User blog comment:D2r/Unanswered Questions of Redwall/@comment-1479469-20100911125146

@Unreg, once more:

Please do not reply to users' messages, but to the blog post. It makes it so much easier for me to deal with. Also, could you possibly edit that massive...box...thing?

As for 2 and 3, well, that's why it's an "Unanswered Question". Jacques never addressed it in the canon, and fan explanations (while entertaining) aren't sufficient.

Regarding 7 (which you seemingly mislabelled as 19), that's a pretty bold assumption to make. Treasure never has any value unless it were symbolic (which only applies to artifacts like Martin's sword) or monetary (and money doesn't exist in Redwall). We're conditioned to believe treasure has an inherent value as a result of living in a society in which such a high cost is placed on things like gold; however, the value we place on these things is societal. Treasure is inherently valueless without money, since the value of its constituent materials is a function of its price.