The painted ones

[Lutra]

I haven't read Doomwyte so that's why I didn't get it.  I thought you were speaking of the lemurs being a weak replacement.

D'oh.... 

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

Defiantly true. I preferred them in the earlier books as well. for much the same reason.
In the Long Patrol, if I'm not mistaken, they spoke very primitive english. I'd still call them as much threatening and mysterious as in Mattimeo though.

[Log-a-Log]

Yah, they were the scariest in Mattimeo

[winifred]

maybe the flitcheye and the painted ones are the same and are (weasats) just a germane thought. I dont like how they talk in english either seems less scary

[Blademaster]

I loved it when that female one killed the logalog in the doomwyte

[Cheesethief]

It seems like the wood of the painted ones is always moving around too, first it was in the south in Mattimeo, then in Long patrol it was up north of redwall. Also, were those things in Legend of Luke while they were rowing downstream painted ones or flithaye, you know the ones that used the net to capture them but Martin cut it while folgrim fought them?

[Taggerung The Otter]

Reminds me more of a Flitchaye than a Painted One...

The Flitchaye were ferrets

[Coobreedan]

I thought they were monkeys for a moment. Then I just decided they were their own species: Painted Ones.
It's hard to believe Stonefleck was their commander.

[Troy Troodon]

King Harraie: "Join my in my Simian Empire my Friends.

[Jetthebinturong]

I thought they were monkeys for a moment. Then I just decided they were their own species: Painted Ones.
It's hard to believe Stonefleck was their commander.

Stonefleck was not their commander, he commanded the Longtail horde

[W0NWILL]

It be interesting if they were chipmunks, it seems plausible.

[Redwallfan7]

They looked like monkeys in the t.v show. What are they supposed to be exactly?

[W0NWILL]

I say either chipmunks or a sorta tree rat.

[Dannflower Reguba]

LOL, They ARE Tree rats! 

[Ajc3000fox]

Yah, they were the scariest in Mattimeo

Indeed, They seemed to loose their idendity. The went from strange mysterious and undeaftable when in their own element to. A handable threat, and very understood.