![]() ![]() It’s basically a long-range club, or a club-on-a-rope. The rope has a series of knots tied along its length, making the end of the rope more dense and weighted. When she awoke-her memories lost-she used the rope to fight off seagulls, giving it its name. When Gabool the Wild-the fearsome, diabolically evil king of all searats-tied her up and tossed her overboard, he used this very rope. Instead she fashioned her very own, unique weapon out of a rope called the Gullwhacker. At that point, I hadn’t yet found Tamora Pierce, so to say I was desperate to see a girl get to be a “real” warrior - which obviously meant having a piece of sharp metal to sling around - is an understatement. ![]() I was then intensely disappointed when Mariel wasn’t entrusted with Martin’s sword and it went to one of the male mouse characters. I remember being so excited when Mariel of Redwall came out (the first of the books I bought in hardcover) because she looked like a proper badass lady from the outset. Part of what made me start to fall out of love with the series was my frustration at what the girl characters didn’t get to do. What I loved most about the series as a kid was the story of Martin the Warrior and his famous sword. But wait! What about those “damaging tropes of epic fantasy?” Won’t that cause “harm” especially to my daughter since she’s a girl and these books are so clearly sexist and harmful? ![]()
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