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| - He is described as a rabbit almost as large as a hare. He is depicted with a savage look, complete with pale eyes, and fur color of undecided thought. Woundwort is orphaned at a young age when his father is shot by a human and his mother is killed by a weasel. Afterwards, he is taken in by a kind professor, who lives in a cottage and owns a cat, which occasionally torments Woundwort when the man isn't looking. Once Woundwort is fully grown, he attempts to kill his first of "the thousand": the cat he lived with. After severely maiming the cat, Woundwort escapes, and finds his way to his first warren. He quickly usurps leadership, killing the lead rabbit and a rival named Fiorin. He then begins his militarian rule and conquers several other warrens, killing off their leaders personally. Thus
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| - He is described as a rabbit almost as large as a hare. He is depicted with a savage look, complete with pale eyes, and fur color of undecided thought. Woundwort is orphaned at a young age when his father is shot by a human and his mother is killed by a weasel. Afterwards, he is taken in by a kind professor, who lives in a cottage and owns a cat, which occasionally torments Woundwort when the man isn't looking. Once Woundwort is fully grown, he attempts to kill his first of "the thousand": the cat he lived with. After severely maiming the cat, Woundwort escapes, and finds his way to his first warren. He quickly usurps leadership, killing the lead rabbit and a rival named Fiorin. He then begins his militarian rule and conquers several other warrens, killing off their leaders personally. Thus Efrafa is born. Shortly after, Efrafa is taken over by another evil rabbit and General Woundwort kills him, making him respected among other rabbits. Soon General Woundwort's Efrafa is too large to be maintained as warrens should be, and is transformed into a secretive, strictly-militaristic one, where all rabbits are given over to a strict code for when to silflay. Woundwort is a master schemer, and his strict code stops Efrafa from becoming plagued with disease, or being discovered by the thousand, or by humans. The Owsla becomes the great goal for many of the bucks, with patrols that spread out far and wide, tracking the whereabouts of the thousand, and of various humans. However, many of the does are discontent, since they are unable to breed properly because of overcrowding. When Bigwig infiltrates the warren, he earns the General's respect thanks to his size and strength. When it turns out Bigwig only arrives to liberate a number of does and Blackavar, General Woundwort becomes obsessed with revenge against the former Sandleford rabbit. He holds a hatred for Bigwig for the remainder of the book, swearing to kill him personally. Woundwort loses the respect of Efrafa after the escape of Bigwig, Blackavar and the does, along with the escape of the rabbits of Watership Down. In order to redeem what he sees as a personal failure, Woundwort takes the best of his legendary Owsla, along with some new bucks, to destroy Bigwig and his warren after learning of its location from his most trusted subordinate, Campion. On the journey to Watership Down, Woundwort drives off a pair of stoats. The Efrafan Owsla reaches Watership Down, and once the warren is found, the General is confronted by Hazel, who offers a peaceful treaty with Woundwort, but is dismissed and told to "tell Bigwig" to unconditionally surrender. The Efrafans then besiege the warren and when they finally break through the barricades, Woundwort himself goes in first. Bigwig, in a last minute scheme to get one better at Woundwort, digs himself under a thin layer of dirt, then, when Woundwort passes over him, jumps up and injures the General's foreleg so severely that Woundwort is forced to hobble on three legs. Despite this crippling blow, Woundwort puts up a savage fight against Bigwig and wounds him, but ultimately succumbs to exhaustion and backs down. Bigwig further tricks Woundwort, saying that he's not the chief rabbit. This shocks Woundwort, who automaticly assumes there is an even bigger and stronger rabbit than Bigwig, not realizing that the lead rabbit is the small, but clever Hazel, who is already off on a scheme which will end Woundwort's reign forever. When the General leads Efrafa into the Battle of Watership Down, Hazel leads Dandelion and Blackberry to Nuthanger Farm, to release the black laborador, Bob, and lure him to the Efrafans. Thanks to the speed of Dandelion and Blackberry, as well as the gnawing of the rope by Hazel, the dog is unleashed on the Efrafan Owsla. When Woundwort hears all the commotion, he abandons Bigwig and emerges from the warren to find the entire battle turning into a bloodbath. General Woundwort is the only rabbit of Efrafa to stand his ground against the black labrador; the rest flee. Woundwort faces the dog and is never seen again. Some believe he was killed, while others believe that he still lives on. He lives on in ghost stories; rabbit parents would tell their kittens that if the didn't do as they were told, he would come for them; "such was his monument, and perhaps it would not have displeased him."
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