Polleekin

"Bad fortune awaits you if you return to Marshank"

- Polleekin's fateful prophecy



Polleekin is a protagonist in Martin the Warrior. She is an old mole wife, widowed, who is a Seer and lives a solitary life far North of Marshank. Polleekin is very hospitable, ready to give food to the travellers in her wood. She sees Martin and the travellers walking one day and throws honeyed scones to them. Martin, thinking it must be some supernatural wish-granter, asks if she could give him a flagon of cider, but she jokingly answers that she can't be throwing heavy flagons or someone would be hurt. Grumm recognizes Polleekin as a mole like him. She appears and takes them to her house in the woods. She is a very good host and gives them delicious food. They stay at the house for at least a week, and she tells them that their friends and Brome are still alive because she can see the present and future. She doesn't know how she can but she just can. She also prophesizes that if they return to Marshank, something bad will happen, and says just to go to Noonvale. Polleekin gives them a riddle as a map, and says to meet the Warden of Marshwood Hill.

She reappears in the end of the book, and is witness to the fight in Marshank. Her prophecy comes to pass when Badrang kills Rose. Martin gets reclusive and depressed and vows to leave society. Polleekin is last seen when Martin walks South, and she murmurs that although he is miserable and alone now, one day he will truly find happiness, and that for many generations everyone will know his name, another prophecy she makes that also comes to pass.