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Deer in Mossflower??????

Started by The Shade, July 26, 2013, 10:04:38 AM

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Quote from: Buzz_Bumble on July 26, 2013, 11:01:33 PM
My guess is that it's just a mistake. There are a few images that are simply wrong, usually it's because the illustrator didn't actually read the book (in some cases because it wasn't finished at that time the illustrations needed to be drawn).

Yeah, I agree. On one edition of Mariel of Redwall, Gabool had a pistol.
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Really?? Can you post it here??
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Lets get back on topic, the deer. Usually they run away at the first sight of danger so I would imagine they wouldn't be around Mossflower much. But there was a horse in Redwall, so why not a deer too?
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Also, there are pigs, cattle, and goats in Redwall.
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Quote from: Shadowed One on July 27, 2013, 12:41:09 PM
Quote from: Buzz_Bumble on July 26, 2013, 11:01:33 PM
My guess is that it's just a mistake. There are a few images that are simply wrong, usually it's because the illustrator didn't actually read the book (in some cases because it wasn't finished at that time the illustrations needed to be drawn).

Yeah, I agree. On one edition of Mariel of Redwall, Gabool had a pistol.

That's why I like to think they used guns ;D

Quote from: Captain Tammo on July 28, 2013, 06:17:48 PM
Lets get back on topic, the deer. Usually they run away at the first sight of danger so I would imagine they wouldn't be around Mossflower much. But there was a horse in Redwall, so why not a deer too?

I would think they might be extremely rare, but Basil was just lucky to see one

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Ah zav zome deer ze ozer day vhen ah vent for a valk in ze voodz!
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Quote from: HeadInAnotherGalaxy on July 29, 2013, 06:21:47 PM
Ah zav zome deer ze ozer day vhen ah vent for a valk in ze voodz!
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I see what you mean. Well there was a horse in the books.
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The Shade

Thanks Leatho ;) Anyway, as I was saying, deer do exist in the redwall world. However, thinking about it, I think they might only be in the south. At the start of the book, Ferago and the horde are in the south, and thats were they might have found the skull. I don't think they killed it, because the deer could have outran them. Unless it was a really young or old one.
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Quote from: Buzz_Bumble on July 26, 2013, 11:01:33 PM
My guess is that it's just a mistake. There are a few images that are simply wrong, usually it's because the illustrator didn't actually read the book (in some cases because it wasn't finished at that time the illustrations needed to be drawn).
Yes, there have been mistakes in the illustrations of the Redwall books before. Like in one of the editions (Russian?) of Mariel Of Redwall, Gabool is shown wearing a pistol around his side, even though there are no guns of any kind in the Redwall series. But it can be considered a different case in the thing about the deer skull. The artist who drew Gabool wearing a pistol must have taken a wrong impression on the stereotypes of pirates. But you can't really apply the same theory of stereotyping to deers and what not.

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The deer skull on a flag could simply be a stereotype of medieval human flags. You can't really give the illustrations much credence because they are done by other people and do have mistakes - even the Mossflower map changes from book to book / edition to edition.

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Quote from: Buzz_Bumble on July 31, 2013, 08:09:04 AM
The deer skull on a flag could simply be a stereotype of medieval human flags. You can't really give the illustrations much credence because they are done by other people and do have mistakes - even the Mossflower map changes from book to book / edition to edition.

Yeah, but Mr. Jacques always made a sketch of his own for the illustrator to use as a reference with the maps.
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