#series: warriors: super edition

[jazzyslibrary]

one of my shelves! the super editions are all second hand but who ever owned them previously took good care of their dust jackets so i'm thankful for that! i have all the novella collections save for "a warrior's choice". and i think i have all the graphic novels too! but i haven't read most of the books on this shelf.

i read bluestar's prophecy, crookedstar's promise years ago when i was a young teen. and i re-read firestar's quest last year.

[smogpool]

ITS LEAFPOOL!! She’s my absolute favorite character. I love her so much. Number 1 Leafpool fan

[pigeonclaw]

I never understood when people who love a specific character want the Erins to write a book about their backstory or motivations or expand on them in any major way. Trust me buddy, any theories you craft about those things will be better than anything the Erins have to say. Sometimes this stuff is better left to the readers to ponder.

[fortune-maiden]

Warrior Cats Reread #1: Into The Wild

Some friends decided to organize a group read of the Warriors series and since I grew up with these books and loved them a lot as a kid I decided to join in

Idk how far I'll get into this reread (my hope is to at least finish the first arc) but I thought it'd be fun to write up some thoughts as I finish the books :D

iirc I first read Into the Wild when I was in middle school after a friend convinced me to try the series and my mom bought me the first book of the og series & new prophecy during a family trip (possibly to make me less whiny since I remember being very bored on that trip and I think I was actually almost done with Into the Wild by the time we were heading back xD)

Anyway, I remember reading several of the first series books multiple times but for some reason never the first one. Which is a shame because its a great book and I remembered some parts of it pretty vividly! The conflict with Brokenstar and him training young kits before they were ready, Yellowfang's exile and friendship with Firepaw, Tigerclaw murdering Redtail and Ravenpaw being a witness and being forced to escape at the end or risk losing his life... There's a lot of good stuff!

Also Spottedleaf I guess.

Actually the #1 thing I remembered from this book is that Spottedleaf dies and it is very sudden and weird and for some reason she becomes Firestar's Lost Lenore in later books. I thought maybe they had some meaningful scenes in this book I'd forgotten that showed them building a bond or her being kind to him at a time when most of the clan regarded him with suspicion...

But nope! It's exactly as I remembered xD

Maybe most of this bonding occurs after she's a force ghost?

Although she died a lot further into the book than I expected so there is that I guess!

Other things of note:

Bluestar my beloved! I vaguely remember her being my favorite character as a kid and I still love her!

Yellowfang my other beloved! I still love you so much!

Ravenpaw is a good bean who deserves the world. And also wow was Tigerclaw determined to kill him in this volume!

And speaking of Tigerclaw killing cat-people, I could have sworn he was responsible for Lionheart's death but I guess not? Maybe?

I had completely forgotten that Wind Clan was a non-entity in this book, having been driven out. I vaguely remember them being pretty helpful in this arc and then turn into the worst clan later

There is so much murder and attempted murder and talk of murder in this children's book series and I wouldn't have it any other way <3

Overall Into the Wild is a great first entry into the Warriors series that eases the reader into the setting and the way of the clans (even if you can kinda tell things were still being figured out at this point). Brokenstar makes for a great first antagonist to be defeated at the end, while a more sinister threat looms in the background raising more questions and mysteries for Firepaw to explore in later books

[beauzos]

i'm like 70-80 pages into Into the Wild and so far, have to say. i love Bluestar. i missed her so much

[willow-wc]

Echosong

This is Day 5 of ABC Warrior Cats. For the letter E I did Echosong. The SkyClan medicine cat in the gorge. I didn’t like her character in Firestars quest, but when I read SkyClans destiny I liked her a lot better. Anyway I hope you like her!

[yagurlhere]

I HATE Breezepelt.

I honestly do not get how People like him. Or like the Warriors series or any characters AT ALL after all this unfair treatment.

[wander-wren]

warrior cats needs to continue long enough for them to let me write a novella. i don’t care what novella i just wanna write one. it is my silliest dream

[darudedogestorm]

in the warriors mood rn contemplating many things. i hate it so badly when people call a character 'poorly written' just because theyre a bad person. like clear sky. was he a dick, yes, was he poorly written, no (for warriors standards). onestar is more debatable (i have not read his se so i'm going off of the stuff i can remember in the main series) but it really does grind my gears when i see people say that he should've stayed as firestar's nice windclan friend because anything else would be 'bad writing'. like okay maybe the execution couldve been better but him being a dick in and of itself is not bad writing.

