#warrior cats the lake project

[skyscratch-wc]

Some rough sketch maps of the forest territories at the start of Skyfall: prophecies begin and the lake at the end of Skyfall: Power of Five. I flipped Shadow over to the marshy area because i have made them definitively the bog/wetland/marsh group. Also more houses for daylight warriors when Sky shows up.

[jetmultiverse]

Can someone please make a roblox warriors game that works on mobile and isn't crappy 😭

Sure I have a computer with roblox but I don't like how I can't move the camera and I just want to play as a cat

[clanborn]

star climax that i would personally enjoy: splashtail's got frostpaw pinned in their final confrontation, he's this close to finally killing her, and all of frostpaw's fears culminate and leave her frozen, unable to struggle free. curlfeather, through sheer willpower ignited by this immediate threat to her daughter's life, summons all the energy she can muster to project her image into the physical world, visible to both splash and frost. her sheer fury, her mangled corpse--here, present, clawing her way out of splashtail's dreams and into a waking nightmare, here to drag him down to hell with her--spooks splashtail to the core. this either frightens him so bad he suffers cardiac arrest, or he instantly bolts and abandons the clans forever (for the case where he could be brought back as a villain who is ideally no longer lame). once more, curlfeather saves frostpaw's life, this time from beyond the grave, so great is her love for her daughter. with the image of her bloodied mother burned in her mind, frostpaw's conflicted feelings bubble to the surface, feelings she's desperately forced underneath a layer of anger and resentment. frostpaw faces the truth: that her mother manipulated her for her own gain, but also that her mother loved her, and ultimately cared for frostpaw more than her own life. curlfeather was not entirely good or bad, she was simply just a cat, a flawed one, one capable of both good and bad things. hidden in all of her misdeeds was a cat that could be forgiven--and in turn, frostpaw too could be forgiven, and no longer needs to blame herself for every misfortune that had befallen her and her clan. frostpaw is also just a cat, a child under incredible duress, forced to make decisions that no child should have to make. she thinks of every cat that pushed that responsibility onto her--yes, her mother, but also splashtail, her older clanmates, every clan cat around the lake that turned a blind eye to her desperation. even starclan--her all knowing, benevolent ancestors--had stood by while she suffered, had caused her suffering, had used her not unlike the way curlfeather had. what made them different? why was curlfeather punished by cats who were no better? why was frostpaw punished for doing everything right? what distinction did starclan make between "good" and "bad" when all cats were capable of both, including starclan, in all its alleged, unerring kindness?

frostpaw once again does starclan's bidding, touches her nose to the moonpool and receives her nine lives. with each life, cats flash before her vision--harelight, riverstar, jayclaw--but they aren't the cats she sees. in her mind she sees curlfeather, blood on her paws and love in her eyes, and newly named froststar decides what sort of leader she will be. this is the last time she will follow starclan's path, no more will riverclan be subject to their will and their hypocrisies. relying on starclan is what destroyed them, their ancestors standing idle as riverclan tore itself apart for their favor. no more will riverclan force warriors and apprentices in certain roles, no more will it allow complacency, letting desperate voices go unheard. splashtail rejected starclan, but that is not what drove his bloodthirst and desire for power. under froststar's leadership, power would not solely lie in the paws of her and starclan, but shared among her clanmates, unable to be ripped away by a lone instigator, shattered by a single break in the chain.

maybe she'll be the kind of leader curlfeather wanted to be. maybe she'll be better. either way, froststar will lead riverclan into a golden dawn.

[whitehairandtraumatized-bracket]

White Hair and Trauma Brawl Round 1!

alrighty folks its finally time!!!

polls will be posted in groups of 5 and run for three days, voting is based on level of swag, trauma, and blorbo fave!!

and as always, propaganda is encouraged

let the tournament commence!!!

