Karangool is the secondary antagonist of Lord Brocktree, the thirteenth book in the Redwall novel series. He is a sadistic and brutal fox who used to be a corsair who sailed the seas with other corsairs, slaying whatever beasts he came across, before retiring to serve in Ungatt Trunn's army as the Captain in Chief of his Blue Horde. He would participate in some of his conquests and even headline them like an attack on the North Mountain or later on Salamandastron.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He used to be a ruthless corsair in the past that slew numerous creatures he came across during his journeys for plunder, like an old female badger for example.
- He was even conveyed to have sailed with other corsairs whom he used to help him be particularly cruel towards the creatures they came across, using wicked methods to make them bend to their will.
- He shows sadistic joy in these deeds when talking about them later, grinning as he talks about how he sailed with some bad ones in the "good old days" and reminisces over them.
- After retiring from being a corsair, he would join Ungatt Trunn's Blue Horde as the Captain in Chief and would headline the conquests Trunn would lead in this position, with many of them involving creatures being killed while others get driven away or enslaved.
- He would even directly participate in them himself, like at one point when he lead an attack on a settlement of hares that involved many of them being killed, even personally slaying the family of a hare named Bucko Bigbones, whom he also tortured on Trunn's orders by means of flogging him with the flat of a sword until it broke, using the hare's own sword for fun, and then leaving the hare who would be physically scarred from this, thinking that he would've died from the wounds.
- He is even conveyed to have done this deed before, more than once. When confronted by Bucko Bigbones later on for this, he has trouble remembering this specifically due to having committed numerous similar evil deeds to this, showing that he's done this a lot.
- He would headline the conquest of Salamandastron, which got 72 hares killed and 60 captured and enslaved while the rest of the hares escaped with the badger lord Stonepaw, who would sacrifice his life to take out some rats and help the hares escape.
- While supervising the activities of the ships, he would treat the rats cruelly, whipping, abusing, and overworking them as they carry them out.
- When he catches four rats keeping fish they got from the ocean for themselves despite Trunn's law requiring them to give them to the captain of the fishing party, he has them be held captive and taken to Trunn himself on the charge of this in spite of them having done it due to how hungry they had gotten as a result of supplies running low. This would lead to Ungatt Trunn berating them while sadistically sentencing them to be executed on the beach at high tide the next day in front of the Hordes and has the guards take them away.
- He gets the identical idea with Ungatt Trunn to cannibalize the 60 hares they captured as their solution to supplies running low, taking him up on the offer when Trunn subtly suggests this by offering the sight of them, with Karangool himself seeming to take sadism in the idea, being satisfied as he agrees with Trunn, though this attempt doesn't wind up being successful due to the hares having escaped.
- Upon discovering two sentries that had deserted at dawn due to two soldiers finding them around the mountain, he reports this to Ungatt Trunn and carries out his order to tie them up with the four sentenced rats to be executed while making sure Fragorl tells every beast why they must pay the penalty.
- Noticing a fire started in the cliffside northward, he was ready to carry out Trunn's order of taking half of the entire Hordes, splitting them in three columns with one either side of clifftops and dunes, the third to go flat out along the shire, and circle around behind them, and bring the leaders alive while the rest get slaughtered with their bodies brought back.
- After cutting the burning ships and sinking them, upon noticing the creatures attacking the door and recognizing the otters as those who fired their ships, Karangool has his crews row ten galleys to land before ordering them to kill all the beasts.
- He shows no remorse over eight of his vermin being killed by Brog's archers, remaining unfazed by this and only driving them onward.
- When Bucko Bigbones, seeking vengeance on Karangool, shoots an arrow between Karangool's footpaws while confronting him for what he did to him, his family, and his people, running and dodging the arrows shot at him, Karangool orders the archers to kill the hare while taking shelter behind some rocks.
- After Ungatt Trunn concocts a plan that he shares with Karangool, Ripfang, and Doomeye that involves cheating in the duel he agreed to have between himself and Brocktree by means of having Doomeye kill the badger by shooting an arrow at him and a backup plan that involves them escaping on the best vessel, noticing that Ungatt Trunn is wavering, Karangool comes up with a scheme behind the wildcat's back to betray him with Ripfang and Doomeye by having Doomeye kill him with the badger during the fight, promising that all three of them would become lords afterwards.
- After Ungatt Trunn loses the battle to Brocktree due to Doomeye missing his shot and getting killed by an otter, while escaping on a vessel with a group of rats, when Ripfang, who managed to make it onboard, reminds him of the deal they made where they would be lords, Karangool reveals that he had no intention of upholding that deal at all by preparing to behead him with his sword, claiming that there could only be one captain on the ship only for Ripfang to alert him of Bucko Bigbones swimming in the water after the ship before knocking him over with a broken mast spar where Karangool would receive his comeuppance at the hands of Bucko Bigbones, who would flog him hard with the handle of his sword as retribution for doing the same thing to the hare long ago and avenging his family and people, being strongly implied to have killed Karangool by doing this.
External Links[]
- Karangool on the Villains Wiki
- Karangool on the Redwall Wiki
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