Line #25 Characters/RedwallTheTaggerung


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9	!!Deyna/Zann Juskarath Taggerung
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11	An otter, marked from birth as the Taggerung -- the destined champion of the Juska tribesbeasts. Captured by Sawney Rath of the Juskarath and raised as Sawney's son, Deyna/Taggerung eventually flees the tribe, seeking a better life where he won't be used as an assassin and enforcer.
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13	* TheAce: He’s not quite an InvincibleHero—his handful of {{Near Death Experience}}s mitigate that— but he’s so phenomenally skilled at, well, ''everything'' that he’s practically unstoppable.
14	* AwesomeMcCoolname: As mentioned by Nimbalo, Zann Juskarath Taggerung is an awesome sounding name. Averted with his real name, Deyna.
15	* TheChampion: Of first his Juska tribe and later, Redwall Abbey. He's the first otter to hold either title.
16	* TheChosenOne: According to the Juska, he inherited the spirit of the Taggerung, and possesses supernatural fighting abilities. They might even be right, as no one ever manages to beat Deyna at anything in the whole book, and [[GreaterScopeParagon Martin]] likes him enough to make him Champion.
17	* CoolSword: Becomes the champion of Redwall, and wields Martin's sword as a result.
18	* DistinguishingMark: Has a unique flower shaped mole on his paw. The mark and his tattoos get removed when he's healing from his near fatal wounds.
19	* TheJuggernaut: Manages to chase down and kill a powerful assassin despite [[{{Determinator}} getting shot in the heart.]]
20	* LightningBruiser: As an otter, Deyna is naturally stronger than most woodland creatures and he's powerful for his species. He's also incredibly fast and has an ability to end fights before the opponent makes a move.
21	* [[RaisedByOrcs Raised by Vermin]]: He was raised by the Juskarath vermin from infancy after they killed his father. They seem to have given him a decent enough childhood, all things considered, but things went downhill as he grew up.
22	* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Grown-up Deyna is first shown hunting down and capturing an escaping Juska. Deyna's skills as a tracker comes up various times. He's able to track vermin, accurately recreate a battle scene, etc.
23	* ThatManIsDead: He tells Gruven that the Taggerung is dead.
24	* TattooAsCharacterType: Has the marks of his Juska tribe as well as further tattoos signifying his role as Taggerung.
25	* TykeBomb: Raised from infancy to be the Taggerung - the legendary premier warrior of the Juska.
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27	!!Nimbalo the Slayer
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29	* AbusiveParents: He ran away from his father, who regularly beat him.
30	* BlatantLies: Half of the words out of his mouth. [[spoiler:This becomes a plot point when, in an attempt to divert the Juskabor away from Deyna and the abbey, he lies that he saw Gruven kill the Taggerung. Gruven, schemer that he is, seizes on the unexpected good luck—but gets beheaded less than a minute later.]]
31	* BraggartBoss: A heroic version.
32	* FireForgedFriends: With Tagg. They start off pretty vitriolic, but after enduring a few adventures together, they end up true friends.
33	* YouKilledMyFather: An unusual case, since his father [[AbusiveParents wasn't exactly the nicest fellow]], but Nimbalo's still devastated to learn his father is dead, and later does in Dagrab for being the one that killed him.
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35	!!Mhera
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37	* {{Expy}}: Hm... a young Abbey maid with [[WiseBeyondTheirYears more wisdom and intuition than their age would suggest,]] a subplot focused on puzzle-solving, and [[spoiler:eventually becoming Abbess?]] Sounds an awful lot like Tansy from ''Pearls of Lutra''.
38	* InnocentlyInsensitive: She reassures Nimbalo that he'll like living at the Abbey, because they're all one big happy "family". She has no way of knowing that he's been soured on the concept of familes.
39	* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Mhera is called a clever young maid, enough so that Cregga [[spoiler:wants her to be the next Abbess.]]
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41	!!Rillflag
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43	An otter who's Deyna's father. He lived at Redwall with his wife and daughter.
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45	* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies while fishing for shrimp.
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47	!!Filorn
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49	!!Boorab the Fool
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51	* BigEater: As per the norm for hares.
52	* LetsGetDangerous: He's a hare. This is to be expected. Moreso because he IS a clown.
53	* OverlyLongName: His real name, for which "Boorab" is the acronym.
