's attack, Luke doesn't abandon his son and Martin doesn't inherit his father's sword, get captured by Badrang, and eventually make his way to Mossflower to confront Tsarmina and help found Redwall.

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* VillainsWantMercy: Pleads for mercy when he realizes he's about to die.


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* VillainsWantMercy: Pleads for mercy when he realizes he's about to die.

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* MutualKill: With Luke. Vilu runs Luke through on his sword, but Luke pins him to the steering wheel of the ship, drowning them both.

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* MutualKill: With Luke. Vilu runs Luke through on his sword, but Luke pins him to the steering wheel of the ship, drowning them both.both when the ''Goreleech'' hits a rock and sinks.


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* VillainousBreakdown: Has one when Luke and Ranguvar start a slave revolt aboard his ship.
* VillainousGlutton: He enjoys stuffing himself with luxurious spreads, making sure to do so where his starving slaves and crew can see it.


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* WoundThatWillNotHeal: Luke nearly throttles Daskar to death when he gets the opportunity; Daskar is saved by his crew, but is left with permanent bruises and a rasp to his voice afterwards.
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* PapaWolf: to Chugger.

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* PapaWolf: to To Chugger.



* [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Beast]]: She's a literal black squirrel. She's also stated to be unusually tall for a squirrel, at least half as big.

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* [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Beast]]: She's a literal black squirrel. She's also stated to be unusually tall for a squirrel, at least half as big.big again.



* LikeFatherLikeSon: Luke ends up captured and enslaved, only to break free and kill his captor with the help of a mad berserker squirrel. Martin does the same thing in his eponymous story.

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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Luke ends up captured and enslaved, only to break free and kill his stoat captor with the help of a mad berserker squirrel. Martin does the same thing in his eponymous story.
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* ArchEnemy: To Luke, having ordered the massacre of his tribe and personally murdered his beloved wife in the process.

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* ArchEnemy: To Luke, having ordered the massacre of his tribe and tribe, in which he personally murdered his beloved wife in the process.latter's wife.
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* ArchEnemy: To Luke, having ordered the massacre of his tribe and personally cutting down his beloved wife in the process.

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* ArchEnemy: To Luke, having ordered the massacre of his tribe and personally cutting down murdered his beloved wife in the process.
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* ArchEnemy: To Luke, having ordered the massacre of his tribe and personally cutting down his beloved wife in the process.


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* ItsPersonal: He's the one who murdered Luke's wife during the massacre of his tribe.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Vilu fakes nice, but he's entirely without morals or redemptive feature, something his crew are well aware of.

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* FauxAffablyEvil: Vilu fakes nice, but he's entirely without morals or redemptive feature, redeeming features, something his crew are well aware of.

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* TheBerserker: She could give Felldoh a run for his money

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* TheBerserker: She could give Felldoh a run for his moneymoney.



* TheDreaded: She frightens almost every pirate on Daskar's ship except Daskar himself.



* [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Beast]]: She's a literal black squirrel.

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* [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Beast]]: She's a literal black squirrel. She's also stated to be unusually tall for a squirrel, at least half as big.


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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Daskar's overconfidence and refusal to take his slaves seriously proves his own undoing. He really should have tossed Luke and Ranguvar overboard or killed them when they both proved too intractable and dangerous to be controlled.
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--->'''Beau:''' I'm Beauhair Fethringham Cosfortingsol. No I ain't, I'm Beauham Fethringhair Cosfortingclair. No I ain't, wait a tick, I'm [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Beauham Fethringclair Confounditall.]]

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--->'''Beau:''' I'm Beauhair Fethringham Cosfortingsol. No I ain't, I'm Beauham Fethringhair Cosfortingclair. No I ain't, wait a tick, I'm [[CrowningMomentOfFunny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Beauham Fethringclair Confounditall.]]
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* CardCarryingVillain: "I do my best, to be the worst".

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* CardCarryingVillain: "I do my best, best to be the worst".


