Gabool the Wild is the main antagonist of the book Mariel of Redwall, the fourth book in the Redwall series. He is the ruler of all searats, ruling over all of them with his fortress on Terramort Isle and has been responsible for them capturing many creatures throughout the coasts and subjecting them to slavery as oarslaves on their ships where they would be placed in harsh conditions that would even result in their deaths. He is also responsible for the deaths of some hares some of his searats would engage in battles against over the years, making himself a personal foe to Lord Rawnblade, who would seek vengeance against him for it.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- He is responsible for the battles engaged by his searats against hares over the years, resulting in the hares being killed by said searats, Gabool torturing and murdering some Long Patrol hares himself.
- He is responsible for many plunders lead by his searats on voyages for booty, slaves, and trinkets, it being made clear that this these voyages involved murders given that one of the attacks he was responsible for on a ship involved an entire crew being massacred, it being made clear he was notoriously mean with plunder, and that for of his ships which were good craft laden with the rakings and scrapings of seas and oceans, had murderers all.
- He captured a scorpion he would name Skrablagg on a warm island and took it from its home to the cold dark pit within his own fortress where he would starve it, having it only feed on rotten fishheads and scraps of dead seabird.
- He enslaved many creatures for seasons, including children, as revealed by Bobbo when he had chained him to a galley bench in a searat ship which he would know all his life and being forced to pull the oars along with many other creatures until their backs were nigh broken, whipped, starved, and ill-treated. This is shown to have deathly effects as a vole was right next to him who had gave up life and died. He has subjected estimately hundreds of creatures to this type of slavery.
- He would sometimes have the families of creatures he enslaved be murdered as displayed with Tan Loc.
- When Gabool is notified of this, declaring that the way the oar isn't pulling it looks like both the vole and Bobbo are dead, he coldly orders them both to be thrown overboard and get two more in their place, resulting in the slavemaster bashing him over the head and doing just that, though Bobbo would live to tell the tale in the future to Mariel and her friends accompanying her.
- He is responsible for a massacre lead on an entire crew of shrews on the ship Perriwinkle, the ship Mariel and her father Joseph were on, by Saltar and his crew plundering it, who would then implicitly cut them up into pieces and feed them to the fish while tying up Joseph and Captain Ash to the bell.
- He would have Joseph be imprisoned in a cell where he would be starved, stricken with cold and illness, in an attempt to coerce him into building a bell tower for him, Joseph repeatedly refusing to do so regardless of the conditions he was put in.
- He had Mariel be his servant who serves him all his meals, sometimes only feeding her by throwing scraps from his plate or cruelly spilling wine on the floor and forcing her to lick it up.
- Whenever she would try to escape, he would have his guards bring her back and beat her up, even threatening to kill her father if she tried running away once more.
- After one of his captains Skullgor unintentionally crashed his ship onto the rocks by a sudden squall, Gabool proceeded to insult him before engaging in battle against him, quickly killing him by attacking him with a sword he had hidden beneath the table though he would bump into Mariel who was passing by only to be able to finish him off after Garrtail stabs him in the back with a dagger.
- Angered at Mariel for getting in his way, believing she was trying to get him killed by Skullgor, he attempts to kill her with his sword himself only to end up being beaten by her as she kicks a jug of wine in his face before slashing at him with her sword landing on his skull stunning him.
- After she gets apprehended by Garrtail and half a dozen other searats, Gabool has her be bound with a heavy rope before pushing her off the cliff into the sea to drown, though she would survive albeit with memory loss which she would regain after her visit to Redwall Abbey.
- He makes his carved rock throne comfortable for himself by covering it with the skins of his slain enemies.
- Out of paranoia of Bludrigg seeking to overthrow him after watching him for some time, him being surly, argumentative, trouble-causing, and the seadeck lawyer, after Bludrigg tells him that he wants his share of the plunder due to not receiving any from the last three sailings, Gabool puts on a friendly facade and pretends to offer him his gold coronet only to then behead him with his sword in front of the searats.
- He goes to Joseph's cell after starving him and treating him illy and tries to coerce him into working for him by building a bell tower strong enough to hold the bell he stole from him. When he refuses, he threatens to kill his daughter, Mariel (whom he already tossed in the ocean to drown), to toy with him, managing to at least get him to tell him what the pictures and words on the bell mean, before cruelly pushing him into the ocean to drown as his twisted way of showing him how to find her.
- He forces three of his fortslaves, dormice who had been captured in a land raid, to polish his bell with the threat of giving them three lashes for every pawmark, telling them to rip their shirts up and wrap it round their paws to save themselves a lot of whipping, showing how he treats them.
- Knowing that Saltar, the brother of Bludrigg, would be notified of his brother's death and desire revenge on Gabool, he invites him to his fort under the guise of wanting to be hospitable to a banquet before he proceeds to engage in battle against him and kills him by driving him backward into a hidden blade he set up behind the wall hanging and then spits on his corpse, threatening the searats afterwards.
