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|title=Mouse Guard - the Black Axe

|author=David Petersen

|publisher=Titan Books

|date=November 2013

|summary=A lovely blend of the surprising and the traditional, as a legend is born. This is almost so good you might believe I mean the book's creator, not his hero.

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Long before there can be peace, there is war. Long before there is something to believe in, there is empty hope. Long before the legend, there is the truth. And so, long before the events of the first two collected Mouse Guard volumes came the story in this third, that of how the heroic, mythical character Celanawe became so notorious. Our tale starts with him just a guard mouse and tutor to those who would follow him, but an unlikely connection to an already fabled weapon is about to be shown to him, in the equally unlikely form of a scholarly old female mouse, Em. When she says the ancient legacy is situated far across unmapped seas, an unusual trio of explorers is pushed to the limit and beyond, in search of the unseekable.