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{{Person<br />
|image=[[Image:Julianho.jpg|250px|Julian Ho]]<br />
|born=July 14, [[1976]]<br />
|died=March 15, [[2022]]<br> (aged 45)<br />
|educ=*Chung Cheng High School (Main), Singapore<br />
*Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore<br />
*Vancouver Film School, Canada<br />
}}<br />
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'''Erin the Swordmaker''' (July 14, [[1976]] - March 15, [[2022]]) was a [[Redwall Online Community]] artist originally from Singapore who was primarily involved with the community in the mid-late [[1990]]s. He contributed extensively to the [[Long Patrol Club]], mainly with character caricatures and submissions to the pass-a-long story, ''The Sword of Martin''. Erin was also a long-time friend of the Redwall Wiki, and assisted with [[User_blog:LordTBT/News:Redwall_Collectors_Community:_Redwall_exists_in_China,_and_it%27s_Amazing|Chinese edition translations]].<br />
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"Erin" was pronounced Yee-Lin. He was also known as '''Mito da Fox'''.<br />
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In real life, Erin was Julian Ho, a professional artist, as well as sci-fi and anime enthusiast of Indonesia-Chinese descent residing in Indonesia. He passed away due to complications from post-COVID (Omicron variant) recovery on March 15, [[2022]].<br />
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===Erin the Swordmaker Character Biography===<br />
[[Image:Erints.jpg|right|Erin the Swordmaker]]<br />
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''Via the Long Patrol Club''<br />
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A swordmaker mouse who travelled a long way to reach [[Mossflower Woods|Mossflower]]'s famed [[Redwall Abbey]] to borrow [[the Sword of Martin|sword]] of [[Martin the Warrior|Martin]] and study it. As his several greats-grandsire was once a swordmaker who learnt his craft from the Badger Lord, [[Sunflash the Mace]], Erin will have to unlock the secret that lies within the Sword of Martin so that he can make a Badger sword for his best friend, the current Badger Lord. If Erin passes this final test, he will earn the title of Master Swordmaker, first level (There's 12 levels altogether.).<br />
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Erin's appearance is that of a young brown-furred mouse (20 years old in Human terms), weraing a multi-layered tunic and carry a back-pack that carries his basic several sword-making tools, instruction scrolls, maps and other objects. Erin is armed with 2 short swords/lance strapped across his back, and a sword on his belt. He also carries a limited amount of miniature dart-blades in his right handstrap, but only uses them when necessary.<br />
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Erin is a cheerful mouse who always see the lighter side of things. In fact, he often crack jokes even during tense situations. He's tenacious, responsible, sensible and has strong sense of justice but he's a lousy singer. However, his cheerful nature is just a front he put up for others. Deep down inside, Erin's a deeply traumatized mouse whose best friend, Sir Jaren, was killed when he tried saving Erin. Since then, he vowed that he will never let anybeast who's under his care to die in front of him again.<br />
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Erin's closest relatives are Grandma Dorra and Hartly. Grandma Dorra is Erin's biological Grandmother.<br />
Hartly is the late Sir Jaren's little brother and is now Erin's charge and foster little brother. Erin is responsible in overseeing Hartly's education and to make sure he grows up to be the honorable knight his late brother was.<br />
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The character of Erin had not been used in years and was largely regarded by Julian as a deceased character.<br />
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===Erin the Swordmaker Redwall Artwork===<br />
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<gallery><br />
Image:Julianhomatthias.jpg|Matthias<br />
Image:Julianhosaxtus.jpg|Saxtus<br />
File:Erincoro.jpg|Erin the Swordmaker<br />
File:Danielerints.jpg|Daniel<br />
File:Alfrederints.jpg|Alfred<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
*Erin contributed question 3 in [[Redwallabbey.com|Redwall.org]]'s ''Ask [[Brian Jacques|Brian]]'' Volume 1 series.<br />
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**How did [[Timballisto]] get his name? [[Martin the Warrior|Martin]] didn't tell his friends how Tim got his name because he was too busy preparing for battle in ''[[Mossflower]]''.<br />
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::Timballisto and his father were very adept at making and designing weapons especially the [[Ballista]] hence their name. <br />
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===External Links===<br />
{{Contributor|Julian Ho}}<br />
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*[http://mitofox.deviantart.com/ Julian Ho on Deviantart]<br />
*[http://www.livejournal.com/users/mito_dafox/ Julian Ho on LiveJournal]<br />
*[https://yerf.metafur.org/hojulian Web archive of earlier Redwall work]<br />
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''All illustrations copyright Julian Ho and used with permission.''<br />
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