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* {{Retcon}}: ''Martin the Warrior'' stated that Luke had left home to battle searats, which makes Vilu's entire existence a retcon. It's easily justified, however, by how young Martin was at the time that Luke left home.

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* AdaptedOut: In the ''Martin the Warrior'' television series, it's stated that Luke left home to battle Badrang, rather than Vilu (or the nebulous "searats" of the original ''Martin the Warrior'' novel).



* BigBad: Of ''The Legend of Luke''

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* BigBad: Of Luke's part in ''The Legend of Luke''Luke''.



* {{Expy}}: A stoat corsair with delusions of intellectualism who feels he's surrounded by imbeciles? He's ''Martin the Warrior'''s Badrang if he'd had more success as a pirate and hadn't decided to turn landlubber.

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* CoolHelmet: A spiked helmet wrapped with a white silk scarf.
* CoolShip: ''Goreleech'' was the largest ship afloat in-universe, a monstrous trireme described by many as a floating village, and with hundreds of oarslaves and corsairs alike aboard. Outfitted with an immense ram, and faster than any other ship on the sea, ''Goreleech'' could and did outfight any opposition that she ever encountered, only sinking when destroyed from within.
* {{Expy}}: A slaver stoat corsair with delusions of intellectualism who feels he's surrounded by imbeciles? He's ''Martin the Warrior'''s Badrang if he'd had more success as a pirate and hadn't decided to turn landlubber.


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* InsultBackfire: When Vilu warns Luke that the north sea can be treacherous, Luke asks if they are as treacherous as Vilu himself. Vilu smiles and tells him no, not quite that bad.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Vilu Daskar was around for one-third of one book, but his slaughter of Luke's tribe and wife set off a chain of events that leads to the series as we know it. Without Daskar's attack, Luke doesn't abandon his son and Martin doesn't inherit his father's sword, get captured by Badrang, and eventually make his way to Mossflower to confront Tsarmina and help found Redwall.

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A berserk black squirrel whom Vilu Daskar captured after sacking her home. She vows to have her vengeance upon him, and becomes good friends with Luke when the latter is brought aboard Daskar's ship.
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* BadassCapeBadassCape: Wears a long red cape.
* BadBoss: Flogs his crew for thefts he knows they weren't responsible for, executes anyone who holds back plunder from him, and generally runs his ship as an absolute tyrant.



* TheCaptain: Of the ''Goreleech''.



* FauxAffablyEvil
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* SinisterScimitar
* SmugSnake
* SurroundedByIdiots: He certainly thinks so.
* WickedCultured

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* FauxAffablyEvil
{{Expy}}: A stoat corsair with delusions of intellectualism who feels he's surrounded by imbeciles? He's ''Martin the Warrior'''s Badrang if he'd had more success as a pirate and hadn't decided to turn landlubber.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
FatalFlaw: {{Greed}}. Vilu's eager for plunder and can't believe his greed isn't universal. He knows Luke wants him dead, but is prepared to keep the mouse alive if it leads him to treasure.
* SinisterScimitar
FauxAffablyEvil: Vilu fakes nice, but he's entirely without morals or redemptive feature, something his crew are well aware of.
* SmugSnake
ManOfWealthAndTaste: Dresses simply but expensively, unlike the rest of his crew.
* MutualKill: With Luke. Vilu runs Luke through on his sword, but Luke pins him to the steering wheel of the ship, drowning them both.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His ship is named the ''Goreleech''.
* SayMyName: Uses his own name as a war cry.
* SinisterScimitar: Wields a broad bladed scimitar with a bone handle.
* SmugSnake: Not as smart or as in control as he'd like to think he is.
* SurroundedByIdiots: He certainly thinks so.
so. The fact that his crew are uneducated morons is a point of serious irritation for him.
* WickedCulturedVillainsWantMercy: Pleads for mercy when he realizes he's about to die.
* WickedCultured: Fancies himself an intellectual.
* WickedWeasel: A piratical stoat.
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* {{Badass}}
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* EverythingsNuttierWithSquirrels: Oh so subverted.

