Gabool the Wild

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Gabool the Wild is a character from the Redwall book series. He is an anthropomorphic rat.

Known as King of the Searats and Warlord of the Seas, Gabool is a pirate monarch whose fortress lies on the island of Terramort. Gabool terrorized the seas for years, following in the footsteps of many tyrants of Mossflower. Gabool's last great plunder was the Joseph Bell, and the capture of Joseph and Mariel. However, Gabool was humiliated when Mariel, a mere girl, defeated him in a duel.

Throwing Mariel to the sea, Gabool later did the same to Joseph when the mouse refused to build a tower for his new bell. As his plans began to fail, Gabool began going insane, dreaming of Mariel, the bell, and a massive Badger Lord, and hallucinating the sounding of the bell when it was silent. Gabool's insanity went so far as killing several of his own captains.

Gabool's nightmares came true when Mariel returned, leading an army of resistance forces and accompanied by the Bloodwrath taken Rawnblade Widestripe. Despite trapping Rawnblade in a pit with a giant scorpion, Gabool was killed when the badger drew his opponent inside and the scorpion stung him.

Gabool is voiced in the full-cast audiobook by Simon Smithies.