User blog comment:Th3Gh0stWr1ter/Essay: The Eras of Redwall (1986-2011)/@comment-26538658-20160310013858

I find that in the later novels, Jacques died not as much have his protagonists go to the villain as much as he had the villain come to them.

There was less of the "and they all live happily ever after" sort of ending from Pearls of Lutra onward.