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Ranguvar Foeseeker

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.

  • The Berserker: 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.
  • The Big Guy: Serves this role amongst the slaves. Ranguvar provides muscle and strength, almost singlehandedly holding the entire crew back so Luke can have his revenge.
  • Death Glare: 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.
  • The Dog Bites Back: Literally. She tears off Bullflay's (the galley slavedriver) ear with her teeth. She later chokes him with his own whip.
  • The Dreaded: She frightens almost every pirate on Daskar's ship except Daskar himself.
  • Establishing Character Moment: 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.
  • Foil: 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.
  • Improvised Weapon: 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.
  • Laughing Mad: Is shown laughing and belting warcrys when she finally gets to cut loose.
  • 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 again.
  • The Strength of Ten Men: 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.
  • Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: Strangles Bullflay with his own whip.
  • You Shall Not Pass!: 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.

  • The Call Knows Where You Live: Even in the northlands, Luke couldn't escape war and evil.
  • Didn't Think This Through: 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.
  • Disappeared Dad: To Martin.
  • Failure Hero: 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.
  • Like Father, Like Son: 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.
  • The Lost Lenore: Sayna his wife.
  • Mutual Kill: With Vilu.
  • One Degree of Separation: The warlord that forced Luke out of Mossflower was Verdauga Greeneyes.
  • Pyrrhic Victory: His victory against Vilu Daskar. He might have killed Daskar but lost his tribe, crew, slave allies and his life.
  • Revenge Before Reason: 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.
  • Shrouded in Myth: The whole point of the story is so Martin can learn about his father.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: To his son Martin. In the framing device multiple old friends of his mistake Martin for his father.

Beau

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".

  • Adapted Out: 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).
  • Arch-Enemy: To Luke, having ordered the massacre of his tribe, in which he personally murdered the latter's wife.
  • Badass Cape: Wears a long red cape.
  • Bad Boss: 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.
  • Big Bad: Of Luke's part in The Legend of Luke.
  • The Captain: Of the Goreleech.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: "I do my best to be the worst".
  • Cool Helmet: A spiked helmet wrapped with a white silk scarf.
  • Cool Ship: 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.
  • Fatal Flaw: 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.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Vilu fakes nice, but he's entirely without morals or redeeming features, something his crew are well aware of.
  • Forthe Evulz: 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.
  • Insult Backfire: 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.
  • It's Personal: He's the one who murdered Luke's wife during the massacre of his tribe.
  • Man of Wealth and Taste: Dresses simply but expensively, unlike the rest of his crew.
  • Mutual Kill: With Luke. Vilu runs Luke through on his sword, but Luke pins him to the steering wheel of the ship, drowning them both when the Goreleech hits a rock and sinks.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His ship is named the Goreleech.
  • 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.
  • Say My Name: Uses his own name as a war cry.
  • Sinister Scimitar: Wields a broad bladed scimitar with a bone handle.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Vilu Daskar was around for one-third of one book, but his slaughter of Luke's tribe and wife 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.
  • Smug Snake: Not as smart or as in control as he'd like to think he is.
  • Surrounded by Idiots: He certainly thinks so. The fact that his crew are uneducated morons is a point of serious irritation for him.
  • Underestimating Badassery: 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.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Has one when Luke and Ranguvar start a slave revolt aboard his ship.
  • Villainous Glutton: He enjoys stuffing himself with luxurious spreads, making sure to do so where his starving slaves and crew can see it.
  • Villains Want Mercy: Pleads for mercy when he realizes he's about to die.
  • Wicked Cultured: Fancies himself an intellectual.
  • Wicked Weasel: A piratical stoat.
  • Wound That Will Not Heal: 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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