User blog comment:D2r/Unanswered Questions of Redwall/@comment-888244-20100127133547

To answer you questions 17-18a It is simply because he was trying things out. both of these things were from the first book, Redwall, so he hadden't narrowed out what characters. Another thing that tipped me off about this and that these animals were auctually dwarfed by people, and not the size of people is that when Methusela and Matthias come back from fishing, one of the otters greets them and says, "Aye! I head it was almost a two-pounder!" This just says, his first concept was that they were actual animals and Humans lived elsewhere.