Lord Brocktree Covers & Extras

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British Hardcover

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American Hardcover

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British audiobook

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American softcover

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American audiobook edition

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The following summary is courtesy of this page at redwall.org.

Salamandastron, ancestral home of the Badger Lords, is under threat from an enemy whose power would seem to be absolute and whose evil knows no bounds. Ungatt Trunn can make the stars fall from the sky, the very earth shake underfoot, and with a horde of vermin as numerous as the leaves in autumn, the wildcat appears unstoppable. The mountain's defences are weak. Who can save it now?

Salamandastron's only hope is the badger Lord Brocktree who is drawn to the fortress by an undeniable sense of destiny. If he is to rescue the mountain from the dark days of vermin rule, Brocktree must raise an army capable of combating Trunn's formidable Blue Hordes.

Join Lord Brocktree and Dotti the irrepressible haremaid as they journey to Salamandastron, gathering a host of brave creatures to fight alongside them in the ultimate struggle: good versus evil.

Will the first Badger Lord please come forward?

At times throughout the series it has been implied that Brocktree was the very first Badger Lord to rule Salamandastron.  Yet seemingly older rulers are mentioned.  Among them, Spearlady Gorse and Ceteruler the Wise.  Lord Brocktree clears up this issue up once and for all.

In a Redwall.org chat on 3 April 1999, Brian Jacques commented:
"Lord Brocktree was the one who organized the Mountain into its fighting hares and its military status, but there were other Badgers back into the mists of the Seasons."

It seems Stonepaw, Ceteruler, Spearlady Gorse and the others did indeed rule Salamandastron before Brocktree, but it was Brocktree who founded the Long Patrol and made Salamandastron a force to be reckoned with.

 An early hint about the book was revealed by Brian Jacques during a chat in January 1999 at www.redwall.org:
"It takes place before Mossflower and is a time where The Mountain [Salamandastron] is under siege and needs fresh new blood to help in the hour of need."
Fans will note that Ungatt Trunn is a wildcat, a species long absent from the Redwall world!  Not since the second book published in the series has a wildcat appeared.  Verdauga, Gingervere, Tsarmina, Gingervere and Sandingomm in Mossflower and Squire Julian Gingervere in Redwall were, until Lord Brocktree, the only known wildcats thus far in the Redwall world.
Lord Brocktree was a Badger Lord of Salamandastron.  He was Boar the Fighter's father, Bella of Brockhall's grandfather, and Sunflash the Mace's great-grandfather.  He was buried with high honors in a secret chamber in Salamandastron.
He was mentioned in Mossflower, Outcast of Redwall, Salamandastron and The Long Patrol, but had never appeared alive in any stories until the publication of Lord Brocktree.

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