MATCHUPS

(winners of finished polls are bolded/italicized)

Klaus (Klaus) vs. Sage Lesath (Last Legacy)

Ken Kaneki (Tokyo Ghoul) vs. Fushi (To Your Eternity) 

Kalim Al-Asim (Twisted Wonderland) vs. Orion Lake (The Scholomance)

Gen Asagiri (Dr. Stone) vs. The Nefarious Meanie (The Crimes of The Nefarious Meanie)

Senku Ishigami (Dr. Stone) vs. Emilia Justina/Emi Yusa (The Devil is a Part-Timer!)

Hortense/Mist (Guardians of Ga'Hoole) vs. 2B (Nier: Automata)

Fujiwara no Iyozane (Len’en Project) vs. Lysithea von Ordelia (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Toby/Faust (Beyblade) vs. Cecil Gershwin Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale)

Eustace (Granblue Fantasy) vs. Zane (Ninjago)

Kuro/Black Jack (Black Jack) vs. Dream King (Wandersong)

Loop (In Stars And Time) vs. Raiden (Metal Gear Rising)

Shigaraki Tomura (My Hero Academia) vs. Snowtuft (Warrior Cats)

Toi Shiramitsu (18trip) vs. Thief King Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Emet-Selch (Final Fantasy XIV) vs.  Zolf Smith (Rusty Quill Gaming)

Mystic Flour Cookie (Cookie Run Kingdom) vs. Hero (The Property of Hate)

Augustus (I, Claudius) vs. Chat Blanc (Miraculous Ladybug)

Ginko (Mushi-shi) vs. Kuguri Domeki (18trip)

Yuji Kiba/Horse Orphnoch (Kamen Rider 555) vs. Yokoka (Yokoka’s Quest)

Olaf (Frozen) vs. Bagi (QSMP)

Floyd (Trolls 3) vs. Seidou Takizawa (Tokyo Ghoul)

Qifrey (Witch Hat Atelier) vs. Yan Vismok (Library of Runia)

The Princess (Slay The Princess) vs. Kim Ford (The Fionavar Tapestry)

Tommy Shepherd (Young Avengers/Marvel Comics) vs. Soma Cruz (Castlevania)

Edward “Add” Grenore (Elsword) vs. Ariane Yeong (Signalis)

Niko Sasaki (Dead Boy Detectives) vs. Ursula (The Little Mermaid)

Natsume Takashi (Natsume Yuujinchou (the manga)) vs. Jiraiya (Naruto)

Killua Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter) vs. Mathis Quigley (Sr.) (Unsounded)

Tam (Aurora) vs. Icy (Winx Club)

Arlecchino (Genshin Impact) vs. Agito (Origin: Spirits of the Past)

Estinien Varlineau (Final Fantasy XIV) vs. Zero Kiryu (Vampire Knight)

Isana Yashiro/Adolf K. Weissman (K Project) vs. Ethoslab (Life Series SMP)

Mara (She-Ra and The Princesses of Power) vs. Madame Director/Lucretia (The Adventure Zone)

Ryou Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!) vs. Phi (Zero Escape)

Nancy Whitman (Every Heart A Doorway) vs. Max (Sam and Max)

Kiyondo Ishida (Danganronpa) vs. Michel Bollinger (The House In Fata Morgana)

Kiana Kaslana (Honkai Impact 3rd) vs. Professor Henry Hidgens (Workin’ Boys)

Kite (Hunter x Hunter) vs. FitzChivalry Farseer (Realm of The Elderlings)

Kashekim Nedakh (Atlantis: The Lost Empire) vs. Rin Okumura (Blue Exorcist)

Furina de Fontaine (Genshin Impact) vs. Bepo (One Piece)

Nikolai Gogol (Bungou Stray Dogs) vs. Carl Fredericksen (Up)

Riku (Kingdom Hearts) vs. Rime Solano Varela (Last Legacy)

Eda Clawthorne (The Owl House) vs. Lay Grandsley (The Misfit of Demon King Academy)

Magneto (X-Men) vs. Lucy (Bittersweet Candy Bowl)

Mithrun (Dungeon Meshi) vs. Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd)

Nate “Near” River (Death Note) vs. Aaravos (The Dragon Prince)

