Axtel Sturnclaw was a war-hammer-wielding mole warrior who helped Buckler Kordyne, the Guosim shrews, and the Redwallers to rescue the young ones that Vilaya and her Ravagers captured. The first warrior mole in the Redwall books, he was known as a berserker, or one who was filled with the Bloodwrath in the midst of battle, which was usually only a characteristic of Badger Rulers. He was a loner and a wanderer, tunneling along underground and smashing up large rocks with his hammer. If he ever killed any vermin, he would throw their carcasses up into the trees so that the earth wouldn't be sullied by their bodies.