The weasel Burrad was the leader of a band of 13 mixed vermin (five weasels, a ferret, two rats, two stoats, two foxes). The band originally belonged to Burrad's father, but when he died Burrad took over. They came from the Northlands. One member of the group is never named, and it is likely that Brian Jacques simply forgot that he was writing about a 13-member-band rather than a 12-member band, or, when Bragoon and Sarobando first encountered them, Bragoon counted 12, while Saro counted 13. Bragoon could have been right, and not Saro.