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Karangool is the secondary antagonist of Lord Brocktree, the thirteenth book in the Redwall novel series. He is a sadistic and brutal fox who used to be a corsair who sailed the seas with other corsairs, slaying whatever beasts he came across, before retiring to serve in Ungatt Trunn's army as the Captain in Chief of his Blue Horde. He would participate in some of his conquests and even headline them like an attack on the North Mountain or later on Salamandastron.
Biography[]
Karangool used to be a ruthless corsair in the past. He would sail the seas and slay whatever creature he would come across while robbing them, one example involving an old female badger. He was conveyed to have sailed with other corsairs and use their help to bend the rules to suit himself, something he is shown to be fond of as shown by how he grinned while reminiscing of this later. Eventually, at some point, he retires from being a corsair to join Ungatt Trunn's army, serving as the captain in chief of his vast armada known as the Blue Horde. Throughout his time as this, he would be a firm disciplinarian, living by his master's rules and laws and allowing very little aboard the ships to escape his notice. He would headline various conquests and carry out many murders for his master. One example involved the conquest of a settlement in the North Mountains where he led a massacre on many of its hares while driving them away, even personally slaying the family of one particular hare named Bucko Bigbones. On Trunn's orders to beat him, Karangool would use the hare's own sword and flog him with the flat of it until it broke for his own entertainment, permanently scarring the hare before presumably leaving him for dead. He is conveyed to have committed numerous evil deeds similar to this one as he was unable to remember this event specifically because of this.
Later down the line, Karangool would headline yet another conquest led by Ungatt Trunn, this time on the mountain, Salamandastron, currently ruled over by Stonepaw. The conquest would be successful, leading to the deaths of 72 hares and 60 captured to be slaves and Ungatt Trunn to become ruler, though multiple hares remain alive while being guided by Stonepaw, who would sacrifice his life later to take down some rats pursuing them in the caves and save the hares who would escape the mountain in the meantime. Eventually, supplies would start to run low throughout the hordes, causing some rats to keep the fish they catch and eat for themselves. Throughout this, Karangool would supervise the activities on the ships as he usually does while whipping and overworking them and would catch four of the rats keeping fish they got from the ocean for themselves despite Trunn's law requiring them to give them to the captain of the fishing party. As such, he has them be held captive and taken to Trunn himself on the charge of this. Ungatt Trunn would berate them while sadistically sentencing them to be executed on the beach at high tide the next day in front of the Hordes and has the guards take them away before telling Karangool to stay as he wants to talk to him. After everyone else departed, Ungatt Trunn asks Karangool what they are saying aboard his ships and if it's mutiny. Karangool replies that there isn't any yet and that he is doing to them what he usually does, though not a lot of food has been found.
Ungatt Trunn then has Karangool follow him to the prison the hares were kept in, declaring he has the answer. Once they arrive, he subtly suggests they cannibalize the hares by offering their sight and Karangool gets it immediately, satisfyingly taking him up on the offer before they both exit to make preparations for butchering and eating them. However, the hares would wind up escaping their prison with the help of the escaped hares from earlier and a group of otters who had been robbed from by Trunn assisting them, much to Trunn's frustration. In the meantime, Karangool would discover two sentries that had deserted at dawn due to two soldiers finding them around the mountain. As Ungatt Trunn was berating his soldiers for the hares' escape, Karangool would come in to report him on this, with Trunn instructing him and sentencing the two senties to be tied up with the four to be executed and ordering him to ensure that Fragorl tells everybeast why they must pay the penalty. Ungatt Trunn then asks what Karangool did before sailing for him and discusses with him about that with Karangool revealing that he was a corsair long ago. This leads to Trunn asking him if he ever came across a badger with Karangool listing an old female badger he had slain only, causing Trunn to lose interest in the conversation and stalking down to the execution site where he mumbles to himself about the badger he sees in his dreams, whose name is Brocktree, the next badger lord of Salamandastron.
