Skipper of Otters

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In the fictional Redwall series of novels by Brian Jacques, the Skipper of Otters is what otters call their leader. In Mossflower, the Skipper is always male, though in other areas, it is possible to have female Skippers. Skippers are kind and brave and are often the ones to help out when vermin bands try to take over Redwall.

In the earlier Redwall books, the Mossflower Skipper of Otters and his tribe appeared to be directly linked to the Squirrel Queen in some form of military alliance, possibly though Firjack's greenstone, a carved stone given by a skipper to Firjack, the squirrel queen's son, as thanks for saving his daughter's life from pirates; this occurred around the time of Mossflower or Outcast of Redwall where it is mentioned but implied to have happened in the last generation. By the later books the title "squirrel queen" appears to have died out in Mossflower as squirrels integrated themselves into Redwall society to a greater extent than the otters, who appear to prefer to live by the river Moss and its tributaries, and unlike the squirrels, otters appear to keep their old titles when they live at Redwall rather than take on Abbey titles like squirrels and the other species.

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[edit] Warthorn

One of three brother otters, Warthorn was the largest and most warlike of the three. Skipper in the days when Tsarmina ruled Mossflower, Warthorn led the otters against the enemy vermin, fighting alongside Amber Squirrelqueen and Martin the Warrior. In a later journey, Martin met Skipper's nephews, one of them the otter warrior Folgrim and his brother Tungro. Warthorn was voiced by Liam Tobin.