Saffo

right|300pxSaffo is a juvenile female otter and a main character of Frozen Terror.
==Biography==
===Frozen Terror===
She was first seen getting ready to leave Redwall with Zimber, Pryce and Myodes Lightpaw. Four days into the trek, they tried to camp beside the Moss River, but relocate when a Neovenator was heard approaching. Despite their attempt to put distance, the dinosaur catches up, though Saffo was awoken from sleep by its arrival. Saffo quickly alerts Myodes while Pryce was also awakened and startles the dinosaur, result in the teens fleeing. They reunite with Zimber, who unfortunately woke up an adder from hibernation. Amid the brawl that erupted between the two reptiles, the woodlanders got away.
Not long after, the four were caught in a blizzard. Saffo wound up taking a wrong turn and got separated from the others, but luckily found a cave to take shelter. The cave turned out to be the home of the bat Lord Blackear and her tribe who help her recover. By morning, now back at full strength, Saffo leaves to find her friends. She encounters Rheneas the magpie, who actually had seen her friends and leads her right to them. After giving her thanks, all four continue to their intended destination.
They eventually reach the coast, where they find Vezok the wildcat and Tritannus the skua harassing three other teenagers: Saffo quickly joins Zimber in rescuing the three, and learns they're Wibble Pintips, Dile and Vaniel Wildlough. They drive the vermin off when Lotte Spikethumb Thropple and the Long Patrol join in, then all go to Salamandastron, where it was revealed Wibble Dile and Vaniel came from Riftgard, which has been taken over by Nihilus the Fiend. Saffo joins in journeying to Riftgard via Ornithocheirus. Along the way she and Vaniel began falling in love, which got the pterosaurs they were riding to set them up in a kiss. 
They manage to reach Riftgard in record time, and Saffo proposes luring vermin out of the fortress by creating a fake-Vaniel. All agree and Vaniel even gives her his royal tiara to disguise her. The plan actually works as their captive turns out to be Mustela Sixclaw, whom Vaniel has met before. Tragically, they discover they were too late to save Vaniel's parents Potamo and Osclor Wildlough, though she and Pryce were able to cheer up Vaniel. After sending Mustela and his cronies off, she joins in breaking into Riftgard, freeing all prisoners and attack the villains. During the fight, she finds Vaniel's sister Korlac Wildlough being held hostage by Talpa the villainous mole, and she and Vaniel corner him in Riftgard's kitchen. She was shocked to hear that Nihilus was a parent to Talpa. She tries to turn him to the good-side, but it was hopeless and he was killed by Vaniel. At the same time Nihilus was slain by Pryce, thus freeing Riftgard, though sadly Zimber didn't survive the battle. She then parts ways with Vaniel, but promises to return later in life. She and her two friends then returned to Redwall on pterosaurs, and many seasons later, Vaniel visits and marries her.
===More Morbidity in Mossflower===
At some point, she gave birth to a daughter they named Retto Wildlough, and later they gain a son named Zorran Wildlough. One day the family and their entourage were traveling to Redwall on the backs of Ornithocheirus when they find several demolished houses. Continuing to Redwall, Vaniel sent Wibble and Dile to look around while the otters head to Redwall. Halfway there, they find a family of hares being harassed by vermin. Vaniel tells Saffo to take the kids to Redwall while he went to save the hares, something she reluctantly agrees to. Vaniel does save the hares and sends them on his pterosaur to Redwall while he followed on foot. When she did reach Redwall, she received a joyous welcome despite the circumstances. She also informs her friends that she already knew about the vermin, and luckily for her Vaniel returns with the guosim, who have just escaped an assault from Pica Eipgam. 
Sometime after that, Pryce's new wife Cilghal gives birth to their daughter Muscardinus, and Saffo's son Zorran instantly bonds with her, though Saffo had to stop Zorran from fiddling with his bellybutton to get him interested. The next day, Saffo was monitoring Retto's progress at swimming, but gets distracted by Eliana Fieldmouse noting Wibble's new boyfriend Pietro Stump, who was rescued from Pica last night, and consoles Macko about Dile until she noticed Zorran taking Muscardinus toward the pterosaurs, but along with Cilghal manages to catch the babes. Not long after, Adorjan and some hares arrive to assist the abbey.
Around dusk, the vermin strike. Saffo helped gather all the civilians into cavern-hole, and gave a farewell to Vaniel when he went out to face the vermin. The brawl was interrupted however, and the woodlanders had to retreat back into Redwall when a Baryonyx arrives. Saffo caught a glimpse of Vaniel beaten up, but alive. She later learns that Vaniel had fought a wearet and lost, and Saffo along with Wibble chastise him for it. Sometime after, she and Cilghal put their babes to bed, but it was interrupted by the Baryonyx banging on the front-door, courtesy of Pica having thrown a sturgeon into Redwall. After that, more of Pica's prisoners escape and take refuge in Redwall.
Saffo doesn't take part in the epic battle that would end Pica, in part due to her parental duties, but her friends that did go return victorious, complete with a still alive Dile. Afterward, she and her family prepare to head home, and heartfully consoles Zorran over leaving Muscardinus while accepting Dile's new girlfriend Macko and Pietro and his family to live at Riftgard. It can be assumed she continued to reign as queen of Riftgard.
==Appearance==
She wears a purple-shirt with a yellow-vest, red-pants and a grey-wimple on her head. Her weapon is a hatchet.
==Personality==
Saffo was shown to be knowledgeable: she was able to identify the Neovenator that had intruded in her tent and suggested luring out vermin from Riftgard by tricking them into thinking Vaniel returned. Of course, she was noble and brave as well.
==Gallery==
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Category:Heroes
Category:More Morbidity in Mossflower Characters