Which characters appear in multiple books?

[Felldoh154]

Any character in 4 books?

[Tiria Wildlough]

No, three is the maximum, I think.

[WildDoogyPlumm]

Friar Butty, Nutwing, Tragglo, Sloey, Gubbio and a few others were in both The Long Patrol and Marlfox. 

[Felldoh154]

wonder how many characters there are in all :O

[Leatho Shellhound]

lots

[Felldoh154]

Lots and lots

[Redwaller]

Did anybody say Tansy and Arven?

And if you want to know how many characters there are in the books they will be listed on my website

[Felldoh154]

I looked at it, it lists the characters of redwall, but I was asking how many there were in the whole series put together

[Redwaller]

Yeah that's what i mean! It's still under construction! I would advise you to look at it again because i made major modifications.

[Felldoh154]

So u plan on having list of ALL characters in ALL books?? Whoa

[Bragoon]

The Redwall Wikia has an extremely handy list of all the characters, broken up into sections by books, although it doesn't actually have a number posted anywhere that I've seen.
http://redwall.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Character_Lists

[Something Horrifying]

Ya it's rare that they are in more than 1 book. Generally mr. J tosses all his characters and then starts with a whole bunch of new ones - I don't know about you but I have tried writing before and I can't imagine trying to make new sets of characters over and over

I find characters are easy...NAMES are hard. XD I come up with so many character ideas at the slightest provocation...but how a writer can sit there and name that many characters is totally beyond me. It's usually a huge struggle to name even one, for me. I'm writing a fanfic right now, and I only have like six or seven characters that need names in the story, but so far THAT is the most daunting task ahead of me.

What does seem odd to me though, though I know this is a personal thing, is not being so attached to certain characters that you'd want to use them again. I understand not feeling that way about all of them, but I don't think I could bring myself to develop new characters just to toss them out after one story so frequently.