User blog comment:D2r/Unanswered Questions of Redwall/@comment-84.153.60.42-20100820223452

On question 2: I'm quite sure it wouldn't be too hard for woodlanders and vermin to forge weapons; after all, they aren't stupid. Good question about the metal sources though. 3: They obviously built them themselves; after all, they aren't stupid. (Cluny even managed to build a siege tower. 'Nuff said.) 7: It's about survival, really. They pillage food and drink from the others, and oarslaves to do the work. The treasures... well... they are very shiny. Everybody likes shiny stuff. The more you have, the better you feel. The corsairs' methods seem still very pragmatic. Not only don't they want to produce their own food, but they really can't (on a ship?!). 10: I'm sure the cosrairs produce their own. I'm also sure they must have (or have had) a land base from time to time (it also was like that in real life), where they can settle down, keep their plunder, refill their provisions, and distill... some... grog...*hics* (perhaps ven in return of some shiny stuff). It doesn't take a lot to produce that. Just a big bowl. 13's: it may not be easy, to carry stones across water, but it's not impossible. I mean, look at St. Michael's Mount, Mont-Saint-Michel, or Fort Royal at Cannes... all built quite a distance away from mainland (haven't you ever played "Anno 1404"?). 14: I've got a good one from "Tv Tropes": Only four sparrows returned to their loft after the events of Mattimeo. Assuming they were 2 males and 2 females, they couldn't really have lasted very long (maximally 2 more generations). 19: Don't really have an explanation for this one, but even I noticed, that those creatures really scarcely tend to use the bathroom...ever...