Asuka R. Kreutz (Guilty Gear) vs. Lenore Vandernacht (Nevermore Webcomic)

Frieren (Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End) vs. Sebastian Morgenstern (The Shadowhunter Chronicles)

Tsubasa Ootori (Beyblade) vs. Haruka Sakura (WIND BREAKER)

Aziraphale (Good Omens) vs. Temenos Mistral (Octopath Traveler)

Lady Maria (Bloodborne) vs. Prince Lotor (Voltron)

Simon Petrikov/Ice King (Adventure Time) vs. Simon Snowlock (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn)

Kaworu Nagisa (Neon Genesis Evangelion) vs. Jiang Ziya (The Poppy War)

Sabitsuki (.flow) vs. Kallin Kessler (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds)

Thancred Waters (Final Fantasy XIV) vs. Ozpin (RWBY)

Hoid (Cosmere) vs. January Sterling (The Mars House)

Claudius (I, Claudius) vs. Captain Ahab (Moby Dick)

Hearthstone “Hearth” Alderman (Magnus Chase/Gods of Asgard) vs. Ace Ukiyo and Tsumuri (Kamen Rider Geats)

Hajime Umemiya (WIND BREAKER) vs. Kuga Yuma (World Trigger)

Haru Sohma (Fruits Basket) vs. Cellbit (QSMP)

Kouji Ibuki (Cardfight Vanguard) vs. Biwa (Heike Monogatari)

Allison Ruth (Kill Six Billion Demons) vs. John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Claudia (The Dragon Prince) vs. Misha Necron (The Misfit of Demon King Academy)

Storm/Ororo Munroe (X-Men) vs. Glass (Hymns for the Road)

Thistle (Dungeon Meshi) vs. Kreia (Star Wars KOTOR)

Shiro/Wretched Egg (Deadman Wonderland) vs. Csevet Aisava (The Goblin Emperor)

Hades (Hadestown) vs. Roxy Lalonde (Homestuck)

Evil Xisuma (Hermitcraft) vs. Guts (Berserk)

Miki Rintarou (A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School!) vs. Liv Moore (iZombie)

Remnan (Gnosia) vs. Yamato (One Piece)

Winter (Wings of Fire) vs. Utatane Piko (Vocaloid)

Jean Pierre Polnareff (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure) vs. Silver Sable (Marvel)

Emilia (Re: Zero) vs. Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga)

Kaitou Joker (Kaitou Joker) vs. Kochi Haruno (ZENO Daily Life)

Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII) vs. Neo Queen Serenity (Sailor Moon)

The Lamb (Cult of the Lamb) vs. Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives)

Susan Murphy/Ginormica (Monsters vs. Aliens) vs. Phainon (Honkai Star Rail)

Hakuri Sazanami (Kagurabachi) vs. Holland Vosjik (Shades of Magic)

Viktor (Arcane) vs. Dr. Two Brains (WordGirl)

Dr Zoidberg (Futurama) vs. Mytho (Princess Tutu)

Kazumi Onimaru (Cardfight Vanguard) vs. Kyrie Usiromiya (Umineko)

(Under Cut) Not Appearing Until Round 2 But Here They Are for Peace of Mind:

Jonathan Harker (Dracula)

Asra Al-Nazar (The Arcana Game)

Norman (The Promised Neverland)

Danny Phantom (Danny Phantom)

Jean Valjean (Les Miserables)

Henry (Fire Emblem: Awakening)

Jason Todd (Batman/DC Comics)

Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Astarion (Baldur’s Gate)

Fenris (Dragon Age II)

Anna (Frozen)

Griffith (Berserk)

Siffrin (In Stars and Time)

Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)

Ekko (Arcane)

Takashi “Shiro” Shirogane (Voltron)

Silver the Hedgehog (Sonic)

TommyInnit (Dream SMP)

Kanade Yoisaki (Project Sekai: Colorful Stage)

Gojo Satoru (Jujitsu Kaisen)

