#WC family tree

[bonefall]

Unrelated to the new book blurb:

do you have any tips on processing the absolute mess that is the family tree? Like, how does one put it into smaller bites for re-doing/adjusting? How does one even begin to rework it when it's such a confusing tangle?? I'm just so overwhelmed by the tree(s), and I've read the whole series (because I would love to re-work it, but FUCK).

I will be 100% earnest with you; reworking the tree from scratch as a single person is both difficult and time consuming. I have a penchant for it, and even I'm not completely done. I make my reduxed trees totally free to use so that others at least have a jumping-off point for your own "cleaner" Clans.

So my most helpful tip would probably be Don't. PLEASE take my trees and cut them, prune them, bonsai them, clean them up even more than I did, anything you'd like. I do not wish this fate on my worst enemy.

That said-- let's say you love pain as much as I do, or you just want to see how much work I put into these trees. I'll babble about my process.

This is my WIP file for the ShadowClan Family Tree. Consider this image a content warning for self-inflicted pain and suffering 💕

Uhhh and also; an ACTUAL, serious content warning. Because of the nature of them asking how to fix trees on their own, I have to talk a little about incest. It comes with the territory.

A few things to know before you start;

You will need a FUCK OFF MASSIVE monitor for this. Mine is an ASUS a little under 2 feet long-- I've tried doing this on my smaller, secondary monitor, and these trees just get too big to work on.

FamilyEcho will not cut it. You NEED an art program. You will have to do this by hand, because there is no lineage-drawing tool that can handle families this large and tangled.

You will need to decide your "rules" beforehand. How closely related are you allowing valid couples to be? Are you allowing Queen's Rights? Can you add OCs, and if so, how often? On this point-- I have my Three Strict Rules, and do not use OCs. Because of this, I do a LOT of research beforehand and usually have the wiki open as I work on these. I'm always scouring for forgotten warriors to use for this.

There are going to be multiple drafts. You will not do this in one go. That does not mean you "failed" or you're "stuck," that's a good thing.

With all of that out of the way.

Usually, the first thing I do is pick a Clan to work on. There's over 1,000 cats in this series, so I break that up by picking one group at a time. Once I do that, I draw out the canon chart.

In this case, I've already drawn out all of the canon charts. River, Thunder, Shadow, Sky, Wind.

I call this a Diagnosis because I'm taking a look at what the problem is, so that I know what I'm fixing. In Shadow's case, it's a solid brick of inbreeding with a "missing generation" line. In ThunderClan's case, it's mostly a Robinwing x Fuzzypelt problem. Each Clan has its own unique issues.

Once you know the issue, step two, start drawing out what you want to do and keep. For example, let's say that you want to use the Ivy/Dove as Holly/Cinder kittens idea.

I generally try to start with the "modern" cats and work backwards, but it can also be helpful to just doodle out floating "branches" that you want to work in backwards.

You can see examples of those in my ShadowClan draft, up there, but I've zoomed in and circled them.

Don't be afraid to draw "notes" like this. You can just grab them and drag them around when something clicks!

Getting back to our "example" tree with Holly/Cinder Ivy/Dove, you might notice now that Lionblaze has no mate. Another thing I do when I see an immediate problem but don't have a solution in mind yet is use a little ? mark. You don't want to get hung up on deciding everything RIGHT away.

Now, this is where my 3 Strict Rules would come into play, in two ways! I'm sure you'll be able to spot them. For one, Lionblaze has waaaaay too many kids here who would go on to have kittens of their own, so I'd start breaking them up. For two, this tree makes Ivypool and Fernsong a first cousin pairing, something I don't allow.

You can fix this in any number of ways, and I'm sure there's someone out there shouting their preferred Lionblaze ships and Alt Fernsong Parents like they're the crowd on a game show, but for this demonstration I'm going to do this;

Here, I decided I didn't want to undo FernIvy, but I still want Fernsong to be Clanborn with two parents, so I have removed him from Lionblaze and given him unknown family. I've also taken Sorrelstripe and Spotfur, and moved them to a little spot on the side. I can now use them to patch up the little ? placeholders.

You'll also notice this is already becoming a mess. This is why you will need to redraw this a few times, for readability. The best tip I can give you for that is that families who only have one kit to carry on the lineage should go in a long line in the center, but otherwise, offspring who do not have kits should go between their siblings who do.

