User blog comment:D2r/Was Veil ultimately Redeemed?/@comment-1427879-20111223164420

I feel I must explain my position...therefore potentially starting debate but whatever. Veil was not so much evil as a poor abused kid who went to evil (not admittedly the right path) to express himself and feel good about himself. His father abandoned him and no one at Redwall trusted him. This hurt him and he decided to give them a reason not to. This contrasted with sweet Bryony so he pushed them both away. Then he faced the outside world and not having had the best upbringing, didn't do so well. But he remembered all Bryony did for him and took the spear. He again tried to hide his emotions but the death showed a lot. But throughout the whole thing and with Bryony's statement at the end, I think BJ's trying to make a slight point that vermin are truly vermin and always evil leaving no gray areas there. Then we have Blaggut so...Anyway, Veil died a goodbeast but you have to understand more to his backstory to see it.