Itona Horibe (Assasination Classroom)

Kakashi Hatake (Naruto)

Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa)

Shion (No. 6)

Weiss Schnee (RWBY)

Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)

Godot/Diego Armando (Ace Attorney)

Lu Guang (Link Click)

Gorgug Thistlespring (Fantasy High: Dimension 20)

Simon Blackquill (Ace Attorney)

Boothill (Honkai Star Rail)

Princess Yue (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Dave Strider (Homestuck)

Edelgard von Hresvelg (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Santa Claus (Christmas/Pop Culture)

Percy de Rolo (Critical Role)

Jack Frost (Rise of the Guardians)

Daenerys Targaryen (A Song of Ice and Fire/game of thrones too ig)

Santa/Aoi Kurashiki (Zero Escape)

Alina Starkov (Shadow and Bone)

Ranboo (Dream SMP) 

Atsushi Nakajima (Bungou Stray Dogs)

Inuyasha (Inuyasha)

Kida Nedakh (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)

Shoto Todoroki (My Hero Academia)

Allen Walker (D.Gray-Man)

White Lily Cookie (Cookie Run Kingdom)

[willicebattlecatsblog]

chemicals in the lake are making the cats GAY >:(

Basically a masterpost about this specific AU

-Lionblaze transman, autistic and won't pick up any social cue.

-Lionblaze is not a calico, he is a chimera

-Lionblaze big guilt and OCD over his power

-Lionblaze fears he will end up like Scourge as a part of his OCD (i have to find a way to let everyone know that Scourge is related to Firestar tho....)

-Lionblaze and Toadfoot only aknowledge each other in The Fourth Apprentice when they are on their way to the beavers and they become gay

-Lionblaze keeps his personality from late po3 (kind of dumb, can't pick up any clue, very ocd, is socially very awkward and clumsy, clearly needs help to navigate social situations properly)

-Lionblaze is very much the same as in canon, very flawed, he is still the most forgiving of the 3 and does try to talk it out with Squirrelflight and Leafpool, he feels very isolated in his clan due to the prophecy, the lies around his birth and Hollyleaf being presumed dead, which makes him more prone to have a relationship with an outsider instead of a thunderclan warrior

-Toadfoot also went through losing a sibling (Marshkit), he doesn't have a canonical father so I think he would be very attached to his mom (Tallpoppy) and remaining sibling (Applefur), he is also seen being playful, friendly and understanding towards Flametail I love toadfoot

-Lionblaze and Toadfoot have big rivals to lovers energy and it was my favorite weird "crack" ship when I was 13

-The AU also centers around the flaws of StarClan and their weird mechanic that keeps changing over time (ashfur goes to starclan because he just found his way there, and leafpool gets to go through a whole trial somehow???)

-Living cats and StarClan fight dark forest first, and then living cats turn more or less against StarClan for being as incomprehensible as possible, doing blatant favoritism, letting bad seeds get in and throwing out overall good cats, and the warrior code will also be reformed because it's way overdue grrrr

-Maybe Dovewing and Ivypool are the babies of Hollyleaf and Cinderheart instead of Birchfall and Whitewing ? I never really liked that Dovewing was indeed linked to the 3 but she was so far away in family tree tbh :((

-Lionblaze will have babies with Toadfoot as some point (Maybe adopted ? I don't know yet) and they won't have many children, and I will do everything in my power to get rid of all the current incest in the books >:(

-I think the babies of Lionblaze and Toadfoot will look like Tallpoppy and Leafpool because i love them

-Leafpool, Squirrelflight and Tallpoppy will both be aware of the relationship at some point, but they will keep their mouth shut and be supporting mothers because they are very cool and progressive

-I don't know if I will ever write fanfiction about this, I am already working on a clangen project, so if I do anything about it it will only be a small side project ! I use this AU to rewrite things that make me happier than the canon version (like making transman OCD autistic lionblaze, i find it easier for me to relate to him) :)

I hope you like it, I shall disappear again for a while now, I have art fight attacks to work on >:)

[troutfur]

Rise of a Genre? - Ramblings on "Shifting Roots" (The Alliance Saga - Clouded Moon, book 1)

From a Warriors OC indie animated series to its retooling into an original fantasy story and now with the release of the first novel in a planned trilogy, Star Cat Studios' Clouded Moon has had quite the tumultous history. Having released December 23rd, 2024 and available not only on the author's Ko-Fi page but also on Amazon and Barnes and Noble, this seemingly not-quite-indie title is particularly interesting to me as a Warriors fanfiction author steeped in the rewrite side of the community.