It's easier to visualize it imo, so here's what I mean;

The vast majority of the time I spend doing these is just "puzzlework." Trying to figure out a way to make line connections look good, making sure cats are far enough apart, trying to make "wishlist" stuff work.

Here's some insight to that with the big ShadowClan mess I showed at the beginning of this post;

And, mind you, this is Draft 3 of this tree. Those grayed-out parts of the first image were my first two. I wasn't satisfied enough with them, so I started from scratch several times!

I wish I could share some kind of good, simple process for this, but unfortunately I don't have one. It's just a lot of work, familiarity, creativity, and problem solving. I spend days, sometimes even weeks on these. My intention is that they can be a fandom resource that's easier to read than the website tree, less carelessly inbred with more thought given to immediate family units, AND more comprehensive.

In any case, I hope this was insightful, or these tips I share helped in some way!

[wyrm-clangen]

So I heard that the new book protag Moonpaw was a Bay/Thrift kit and I just had to.... I had to make a family tree about it. It's a circle, I am BEGGING the Erins for new blood, please-

[mousetoe-wc]

Palebird Rewritten Family Tree! My First Windclan Family tree rewrite! Windclan was surprisingly easy for me. Now on to the Notes:

Tallpoppy and Applefur of Shadowclan and Tawnyfur of Windclan are the kids of Rabbitear. Tallpoppy and Applefur were stolen during into the wild when windclan was being chased out by shadowclan.

Rabbitear died in the battle and Tawnyfur was nursed/raised by Ashfoot and Morningflower, Gorsekit, Tawnykit and Eaglekit were inseparable.

Wrenflight is Onewhiskers mother because I find considering the Windclan leader problems in TNP.

[of-course-its-gorse]

The quickest, simplest change to fix most of Thunderclan's cousin problem: make Brackenfur-Cinderpelt and Brightheart-Thornclaw not littermates

I've seen this elsewhere before and I love it; have one of the sets of two not be Frostfur's kits but instead fostered by her. Most often I like to give Brightheart and Thornclaw to her as her birth litter because they are described as her kits and looking like her the most, and then I make Brackenfur and Cinderpelt Rosetail's kits. She died defending the nursery after all, and Frostfur could have taken over their care after. This also explains away why they were apprenticed at different times as well. It's so easy to take in as canon that I don't think nearly any text contradicts it.

And just like that Lilyheart and Snowbush aren't first cousins. Ivypool and Fernsong aren't related through Brightheart and Brackenfur, and neither are Sorrelstripe and Dewnose. (Although Bristlefrost and Stemleaf is still weird. Bristle is 4 generations away from Frostfur yet Frostfur is Stem's grandma because, old man Thornclaw needed kits I guess)

[mist-dancing]

My Warriors Family trees, all the way up to recent books and events.

Thunderclan

Shadowclan

Skyclan

Windclan

Riverclan

Hi i’m Mist/Tide and I’m so normal about Warrior cats that i dedicate months of time and energy into stupid stuff like this, coming soon:

Entire genetically accurate family trees

A table of EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER EVER MENTIONED BY NAME, what books they appeared in, and when they died. (I’ve already done Thunderclan)

And a graphs of every death in each clan and what is most common.

[meadowclan-clangen]

The Meadowclan Family Tree!

I suffered greatly making this. Redrawing every cat as a little simplified face, keeping the blood-lines straight, finding everyone's dead/missing siblings, creating an outline that's accurate but still readable--this bad boy took a hot sec, haha.

It also made me realize how many of Rivermeadow and Dandelionflutter's siblings are dead/missing. Those poor kitties!

It's a bit obvious here, but Meadowclan needs some new blood if it's to keep going without any...cousin-marriages. The natural disaster that's going to wipe out most of the clan will certainly help with that, I suppose.

[hello-sputnik]

Jake's immediate family tree (so parents, spouse(s), siblings, and children).

Mocha and Nutmeg are both Abyssinians. And I forget who came up with the headcanon, but Quince is a singapura cat which is why Scourge is so small. I also like to headcanon crystal as a Turkish angora mix.

Also because there is no info about them, I made Ferris and Whiskers girls.

[Image ID: This a digital drawing of headshots of warrior cats character Jake's family tree. It includes his parents, spouse(s), siblings, and childrenz making for a total of 16 cats. There are 3 rows.