54	%%* PluckyComicRelief
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56	!!Fwirl
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58	A squirrelmaid who lives near Redwall; famous for her climbing skills.
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62	!!Broggle
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64	* SituationalSociability: Broggle has a massive stuttering problem, so he doesn't talk much. Once it's noticed he doesn't stutter at all when singing, he gets over the block and manages to speak normally.
65	* StutterStop: Zigzagged. Boorab shows Broggle that he [[Music/ScatmanJohn doesn't ever stutter when he sings]], and the stammer mostly goes away after that...[[InvertedTrope but comes back at a plot-intensive moment.]]
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69	[[folder:The Juska]]
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71	%%* BarbarianTribe
72	* ProudWarriorRace: One of the few examples of vermin who actually have some kind of culture. It's not a ''nice'' culture, but it's deeper than most of the bandits and warlord-led hordes in the series.
73	* TribalFacePaint: The Juska paint their face with tribal markings. The Taggerung, a special nearly-supernatural warrior, has more markings.
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75	!!Sawney Rath
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77	A ferret and the leader of the Juskarath who bear his name, Sawney is a clever, cunning chieftain, who rules through his intellect. Upon discovering that the prophesied Taggerung of his tribe is an otter, Sawney captures the infant, and raises him as his own son.
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79	* AffablyEvil: He apparently grew worse as he got older.
80	* DiscOneFinalBoss: He seems to be the BigBad at first, only to be abruptly betrayed and killed by Antigra.
81	* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped A Slingstone On Him]]: Killed by Antigra when she notices that he's alone and distracted.
82	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Seems to genuinely care about Deyna.
83	* EvilMentor: To Deyna, who he raises to follow in his footsteps.
84	* GenreSavvy: When he learns that the [[TheChosenOne Taggerung]] is at Redwall, he refuses to attack the Abbey, saying that it has "the bones of countless dead warlords scattered around it."[[note]]Interestingly, he mentions Ferahgo the Assassin, who wasn't even AT Redwall.[[/note]]
85	* HandicappedBadass: He's plagued by a stomach affliction that causes shooting pains. [[note]]Brian Jacques once stated in a Q&A that he suffered from those same pains[[/note]]
86	* MentorOccupationalHazard: A villainous version.
87	* ParentalSubstitute: For Deyna.
88	* TemptingFate: He states he won't end up like Cluny or the other warlords who died attacking Redwall, only to be killed far more ignominiously than they were.
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90	!!Grissoul
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92	An elderly vixen who is the Juska tribe's Seer. She later becomes Ruggan Bor's second seer.
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94	* TheCreon: She's more respected than any Juska except Rath, and with good reason, given her oracular abilities. But she's not interested in commanding the tribe so long as whoever ''is'' in command does a good job.
95	* FaintingSeer: Exaggerated. She dies mere ''seconds'' after prophesying that the Taggerung, whosoever they are, must "beware the bells within Redwall". While Ruggan Bor attributes her death to old age, fellow seer Ermath is greatly unnerved.
96	* LifeWillKillYou: She is one of a very few villainous characters in the entire ''series'' to die of old age.
97	* NotSoPhonyPsychic: Her predictions have an eerie habit of coming true.
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99	!!Gruven
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101	A cowardly stoat whose mother insisted that he, and not Deyna, was the Taggerung. Raised to believe that he must slay the Taggerung and take his place, Gruven spends most of the novel stumbling incompetently in Deyna's footsteps in a failed attempt at making good on his vow.
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103	* TheChosenWannabe: He didn't even want to be it that much; his mother had been insisting he was Taggerung before he could even talk.
104	* DeadGuyJunior: His mother didn't have any choice in the matter, but he was named after his deceased father by Sawney.
105	* DirtyCoward: Spends most of the story bragging about how awesome he is, only to flee at the smallest sign of danger.
106	%%* DumbMuscle
107	* {{Foil}}: He's everything Deyna isn't (or Deyna is everything he isn't). Deyna's undefeatable, TheDeterminator, a master tracker, reasonably friendly, humble and likable etc. Gruven has none of his skills or personality, but Antigra keeps insisting her son is the Taggerung.
108	* HarmlessVillain: He's one of the most cowardly villains in ''Redwall'', and will run away from anything that has a bad temper.
109	* TheHeavy: He's an imbecile, but staying away from him is what drives most of Deyna's plotline.
