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|site=Terrouge Productions
|admin=Site abandoned
|status=Offline
|found=November [[1998]]
|cess= August [[2017]]
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'''Terrouge Productions''', also known as '''Terrouge''', was the publisher of a Redwall-themed digital literary magazine, ''Terrouge'', from [[1998]] - [[2010]]. Terrouge also provided assorted Redwall-related internet activities and hosted a web forum on its server. Additionally, Terrouge produced and sponsored Questors Bold writing competitions and was involved in the formation of [[Vulpine Imperium|The Vulpine Imperium]].

The name "Terrouge" comes from a combination of the Latin word for "earth" (terra) and the French word for "red" (rouge). Translated literally, "terrouge" means "red earth," or "land of the red."

===History===
Terrouge was founded in 1998 through the partnership of David Perini (Bobtail) and [[Kenny C.]] (Sunstripe the Mace), with an idea for a ''Redwall'' e-zine. Josh Boycott (Dyrne Alaran) offered to assist with the project, and Kelly Hamilton was later recruited to provide cover art.

The page was originally hosted on Perini's own webspace '''<nowiki>http://thor.prohosting.com/~perini/</nowiki>''', but was soon moved to '''<nowiki>http://redwall.vr9.com</nowiki>''' within a few months. The first issue was released in November that same year.

Throughout the oncoming years, Terrouge grew more and more popular, gaining a large staff and exclusive interviews with [[Brian Jacques]] and artist [[David Wyatt]]. In [[2000]], Terrouge merged with Redwall club [[Camp Willow (ROC)|Camp Willow]]. The site stayed on the '''<nowiki>Vr9.com</nowiki>''' host until May [[2002]], when the server permanently went down. While at Vr9, Terrouge Productions also referred to itself as the "RedCenter."

Terrouge was forced to borrow webspace from Hamilton at this time, and for a brief period resided at '''<nowiki>http://terrouge.junglestudio.com/</nowiki>''', until July 13, 2002, when the '''terrouge.com''' domain was acquired. By this same time, Perini and Boycott had left the [[Redwall Online Community]], Boycott even going so far as to state he "[didn't] read the books anymore."

The following year, on September 26, [[2003]], Josh Boycott passed away in a fatal car accident at age 18.

In later years, Terrouge's popularity leveled off. Terrouge struggled in the mid-2000s with content issues and reporter recruitment. Consequently, in January [[2007]], the publisher renamed the e-zine to ''Firebird'' and opted to discuss general literature.

Leadership changed hands several times during this turbulent period. In [[2008]], Terrouge momentarily switched to management via a board of directors instead of a sole producer.

Two years after the announcement of ''Firebird'', on January 24, [[2009]], Terrouge Productions decided to return to their former title of ''Terrouge'', under the leadership of Miskett. On February 17, 2009, it was stated that the "permanent Terrouge focus" would be Redwall-related, however in the same announcement it was also said that this was "not always set in stone," sending a conflicting message to readers. This later proved to be accurate, as several issues throughout 2009 could hardly be described as focusing on Redwall.

Due to difficulties contacting Kenny C., the original owner of terrouge.com who was no longer involved with the site, Terrouge briefly changed domains to '''<nowiki>http://terrougeproductions.com</nowiki>''' in July 2009.

On October 3, 2009, exactly 10 months after lead Terrouge editor Miskett stated it was time for a period of "stable growth" and vowed not to let the e-zine "fall down," she announced her resignation, as well as that of her entire admin team, after serving barely a year. Ashen Fox was named as the new administrator and editor on November 8, 2009.

The website failed to update from June 2010 onward, and was seemingly abandoned by all previous staff.

In July [[2015]], the terrouge.org domain expired. At some point afterwards, Terrouge went back to the former '''<nowiki>http://terrougeproductions.com</nowiki>''' URL.

In August [[2017]], the hosting expired due to a lack of funding. The site is believed to be archived.

