User blog comment:ScottyBlue/Little Flower: A Redwall Story/@comment-4094509-20111107233351/@comment-3462718-20111108000059

I did a study/report on members of the mustelid (weasels, badgers, otters, martens, etc) family of mammals in school a while back and they've fascinated me ever since. Weasels in particular have the habit of being violent little beasts; they are opportunistic killers, often slaughtering well more than is necessary to sustain them and caching any excess kills to eat later (though, like squirrels, they might forget about a cache or two, or lose them to another animal). Redfang's tribe is a personification of that natural charactaristic, with some evil human personalitiy thrown in. Vaccar is, from a weasel point of view, completely unnatural; this is because he has the mentality of a human child more than than of an actual weasel.