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Samkim was a male squirrel orphan resident of Redwall Abbey and good friends with Arula. One night during a thunderstorm, he narrowly avoided being skewered by the Sword of Martin the Warrior as it fell from the weathervane. Puzzled by this incident, Brother Hal, the Recorder, worked through the night, searching through old volumes to determine why the sword would be located in that spot. When he finally found the answer, he was anxious to tell Samkim and Arula, but Dingeye and Thura accidentally killed him with an arrow before he could let anyone know the truth.

An excited Samkim woke up early that morning and raced downstairs to see the sword. Unfortunately, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. As the young squirrel stared in horror at Brother Hal's carcass, he stumbled over Dingeye's bow and picked it up off of the ground. Friar Bellows walked in at that moment and immediately assumed that Samkim had murdered Brother Hal.

To prove his innocence, Samkim went into Mossflower Woods with Arula to find the stoats, who had also taken Martin's sword. Samkim finally retrieved the sword from the evil fox Dethbrush after a duel at the Great Inland Lake; however he lost it again after killing the Deepcoiler. The sword was later retrieved by Mara, who gave it to Samkim on Marlfox Island, which was un-named at that time. He was able to safely return the sword to Redwall. He also wrote a riddle in his later seasons containing directions to Marlfox Island, which was used by Songbreeze Swifteye, Dannflower Reguba, and Dippler to retrieve the tapestry of Martin the Warrior. The riddle was included in the journal of Abbess Vale.

Trivia[]

  • Samkim was named for American Redwall fan Samantha Kim. She wrote to Brian Jacques at his radio show at BBC Merseyside and they became pen pals. Jacques suggested he name a new character in a book he was writing after her, Samkim. In their letters, Kim told the author how much she loved the mole dialect. Twenty-five years later, Kim and Jacques finally met at a reading in New York City, where Kim resided. She was the first in line to have him sign her copy of Salamandastron.
  • Samkim was the first squirrel to wield Martin's sword.
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