User blog comment:Verminfate/Essay: Redwall's most controversial character..... Veil/@comment-1479469-20100501035748

I will grant that it was a callus move on Bryony's part; however, I wish to note that one good act, even if in that context, does not redeem an entire life of being evil. And Veil, frankly, did a lot more evil than good in his life. The one and only reason that people feel sorry for him is because he sacrificed himself at the very end - the fallacy is in assuming that this means that the character was good all along.