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This is sooooooo good!!
Commission from Xenowolf23 to Kelaiah of Ublaz Mad Eyes from the Redwall book Pearls of Lutra! Funny enough I've only drawn one other Redwall character before and it was the protagonist from the same book. I'm happy with how this came out, colors especially!
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lol I love this
Been listening to an audiobook narrated by a cast of people with heavy Scottish brogues and now all my thoughts for the past 24 hours bave been narrated in such an accent. Seriously. I wish I was joking.
This is amazing! I love the elements that were directly inspired by Martin's tapestry, like the red cloth underneath the suit of armor. And look at Cornflower's bandana! Also, I love the way the sky is done. And the colors! Very good work.
Tarani
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The books that have wildcats - Mossflower, Lord Brocktree, and High Rhulain (and a bit of Redwall itself), LB and MSF take place before the abbey is founded.
Redwall takes place after those two and there's only Julian left.
So they died out on the mainland, but Green Isle is so isolated, it still has a loch ness monster expy - something from the dinosaur age and wildcats who didn't get killed because they didn't go anywhere.
So Green Isle is an island stuck centuries in the past but we can't really tell outside of it's residents bc the world as a whole isn't technologically advanced. It also ties into the fact that there's a direct mention of Kaltag's family being domesticated cats 'by something'.
It's basically this series’ version of a prehistoric setting untouched by time.
That's clever!
Been listening to the Redwall audiobooks and I just realized that at least one of the mice to carry the sword of Martin is a descendant of Gnoff (Dandin). Since Gnoff seems to have a large number of descendants in the Mossflower area and all of the mice who are Redwall Champions (with the exception of Mariel, who counts because I say so) grew up in Redwall, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that all the mice who take up the sword are descendants of Gnoff.
Also it seems fitting that Martin would choose mice from his best friend's family tree.