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The Mother and the Jaguar

On the Isle of the Stars, there are two clans - Waveclan and Magmaclan. While the clan of waves regard their ancestors in the stars, Magmaclan has a deity that receives their worship. The Mother is the spirit of the island itself, most clearly represented in the island volcano. The lava that still flows on the island is seen as her Blood, and Magmaclan believe that all life is born of the Mother and returns to the Mother. 

The Jaguar, the Mother’s first child, fell from grace long ago, and now haunts every cat’s nightmares from where it resides in the Forbidden Temple, hidden away in the deepest recesses of the Dark Wilds...

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~~The Mother and the Jaguar~~

This is a tale told to kits while in the nursery and has been passed down since the early days of Magmaclan…the story of the first spirit that was blessed with the mother’s love…

In the early time, before clans or tribes or even legends, there was only the Mother and Her creation. The land was still raw and red from the Mother’s pain, with the magma that is Her blood flowing freely over much of the island. However, life was beginning to bloom more and more each day. The jungle was lush and plentiful despite being small and young.

The Mother loved Her creation, but She loved it alone, as there was no one else to marvel in what she had made. The Mother cried tears of loneliness, and thus her tears fell into the pools of lava that still burned and boiled. The spot where the tears fell sent up clouds of steam which solidified into red and black rock. A figure began to form from the magma and took its first steps away from the volcano. The Mother saw that it lived and She breathed Her own spirit into its form. This being became Her first child, a true ideal of life. It was full bodied, possessed sheer strength, and was cunning to divine proportions…a perfect being, almost comparable to that of the Mother herself. 

The Mother named her beloved creature Jaguar, and together they roamed the island side by side. The Jaguar was pleased with the home it had been born into. However, it grew to desire something more to its existence. The Jaguar pleaded to the Mother, “Please, give me skin, so that I may feel the warmth of your embrace…,” and so she did. The Jaguar was granted a gloriously spotted pelt that allowed it to hide beneath the shadows of the jungle trees.

However, the Jaguar was still not satisfied. “Mother, please, give me claws, so that I may climb your mountains, and worship all of your creation,” and so she did. There was nowhere on the island that the Jaguar could not go.

The Jaguar was still not pleased, however, and once again asked the Mother for her blessings. “Mother, please, I am alone. Give me children, so that we may all bask in your love…,” the Jaguar pleaded. The Jaguar was indeed a figment of the Mother’s own self and shared her desire to create and to have beings made of its own flesh. The Mother did not grant the Jaguar’s plea. Instead, she created other beings to fill the jungle - beings with wings, scales, claws, and tails.

The Jaguar was not pleased; it desired to look upon others that were like itself, made in its own image, just as the Mother did herself. And so, the Jaguar took the claws that were gifted to it by the Mother and pierced its own body. The Blood dripped down from its spotted pelt and into the island, where it began to take on a form of its own. These were the first children of the Blood of the Jaguar...

The Mother was deeply disappointed with the Jaguar’s actions. She did not approve of these creations that were not directly made from Her will. The Jaguar tried to beg the Mother’s forgiveness, but the Mother was inconsolable. She shunned the Jaguar into the thick jungles of the island, refusing to allow the Jaguar or its children to bask in her warmth. The Jaguar grew bitter and cold, losing its warm orange glow, its skin smoldering into black ashes and smoke. The Jaguar and its children would forever remain in the jungle, far from the Mother’s embrace.

The Mother mourned the loss of Her only child and wept for six sunrises and six sunfalls. On the seventh night, the moon rose in its fullest brightness, and the Mother continued to weep. Her tears fell into the Blood of her creation, and steam once again began to rise. Several new beings stepped out of the Blood and through the Mother Caves. Their paws touched the splendor that is the island and they vowed their undying love to the Mother. On this day, the Mother ceased to weep, and she embraced her new children. These beings would live on to become the great Magmaclan, blessed in the eyes of the Mother.


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Jellybird gets flustered with any kind of physical contact, especially from attractive toms

Jellybird is mine, Fintail belongs to Tangledink in my discord roleplay Isle of the Stars

Art belongs to me! (message me for commission info if interested)

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Sunsparkle, Medicine Cat of Magmaclan

OC belongs to user Emeraldskies in my discord roleplay Isle of the Stars (message me for info!)

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Slither of the Jaguar’s Tongue, a character from my discord warriors roleplay Isle of the Stars

Also part of our server wide art fight! 

Character is not owned by me, but the art most certainly is @isle-of-the-stars

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I have a very large, old succulent that I’ve had for years, and as I was watering him the other day, I wondered if he had dreams of being a dragon, like I often do

And so, here he is

Design and art by me

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Design and art done by me

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If I were a dragon, this would be it

This design and art are all done by me

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An animated gif for a user’s oc in my warrior cats server, Isle of the Stars

Flamedusk is a Fire Dancer of Magmaclan. She must dance her heart out for the Mother, and helps guide others into this pure form of worship @isle-of-the-stars

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Two short little animated gifs for users in my warrior cats server, Isle of the Stars

Maggot (top) is a member of the Cult of the Shadow Jaguar. They’re possessed, and very stinky

Glowstone is a Guardian of Magmaclan. He’s a big sweet dummy

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Animated gif of a user’s of in my warrior cats server, Isle of the Stars

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short animated gif of a user’s oc in my warrior cats server, Isle of the Stars

Fintail is a rather stoic warrior, and he enjoys burying himself in the sand at least once a moon

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a long boy

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