User blog comment:D2r/Unanswered Questions of Redwall/@comment-1479469-20100128212729

@ Danthe:

2. Nothing the the book supports that. Additionally, I seriously doubt that Redwall got its weapons from Cluny's troops - they had outfitted their garrison prior to combat, and are not shown to engage in corpse robbery. As for the blacksmiths thing: leaving aside the question of from where they get the metal or how they would carry a forge around with them, there's nothing of the sort mentioned in the books.

3. No mentions are made of boat construction in any of the books, and theft can't possibly account for every corsair ship. Leaving aside the "chicken and egg" issue this creates, it's dubious a ship like the Goreleech would have been designed by woodlanders.

4. Leaving aside the question of how accidental discovery would account for so much treasure, nothing of the sort is mentioned in the books.

7. Not to be condescending, but it's a bit naïve to assume that gold and silver have instrinsic value. They are given value by an economic system - if they are used as the monetary standard, they ARE money, and if not (as in a modern system), they are still given value by their money (although in the real world this is inflated somewhat by the fact that they're still percieved as a solid holder of value). Thus, without an economic system fo give it value, treasure is effectively valueless except as something that looks nice - and I doubt searats have artistic bents. It's plausible that the searats have access to ports with a monetary system, but again - nothing supports that in the book, and they just seem to stockpile it for no reason anyway.

With regards to your questions:

A) That was only in the TV series, which doesn't count.

B) You're forgetting that one shrew who stabbed Log-a-Log in Marlfox (Fenno, I think), not to mention Aggril, Bull Sparra...

C) Well...glass is made from sand (which would be in abundant supply), but yeah, there's no provision for production. I'm gonna fit that into the "treasure" category, though.