===Editors===
[[Image:1998_November.gif|thumb|250px|Terrouge E-zine's first cover page. (Illustration by K. Hamillton)]]
*Kenny C. (1998)
*Josh Boycott (1998 - [[2001]])
*Erin Lewis (Shorestar) (2001 - 2003)
*Chiryoushi (2003 - [[2005]])
*Rob (Rat73) (2005 - [[2006]])
*Ublaz (2006)
*Philip P. (Vilu Daskar) (2006)
*Chiryoushi (2006 - 2007)
*Dan B. (Sawney Rath) (2007)
*Nick D. (Brookmere) (2007)
*Nate (Frost) (2007)
*[[User:Zian|Zian Choy]] (2007 - 2008)
*Lucy (Miskett) (Assistant editor) (2007 - 2008)
*Highwing (Assistant editor) (2007 - 2010)
*Amanda Pruitt (Litika) (2007 - 2010)
*Ashen Fox (2007 - 2009)
*Lucy (Miskett) (2009)
*Ashen Fox (2010)

===Administrators===

*Kenny C. (1998 - [[2004]], 2007 - [[2008]])
*Sean Ainsworth (Stormclaw) (2004 - 2006)
*Philip P. (Vilu Daskar) (2006 - 2007)
*Zian Choy (2008)
*Lucy (Miskett) (2009)
*Ashen Fox (2009 - 2010)

===Senior Writers===
[[Image:Terrouge_Cover_February_2009.jpg|thumb|260px|The e-zine returns to it's original title “Terrouge”. (Illustration by S. Nottage)]]
Senior writers have regularly written for Terrouge Productions for 6 or more months.
*David (1998 - [[1999]])
*Kenny (1998 - 2003)
*Josh (1998 - 2001)
*Erin (1999 - 2003)
*Kathryn (2000 - 2003)
*Nick (2000 - 2003)
*Lewis (2000 - 2003)
*Tari (2000 - 2003)
*James (2001 - 2003)
*[[Misha]] (2001 - 2003)
*Jessica (2001 - 2003)
*Sean Rubin (2001 - 2003)
*Sean Ainsworth (2002 - 2005)
*Julia (2002 - 2003)
*Danielle (2002 - 2005)
*Fwirl (2003 - 2005)
*Jason (2003 - 2007)
*Rystan (2003 - 2005)
*Eulalia (2003 - 2005)
*Ublaz (2005 - 2006, 2008 - 2009)
*[[User:Tiberuvsky|Tiberuvsky]] (2005)
*Linny (2005 - 2006)
*Snowspine (2005 - 2006)
*Ringet Loris (2005 - 2006)
*Scolly (2006 - 2007)
*Philip P. (2006 - 2007)
*Geo Holms (2006- 2009)
*Zach (2007)
*Zian Choy (2007 - 2008)
*Kelly (Nadia) (2007 - 2008)
*Highwing (2003 - 2009)
*Grant (2007 - 2009)
*Lauren (2007 - 2009)
*Sara (2007 - 2009)

===Art===
====Art directors====
*[[Sean Rubin]] (? - 2005)
*Philip P. (2006 - 2007)
*Emily Burkman (Nyctalo) (2007 - 2008)
*Amber Bryan (Dawnfinder) (2008 - 2009)
*Lucy (Miskett) (2008 - 2009)

====Current artists====
*Rebecca R. (Axcelia)
*Spenser Nottage (Akira)
*Fidget
*Vulpera
*Linny
*Ashen Fox
*Voinomirsky
*Carolyn (Kyrahlynn)

====Past artists====
*Kelly Hamilton (Fernblossom)
*Sean Rubin
*Tiberuvsky
*Dakkan
*Ringet Loris
*Rystan
*Sunfur
*Vitora
*Scolly

===Faces of Terrouge===
Over the years, Terrouge had many different looks.

<gallery>
Image:Terrouge_2007.png|Terrouge, 2007-2008
Image:Recentterrouge.JPG|Terrouge, 2003-2006
Image:Jungstudioterrouge2002.jpg|Terrouge, 2002
Image:2000terrouge.jpg|Terrouge, 2000
Image:Terrougeish1.jpg|Terrouge, first issue
Image:Earlyterrouge.jpg|Terrouge, first URL
</gallery>

===External Links===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20021129095504/http://terrouge.com/terr/article3.html Terrouge 2002 Interview with Brian Jacques]

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