(For context in terms of breeds, somalis are long-haired Abyssinian cats, with the pattern for both being a ticked tabby. Singapura cats are ticked tabby + burmese colorpoint pattern)

On the first row left to right:

Crystal, Jake's mother - a mainly white molly with a splash of orange and black on her forehead. She has pale blue eyes.

Mocha, Jake's father - a reddish chocolate Abyssinian tom with orange eyes.

On the second row left to right:

Ferris, Jake's sister - a chocolate Somali torbie with a white muzzle and moss green eyes.

Whiskers, Jake's other sister - a chocolate Abyssinian torbie with a white muzzle and moss green eyes.

Jake - golden or wideband cinnamon Somali with a white muzzle and forest green eyes.

Nutmeg, one of Jake's mates - chocolate Abyssinian cat with pale gold eyes.

Quince, one of Jake's mates - black singapura cat with pale olive eyes.

Tallstar, one of Jake's mates - solid black oriental like cat with a white muzzle, and a white splotch over his left eye. He has yellow eyes.

On the third row left to right:

Tommy, son of Jake and Nutmeg - solid chocolate cat with a white muzzle and jade colored eyes.

Filou, son of Jake and Nutmeg - solid cinnamon burmese cat with leaf colored eyes.

Luna, daughter of Jake and Nutmeg - golden or wideband chocolate Somali with a white muzzle and yellow eyes.

Princess, daughter of Jake and Nutmeg - cinnamon Somali with a white muzzle and forest green eyes.

Firestar, son of Jake and Nutmeg - golden or wideband cinnamon burmese ticked tabby, with bright yellow-green eyes.

Socks, son of Jake and Quince - solid black burmese cat with a white spot on the right side of his face and another white spot around his left eye. His eyes are a dark orange.

Ruby, daughter of Jake and Quince - black long-haired burmese ticked tabby with a white muzzle. She has dark orange-red eyes.

Scourge, son of Jake and Quince - a solid black cat with faint rusting and a white chin. He has ice blue eyes. / .End]

[sonnysonder]

Hi i'm making a rewritten WC family tree and I just have to ask is it weird for siblings to date siblings from another family? Like if you had two sisters from one family and two brothers from another and then they paired up and had kits would that be weird/cause me problems down the road?

[wc-wild-rewrite]

Firestar's Family Tree by Arc 7! (This may change)

Needless to say, Firestar's kittypet gene of Big Litters carried over. That and Clan culture really likes naming after dead people.

The color coding for the clans is based off what they are currently in or were in during their death, not birth clan.

Changes to canon under the cut, and some explanations:

Relation Changes: -Breezepelt is part of Lion, Jay, and Holly's litter, alongside his no-longer-dead littermates, Raven and Bracken. -Dovewing and Ivypool are now Hollyleaf's kits, as Cloudtail's side of the family do not count as Firekin in Starclan's eyes (Fireheart gave up family rights to Brindleface) -Dewnose now has Myrtlebloom and Bayshine without a recognised mother, for bloodline's sake -Dustpelt and Sandstorm are now siblings, and Redtail & Runningwind are their dads -Cloudspeckle is now the adoptive mother of Redtail and Spottedcloud -Rainstorm and Mintfur are actually Rainwhisker's, but are raised by Reedwhisker -Spiderleg and Shrewfeather are Ferncloud's only kits, who she had without a disclosed father

Name Changes: -Crowfeather is now Crowstorm, as Stormfur was the prophecy cat and not Feathertail -Feather Of Flying Hawk is now Storm (That Hawk Flies Through), in memory of Stormfur -Nightheart is now Nightshade, and was born Nightkit -Sparkpelt is now Sparkfire -Spottedleaf's name has been changed to Spottedcloud, as she does not become a medicine cat -Crookedstar has been changed to Stormstar -Halftail and One-eye have been changed to Sparrowpelt and Whitespark -Tommy and Filou have the warrior names of Sparrowstalk and Paleflame -Shrewpaw survives, and takes the name of Shrewfeather in honor of the quail he tried to catch -Scourge has the warrior name of Icefang, and had a litter with Mossheart, who survives -Ivypool becomes Ivystar at the end of A Broken Code

