He later made good this promise, coming back to inform the Abbey residents of the return of the Pearl Queen. Though the Abbey dwellers asked him to stay, he chose to live out his days building boats on a Mossflower stream, but promised to the Dibbuns that he would visit the Abbey again someday. He then went back to the Abbey and returned a silver and gold chalice that Slipp had stolen the previous evening. However, Blaggut decided that he had experienced enough evil, and strangled his captain to avenge the Badger Mother's death. Dragging Blaggut with him, Slipp fled the Abbey. When Slipp discovered that it was nothing more than infants' playthings, he attempted to harm Furtil and Mousebabe, but was prevented from doing so by Mother Mellus, whom he fought with and slew. Later, the two rats returned to the site and dug the 'treasure' up. Slipp and Blaggut had encountered the shadow before and were terrified of it, so the sea rat hastily took the Dibbuns back to the Abbey. Under orders from Slipp, Blaggut convinced the two young ones to show him their 'secret treasure,' and was about to dig it up when a ' black shadow' appeared on the ramparts. They befriended the two infants, and accompanied them back to Redwall Abbey, where Blaggut discovered his ability to build boats.

Retreating into Mossflower Woods, the pair found two lost Dibbuns, Furrtil the mole and Mousebabe. After a war party led by Finnbarr Galedeep and Joseph the Bellmaker captured the vessel to sail to Southsward, Blaggut and his captain, Slipp, were the only surviving members of the crew. The Bellmaker Blaggut was a sea rat who originally served as boatswain on the ship Pearl Queen.

Joseph the bellmaker