User blog comment:D2r/Unanswered Questions of Redwall/@comment-3518397-20110411191411/@comment-1479469-20110422233522

I'm hesitant to include the mine in the first book - it has its own continuity problems (e.g. Cluny being Portuguese, the presence of dogs and the horse, the cart), so I dunno if that works, especially since the mines are never mentioned again. As for the Redwall forge - well, okay, that solves cutlery. But even so - who's producing the other weapons?