The hares would disguise themselves as a group of bandits called the Bark Crew and regularly rob the Hordebeasts of their supplies for themselves before sending them chained walking through the sea to Ungatt Trunn to deliver insults to him. After another time when this happened, Ungatt Trunn has them be sent away before sitting closeted in his chamber with Fragorl and Karangool, discussing with them about how his mistake was in sending out well-behaved creatures and that they need wicked ones like cruel evil creatures who bend the rules to suit themselves and asks Karangool if searats and corsairs were always like that to which Karangool sadistically reminisced about, telling him he sailed with bad ones in the good old days. As such, Trunn decides to have Ripfang and Doomeye, a couple of sadistic rat brothers who had earlier on joined his army and whom he had imprisoned, released and brought to him. Once they are, he offers them food and drink from his tray which contained a flagon of damson wine and the last of fruit scones made by the hare cook of the mountain, having Karangool himself eat a scone and drink from the flagon to show it's not poisoned. Ungatt Trunn then discusses with them about their past before discussing with them about what they should do if they want to keep eating food like that and regain their ranks as captains in his Hordes.
With their ranks as captains recovered, Ripfang leads an ambush on the hares and engages his army in battle against them, though it would be lost when Brocktree himself arrives with his own army formed of hares who were ruled over by Bucko Bigbones, who sought to avenge his people and family, and other creatures he met along the way and defeats the rats, having them be chained with Ripfang and sent to deliver a message to Ungatt Trunn after having them bury the hares they killed. Karangool notices them and tells Ungatt Trunn of this before they realize they're plowing their way homeward. Once they exit the water onto shore, Karangool signaled some vermin to prize the pikes apart and slice at the ropes that held them together with Karangool inspecting the metal pikeheads, wondering what creature possessed the strength to twist them into two spirals like that. Ungatt Trunn proceeds to threaten Ripfang, leading to him telling Trunn that he saw the badger, much to Trunn's shock as he drops his sword and orders everybeast to go. Per his command, Karangool leaves with everyone else while Ungatt Trunn asks Ripfang about the badger, Brocktree.
The next day, Ungatt Trunn has his Blue Horde parade outside to show themselves off to the creatures while Karangool supervises it and searches for them, unaware that they had spotted them while hidden. This leads to a whole discussion in council involving Ungatt Trunn, Karangool, Fragorl, and Ripfang where Karangool reveals he did not see them and Fragorl reveals she could not find them along with Ripfang, much to Trunn's disappointment. Ripfang suggests they sweep up both sides of the cliffs to scour the enemies out, though Ungatt Trunn replies that it would leave his mountain undefended and instead plans to have them come to him. He does, however, declare when Karangool asks if they odn't that he will do as Ripfang says and send the Hordes to root them out, much to the other two's surprise that he would ask the searat's opinion. Later, while pacing the mountain passages and going to the beach, he converses with Karangool on how quiet it is, feeling that it is too quiet and that something might happen. After they return to the main mountain entrance and get a report from Ripfang who spotted nothing, Fragorl comes rushing in and alerts Ungatt Trunn of a fire started in the cliffside northward, which was really stared by Jukka the Sling firing a lit arrow across as part of the creatures' plan.
Arriving at the window, they see the fire with Ripfang finding it amusing how they're not short of nerve and burn a campfire while hiding out there and Karangool saying that it could be a trap, much to Ungatt Trunn's anger as he already realized that before angrily grabbing Karangool and berating him. He then has Karangool take half of the entire Hordes, split them in three columns with one either side of clifftops and dunes, the third to go flat out along the shire, and circle around behind them, wanting the leaders brought alive and the rest slaughtered with their bodies brought back. However, another arrow lit by Jukka is shot at the ships, starting a fire aboard them, causing Ungatt Trunn to realize it wasn't a trap and instead a decoy, which prompts him to make plans to turn it into a trap by having Karangool take some crews out there and cut the burning vessels while having Fragorl and Ripfang take command of those attacking the decoy fire by the cliffs and finish them off before having a guard in the upper passages bring all of his captains into his chamber. There, Ungatt Trunn tells them to bar all entrances, have six take their patrols, bring in all outside sentries, repel any assaults from ground level, and to watch out for enemy beasts trying to break in while ordering for a hundred or more troops to be sent up to him.
