Beaver
The Solitary Beaver was a Mossflower Woods resident who allied with Redwall Abbey's efforts to defeat Cluny the Scourge. He stopped Cluny from climbing up the Abbey wall in the first battle of the Late Rose Summer Wars, helped Constance construct a giant crossbow that was intended to kill the rat leader, and poured boiling water into Cluny's underground tunnels.
With the crossbow, the pair killed Cheesethief, who was acting as Cluny's second-in-command. The beaver is described as an "equally well-built beast" compared to Constance, which suggests he could be around the same physical size.
Trivia
[edit]- The Solitary Beaver is the only beaver in the entire Redwall series, and he was very rarely mentioned.
- According to Brian Jacques, the lack of beavers in subsequent Redwall novels "reflected the fact that there are no beavers in Britain." (Redwall.org's Ask Brian, Vol. 4)
- The Solitary Beaver does not appear in the Redwall: The Graphic Novel or the Nelvana Redwall TV Series adaptations of Redwall.