Friar Butty was a male squirrel who started off as a Redwall Abbey kitchen assistant, and later succeeded Mother Buscol as the head friar. Later, he succeeded Craklyn as the Recorder. When he was younger, he helped Abbess Tansy and her friends to find the lost castle Kotir, buried beneath Redwall. The squirrel brought back a good deal of treasure from the ruin, at the expense of falling into an underground swamp and covering himself with phosphorescent mud; the treasure was later used to make medals for veterans of the Ridge of a Thousand conflict. Not to be confused with Butty Wopscutt.