User blog comment:LordTBT/News:Brian Jacques Tributes/@comment-2138593-20110211004222

I can't believe Brian Jacques has gone to the sunny fields and silent streams. I will always miss him. The Redwall books inspired my love for medieval weapons (and all things fencing). I spend the summers haunting the local Renaissance Faire, creating Redwall-inspired culinary masterpieces (and telling everyone to call me Friar Ginger), and reading the books over, and over, and over again. I can tell the difference between a pike and spear, and pretend I'm an angry bloodwrath badger who likes to eat people :P. My friends say I'm crazy, obsessed with salamander-strong (an idiotic parody of Salamandastron). But Brian Jaques contributed all that to my character, which I will always love about him. Farewell, Brian Jacques. May our spirits meet sometime.