| “ | I do my best to be the worst. | „ |
| ~ Vilu Daskar. |
Vilu Daskar is the main antagonist of the fantasy novel The Legend of Luke, the twelfth book in the Redwall novel series.
He is the sadistic captain of a giant ship called the Goreleech who often leads pillages on islands where he massacres creatures and subjects whoever he captures to a horrific life of slavery aboard his ship while seeking to become as rich as possible. At one point, he even massacred many in a tribe for fun when he deemed them all to be either too old or too young to be efficient as slaves. He is Luke's arch-nemesis due to this.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He routinely pillages islands by leading an attack on coastal settlements, inland hamlets, and even island havens of other Sea Raiders and Corsairs where his vermin would massacre creatures left and right, set the settlement on fire, and robs whatever loot they can find for Vilu Daskar.
- He would have whichever creatures are captured subjected to slavery aboard the Goreleech carried out by the ship's slavemaster, Bullflay, that involves them being constantly heavily whipped while pulling the oars of the ship and being starved to emaciation, hollow-eyed, and ragged, barely alive in some cases.
- The slavery would be so bad that many of the creatures subjected to it would die from its conditions to the point of where the bottom deck of the Goreleech would be named the Death Pit after the countless victims that perished in it.
- Whenever he captures new oarslaves, he gets rid of the old ones by finding the sickest and weakest through testing their strength by making them hoist up a log. When he finds the sickest and weakest, he sails his ship out until land is too far away for a fit beast to swim back to it and has them walk the plank to either drown to death or be eaten by the big fishes for his own sick twisted amusement, even mocking them by telling them they're free to swim back to shore while forcing them to walk the plank despite knowing they'll be unable to.
- At one point, when he discovered four hedgehogs had been holding back a supply of grain they had harvested, he promises to set them free if they give it to him. When they do, Vilu has them be sewed up in the grain sacks with some good heavy rocks and dropped overboard to drown, mockingly telling them that they leave his ship alive free to go where they will to honor his word in a twisted loophole.
- Upon spotting a big campfire on northland shore inhabited by Luke's tribe, he sails his ship towards it with the intent of getting more slaves. When he arrives and comes across them, he deems them all too young, too old, or too weak to work efficiently as slaves and as such, massacres many of them, families included, which he blatantly admits to have committed for fun, even personally cutting down on Luke's wife, effectively becoming a personal foe to Luke in the process before he and his crew depart.
- After another raid on an island, when he notices one of his crewmates Rippjaw having a trinket around his neck while examining the loot, he slays him with his scimitar just for taking a bit of the loot as he wants all of the loot for himself.
- After Ranguvar Foeseeker, one of the squirrels captured to be enslaved from the raid, puts up a good fight against his vermin crew despite being in chains even killing four of them, Vilu expresses interest in keeping her as a slave, recognizing her strength and that she could do the work of a score of oarslaves alone, and attempts to have her be humbled by a few seasons of Bullflay's whip and short rations.
- Discovering a ship called the Sayna pursuing him inhabited by a crew of mice commandeered by Luke, he takes his ship to be settled amongst the Twin Islands where the ship arrives later and when he learns that their ship is in need of repair, Vilu decides to leave the mice awhile to let them work and sweat fixing up their craft so that they could get it all good and seaworthy before later swooping on them, sadistically destroying their ship, and sinking it so that they could see all their efforts destroyed for his own entertainment before capturing them as slaves.
- This ends up getting most of the crew killed with Luke, Dulam, Denno, and Vurg being the only survivors and while Vilu didn't intend for this, he was apathetic about it as he still captured the first three.
- After being attacked by Luke and getting his throat damaged by him, he later on goes to the Death Pit where Luke was chained with Dulam and Denno, the only survivors of the crew (excluding Vurg as he was swept ashore onto an island afterwards) after the sinking of their ship, as slaves and interrogates him as to why he and his crew were pursuing him, threatening to kill him with his scimitar if he doesn't tell him before swinging the blade high to add weight to the threat.