New Characters: -Lionheart's litter has been fused together into Sorrelsong, Snapwhisker, and Hollyspot. -Jayfeather now has a litter with Briarlight, and took in a litter of two from Kestrelflight -Alderheart has a litter with Puddleshine and Fidgetflake -Firestar and Sandstorm have a litter shortly after Firestar's death -Shrew and Squirrel had another litter -Harper is added into Jake's litter, and has two litters of his own -Stripe is added into Crystal's litter

Memorial Namings: -Sparrowstalk after Mocha's warrior name, Sparrowpounce -Spottedcloud after her mother, Cloudspeckle -Blueflower after her mother, Moonflower -Snowstorm after her father, Stormtail -Whitestorm after his mother, Snowstorm -Stormfur after his grandfather, Stormstar, and his uncle, Stormkit -Feathertail after her great-grandfather, Featherwhisker -Flamespring after his father, Firestar -Rainstorm after his father, Rainwhisker -Crowstorm after his friend, Stormfur -Lark after their granduncle, Larkkit -Storm after their uncle, Stormfur, their great-grandfather, Stormstar, and their granduncle, Stormkit -Roseleaf after her cousin, Hollyleaf -Jayleap after his cousin, Jayfeather -Dandelionburr after her aunt, Dandelionkit -Rowankit after his grandmother, Rowanclaw -Bristlekit after his cousin, Bristlefrost -Stemkit after his father, Stemleaf -Graykit after his great-grandfather, Graystripe

[h3mogoblinz]

Valleyclan Family Tree

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

This took too long and too many glitches, but here is one/two families done!

BASE BY SUPURRNOVAE

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--I never really thought about the fact that Fernpaw's nephew becomes a medicine cat. Aww. And his mentor is most likely his grandfather.

--I imagine either Aspen and Hollow trained together or Aspen mentored Hollow and that's why they have the same suffixes.

--I also imagine that Running and Lion are a gay couple, with Lion being trans ftm!

--Hey look! It's Graveldusk! Remember him? Yeah, his brother was killed for being an abusive jackass. Hound knew that his brother, Gravel, would step up and raise the kits, Puddlekit and Deepkit, as his own (which he did).

--Puddle died in the same flood that occurred in Gorsedaisy's Nightmare. Hollow had just turned six moons old at the time, and has a fear of water because of it. He never felt right in the Clan after that, and left it for Shadowclan along with his uncle. There, his uncle (who yes, hates his name because of that damn flood that killed his sister) met Crowbark and had kits with her.

Deep did step up and help Hollow after his mom died, but didn't officially adopt him, was only a guiding presence for him.

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@ambitiousauthor @wills-woodland-warriors @starfalcon555 @umbranoxs @elementaldeityoffood

[mousetoe-wc]

The FrostFour and WhiteWillow family tree rewrite!

Only one thing really changed with the frostfour is now I added Snowkit, but now he dies much younger from natural causes and half his “story” goes to Mistlekit and the other half goes to Cloudtail.

Mistlekit is now apart of Tawny and Brambles litter and gets taken by the hawk trying to protect their litter mates. Cloudtail is now deaf and with the help of Dappletail, Fireheart and Brindleface they make new ways for Cloudpaw to hunt and fight, I don’t want to ramble too much because I’m gonna make posts for characters some time in the future.

Ok on to the WhiteWillow family, Graystripe and Darkstripe have the same father, Graystripe stays in Riverclan and doesn’t have kits with Millie but him and Mosspelt are besties and he ends being the sire for Willowshine.

SorrelBracken has less grandkits, Lilyheart has no kids and CinderLion only have two daughters Hollytuft and Honeysnap, who is a combination of Honeyfur and Snaptooth.

Molepaw has been renamed Sootpaw after his uncle and also Sorreltail has a history of twins in her family so Cinderheart and Molepaw are twins.

Family trees that relate to this one:

Dawnfeather and Mistpelt // Larksong // Daisytoe // Daisy // SandFire // The Apple line

[of-course-its-gorse]

Here are some of my personal favorite first arc family tree headcanons

Willowpelt and Darkstripe as littermates. With Darkstripe called old and Willowpelt called one of Bluestar's senior warriors once, i think it makes a lot of sense for them to be the same age. They also share unique pelts, being pale gray and silver stripes, which in real life would probably be the result of the silver/smoke gene. Because of that I also often give them to One-eye as her kits, as she is another pale gray cat.