Throughout my time in the fandom I have seen many rewrite projects grow more ambitious. Eventually many of these have diverged so significantly in terms of plot and especially worldbuilding to the point it made more sense to spin them off into original fantasy stories. Here in the Tumblr space, the word for this emerging genre is xenomoggy, a portmanteau of xenofiction (fiction written from the perspective of a non-human character) and moggy (an unremarkable non-pedigree domestic cat, feline counterpart of the word mutt).

Shifting Roots is far from the first ever Warriors fan project to have found new life as an original propety. In the videogame world, Cattails and its sequel Cattails: Wildwood Story precede it, having been developed on the basis of the fangame Warrior Cats: Untold Tales. However it IS, to my knowledge, the first ever comercially published xenomoggy novel.

I originally envisioned this post as a review of the book, but the more I wrote the more I found myself just rambling about my thoughts on the book. To concisely summarize my thoughts, this is a 6.5/10 book. Definitely above your standard Warriors book, a series which is a very consistent 5/10 read, but still somewhat missing the mark. Regardless, I'd recommend any Warriors fan to check it out and any aspiring author of xenomoggy fiction to study it in order to take advantage of its strengths and avoid its faults.

So, without further ado, my somewhat rambly thoughts on the book below. Beware of spoilers.

The Setting

Right away, Shifting Roots shows its origins as a Warriors OC story. Alliance Lake is very transparently just the Lake Territories featured from arc 2 of Warriors onwards. And the four cat colonies that live on its shores, Oak Colony, Marsh Colony, River Colony, and Field Colony, are very transparently just ThunderClan, ShadowClan, RiverClan, and WindClan respectively. The territories may have been spiced up a little, in particular River Colony's lush tropical paradise and waterfalls, but it's not substantially different.

What really sets this setting apart is the world beyond the colonies of the Alliance. Firstly there's no humans, and thus no cities, roads, cars, or anything of the sort to threaten our cast. This world is for the most part a scorched wasteland, known to the Alliance as the Unbound-Lands. Here, magic users fight for their life in the unforgiving environment.

According to the origin myths of The Alliance, the world is like that because magic users made it like that through reckless use of magic. According to the telling by Unbound cats, however, the source of this bounty is a spell The Alliance placed that seals away magic powers within Alliance territory and redirects it towards the land and the Captains of each colony.

The change of no humans alone is a huge paradigm shift. The core premise of Warriors has essentially always been "What would your cat be up to if they ran into the woods?" Thus, even as the series has introduced more and more fantastical elements, it has had to remain relatively grounded in terms of how much elements of human society these cats can have. Asking the reader to buy into all the other fantastical elements further ungrounds the setting and raises the bar of willing suspension of disbelief required.

Thus it strikes me as supremely odd how the society of the Alliance Lake colonies still sticks so close to the mold of Warriors. Keepers --equivalent to what in Warriors fandom we'd call a "permaqueen"-- and mentors --not the same as a mentor in Warriors, those are called teachers, these are rather their overseers-- are the only new formal jobs introduced. Politically the only rank added is that of envoy, cats that along with elders, herbalists, the second in command, and the captain form a ruling council and have a vote in colony matters. And in terms of material culture there is a mention of a bag once as well as mentions of torniquets and stitches, but not really anything extreme.