110	%%* IneffectualSympatheticVillain
111	* NoSenseOfDirection: He doesn't know how to tell left from right.
112	* OffWithHisHead: Shortly after officially being dubbed Taggerung, he promptly gets beheaded by Ruggan Bor. [[KlingonPromotion After all, he who kills the Taggerung then becomes the Taggerung.]]
113	* SmugSnake: He talks big, but ultimately, Gruven is one of the most incompetent villains in the entire series. He [[WhatTheFuAreYouDoing can’t fight]], he [[GeneralFailure can’t lead]], he [[NoSenseOfDirection can’t navigate,]] he’s [[TooDumbToLive a moron,]] and he [[NoRespectGuy completely fails to exact fear and respect from his minions]].
114	* VillainousUnderdog: He’s in way, WAY over his head in his hunt for [[TheAce Deyna.]]
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116	!!Vallug Bowbeast and Eefera
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118	A ferret and a weasel who accompany Gruven on his hunt for Deyna.
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120	* CoDragons: Though they both could easily be the Bigbads of the book.
121	* DragonInChief: They're a much bigger threat than Gruven, by the virtue of actually being intelligent.
122	* [[ShesAManInJapan He's a Woman in Russia]]: The Russian translation had Eefera as a girl.
123	* HyperCompetentSidekick: To Gruven. They're the only reason he managed to survive and track Deyna as far as he did, and they're not shy about putting him down in front of everybeast.
124	* ImprobableAimingSkills: It is said that Vallug could hit a dragonfly in flight.
125	* OffWithHisHead: Deyna slays the both of them, but it's Vallug who gets killed this way on account of him being the one who shot Deyna's father.
126	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: They clearly despise each other and plan on killing each other eventually, but they both know that the other possesses talents they need to succeed (i.e. Vallug's archery skills and Eefera's strategic thinking).
127	* YouNeedABreathMint: After Eefera eats some ramsons, Vallug jokes that his breath is so bad that he could knock out the Redwall guards just by exhaling in their faces.
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129	!!Ruggan Bor
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131	A golden fox, and chieftain of the Juskabor tribe. Having swallowed up Gruven's Juskazann (formerly Sawney's Juskarath), Ruggan now commands an army three hundred strong, and aims to become the new Taggerung by slaying either Deyna or Gruven. Cold and all but emotionless, he's the novel's most threatening antagonist.
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133	%%* BadassLongcoat
134	* CunningLikeAFox: He's a fox, and probably one of the smartest vermin in the book--for one, he knows when it's best ''not'' to get into a fight.
135	* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Has golden fur and golden eyes.
136	* HonorBeforeReason: He tells a captive Gruven that the only reason he hasn't executed him for his lies is that his duties as chieftain dictate that any potential Taggerung must be given every chance to prove it.
137	* KarmaHoudini: Played with. While he's one of the few villains to survive the events of the book, he and his army suffered a rather humiliating defeat at the hands of Salamandastron reinforcements, and were forced to leave Mossflower forevermore under threat of death from Russano the Wise.
138	* KnightOfCerebus: For ''Taggerung'', being the first villain in the novel to actually pose a threat to either Gruven or Deyna, or intimidate the audience. (Though he's defeated rather quickly; see TrueFinalBoss.)
139	* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When faced with Russano the Wise near the end of the book, he lowers his sword and surrenders--Taggerung or not, he knows Russano by reputation, and isn't stupid enough to try and fight him.
140	* NervesOfSteel: Deyna holds the sword of Martin the Warrior under Ruggan Bor's throat and tries to convince him to leave. Ruggan doesn't even alter his tone of voice, and continues to repeat his questions as to the Taggerung's whereabouts until he receives an answer that satisfies him.
141	* NotSoStoic: He [[LaughingMad laughs insanely]] when he [[KlingonPromotion becomes]] [[TheChosenOne the Taggerung.]]
142	* TheStoic: Never shows any facial expression or changes his tone. [[spoiler:Until he slays Gruven.]]
143	* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Has gold eyes to match his fur, which [[TheUnblinking never blink]].
144	* TrueFinalBoss: Subverted. He kills Gruven and becomes the new Taggerung, then prepares to attack Redwall, only for Russano the Wise to arrive and save the Abbey in a DeusExMachina.
145	* TheUnfought: Relatively speaking. While he and Deyna engage in a brief clash, it's left relatively inconclusive.
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