Matthias confesses a desire to be like the heroic Martin the Warrior, who once defended the woodlanders against all their enemies. Mortimer’s favorite novice is a clumsy young mouse named Matthias. The story opens at the peaceful abbey of Redwall, where the inhabitants are preparing a feast to celebrate the golden jubilee of kindly Abbot Mortimer. Events are described primarily from the perspective of Matthias the mouse warrior and Cluny the rat warlord, though multiple minor characters also disclose their thoughts and experiences to a lesser degree. The story uses a limited third-person narrative technique. The action primarily occurs during June in an unspecified year, while the book’s final chapter takes place exactly one year after the events in the novel. Ninian are constructed to the scale of the mice who built them. The novel is set in a medieval English countryside populated entirely by non-human creatures.
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