Additions to the material culture and division of labor in the Clans (e.g. tool use, crafts manufacturing, and cooking) are easily some of the most elaborate elements of Warriors rewrites and AUs I see around nowadays. Though I don't like them very much at all (at best I put up with them as a concession to the premise for the sake of an interesting story) because of how they clash with the intended feel of Warriors as a semi-grounded story, their ubiquity and popularity clearly shows I'm in the minority. Thus it feels unnecessarily austere from the authors to add so little when their world's premise alone bought them a wide latitude to make worldbuilding additions to their heart's content.

In terms of presenting the information to the reader, it can be argued that a lot of the legwork has already been made by the Warriors novels and given the primary audience for this book has already read them there's very little need to present the world beyond the additions.

I have to admit that as a Warriors reader, I greatly appreciated that we dove right into seeing daily life in the alliance without having to explicitly exposit it, and I particularly appreciated the fact the author did not insert an outsider protagonist to exposit it to. However, I'm not quite sure this set-up will be entirely intuitive to unfamiliar readers. Perhaps if the xenomoggy genre gains traction and some ground ground level tropes come to be accepted as standard in popular consciousness this will not be an issue for future writers.

With regards to introducing worldbuilding elements not familar to Warriors, althought the first few pages of the book with its maps and glossary of terms and list of characters and laws of the Alliance could be considered an info dump, the relevant parts are still introduced well in the text proper.

The Characters

The book follows a core cast of four characters, one from each of the colonies around Alliance Lake, Dawnfrost from Oak Colony, Wildfur from Marsh Colony, Wolfthorn from River Colony, and Spottedshadow from Field Colony. These four are established from early on to be a friend group going back to their adolescent days, as well as there being two sets of cross-Colony partners: Dawnfrost & Wolfthorn and Wildfur & Spottedshadow.

With the use of these relationships as drivers of the interpersonal conflicts for these characters, we once again see the fingerprints of Warriors. These are no bland repeats of forbidden love tropes seen in its source material, however.

The two mollies of the group, Dawnfrost and Spottedshadow, are an exploration of themes of ambition. The former is currently an envoy and leading candidate for Second in Command once Oak Colony's Captain, Elmtail, dies and his Second, Redleaf, assumes the position. The latter, however, is a mentor who rejected the position of envoy, precluding the possibility of ever becoming Second and thus abandoning previous ambitions for leadership, due to the realization of how it would affect her relationships outside Field Colony.

The two toms of the group, meanwhile, are an exploration of themes of social alienation. Wildfur is a social outcast in Marsh Colony and although his Captain seeks to integrate him by giving him responsibilities, such as the training of the new-claw Pool, he resents these attempts and longs to live in Field Colony, a dream he knows is impossible as it's Field Colony policy to only admit outsiders before adulthood. Wolfthorn, meawhile, is a tom that had previously ran away to wander the Unbound-Lands but returned due to homesickness, only to find that under Captain Rainfall's leadership his home colony has turned to a brutal dictatorship and no longer feels like home. Despite Dawnfrost's pleading for him to come live with her in Oak Colony and Wolfthorn's attempts to convince her to run back into the Unbound-Lands with him, they both know they are too attached to their home to ever leave.

Although the four of these are presented from the very first chapter as the protagonists, the point of view character jumps all over the place between characters of all four colonies and even to members of a group of cats from the Unbound-Lands they come to meet later in the story. Arguably, though, this story belongs more to Spottedshadow and her Field Colony friend turned political rival Goldenpelt. She is even the eponymous character of this trilogy as a whole, as when she ascends to leadership she comes to be known as Captain Spottedshadow the Clouded Moon.

Goldenpelt is a very fascinating character and foil to Spottedshadow. As her childhood friend who once dreamed of leading Field Colony alongside her not only as Captain and Second, but as mates, he holds bitterness and suspicion towards Wildfur and the rest of Spottedshadow's cross-Colony friend group for their role in her giving up her ambition. While she is optimistic about cross-colony cooperation he's distrustful and guarded, both attitudes being validated at different points in the story and driving their tension.