As they departed to carry out the orders though, Jukka would sneak in while disguised as a rat and shoot another fire arrow to give the signal to the other creatures to start a battle. However, she would unintentionally reveal herself after bumping into Ungatt Trunn who orders his troops to stop and kill her upon recognizing her as a spy, though she manages to escape before dying fighting the horderats alongside Fleetscut. After cutting the burning ships and sinking them, upon noticing the creatures attacking the door and recognizing the otters as those who fired their ships, Karangool has his crews row ten galleys to land before ordering them to kill all the beasts. When they are above the tideline, Brog had the archers shoot and kill eight of the vermin, though Karangool remains unfazed by this and only drove them onward. During the battle, Bucko Bigbones, seeking vengeance on Karangool, shoots an arrow between Karangool's footpaws while confronting him for what he did to him, his family, and his people. Running and dodging the arrows shot at him, Karangool orders the archers to kill the hare while taking shelter behind some rocks where he struggles to figure out why Bucko was seeking revenge on him, not being able to recall due to having committed numerous similar evil deeds. Ungatt Trunn then arrives and asks why he is hiding to which Karangool declares that he wasn't hiding and instead waiting for him before making his report to Trunn as to what has been going on in his absence. As they afterwards assess their own force numbers and lay their own plans, Dotti, one of the hares, carries out her scheme of showing the starving vermin there was no shortage of food on her side to dishearten them by tossing a pie crust or scrap of cheese from the second-level windows to give the impression that there was a limitless amount of food at their disposal while Log a Log Grenn, accompanied by the Guosim shrew tribe, sang a song about nice things to eat. This worked and caused a fight amongst the Blue Horderats for a bit.
Soon, Lord Brocktree decided to settle this by means of a duel with Ungatt Trunn and as such, he sends a javelin with a message attached to it nearby Ungatt Trunn and Karangool. Reading the message, Ungatt Trunn is satisfied as he came up with a solution for his problems regarding the plan and has Karangool follow him. Approaching a fair distance from Brocktree, Trunn tells the badger that he agrees to his terms and pledges his word before departing to a ship where he reveals his plan to Karangool, Ripfang, and Doomeye to cheat in the battle. To do this, he orders Doomeye, who was deemed the best archer of the three, to climb the mountain that night without being spotted by anyone and to kill Brocktree should the fight go against Ungatt Trunn. When Ripfang and Doomeye departed, Ungatt Trunn gave Karangool instructions to prepare the hastest vessel for an escape as quick as possible with Trunn aboard should all go wrong. Unbeknownst to him, however, after he left to his own ship in his more luxurious stateroom, Karangool concocted a plot with Ripfang and Doomeye to betray the wildcat by shooting him after shooting Brocktree if he loses, promising that the three of them would be lords and take all. When Ripfang asks what if Brocktree slays Trunn right off, Karangool explains that they would then get off the mountain fast and escape the place on the vessel to go pirating again.
The next day, during the battle, Doomeye shoots the arrow, but he ends up missing and instead hits his shoulder, leading to him getting caught by one of the otters who slays him with a javelin. This allows Brocktree to win the fight against Ungatt Trunn before crippling him and having him be tossed into the sea, prompting the horderats to retreat. Karangool himself got aboard the lead vessel that he had ordered to sail, which Ripfang managed to get aboard after swimming over. Recovering his breath aboard, Ripfang calls Karangool out for being willing to sail away and leave him behind after the plans they made, though Karangool only brushes this off before Ripfang notices Bucko swimming strongly after the ship, still seeking vengeance on the fox and becomes philosophical, talking about the lot that were left behind, including Doomeye, and claiming that worse things happen at sea while calling him mate. Taking offense at this, Karangool aimed a kick at him, telling him he doesn't get to call him that since he is captain. Trying to appeal to the fox's better nature, Ripfang reminded him that he said they would all be captains, leading to Karangool preparing to behead Ripfang with his sword, claiming that there is only room for one captain on the ship.
Ripfang then informs him of Bucko swimming after the ship in the sea, prompting Karangool to go to the rail and lean over, unwittingly giving Ripfang the opportunity to heave him overboard into the sea and take his position as captain. Karangool orders Ripfang to pull him up, but he searat denies this, reminding him that he said there is only room for one captain on the ship before tipping a broken mast spar over the side, mockingly telling him he can be captain of that before leaving him without a sword to the mercy of Bucko Bigbones who got on the spar. Finally remembering Bucko Bigbones due to him telling him of what he did to him, Karangool screams in pain as Bucko strikes him across his shoulder with the flat of his sword as retribution for doing the same to him while asking him how it feels to be without his great horde of vermin to help him out. It is strongly implied that this is how Karangool dies at Bucko's hands.
External Links[]
- Karangool on the Redwall Wiki
- Karangool on the Pure Evil Wiki
