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[Booklover]

Strange how so many people on here would get that reference but I doubt any of my real life friends would.

[shisteer of nothing much]

Not really. This place seems to attract book loving nerds.

[Booklover]

Probably helps that you, Lass and Ebby are likely to read a lot of the same books, and you got into Redwall because of Seb, and got him to read RA (unless it was the other way round, I'm not entirely sure).

[shisteer of nothing much]

Yeah, that's basically what happened. Before Seb messaged me, Redwall was on my list of books I'd like to read but will probably never get 'round to it. He had read the first RA book.

[Verdauga]

It would have been interesting to see what RA would have been like if Flanagan followed the "canon" of the first book.

[Booklover]

You mean making it more fantasy?

[Verdauga]

Yep. If I remember correctly, The Ruins Of Gorlan world was pretty at home with magic and monsters, while The Outpost of Zimonja (maybe? Whichever one intro'd  Malcolm) eluded to superstition rather than magic.

[Booklover]

You mean Sorcerer in the North, I'm guessing. There's Emperor of Nihon-Ja, but that's book 10.

Actually, there is the Barrow-Wight thingy in Halt's Peril. But after the first book or two, that's the closest to fantasy that it gets.

[Verdauga]

And the barrow wights were pretty much excluded to superstition.

[Kade Rivok]

Well, he left before I got on.

You always get on so late!

[Sebias of Redwall]

I do have mixed feelings on the lack of fantasy elements in RA.

[Booklover]

And the barrow wights were pretty much excluded to superstition.

Not quite. Unless it was just a random dream that Will had, it was real.

[Sebias of Redwall]

I feel like I remember that... What part was it in again? I almost think it could've been a dream. JF probably wanted it so that the readers could take it any way they wanted.

[Booklover]

Halt's Peril.

For said book

When Will's going to get Malcolm, if I remember correctly.

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[Sebias of Redwall]

Hmm... Right, right. I do remember it. Thanks.