Why does anyone every bother attempting military conquest of Mossflower?
Redwall Abbey, the center of government, is famously impregnable, has enough supplies in its cellars for years as well as an orchard, a reliable source of freshwater, moles that can tunnel to any point in the surrounding countryside undetected, and magical ghosts. Not to mention it’s closely allied with Salamandastron, a small but very well-defended city-state with a military apparently capable of extended foreign deployment. Establishing strong, friendly ties would reap far more benefits. • Because then there’d be no plot. • For that matter, why is Redwall so impregnable anyway? It’s built on the same site as Kotir, which obviously proved not so impregnable, and that was a castle built for war, not an abbey built for mice in skirts. And that location is at the bottom of a huge depression in the ground. Even if you don’t try to defeat it by creating a freakin’ lake that’s a pretty big tactical disadvantage. • This is actually brought up in one book where the south wall starts to collap
