User blog comment:Galadriadhar/Essay: Laterose and Martin the Warrior/@comment-1884658-20100216210324

I think it's important that Rose and other characters die because the whole of the Redwall series continually points out that war may be waged for a good reason but will always have bad results through the death of characters. And BJ did need a reason to drive Martin away from Noonvale; that's a good one!