Ungatt Trunn is the main antagonist of Lord Brocktree, the thirteenth book in the Redwall novel series. He is the son of King Mortspear, brother of Verdauga Greeneyes, uncle of Tsarmina Greeneyes and Gingivere Greeneyes, and a distant relative of Squire Julian Gingivere and the brutish and sadistic warlord leader of a vast army he calls the Blue Horde, which he calls the Master Race, whom he uses to lead conquests on all sorts of places while massacring and enslaving those he deems to be of the lesser orders. Eventually, he comes across Salamandastron which he leads a conquest on before later meeting his end at the mountain's next heir for Badger Lord, Brocktree.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- After abandoning the Highland Kingdom due to viewing himself as too fierce and too strong to accept it, he would form a Blue Horde and lead conquests on various settlements that would involve many creatures being slaughtered while others would be driven away or enslaved out of supremacy like one in the North Mountains that involved hares with one of them, Bucko Bigbones, being torturously flogged and scarred by the Captain in Chief of his armada, Karangool, due to viewing himself and his horde as the Master Race and the creatures he victimizes as those of the lesser orders with the intent to slay or enslave those he deems as such once he becomes what he believes himself to be the destined ruler of the world.
- He would make a collection of skulls of his enemies, using them to drink wine.
- At one point, he had slain Groddil's family before crippling the fox, only sparing his life and forcing him to join due to his useful abilities as a magician, an event he would cruelly taunt him about from time to time.
- Upon arriving at Salamandastron, he has his Grand Fragorl try to drive the mountain's badger lord, Stonepaw, and his hares from it, telling them that all of these lands and the seas are his property and that they have until nightfall to vacate this place while leaving everything behind, including any serving beasts who are of use, or die. When they don't, he leads a conquest on the mountain that gets 72 hares killed and 60 hares captured and made into his slaves. The conquest would also eventually lead to the death of Stonepaw, who would sacrifice his life to take down some of the rats and save the hares he helped escape and while Trunn didn't intend for this, it was only due to how he died as he planned a slow fate in mind for the badger and whatever hares the rats would capture alongside him.
- He is shown to be abusive towards his troops, often insulting and threatening them over the merest of things, like when he strangled Grand Fragorl just for calling him by the alias of Son of King Mortspear while praising him, threatening to kill her if she ever calls him that again before ordering her to erase it from his titles upon releasing her.
- Knowing that Stonepaw and the rest of the hares who weren't slain or captured were escaping in the lower passages of Salamandastron, he orders for the badger to be found and brought to him laying flat on his muzzle and the last of his hares dead or alive with it being specified that he has a long and slow fate for them in mind, though this doesn't work due to Stonepaw's sacrifice.
- After Captain Swinch reports their failure and Rotface and Grinak explain what happened to them, Trunn proceeds to violently kill the two by sinking his claws into their shoulders and snapping their necks before heaving their carcasses out of the wide window with calmness.
- He turns to Groddil and Swinch and orders them to return to their task tomorrow at first light, threatening to kill them if they return empty-handed. Before they leave the door, however, for his own amusement while under the pretext of their failures, he has Captain Fraul staked them out on the shore below where he can see them from the window, deprive them of food and water, and have two strong soldiers torture them by beating them with the flats of their own sword blades and to lay on hard before releasing them tomorrow to continue their search.
- He has the Grand Fragorl announce his decree that all of the captured hares starve for the next two days before having them be taken away and locked up.
- As punishment for failing to find the hares and disobeying his orders to bring Stonepaw to him alive, he promotes Ripfang and Doomeye to captain while demoting Mirefleck and Fraul to their servants to bring them food, carry out their wishes, and keep both their accommodations and their kit clean while permitting them to treat them as harshly as they please. Before dismissing them, Trunn assigns Mirefleck and Fraul with Groddil to stay down there until they capture the hares or at least find out how they escaped while tasking Ripfang and Doomeye to take an escort to guard them, telling them that each day they aren't successful in their task, they will be flogged with willow canes and starved while tauntingly telling them there's plenty of water there and they won't get thirsty. After they leave, Trunn expresses sadistic enjoyment in the sentence he gave them to the Grand Fragorl, though Groddil would escape with a desire for revenge against Trunn for all he's done to him.
- When four rats have been brought to him by Karangool under the charge of catching fish and keeping them for themselves to eat in spite of his law being bring them to him, even though they were hungry as supplies were running low, Ungatt Trunn sadistically sentences them to be executed in front of his hordes the next day to make an example of them.
- As a solution to supplies running low, he comes up with the idea with Karangool to cannibalize the 60 hares they captured and makes preparations by having the captains prepare the cooking pots and having Ripfang and Doomeye select a good one to cook, though this attempt wouldn't be successful due to the hares escaping.
- Discovering their escape, he angrily orders the Grand Fragorl, the guard captain, and a patrol of Hordebeasts standing apprehensively in the passage to go scour the countryside, send vessels to search the waters and coast north and south from there, but not before having them come down to the shore to watch the four rats he sentenced be executed and threatening to give them a worse fate for them for letting the sixty hares escape.
