Skarlath

Skarlath was a male hunting hawk, a very feirce one at that. He was the loyal freind of Sunflash the Mace. Their friendship began early on in the story where he is slammed into a tree by the cold winter winds and calls out several times. Unfourtunatly the only beasts that were in earshot was Swartt Sixclaw and his band, who at the time was keeping the young Sunflash as a captive. Sunflash was roped to the tree which Skarlath was frozen to. After freeing each other, they escape into the surrounding woodlands, employing guerilla tactics and whittleing away Swartts band. However, they had come across a woodland family that was being beseiged by a band of foxes. After chsing off the vermin, they began to live a peacefull live with the woodlanders they had saved. Skarlath loved making cheeses and ocassionally returned after Sunflash had left to help with harvesting and creating cheeses of all types. However, he always kept an eye out for Sunflash; he had saved his life more than a few times. The hawk acted as a spy, also at all times looking and searching for Swartt and his horde. He was eventually killed by a poison arrow shot by Nightshade the Seer.

Books
Skarlath appears as one of the main characters in the book Outcast of Redwall.