Ungatt Trunn

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Ungatt Trunn was the main antagonist of the novel Lord Brocktree in the Redwall series of books. He was a massive wildcat possessing great strength, capable of going head to head with a Badger Lord.

Trunn was from an unnamed land far across the sea, and his brother was Lord Verdauga Greeneyes. His father was Mortspear. Verdauga had a daughter, Tsarmina, and a son, Squire Gingivere. Assembling a massive army dubbed the Blue Hordes (for their blue-dyed fur) Trunn set sail across the ocean planning to conquer Salamandastron, the Badger Lord's fortress. This force is known for having thousands of soldiers, far more than any army ever seen in the Redwall world.

When his armada was just off the shore of Salamandastron, Trunn's second in command, a ferret named Grand Fragorl, landed first and demanded the surrender of the mountain fortress. Lord Stonepaw refused and the wildcat's army came ashore.

After a long battle, Ungatt Trunn captured the mountain killing many of 'Stonepaw's Stalwarts' hares. Stonepaw hid with a small group of hares in the caves beneath Salamandastron. Despite a succession of defeats during a short guerilla war,(in which Stonepaw died) the wildcat's forces remained strong. Yet fate was unkind to Ungatt Trunn, and the Fragorl deserted him with many soldiers when he needed her most, for Lord Brocktree's army had arrived. Challenging the Badger to single combat, Trunn's back was broken and his body cast out to sea.

Ungatt Trunn was a good fighter and a brilliant strategist and general. His weapons of choice were the net and trident and he enjoyed dark, cobwebbed rooms with the presence of spiders. It was possible that he was an ancestor of the wildcat Riggu Felis, who would become the primary antagonist of the later book High Rhulain.