- Upon hearing that Greypatch betrayed him by sailing off with the Darkqueen with a crew due to Gabool's insanity, Gabool sends the searats he has with him after him to kill him and bring his head stuck on the bowsprit and his crew in chains, promising to make whoever does this Seacaptain of all his fleet, next only in rank to him.
- Upon inviting all his captains to his banquet hall, he has 20 slaves bearing chests of plunder turn out all off the plunder from their voyages to them, provoking a fight amongst them and their crews involving scrabbling, kicking, screeching, clawing, and ripping before sicing them all onto Greypatch by telling them that the ship he stole from him had three times the loot in her hold.
- After they all leave with only the searat Weltskin being left behind, Gabool offers him his sword under the guise of seeing him swing it, but after he does, Gabool grabs it and snicks the tip from his ear with the sword before flashing it a little closer to his throat, threatening to behead him if he does not board the ship.
- He kicks at a dormouse who was down on all fours rubbing away at the great bell along with 3 other slaves, asking him where his food is even though he's not a cook, making him one when he informs him of this despite the dormouse telling him that he can't cook due to only being a bell polisher. Gabool proceeds to ignore this and digs his claws into his body before forcing him to go to the kitchens, light a fire, and roast him a few dead seabirds along with wine too and then orders all the other slaves to leave the room.
- When one of his captains Orgeye returned and informed him of being unable to find Greypatch, Gabool yelled, insulted, and threw things within the room at him, even attempting to kill him by throwing a sword at him, though this winded up striking the oak door he closed on itself.
- Believing the bell to be sapient, upon hearing it toll, he attacked it with his sword only for his sword to snap.
- Wanting Greypatch to be killed nice and slowly, he tricks several of his own captains whom he insanely mistook for Greypatch into falling into the pit he put Skrablagg in, causing them to be brutally killed by the scorpion's poisonous stinger, laughing sadistically as he watches this happen to his first captain still under the belief he was Greypatch.
- Upon spotting Lord Rawnblade on one of his ships, Waveblade, he has his troops go down to the cove and try to kill him, promising to make whoever does so a captain.
- During the battle of the Trag slaves and his searats, Gabool makes plans to kill Rawnstripe, destroy the bell, and then build a new fleet with each craft bigger and faster than darkqueen, intending on having them scour all throughout the coasts for plenty more creatures to enslave, fine silks, wine, and the best of prime vittles.
- When Rawnblade confronts him and lures him out by ringing the bell, Gabool attempts to kill him with his sword only for him to knock him and the sword away. After Mariel arrives with Joseph, Tarquin, Dandind, and Durry, Gabool makes another attempt to kill him by throwing a dagger at him before escaping the room, though it ends up not working due to his breastplate.
- He makes one more futile attempt at killing Rawnblade by tricking him into attacking him to get him to step on a carpet covering Skrablagg's pit, causing him to fall into it in order to try to get him brutally killed by the scorpion like his other captains only for Rawnblade to toss Skrablagg out of the pit onto Gabool, causing him to be viciously killed by the scorpion repeatedly stabbing him with his stinger, Gabool dying with his limbs twitching spasmodically as poison flooded through his crazed brain before shuddering one last time and dying with his body arched like a straining bow, giving him a brutal yet karmic demise.
- Despite Redwall's massive heinous standard, Gabool stands out for having amongst the biggest slave counts in the series, having subjected at least hundreds of creatures to slavery on his searat captains' ships as oarslaves and also making plans to scour the coasts for more slaves by the climax, which would expand the slave count to at least the thousands, with the slavery being pretty awful as it involves creatures being forced to row heavy oars on the ships while being whipped, starved, and ill-treated to the point of where some would die from the abuse, getting several captains he mistook for Greypatch killed by his scorpion Skrabblag (whom he had captured and taken from its warm home on an island and imprisoned and starved in his pit within his fortress) who would sting them brutally with its venomous needle as they are psychologically tormented with horror by it, and the amount of personal villainy he engages in against plenty of characters within his own book.
- While he initially cared for Greypatch him having a few pet-the-dog moments like when he tells him he's done well when he carries out one of his tasks and shares with him a cup of wine and some sweetmeats with him and they had been shiprats since their young days, Gabool commanding, Greypatch obeying and he was shocked and seemingly hurt when hearing from a captain that he sailed off with the others, he subverts this by ordering his captains to kill him and bring him his head and later on, while pretending to reconcile with a captain he mistook as Greypatch, he tricks him into falling into a pit to be killed by his scorpion Skrablagg while watching and laughing sadistically.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He has moral agency issues due to how insane he is, his mental health continuously deteriorating as the story progresses, though he still manages to have a fair share of cunning moments where he tricks his enemies with smart plans he set up, showing he at least has a bit of a functioning mind somewhere.
Trivia[]
- He, Ferahgo the Assassin, and Captain Warpclaw are the only characters from the Redwall books to be Near Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Gabool the Wild on the Redwall Wiki
- Gabool the Wild on the Villains Wiki
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