Pica Eipgam

right|300pxPica Eipgam is a male magpie and main-villain in More Morbidity in Mossflower.
==Biography==
At one point, he and his horde level several houses and take many woodlanders prisoner. He first appears riding a cart before ordering the horde to stop so he can scout ahead, and lays eyes on Redwall. They then arrive at Camp Willow, only to find it abandoned, but Pica shrugs it off and chooses to settle in it. He then directs his minions on the task at hand. Afterwards he and a few others find the guosim and, treating it as a sport, slaughter the guosim. Right after, the search party returns claiming they met a taggerung that stopped them from catching hostages. Though disappointed, Pica simply dismisses the failing vermin and assigns Driptooth to succeed it instead, then checks Smartmouth on the building of a Springald, then Quickfeet arrives with the mouse Dile, who had been spying on the vermin. Driptooth then returns with the hedgehog Pietro Stump and his family, and deciding to imitate how Cluny the Scourge defeated Redwall, he bribes Pietro's mother into letting them in to spare her family, and the hedgehogs had little choice. Pietro's mother however took the chance to inform the redwallers and they responded by freeing the hedgehogs and several other prisoners before Mudhand the rat reported it. Initially Pica was gonna spare Mudhand for his failure, but after hearing the hedgehogs escaped, unleashes Bloodhand on the rat and went to bed.
The next day, he was monitoring Redwall to see any weaknesses when Adorjan and the Long Patrol arrive, prompting him to leave. He returns to Camp Willow to find Smartmouth just finishing on the springald, and after testing it on a cart, decides to use it at dusk, partially to lure Pryce, Vaniel Wildlough and Adorjan out of Redwall so he could kill at least one of them. He manages to get his wish as he meets Pryce face-to-face and they fight. They were forced to put it on hold when a dinosaur was heard calling out and coming toward them, and Pica ordered a retreat, though upon returning to Camp Willow, he immediately gets an idea and returns to Redwall to observe the dinosaur: a Baryonyx. Pica then got the idea to manipulate the dinosaur with its favorite food and returns to Camp Willow to gather fish. He then entices the dinosaur by presenting a sturgeon and throws it into Redwall, where the dinosaur begins bashing against the main doorway to reach it, and thought the woodlanders were idiots to try and stop the beast, but to his fury, they succeed and he leaves in a huff. He was further aggravated when the prisoners were being freed again, though he allows Smudgeface, who was on guard, to live after deducing Dile was the perpetrator. 
In the morning, he had Dile brought to him for interrogation, but Dile was less than cooperative. Even so Pica learned enough about Redwall's most dangerous inhabitants. He then spies on Redwall and finds they were gearing up to go after him, prompting him to return to Camp Willow and prepare for their arrival. The woodlanders do indeed arrive, and Pica tackles Pryce again, but in the end was defeated, yet Pica tries to kill Pryce in a last ditch attempt, but still fails, resulting in him screaming and swearing to death.
==Appearance==
He was dressed in a teal-samite and wields a flail and Throwing Knives.
==Personality==
As with all vermin-warlords, Pica Eipgam was power-hungry and cruel. Like most villains he resents being failed by lackeys, though if the failure was impossible to stop or avoid, then he sees no reason to execute said lackeys. Only if the lackeys don't even try to avert a failure will Pica execute them, as what happened to Mudhand as he didn't attempt to stop Pietro and his family from escaping when he actually could've, whereas Thicknail and Smudgeface were spared because their missions were downright hopeless. He also viewed the Redwall-champions, taggerungs and badger-lords to be the most dangerous enemies, yet believed killing them would make him invincible. 
==Trivia==
*"Pica" is the genus name of the Eurasian magpie Pica pica, while his last name "Eipgam" is actually "magpie" spelled backwards.
==Gallery==
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