This is only amplified when following the deaths of Field Colony's Captain and Second, after he was left as the only envoy, the Spirits Beyond (which I don't think I have to mention are the StarClan equivalent, but just in case...) chose to appear to and bless Spottedshadow instead of Goldenpelt. When she decides to snub him further by appointing a new envoy to make into her Second for fear that him having the position would undermine her newfound power, their rift only grows.

I will say more about this in the plot section, but suffice to say I think that focus on these two as the primary or even solitary PoV characters could have helped to smooth out a very huge plot issue and really zeroed in what was the emotional core of this story. Interesting and compelling as the other characters and perspectives are I do feel very strongly the multi-PoV format was a misstep.

Plot

The plot follows a series of mysterious attacks on Marsh Colony and Oak Colony cats by an unidentified beast that doesn't even eat its victims. After failing to track down its den and suffering serious losses from Oak Colony, Marsh Colony, and Field Colony during an encounter in the heart of the Oak Colony base, the three colonies above agree to send a party into the Unbound-Lands to the presumed source of these attacks and to gather intelligence in how to face it. The questing party consists of our four protagonists (Wolfthorn sneaked out again, of course, as Captain Rainfall of River Colony refused to help) as well as the new-claw Pool from Marsh Colony, the ranger Shrewpelt from Oak Colony, and the ranger Goldenpelt from Field Colony.

After saving an Unbound-Lands wind mage while in the Unbound-Lands, and in gratitude being led to the rest of their group (called a gust), the group finds out that the creature in question is a bear and her cubs who has been using magic of their own to cloak their den. At this point Wolfthorn also fills them in on the Unbound-Lander's more accurate account of the origin myth of Alliance Lake. (As a side note, the bears can use magic because apparently whoever placed the enchantment that limits the magic of other cats within Alliance Lake territory didn't even know other creatures could wield it too. Thus they didn't cast to bind them as well.) Although the wind mages are unwilling at first to follow them back to Alliance Lake to help with their bear problem, as they don't want to give up their magic NOR die, as killing mages is the policy of the alliance, Captain Spottedshadow promises them sanctuary in Field Colony.

Once back in Alliance territory, the party finds out that River Colony has encroached on Field Colony territory in a bloody battle while Spottedshadow and Goldenpelt were absent. In a single scene, Goldenpelt rallies his group of supporters that believe he was cheated out of captainship and they are promptly and swiftly exiled.

This is where I pause and explain my big plot gripe. Though I definitely see where the author was going with regards to Goldenpelt resurrecting his claim to captainship following the revelation of what Spottedshadow's decision to go in the journey caused, it is very important to note this is right after the two of them had an "arc" in the Unbound-Lands to reconnect as best friends. (Arc is rather too generous. It was a bunch of set pieces not too unlike how Warriors travelling books are a series of loosely connected "quick time event" type scenes.) The immediate U-turn comes across as if their previous relationship development was completely wasted time as we are right back at square one just after it resolved.

If Goldenpelt had stayed in Field Colony and rallied his supporters while Spottedshadow was away OR the last 20% or so of the book that we were at by the time this one scene happened was dedicated to Goldenpelt regressing a bit more gradually, I think it would have been worth it. But both of these ideas I hold would work for the best if Goldenpelt and Spottedshadow were the sole PoVs instead of the constant jumping across so many characters. Capitalizing on these two as the emotional core of the story would have greatly elevated the book.

Anyway. After a disastrous Moonlight Meeting in which Oak Colony, Marsh Colony, and River Colony soundly reject Spottedshadow's plans to use the Unbound-Land mages to fight the bears, Spottedshadow takes it upon herself to break the echantment that binds the magic and which is located in the oak tree in the center of Moonlight Island. Oak Colony and Marsh Colony meanwhile set up bait and ambush the bears. Anticipating this move, Spottedshadow moves to bring unwanted reinforcements and with the help of the wind mages they manage to kill the mother bear and one cub, chosing the take mercy on the second cub and simply chasing it out of Alliance territory.

