Samkim

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Samkim is an anthropomorphic squirrel from the book Salamandastron in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. He was named after a Redwall fan, Samantha Kim, who wrote a letter to Jacques saying why she would be a good character for his books^[1].

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Samkim was an archer, causing much trouble whenever he used his bow. When Brother Hal was found dead with an arrow in his neck and Samkim sitting nearby with the bow in his hands, the first reaction was to accuse Samkin (indeed, Friar Bellows, on his way to the kitchens and the first to discover Samkin and Brother Hal, took this action). However, two stoats named Dingeye and Thura, taking refuge at Redwall, were the real perpetrators. Samkim is in shock and is moved into the infirmary while the Abbey elders discuss the incident and the disappearance of Martin the Warrior's sword. As they are doing this, Samkin's friend Arula eavesdrops on the conversation and goes to tell Samkin, and together they leave the Abbey to track down the stoats and recover the Sword of Martin.

Samkim finds Thura, already dead, in an area of Mossflower woods; he had died of a sickness called Dryditch fever. A hedgehog called Spriggat discovers Dingeye's body, headless. All three of them then learn trackers were sent from Ferahgo the Assassin's horde to find and kill the stoats, from a family of rabbits (though they speak ambiguously of it). They then set off to ambush the group of trackers and recover Martin the Warrior's sword.

Samkim reclaims the sword after its carrier, a fox called Dethbrush, was slain by a monster called the Deepcoiler during a duel between Samkim and the vermin on a logboat. Samkim, within moments of reclaiming the sword, loses it again as he stabs it into the roof of the Deepcoiler's mouth. The sword plunges deep into the creature's brain and it sinks into the water before Samkin can take the sword back. The Deepcoiler luckily washes up on an island the next day and the sword of Martin the Warrior is retrieved by the young badger Mara (another main character in the book).

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