The Beast comes to have a word with the Woodsman wanting to discuss the situation. The woodsman tries to give the brothers useful advice but they immediately run off not heeding a word of his warning. The Woodsman arrives to warn Wirt and Greg that the beast knows of their presence and is hunting them as they speak. The Woodsman demands the Beast to leave the children be not saying a word of which direction they went. The real Beast arrives and notes that the Woodsman is running out of oil and suggests that he take the lantern for a while, but he refuses and is willing to fight him again as he did before for the lantern, but the Beast states that violence isn't needed and asks him where the children went. He knocks the lantern out of the Woodsman's hand and runs off with Beatrice. A scream is heard beyond the tavern, Wirt goes and finds an unconscious Beatrice right by the woodsman, at the foot of an edelwood tree, and deduces that he really was the Beast after all. He states that the Woodsman had tried to warn them about the Beast and pointed them toward civilization to avoid him, but the Tavern Keeper rhetorts that the Woodsman must be the Beast, as he carries the dark lantern, and that his advice made them more lost than before. Once caught he turns them into trees of oil so they could feed his dark lantern, Wirt is confused saying that although the Woodsman fit that description for having a lantern he never douses and grinds edelwood trees to keep it lit. To keep the lantern lit the Woodsman had chopped down Edelwood trees (trees of oil) to feed the lantern, unbeknownst to the woodsman, the Edelwood trees originated from the lost souls of children.Īs brothers Wirt and Gregory arrived in the woods of the Unknown, they were found by the Woodsman who offered temporary hospitality, pointed them in the direction of a nearby town, told Greg to give his pet frog a proper name and warned them of the beast.Īfter Wirt, Greg, and Beatrice journey to a mysterious tavern, the locals warn the brothers of the Beast, an unholy creature who stalks the night and captures children who are lost. The beast had made a deal with the Woodsman to put his daughter's soul inside the Lantern and would live on as the flame inside the lantern as long as it stayed lit. The Woodsman was able to fight the beast and took his Dark lantern as his own. They lived peacefully until his wife was injured by an unknown animal (possibly the Beast), and died of the wound. The Woodsman is voiced by Christopher Lloyd, best known for his role as Doc Brown in the Back to the Future films and the Necromancer Rasputin in Don Bluth's Anastasia (1997).īefore the events of Over the Garden Wall occurred, he was a municipal judge who made powerful enemies, forcing him out of the city and into a country house living with his wife and daughter. This did not mean that he was a villain, often helping the two boys. However, the Woodsman only chopped Edelwood trees as the Beast told him to so that his daughter's soul would stay lit in the Dark Lantern. The Woodsman can potentially be seen as an ex-follower of the Beast. The Woodsman is a character who appears in Over the Garden Wall. Protector, Fool, Pawn, Redemptor, Lantern Bearer Woodsman's Wife Deceased † Inactive in The Unknown Anna Deceased † Active in The Unknown He Who Carries the Lantern (by Tavernkeeper)
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