I do really like the idea of Graystripe being related to them, but because it's stated that Sorrel-Rain-Soot are Willowpelt's first litter, I like to tack Graystripe on as Willowpelt and Darkstripe's younger brother from a second litter.

Next, I'm a strong advocate for Lionheart and Speckletail being littermates. Lionheart is a senior warrior, and Speckletail doesn't become an elder until the later half of the first series. I think them being siblings makes a lot more sense than Speckletail having kits immediately after becoming a warrior with a cat way older than her.

This next one changes a bit as I see fit, but I generally like Frostfur, Redtail, and Spottedleaf being the kits of Dappletail, with Spotted being from a second litter. Frostfur and Redtail being older-but-not-yet senior warriors who lost their deaf littermate as a kit feels right to me, and still keeps Spottedleaf related to the other tortoiseshell cats in the clan while also giving Dappletail her implied second litter.

I drop and add Brindleface as Spottedleaf's littermate depending on whether I consider Redtail the father of her kits as well. I really like the two young she-cats being sisters, being a bit older than Longtail but only just establishing their place in the clan when Rusty shows up.

Feel free to ask me about any other of my thunderclan family tree ideas! These ones are just the most consistent for me, if I went into every option I consider for all the cats we'd be here all day

[cryptid-wc-designs]

Alright I have completed the Thunder Clan family tree! though I am open to suggestions for changes! also tell me if I missed any cats!

Reminder! this tree is meant to lessen the amount of inbreeding in WC while changing as little as possible!

heres the link to the family echo!

And below is a list of changes I made and the instances of inbreeding that I am allowing to exist.

Thunder Fam tree list of changes:

Poppydawn and Sweetbriar are no longer sisters. This creates two separate bloodlines early on.

Flashnose and Daisytoe are no longer sisters. This creates two separate bloodlines early on.

Birchface and Frecklewish are Pinestar’s full siblings bec I don’t see a reason why not.

Stonepelt (Bluestar’s mentor) is Stormtail’s brother so he has an origin 

Windflight is no longer the father of Dappletail, Thrushpelt and Tawnyspots, they are only Rainfur’s kits with an unknown sire. 

Redtail, Spottedleaf and Willowpelt’s mother is now Rosetail (unknown father), Leopardfoot and Patchpelt are no longer their siblings and still have their OG parents (Swiftbreeze and Adderfang)

Longtail is now Frostfur and Brindleface’s full brother for simplicity. (Parents: Robinwing and Fuzzypelt)

Ravenpaw and Dustpelt are Dappletail’s kits w/ no known sire.

Sandstorm’s parents are Redtail and Runningwind

Ferncloud, Ashfur and littermates, are no longer Whitestorm’s, they are only Brindleface’s w/ an unknown sire.

Swiftpaw and Linxkit are now Tigerclaw and Goldenflower’s kits like Bramble and Tawny, for simplicity.

Fernsong and Sorrelstripe are now adopted, Hollytuft isn't though and was originally a single kit

Lilyheart and Seedpaw are now Hazeltail’s kits w/ no known sire

Larksong is now adopted 

Inbreeding Instances I’m allowing (3 gen back minimum):

Whitewing and Birchfall (3 gen back)

Squirrelstar and Bramblestar (4 gen back)

Lionblaze and Cinderheart (4 gen back)

Dovewing and Tigerheart/star (4 Gen back)

Spotfur and Stemleaf (3 gen back)

[airocats]

[residences-of-the-darkforest]

IT’SSCOOLLOOKSTIYANDJUSTLOOK

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JACKDAE WNDNFERN BEING FLEA’SADOPTIVE PARENTS

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Various characters belong to the lovely: @residences-of-the-darkforest @liberhoe @ambitiousauthor @starfalcon555

Due to the sheer size of some of the extended families (cough BrownMouse, eye out family, and webspawn cough) this only contains direct relations and excludes a lot of half siblings / step siblings / siblings in law of the mates any sprout family bloodline have coupled up with. This is mostly because of WebStripe, someone please neuter him /j

there’s a lot of little details in the family line I don’t think I’ve ever actually talked about, such as FishDrops many-year-long crush, and how GoldfishFur ties in the whole QuickStar’s legacy (of 300 cats, 16 of which are in the dark forest)

Shoutout to @chaos-n-bees for motivating me to finish this piece