Durry Quill

Durry Quill was a male hedgehog Cellar Keeper of Redwall Abbey. He was the nephew of Gabriel Quill and a descendant of Brownspike O'Quill. Durry was good friends with Dandin, Mariel Gullwhacker, Rufe Brush, and Saxtus.

He accompanied Dandin, Mariel, and Tarquin Longleap Woodsorrel on a journey to Terramort Isle. Along the way, Durry was captured by Captain Catseyes of the Seatalon, but was later rescued by Joseph the Bellmaker and the Trag.

Durry fought in the Battle of Terramort and helped Tarquin, Mariel, Dandin, and Trag in the battle against the followers of the pirate king Gabool the Wild. When Joseph the Bellmaker was about to go down while fighting off two sea rats, Durry used a piece of wall debris to slay one of the combatants, saving Joseph's life.

Durry also claimed one of Gabool's ships, the Waveblade, and renamed it Gabriel after his uncle. The ship was taken apart later to bridge a fjord.

Following the adventures at Terramort, Durry became the Cellarhog of Redwall, with his uncle as his assistant. After his uncle's death, he sailed to Southsward with Joseph, Hon Rosie, Rufe, and Foremole, hoping to help rescue Dandin, Mariel, and the residents of Southsward from the evil warlord Urgan Nagru. At one point, Durry and Rosie were up in the rigging of the ship when a storm snapped the mast; they were blown through the air violently but came to rest, unharmed, on an island populated by toads. As the mast had landed upon and killed a vicious adder, the toads did not harm Durry and Rosie but instead revered them as "Bulgums" or magic creatures who fall from the sky. Later, when their ship Pearl Queen docked on the island for supplies, Durry and Rosie reunited with their crew and continued the journey.

During the quest, Durry and Rufe became firm friends with a young Guosim shrew, Fatch. In the battle for Southsward, Fatch and Rufe were both wounded, the shrew fatally, so Durry guarded the two injured fighters from Nagru's horde. He was later given one of the swords of Finnbarr Galedeep as an award; he named it "Finnbarr" after its previous owner. He then returned to Redwall, where he likely lived out the rest of his days.

Durry loved his "Nuncle Gabe" as he called him, and often spoke of him as unbelieving of some of the things Durry had seen. Durry frequently speculated just what Gabriel would say if he returned in certain conditions.