Sawney Rath- he was a fantastically cold villain with the clever twist of adoptive fatherhood, but he was openly afraid of the abbey and a quarter of the way through the book he had been disposed of by Antigra.

Gruven- he was also a very interesting character, but he was never really a great threat to the abbey or many others for that matter.

Vallug Bowbeast and Eefera- both were very competant villains, but, due to a distinct lack of troops, their seige (if one can call it that) was near farse, which I believe was an intention.

King Agarnu and Prince Bladd- one was shown to be a coward and the other a fool, dying in true vermin fool fashion.

Princess Kurda- initially she appeared quite a threatening villain showing us her fighting prowess, but as the book develops her belittling by Plugg, her accent, her blatent cowardice and her lack of real tactical cunning showed her as unfit to be a leader and a spoilt coward.

Plugg Firetail- again to begin with he looked like a very strong adversary with a crew naturally loyal to him, but, sublimely funny as it is, the insident with the tail made him look like a fool. He never had a chance to face Redwall as he was dispatched of very quickly by the next.

The three adders- the snake siblings were very original and very formidable. I thought the scenes of them were well written and did really build tension. However, when it is really considered it is clear that their threat was not really that great. True, they were very dangerous to anybody walking in the woods, but I see it as being very unlikely that they would overthrow the abbey itself.

Ruggan Bor- I have saved him till last as he was the one villain out of these who really was a threat to the abbey. When he turned up backed by his army, had there been more than a few pages left I would have expected a battle. But, his moment of glory was over quickly, defeated without a fight.