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Martin The Warrior (Fictional Character)Martin the Warrior is an important mouse character in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. He is known as the savior of Mossflower Woods and after his death becomes the guiding spirit to many of Redwall's heroes. Martin's sword, made from a fallen star, is known to give its user great power. Martin's History Martin was born on the eastern seacoast. He was a member of his father, Luke the Warrior's tribe, and the future wielder of his father's sword. One winter day, Luke's wife and several others are killed by pirates, led by an evil stoat named Vilu Daskar. Luke swears vengeance on Daskar, and he gets his revenge. He leaves his cave with several warriors from his tribe and takes a ship out to sea, and he leaves little Martin with his sword.
Soon after, the cave is again attacked, this time by a stoat named Badrang the Tyrant. He captures Martin, his grandmother Winifred, and hundreds of other innocent creatures and carries them back to his fortress as slaves. A female mouse named Rose and a mole named Grumm help Martin and several other slaves escape, and they attempt to gain an army of "goodbeasts" to help them fight against Badrang. They do, eventually, and Martin slays Badrang, but Badrang also kills Rose, who Martin had hoped to marry. Grieved by Rose's death, Martin bids farewell to his friends from Badrang's fortress and goes south.
Eventually he reaches Mossflower Woods, which is under the control of a wildcat named Verdauga Green Eyes. Martin is captured and brought to Verdauga's castle, named Kotir.
Verdauga and his son, Gingivere, have some compassion on Martin, but Verdauga's daughter, Tsarmina, hates Martin. She breaks the blade of Luke's sword and has Martin put in the castle dungeon.
The next morning, Martin discovers that Tsarmina has usurped the throne of Kotir by having her father poisoned. She then blames the crime on Gingivere to keep him from taking the throne and has him imprisoned.
Not long after, one of the creatures of Mossflower, a mouse thief named Gonff, is imprisoned with Martin for stealing food from Kotir. With the help of the woodlanders, Gonff and Martin escape and set off on a mission to free Mossflower from Tsarmina's claws. Gonff, Martin and Dinny, a mole, set off for Salamandastron, a large extinct volcano on the southeastern coast of the ocean.
There they hope to find Boar the Fighter, a large warrior badger, who they hope will defeat Tsarmina and free Mossflower from her tyranny.
After a long, hard journey, they reach Salamandastron and are greeted by three of Boar's hares. The hares lead them into the mountain, where Boar himself receives them. While they are staying there, Boar refashions the blade of Martin's sword from the metal of a fallen meteor. Boar also reads a disturbing prophecy written on the wall of a secret cave, saying that he will be killed that very night, which is exactly what happens.
A pirate rat invades the shores of Salamandastron and a battle occurs between the searats and the creatures of the mountain. Boar kills the head pirate and is killed in the process. Martin, Gonff, and Dinny escape on the pirate ship Bloodwake, which they rename Wuddship. Martin discovers that some of the galley slaves are old friends of his from his days at Luke's cave. The ship returns to Mossflower by river and the three companions are greeted warmly. However, Bella, Boar the Fighter's daughter, takes the news of her father's death heavily.
The woodlanders, with the aid of their new friends, discover that Kotir is actually in a dry riverbed, and they attempt to flood it. The first try fails, but then Martin decides to sink Wuddshipin order to flood the River Moss. It works, and Kotir is sunk in the resulting flood. Tsarmina, however, escapes on a dinner table and battles Martin on the banks of the new river. She is wounded badly and drowns in her attempt to escape from Martin. However, Martin is badly injured too, so much that he falls into a coma. Fortunately, the head doctor of Mossflower is able to cure Martin, although the injuries almost completely wipe out his memory.
With Kotir out of the way, the woodlanders, with the aid of Martin and his old friends, begin to build the famous Redwall Abbey. When the Abbey is almost finished, a young female hedgehog named Trimp arrives at Redwall. As she tells her story to the Redwallers, Martin's memory begins to come back, and he recognizes some of the creatures she is talking about. This memory recall inflicts Martin with depression.
The Redwallers notice Martin's unusual behavior, and they decide to send him on a long journey to his homeland, the cave of the once-was tribe of Luke the Warrior. He will be accompanied by the same woodlanders that traveled with him to Salamandastron, as well as Trimp and some new characters they meet on their way.
After a long, difficult yet pleasantly surprising journey, Martin uncovers what he has been searching for: the story of his father, Luke. Luke's Story
Martin and his companions arrive at the northland shore, where Martin discovers something surprising: a large, red ship wedged between two tall rocks. They board it and discover that it is inhabited by three old mouse companions of Luke: Vurg, Denno, and Dulam. Denno tells Martin and his friends the story of Luke:
Luke and his tribe are forced to leave Mossflower Woods when Verdauga Green Eyes takes it over. He leads them up north until they arrive at a large cave on the northern coast of the ocean. There is where Luke's son Martin is born.
Shortly after, Luke's wife, Sayna, and several others are attacked and killed by a pirate stoat called Vilu Daskar. Luke is furious with Daskar and swears vengeance. He and his tribe capture a ship, Greenhawk, rename it the Sayna, after Luke's wife, and set out to sea to kill the evil stoat that slew his part of his tribe. Before Luke sets sail, he gives his sword to his son Martin, who will be the future warrior.
After a long, difficult chase after Vilu Daskar's ship Gorleech, a terrible thing happens. Instead of Luke catching Daskar, Daskar runs his ship into the Sayna, killing several of the crew. Luke is enraged and almost kills the stoat.
Luke is chained in the galley of the Gorleech with the other galley slaves. There he plots with a large, black squirrel called Ranguvar Foeseeker. The two agree to both kill Vilu Daskar, as both hate his guts.
The opportunity arrives when Luke manipulates the pirate stoat into driving toward Luke's foresaken home. Luke is extremely dissapointed when he sees the cave empty, so he instead causes the ship to smash into several tall rocks. There he crushes Vilu Daskar while Ranguvar holds off the pirate crew. There they drown as the front of the Gorleechsinks into the ocean. Three of Luke's crew survive, however, and they live to tell Martin and his companions the story. Martin's Return Martin is surprised by the outcome of the story. He realizes that at the same time he was in Badrang the Tyrant's fortress, killing Badrang, his father Luke slew the pirate Vilu Daskar. In honor of his father, Martin drops one of his mother's possessions into the water where Luke is buried.
He is joyously greeted when he and his companions return to Redwall. He continues living there until his death. But he never forgets the story of his father Luke, who sacrificed his life to save Martin and the tribe. Martin has his friend bury the sword, where he hopes a future warrior will someday find it. When he dies, he is buried deep beneath the Abbey along with his shield and belt. He is continuously known as the Protector of Redwall. Trivia The tapestry that hangs in Cavern Hole is not really of the famous Martin, but of his great-grandfather Martin, who was a warrior as well. Ripfang, the searat who is killed by Boar the Fighter, used to be an agent of the wildcat Ungatt Trunn, who was the brother of Verdauga Green Eyes.
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