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| “ | Up an' one, an' down and' two, Bend yer backs an' curse yer birth. Up an' one, an' down an' two, Pull those oars fer all your worth! Up an' one, an' down an' two, Some have backs without no hide. Up an' one, an' down an' two, Those who couldn't row have died. Up an' one, an' down an' two, Here's a gift from me to you! |
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| ~ Blodge singing about the oarslaves' suffering he subjects them to. |
Blodge is a minor antagonist in the book Mariel of Redwall, the fourth book within the Redwall novel series. He is the sadistic slavedriver of the ship Seatalon under Captain Catseyes who takes delight in the torment he inflicts upon the oarslaves on the ship and does whatever he can to make their lives as miserable as possible for his own enjoyment.
History[]
Being the slavedriver of the ship Seatalon under Captain Catseyes, Blodge has been actively tormenting the ship's oarslaves, whipping them endlessly as they pull the heavy oars of the ship to the point where some of them have backs with no hide, starving them, and killing those who couldn't row, having done this for seasons on end. He is conveyed to gain a ton of sadism in their pain, even going so far as to make a song out of their suffering which he often sings while he whips them.
He makes his first direct appearance in the book doing what he usually does to the slaves as Captain Catseyes comes over and asks him how the two new slaves (two of the main characters Dandin and Durry Quill) are shaping up. Blodge, while flicking his whip towards the pair, tells him that they're no better or worse than the rest of the oarslaves and that while they're still fresh and strong, a season or so of eating slave slops and the weight of the oar they're chained to should knock some of the starch out of them. He then watches as Catseyes goes up to Dandin to ask him where he got the blade he has in his hands from with Dandin telling him that is the sword of Martin the Warrior and that he is not fit to wear it. Catseyes then nods to Blodge, who flails his whip hard against Dandin's back, though the young mouse continues to glare his hatred at the captain, who merely laughs at this and comments on what a feisty little brute he is and that they'll see about that.
A bit later, Blodge yells to the ship oars that they will ride in to Terramort on the swell upon receiving this information from the captain before he and his assistant rodent, Clatt, bring in two wooden buckets, one full of boiled barley meat and the other of water, to fill the wooden bowls of the slaves to feed them. While they fill up the bowls, they purposely waste the food and water in front of the slaves buy slopping the water and meal carelessly at some bowls so that they'd miss and splash upon the deck to torment them while mocking them with Blodge sarcastically telling them to hold the bowls out straight while Clatt tells them that they're to kind to them, treating them like a pair of nursemaids.
He and Clatt then converse with Clatt declaring that he'll grab some roasted seabird and sweet wine and some of the sugary dried fruits King Gabool keeps though Blodge tells him that he'll have no such luck since he's staying aboard with him, Captain Catseyes, and four others per the captain's orders and threatens to kill him if he does not do as he is told. As Clatt then complains, Blodge tells him that he thinks there's going to be trouble up at Bladegirt and that it's best they stay out of the way before suggesting they go to the forecastle head cabin and make skilly. Clatt, who brightened up at the suggestion, asks if they can make a pan of raisin duff to which Blodge agrees on before they proceed to harass the nearest oarslave, a very young shrew, by asking if they like skilly and duff and then telling them they won't be getting any. After they make some, Blodge informs Captain Catseyes of them having made enough skilly and duff for all claws aboard.
Unbeknownst to Blodge and the crew, a hooded mouse (who was Joseph the Bellmaker) along with twenty others had snuck onto the ship and freed all the oarslaves and had killed Captain Catseyes after tricking him into thinking he was sent to the ship by Gabool to deliver a message. Right when he was killed, Blodge and Clatt were walking by, asking for permission to get wine from his cabin only to come across Joseph and the other twenty mice blocking the stairway. Blodge unwound his whip and raised it, ordering them to get back under the threat of tearing their hides off with the whip only for Dandin to chop it in half with his sword before finishing Blodge off with his sword while Clatt gets killed by the twenty mice with their chains. Dandin then comments on how Blodge died as he lived, labeling him as a cringing coward who could only strike out at helpless creatures in chains before throwing his corpse overboard with the rest of the ship's crew.
External Links[]
- Blodge on the Redwall Wiki
- Blodge on the Pure Evil Wiki
