User blog comment:Verminfate/Essay: Who is the main villain in The Taggerung?/@comment-76.216.50.154-20100107205958

I believe that there are many small villains that make up the book, but to me, Effera and Sawney are the biggest. Eefera is very smart, and, in BJ's words "well versed in the art of death". Vallug manages to do things by brute force and precision and uses his bow, and is one of the few in that book who could've mortally wounded Deyna (he gets an arrow in the heart). Gruven is only the leader of the hunting party by name; Eefera and Vallug do all the real hunting before deserting, and then Dagrab and Rawback take over from there. Bor has great potential to become deadly: he has been humiliated by the badger lord and most vermin don't just let things like that lie (he's foced to CRAWL back to the scrub). THe book ends, however before anything like that can happen, which is kind of a pity, don't you think?