Terrouge Productions

Terrouge Productions was widely known for being a Redwall-related electronic magazine. Terrouge featured a monthly ezine, discussion forum, online bookstore through Amazon.com, and a large collection of Redwall fanfiction. In addition, Terrouge produced and sponsored four Questors Bold contests and was involved in the formation of The Vulpine Imperium.

The name "Terrouge" comes from a combination of the Latin word for "earth" (terra) and the French word for "red" (rouge). Translated literally, "terrouge" means "red earth," or "land of the red."

History
Terrouge was first founded in 1998 through the partnership of David Perini (Bobtail) and Kenny C (Sunstripe the Mace), with an idea for a Redwall e-zine. Josh Boycott (Dyrne Alaran) offered to assist with the project, and Kelly Hamilton was later recruited to provide cover art.

The page was originally hosted on Perini's own webspace  http://thor.prohosting.com/~perini/ , but was soon moved to  http://redwall.vr9.com  within a few months. The first issue was released in November that same year.

Throughout the oncoming years, Terrouge grew more and more popular, gaining a large staff and exclusive interviews with Brian Jacques and artist David Wyatt. In 2000, Terrouge merged with Redwall club Camp Willow. The site stayed on the  Vr9.com  host until 2002, when the server permanently went down.

Terrouge was forced to borrow webspace from Hamilton at this time, and for a brief period resided at  http://terrouge.junglestudio.com/ , until the terrouge.com domain was acquired.

The following year, disaster struck. On September 26, 2003, Josh Boycott passed away in a fatal car accident at age 18.

In more recent years, Terrouge's popularity has seemingly leveled off. Some attributed this to the general size of the Redwall Online Community, which has slowly dwindled down in size. Others felt Terrouge had drifted away from Redwall altogether, and used the word Redwall as a bait-and-switch scheme to lure in fantasy book fans. However, in its heyday, Terrouge received upwards of 40,000 visits a month.

Terrouge struggled in the mid-2000s with content issues and reporter recruitment, which ultimately led to the decision to no longer stay exclusively Redwall, and officially departed the ROC in January 2007.

Editors
Leadership has changed hands several time throughout the years. Few - if any - of Terrouge's original staff members are still active at the site today.


 * Kenny C.
 * Josh Boycott (1998 - 2001)
 * Erin Lewis (Shorestar) (2001- 2003)
 * Sean Ainsworth (Stormclaw) ?
 * Phillip P. (Vilu Daskar) (2006)
 * Jason M. Caits-Cheverst (2005 - 2006)

Cover Artists

 * Kelly Hamilton
 * Axcelia

Faces of Terrouge
Over the years, Terrouge has had many different looks.

Related Sites

 * Terrouge