[cozmo-the-mighty-chinchilla]

Wack that warrior cats takes place in fantasy Britain and the cats have not ever come across any standing stones. Wild. Insane. I want them to find a group of cats the worships the stones in their own wacky cat religion.

[black-salt-cage]

oh yeah I finished dawn of the clans today. AMAZING arc. the ending of path of stars had me in tears

with all that said

F U C K CLEAR SKY AND STAR FLOWER

[jazzyslibrary]

most recent books i picked up at dymocks when i was in town last week. looking forward to reading crowfeather's trial once i get to re-reading omen of the stars!

[shadowed-yet-vibrant]

I know I'm just recently getting back into Warriors after... oh, ten years? But Hawkwing's Journey is easily the most brutal Warriors book I have read yet, at least in terms of personal tragedies. I cannot think of a single character that has gone through as much in such a short time as Hawkwing. Someone give this guy a break!

[nonbinary-weirdo]

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well I finished the first four arcs!! what the fuck!

[rcarrionplacev2]

Complete Warriors PDF on Library Genesis

First Series Original Covers: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

The Prophecies Begin

The New Prophecy

Power of Three

Omen of the Stars

Dawn of the Clans

A Vision of Shadows + Bonus Scenes

The Broken Code + Bonus Scene

A Starless Clan

Super Editions

Novellas

Field Guides

Colored Graphic Novels

The Prophecies Begin Graphic Novel: 1

Non-Colored Manga

Graystripe's Adventure

Ravenpaw's Path

SkyClan and the Stranger

Tigerstar and Sasha

The Rise of Scourge

[sorreltail]

here’s my timeline, spanning from the autumn of 1997 when bluestar was born to the summer of 2004 when fire and ice ends. I love being autistic. It’s not complete.

it is mostly focusing on spottedleaf and mousefur’s lives and trying to figure out their timelines, because the “bluestar leadership pre-ITW” 2 year period is like a dumping ground of vague darkness where every single thunderclan historical event gets sent to die. sometime during that is when a bunch of warriors get disabled, renamed and sent to the elders den. that’s also when thistleclaw dies. I do not respect novella canon btw. those things r full of lies

one thing the timeline has revealed to me that i am very fond of is redtail and bluestar. he became a warrior at the same time as she became deputy, after a very short apprenticeship. he’s given mousefur as an apprentice almost instantly after becoming a warrior. he’s only like 6 months older than her and he’s only had 6 months of apprentice training and no warrior experience! but he does a good job. and clearly bluefur sees something in him. within the year she’s leader with him as her deputy. her right hand man :)

literally a month or two before rusty shows up is a massive plague that kills 7 cats total, including featherwhisker, so spottedleaf only becomes the sole medicine cat at this point. she receives what’s probably her first prophecy (fire alone) and then her brother gets murdered to death and she is dead too within six months. a short and crazy career for her and honestly no wonder she became obsessed with being like a spirit mentor to fireheart. can u imagine if u got the prophecy for the chosen one and then ur like oh boy i JUST got promoted to being the leader of the church around here and it’s my job to guide the chosen one? and then u get murdered. And ur like. Was that really my life’s work. it can’t be over. That was too important. anyway

my main 2 resources for this are the timeline on the warriors wiki, which has its own firestar-as-jesus style of dating … YBF=years before firestar . I love it. Then there’s kate carys timeline which sets Into The Wild into 2003, the year it was published. I love that too. It feels right. I merged those, so if you’re on the warriors wiki, 1YBF is 2002, 2YBF is 2001, etc . 1997 is 6YBF. 2004 is year 2. i supplemented the available info from the blog and wiki with my own research in the books. I favoured earlier and main series canon over later and novella canon, though super editions like bluestar’s prophecy and crookedstar’s promise took precedence over TPB where I felt the info made more sense. there are almost certainly fuckups. Some stuff I couldn’t find any canon mention of so I just put it where it logically would’ve had to go.

yeahhh so that’s basically that. it’s something ive got as a supplemental thing for my spottedmouse writing and drawing. Always working on it.