Corax

right|300px|link=Special:FilePath/PlaceholderCorax is a female European shag and one of the main heroes of Creeps from the Deep.
==Biography==
She first appears alongside Neomys bringing in a haul of fish from the abbey pond, then agrees to accompany Fantina Dubbidge and Tekli Shellhound in gathering fruit outside. Unfortunately a juska tribe lead by Terref Rath shows up, but was only interested in a fight with Fantina, not the abbey, which Corax considers a good thing. 
Several days later, Fantina was warned by Martin that Salamandastron was in danger, and Corax accompanied her friend on the errand of delivering scones to the fortress as well as aiding it. During the trek, they run into Log-a-Log Boshti and explain what will happen. Boshti sent half her guosim to meet them at Salamandastron while she remains in Mossflower-Woods, and Corax approves. At night, they set up camp, where they meet Pipistrellus, who provides for them, but was really intending to rob them. Corax was drugged along with Fantina, but Neomys faked this and catches Pipistrellus red-handed, exposing him to the girls and killing him. They quickly left after that, though Corax had the hardest time fathoming a villainous bat could exist. 
Arriving in the Toadlands, Corax was heavily unnerved about being in it, and when Neomys went on a scouting mission, Corax and Fantina remained with their dinosaur mount Thon when Neomys turned out to be in trouble. Corax stayed with Thon as Fantina went off to find Neomys, and thankfully both make it back and while traversing the swamp, explain that painted-ones had captured Neomys to offer up as a sacrifice to a Megalosaurus.
When reaching the mountains leading to Salamandastron, the gang were about to set up camp when Molayne McGurney arrives with grievous news: Salamandastron was being harassed by corsairs led by Passel the Nasty, and after the owl dealt with Dashwing, who had followed Molayne to kill Fantina, the two birds fly off to the fortress, arriving just in time to find the corsairs attacking the guosim batch Boshti had sent. Corax immediately got Korrina Forgefire and the Long Patrol were able to stop the corsairs, but was too late to save Molayne who was killed. Come morning, she pays her respects to Molayne before joining the other heroes in attacking Passel's forces, who by this point was running low on subordinates, some of which try to abandon him. Corax was suddenly captured by Thickarm, but wounded him and was freed by Piruk. Passel had to flee the fight to reclaim his runaway ship, and Fantina dumbly joined him, becoming his prisoner. Thankfully, the Long Patrol had their own ship, the Lifesavor and boarded it to pursue Passel.
During the voyage she acted as lookout, and had seen the Sinister Shark and an island dead ahead. However, another ship, the Ominous Wind was also there and tried to attack the Sinister Shark. Corax finds these were the Manly Marauders, and that not only did they hate Passel, but had the otter Lucian Shellrudd on their side. Upon seeing Passel holding Martin's sword, she swoops in and knocks it out his grasp, where it was caught by Lucian. While the corsairs fought, Corax returned to her ship and alerted her team, and all later join the fight. Corax got to find Lucian, again, unknowingly startling him into almost attacking her, and with the otter and Neomys, find and free Fantina. Corax then fights Rotfoot and defeats him, and then joins in the surrounding of Passel when he was the last one standing. Passel was killed in the water by Lucian, and Corax, along with Worc, help the two exhausted woodlanders onboard the Lifesavor. After burying the dead, the woodlanders bid farewell to the marauders and head to Ruddaring to drop off Lucian. Soon after that they return to the mainland and Salamandastron, before Corax herself and her friends return to Redwall.
==Appearance==
She wears only a sash and her weapon is a Rapier.
==Trivia==
*Her name is the last half of Phalacrocorax, the genus name of the great cormorant, though the European shag's genus name is actually Gulosus aristotelis.
==Gallery==
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Category:Females
Category:Creeps from the Deep Characters
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