The Cellar
The Cellar is the region of Redwall Abbey where ales, cordials, fizzes, and other drinks consumed by Abbey residents are brewed and stored. Resident cellar keepers and brewers carefully prepare and monitor these wonderful beverages during the barrel aging process, which adds to the pride and fame of the Abbey.
The Cellar is a vast, underground area - much of it is ill-lit, and creatures are constantly discovering things about it they had not known before. Cellarhog Junty, who was murdered by vermin, was buried in the cellar.
Initially, access to the Cellar required keys, with Brother Edmund, Friar Hugo, and Ambrose Spike maintaining them. However, by the time of the events of Doomwyte, it's mentioned that no doors in the Abbey (including that of the Cellar) have keys or keyholes.
Thousands of seasons later, by the time of the events of The Rogue Crew, once again a keyhole or padlock of some sort had been installed on the Cellar door. Foremole Roogo carried around a set of keys, with which he locked or unlocked the Cellars.
At least two secret passages are known to lead out of or through the Cellars - one was discovered in the time of Mattimeo and led to Abbess Germaine's Tomb; and the other in the time of Doomwyte. There is also a spring beneath the Cellar floor. Furthermore, the Cellar has a "little forge" of sorts in it, presumably for making such things as barrel rings.
Redwall Abbey Cellar Keepers
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Redwall Cellar Keepers are generally hedgehogs or moles. Quite often the title of Cellar Keeper becomes a family trade, passed on from generation to generation.
These are the known Cellar Keepers of Redwall in chronological order.
See Also
[edit]Trivia
[edit]- The Redwall series inspired two beers, one named after Martin the Warrior, as well as one named for Cluny the Scourge.