Mustela Sixclaw

right|300pxMustela Sixclaw is a male ferret who worked with Nihilus the Fiend, and a descendant of Swartt and Veil Sixclaw.
==Biography==
Unlike his ancestors, Mustela had a pretty good childhood: his mother didn't die from giving birth to him, and his father was decent. Even so, he was told that he may have to join a horde and serve a warlord someday, and that day came when he ran into Nihilus. While Mustela doesn't share the toad's lust for power, he serves him just because the toad would've forced him to anyway. 
He first appears being ordered by Nihilus to scour the terrain around Riftgard, then claimed they should plant a spy in the fortress to find out the full extent of their opposition, and they had their mole accomplice Talpa fulfill this.
Eventually they struck: Mustela was tasked to subdue prince Vaniel Wildlough, but the otter and his two friends Dile and Wibble Pintips had been awakened through supernatural means, and when Mustela finds them, a brawl ensued. The prince and his friends fled for their lives, but Mustela, with help from Talpa holding princess Korlac Wildlough hostage, managed to corner the three, but they jump off the wall and flee. Mustela continued to chase them, eventually finding that their footprints lead to two trees. Mustela did not believe they were in the trees at all and looked at the rocky outcrop where the teens hid a cave they went into, and eventually finds said cave. Smartly he deduces they were heading to the beach and took the correct routes, though by the time he followed the trail to the pier, they were long gone. Tritannus later escorted him back to Riftgard where apparently a badger named Gald Bowstripe had arrived. Nihilus was disappointed in Mustela's failure, but doesn't think less of the ferret.
Some days after, Nihilus executes queen Osclor Wildlough and king Potamo. Mustela was present to witness this, and was left shaken. He isn't seen again until days later, thinking about how maybe being a minion to a warlord wasn't all it's cracked up to be. It was at that moment that what he believed to be Vaniel returned and he immediately rounded up some vermin to apprehend the prince. This proved to be a mistake as the "prince" was really a female otter named Saffo baiting Mustela into a trap (a rescue party not only containing the prince and his friends, but also half the Long Patrol led by Lotte Spikethumb Thropple, Zimber, his son Pryce, Gald's brother Adelmo Bowstripe and Myodes Lightpaw), and the ferret fell for it: Mustela himself was subdued by the juvenile dormouse Pryce who had Martin's sword, and Wibble was the first to notice his unique feature. Mustela acts peacefully and admits what happened to the king and queen otters, much to Vaniel's horror, though Mustela was beginning to lose faith in Nihilus and hands over all he knew about what his captors would face, and Adelmo reasons Mustela was not evil enough to be punished with death, and decides to let them go on the condition they desert, which they agree immediately. 
Upon reaching Nihilus' ship, Mustela was suddenly wary, not convinced that the woodlanders had left it alone (which they didn't), but his accomplices refuse to listen and leave on it without him. Sure enough, Mustela's concerns proved valid: the ship was sabotaged and the deserters began to freeze to death in ice-cold water, and Mustela promptly leaves them to their fate. By dawn he was back in the fjord unsure of where to go now, not having been prepared for this. Adelmo, his hares, and the Redwall teenagers find him here, and the badger lord suggests he try Castle Marl. Mustela, liking the idea of being a civil vermin, took the advice, although several seasons later he visited Redwall to say hi to Pryce, and even attended the wedding of Vaniel and Saffo.
==Appearance==
He was dressed in a purple-samite and green-coif. His weapon was a rapier.
==Personality==
While Mustela could be cruel, he wasn't nearly as bad as Swartt Sixclaw, in fact Mustela never had a desire for power and conquest and only served Nihilus just because. He does draw the line at some antics though, and began to resent Nihilus after he killed Osclor and Potamo, and even pitied Korlac and Vaniel over they're grief.
==Trivia==
*Mustela's name is the genus name of ferrets: Mustela putorius furo.
==Gallery==
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