User blog comment:Verminfate/Essay: Redwall's most controversial character..... Veil/@comment-24.20.108.31-20091117221708

I read another essay that gave another piece of evidence to Veil being good:

Remember when Swartt asked Veil if he had any enemies, Veil replied in so many words that Swartt was his enemy; which might sound strange because before Veil had called Bryony, Togget and all Redwallers his enemy. But, when he says that Swartt is his enemy (in fact, the way how he words himself is that he considers Swartt to be his only enemy) he mentions how Swartt abandoned him when he could "scare walk", it is suggestive that Veil didn't know up until then that he was abandoned.

Before, Veil just knew that he was some ferret living in an abbey where everybeast hated him. But then he finally found out his origins, met his father, saw what a cowardly jerk he was, and ended up hating him more than he ever did the Redwallers.

Though I do wonder how Veil found out about that, Swartt abandoning him, it never said in the book. Maybe Swartt or one of his hordebeasts told Veil during the time right before Bryony arrived on the scene?

Well, anyway, just wanted to add that in. :)