- After Karangool reports to Trunn of two soldiers that found sentries who deserted, unaware that they were overcome by the hares and got their armour taken, and that they were found around the mountain, Trunn orders him to have the two sentries be tied up with the four to be executed and to ensure that Fragorl informs everybeast why they must pay the penalty.
- He has Ripfang and Doomeye try to capture the Bark Crew, who were the hares in disguise as bandits robbing the horderats of their supplies for themselves, leading to some of them being killed only for Brocktree, the next Badger Lord, to arrive with his army consisting of Bucko Bigbones, who had survived the flogging, and his hares amongst other creatures they befriended, and defeat them before sending them to Ungatt Trunn blue dye gone except on their heads, paws bound tightly, and linked together at neck height by four long pikes lashed two to two with long metal spearheads at either end of the pikes twisted together.
- After they arrived on shore, collapsed on the sand fighting for breath, and were freed, Trunn grabbed a cutlass from a nearby Hordebeast and put a sharp jagged edge on it, placing against Ripfang's throat and interrogating him on where the bodies of the Bark Crew are and where the hundred and a half soldiers he sent out to deal with them are. He steps back a pace and swings the sword high to one side, bringing it slashing down and stopping it a fraction from Ripfang's exposed neck, promising to spare him a slow death if he answers truthfully before Ripfang tells him he saw the badger, causing the sword to fall from Trunn's paw and him to order every beast to leave them to discuss with him about the badger.
- Knowing about Brocktree from the discussion with Ripfang, he makes plans to slay him once he comes to him.
- After an unsuccessful attempt to get Brocktree and his creatures to come to him by means of having his hordebeasts show off their army size by parading, he declares that if they don't come out, he he will do as Ripfang suggested and send the Hordes to root them out.
- Noticing a fire, started by Jukka by use of arrows, by the cliff northward, Trunn proceeds to give orders to Karangool to take half of the entire Hordes, split them in three columns with one either side clifftop and dunes and the third to go out along the shore and circle round them, and have them slay the creatures while leaving the leaders alive to be brought to him and to also bring the bodies of the slain creatures with him. However, before this order is carried out, a sentry post reports that there is fire happening amongst the ships, also caused by the creatures. Ungatt Trunn realizes the first fire started was merely a decoy to divert their attention and decides to try to turn it into a trap by ordering Karangool to instead take some crews out there and cut the burning vessels away from the others while ordering Fragorl and Ripfang to take command of those attacking the decoy fire by the cliffs.
- Catching Jukka as a spy amongst his horde in disguise, he orders the troops to stop and kill her, leading to her dying fighting off the troops alongside Fleetscut.
- At the barred main entrance where the creatures are trying to break in and take back the mountain, he gives a blow from his trident's shaft to a stoat captain Byle knocking him flat and proceeds to abuse him while telling him to get up and find Captain Drull and his sentries to bring them over immediately.
- As he paces nervously about waiting, Trunn yells at his quivering vermin to stand their ground as the doors will hold while threatening to use his trident to take the eyes out of anyone who moves without his permission.
- After telling the Hordebeasts to hold their positions and stay, lying to them that Byle has found Captain Drull and the guard patrols and that they'll be going to fetch them while ordering them to hold the doors as they'll be back Trunn takes Byle with him while threatening to leave him behind with them, prodding his neck with his trident, and telling him to keep his voice down before taking him with him to the second level, he tricks Byle into thinking it's all clear, getting him killed by a couple arrows shot from the band as Trunn pretends to yell to his hordes that the foebeasts are waiting below and to round to the south side, tricking the squirrels into departing while he descended to the ground and treaded contemptuously on Byle's carcass as he set off north toward the cliffs.
- Upon getting challenged by Brocktree to a duel to the death, Trunn accepts the challenge, though despite claiming that he agrees to his terms and pledges his word like the badger, he really intends to do anything but. He cheats in the battle by ordering Doomeye to kill the badger by shooting an arrow should the fight go against him while threatening to kill him if he fails, though this doesn't work as Doomeye misses and gets killed by one of the creatures while Brocktree wins the battle and defeats Trunn by crippling him before having him be cast into the sea, which would lead to him being washed up on the shore Groddil was washed up on where he receives his comeuppance by Groddil shoving him into the sea to drown to death as retribution for slaying his family, crippling him, and all the torments he inflicted upon him while he was in his army.
- Despite Redwall's heinous standard, Ungatt Trunn stands out for his philosophy that drives his actions where he deems himself and his horde the Master Race and other creatures of the lesser orders in how fascistic it is to the point of making him a Nazi by any other name as he firmly believes himself to be the destined ruler of the world with intent to either enslave or massacre the creatures he deems of the lesser orders under his rule, which also in turn would grant him one of the highest (if not the highest) slave counts in the franchise with him having gotten some in his conquest of Salamandastron by means of the hares that survived, whom he would repeatedly starve for their insolence, being the second worst boss in the franchise with how he subjects his troops occasionally to torture by means of being flogged hard all day for his own entertainment and having forced one of them to join him after killing their family and crippling them, and his act of attempting to cannibalize the 60 hares he captured, which would have given him one of the highest scopes in the act of cannibalism in the franchise.
External Links[]
- Ungatt Trunn on the Villains Wiki
- Ungatt Trunn on the Redwall Wiki
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