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* AudienceSurrogate: She's basically the newcomer to an old adventuring party.



* ImAHumanitarian

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* ImAHumanitarianImAHumanitarian: Maybe, he ''might'' just be messing with everyone. It's left ambiguous.

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* TheBerserker

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* TheBerserkerAwesomeMcCoolName: Ranguvar Foeseeker. Also serves as a NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast.
* TheBerserker: She could give Felldoh a run for his money
* TheDogBitesBack: Literally. She tears off Bullflay's (the galley slavedriver) ear with her teeth. She later chokes him with his own whip.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time she seen, she's being restrained by multiple searats who are so frightened of her they don't want to come near. She's dragged off while shouting threats at Daskar.


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* ImprovisedWeapon: Is shown chasing vermin down with two halves of a broken sword. The Other Wiki lists her weapons as ''anything that can be wielded''. She's apparently just that badass.
* LaughingMad: Is shown laughing and belting warcrys when she finally gets to cut loose.


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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Luke ends up captured and enslaved, only to break free and kill his captor with the help of a mad berserker squirrel. Martin does the same thing in his eponymous story.
* TheLostLenore: Sayna his wife.


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* RevengeBeforeReason: His quest to hunt Vilu Daskar to avenge his wife. He abandons his tribe who end up being disbanded and enslaved without his leadership, his ship is caught unawares and captured by Daskar and he ends up enslaved.
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!!Trimp the Rover

* WalkTheEarth: Well, she did until the book started.

!!Folgrim

* BloodKnight
* ImAHumanitarian
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: In-universe.
* PapaWolf: to Chugger.
* SociopathicHero: Hoo boy.

!!Chugger
* MoralityPet: To Folgrim.
* PleaseWakeUp: When his grandmother died, shortly pre-book.

!!Ranguvar Foeseeker

* TheBerserker
* EverythingsNuttierWithSquirrels: Oh so subverted.
* [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Beast]]: She's a literal black squirrel.
* YouShallNotPass: Holds off Vilu's crew to give Luke time to sink the ship.

!!Luke the Warrior

The father of Martin the Warrior, Luke led his people north in the hopes of escaping the violence that had characterized their lives in the south. When his tribe was massacred by Vilu Daskar, Luke swore revenge and sailed after the stoat, leaving his son Martin, and his tribe, to fend for themselves.
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* {{Badass}}
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Even in the northlands, Luke couldn't escape war and evil.
* DisappearedDad: To Martin.
* MutualKill: With Vilu.
* ShroudedInMyth: The whole point of the story is so Martin can learn about his father.

!!Beau

* MookHorrorShow: He seems to enjoy being the [[ScoobyDooHoax Sea Bogle]] a bit too much.
* OverlyLongName: Beauclair Fethringsol Cosfortingham. However, when we first meet him, he hasn't heard it in so long that he's forgotten it. This happens.
--->'''Beau:''' I'm Beauhair Fethringham Cosfortingsol. No I ain't, I'm Beauham Fethringhair Cosfortingclair. No I ain't, wait a tick, I'm [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Beauham Fethringclair Confounditall.]]
* SupremeChef: Although that's likely because everyone ELSE on the crew is a LethalChef.

!!Vilu Daskar
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A cultured, intelligent and seemingly charming stoat corsair who prowls the waves in his red ship the ''Goreleech.'' After murdering the wife of Luke the Warrior, Vilu earns the undying hatred of Luke who pursues him across the waves to seek revenge. Vilu holds a penchant for taking slaves as well as pillage and slaughter and even his own crew lives in mortal fear of their captain who in his own words "does his best to be the worst".
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* BadassCape
* BigBad: Of ''The Legend of Luke''
* CardCarryingVillain: "I do my best, to be the worst".
* FauxAffablyEvil
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* SinisterScimitar
* SmugSnake
* SurroundedByIdiots: He certainly thinks so.
* WickedCultured
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