- When Denno then tells him that they followed him to avenge their families so that he could spare the captain, reminding him of the mice he's massacred on the northland shore, Vilu blatantly admits with no remorse that he committed the act for fun while taunting them by telling them they provided a bit of amusement for his crew before trying to guilt-trip them by asking if they were hiding to save their own skins and taunts them even further by telling them they went to go off and gather daisies when Dulam tells him they would have fought them had they been there.
- Due to Dulam unintentionally blurting out that Luke and the others had buried their treasure while yelling at Vilu, unaware that this was part of a ruse to trick him, he has them be taken to his cabin later where he interrogates them on the location of the treasure, threatening to hang two of them in front of the other if they don't tell him. When Luke tells him to promise to spare their lives and set them free once he has the treasure, Vilu tells them that he always keeps his word, having three of his vermin confirm this, which he clearly plans on doing by having them be freed from the ship to drown at sea, echoing what he did to four hedgehogs prior, before having them be taken back to the Death Pit while allowing Bullflay to be as hard on them as he pleases as long as he keeps them alive.
- He shows no remorse when Luke kills one of his crew members, Clubface, instead expressing amusement by calling him a real warrior and goading him to try to kill him despite being surrounded by Sea Rogues.
- After Luke threw his dagger, embedding it deep in the mast alongside Vilu's head, he almost kills him when he's under the press of crewbeasts with his sword but decides not to so that he could take him to the treasure and instead has him be chained back to the Death Pit.
- Discovering that theft was happening aboard his ship with food, water, equipment, and ship's gear being stolen, unaware that Vurg and the hare Beau, friends of Luke and his crew, were behind it, he has more than a score of vermin, whom he knows were not the thieves he seeks, be tortured severely by having Bullflay hoist them up by their tails, given twenty lashes apiece, sluiced with salt water, and left to be hung until sunset before being cut down to set an example as to what happens when theft occurs on his ship.
- He threatens to stop all the oarslaves' water rations if Luke does not tell him how soon will he know exactly where they are before coming to an agreement with Luke that he would bring him up after he takes a course east until he sights land then steers north again where he will see the rocky headland where he massacred his tribe so that Luke will steer his ship from then on and then having him be chained once again in the Death Pit.
- After agreeing to sail the ship to the rocky headland where he massacred Luke's tribe and send for Luke so that he will steer his ship from then on, when they arrive nearby the headland, Vilu has Luke be brought to him so that he could discover what happened on the island where the shoreline lay deserted with only seagrass and some tattered rags fluttering in the wind, charred wood, broken implements, hoes, and rakes were half buried in the shifting sand, the caves where he had settled his stribe having had the protective shileds of driftwood and vegetation ripped from their fronts and standing empty due to another slaver, Badrang, having invaded the island to capture everyone who survived Vilu's attack, including Luke's son Martin and Windred as slaves.
- Vilu then proceeds to taunt him, revealing to him that he knew Luke was trying to get help from his tribe and boasting about how he learned to read the minds of others and to out-think those who thought they were smarter than him and how he knew all along that he yearned for vengeance. When Luke asks him if he knows there is no treasure, Vilu merely believes him to be double bluffing and forces him to show them the way to his tribe's treasure under faux the promise of setting him and his friends free.
- When Luke reveals that he's played Vilu for a fool and starts a rebellion on the ship by giving off a battle signal so that the slaves on the ship, who had been gathering lengths of chain, pieces of timber, and all sorts of weapons, would be freed and fight against the vermin that have been tormenting them, Vilu tries to slay him with his sword only for Luke to get it knocked out of his hand before locking him in a grip, crushing him tight against the ship's wheel, leading to Vilu begging for mercy as Luke has the ship strike the rock, killing them and giving Vilu the comeuppance he deserved for a long time.
External Links[]
- Vilu Daskar on the Villains Wiki.
- Vilu Daskar on the Redwall Wiki.
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