Thus, we end the book with a new status quo. Wildfur gets to live in Field Colony as the mate of Captain Spottedshadow. Dawnfrost is set to take leadership in Field Colony. Captain Hawkshell of Marsh Colony is frustrated in his attempt to take revenge on all the bears. Wolfthorn is being held prisoner in River Colony for his repeated violations of their curfew policy and suspicions of treasons. And in the Unbound-Lands a group of exiled River Colony would-be rebels hear of Goldenpelt and his supporters, who have taken to calling him Captain after a dream visit of the late Second of Field Colony, Forestleaf, that granted him a leader blessing.

I have all voiced all my plot complaints and I can only say that for the rest this is perfectly fine. I would have preferred for there to be more of a murder mystery element with regards to the bears rather than the answer being handed to our protagonists. But I can see why it wasn't and what we got is serviceable enough, really.

Conclusion

Shifting Roots is better than Warriors but not mind-blowingly good. I am certainly interested enough in continuing to read, but I can see how this would be a one and done for a lot of people. I do recommend it to other Warriors fans, if only because it's likely to be of interest and better than the usual Warriors book, and to aspiring xenomoggy writers I once again urge them to study it. But it's not exactly a read I would recommend outside this fandom. I personally think that for the moment we are still awaiting on the seminal classic of this genre.

[clanslist]

The Warriors Instagram has announced Warrior Cats: Lake Territory, an official Roblox project.

It is unknown what this means for Warrior Cats: Ultimate Edition, aside from them having to rename portions of it.

More info to come.

[azacat-alias-lost]

The Fifteen Stars of Fear - Part One: The Clans

Welcome to my The Magnus Archives X Warriors crossover AU! This first post is about the Warrior Clans that the story centers around, as well as basic concepts. You'll find the narrated intro and Clan names/descriptions here.

(All posts about this AU will be tagged with the title and #tfsof au. If you want to support my fic writing and art projects, you can start by following those tags!! It would mean a lot)

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In the deepest reaches of the forest, there lie the Clans. Feral in nature, they denounce the ways of kittypets and their twolegs. There lie the Pacts, groups of rogues and loners that each have a mission or focus. They live in tandem with nature, relying on the world around them to provide what they need.

Or at least they used to.

Something dark and deep, touched by the oldest of stars, made its way into their lives. Beings, known by few and seen by fewer, granted the Clan leaders powers, powers that have since been used to evoke the most primal of fear in cats that belong to other groups.

As time went on, they separated more. As time went on, the fifteen members of The Fearful Council chose their vessels, their Avatars, to carry out their mission. As time went on, certain cats chose paths that ruined them.

And here, their story is told in the form of constellations, the brightest in the sky being a simple chain of fifteen stars.

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SeeClan - Higher cats of this clan are typically blessed by the Eye. These cats, much to the disdain of the other clans, have merged their culture with that of the twolegs. They use artifacts, known to former kittypets as "casette recorders," to collect stories of cats from every organization, stories of strange, unexplainable things that they've seen. They also conduct scavenges each moon, where they venture from their grassy cliffs and caves, carefully cross the Thunderpath, and collect treasures and artifacts from the old, abandoned strip mall. The other Clans have repeatedly shunned them, but when prey runs thin in leaf-bare, the ever-breeding domestic mice in the old, abandoned pet store keep SeeClan well fed.

TrapClan - Higher cats of this clan are typically blessed by the Lonely. These cats focus on building up their own clan, and allyships, rivalships, and wars mean nothing to them. Their entire purpose is either to foster connection, or stay away from it. The fog is thick and heavy on the lakeshores that house the Clan's center camp, and the smooth, water-worn sands and stones are perfect places to fish from. The lake is large, so large in fact that the other side is invisible from their perch. Either that, or the mist is so dense they can't see. Cobwebs are of no shortage here, and spiders seem to creep into every crevice...

VileClan - Higher cats of this clan find themselves to be of the more violent, carnage-focused Fears. Fierce fighters, they pride themselves on their battle prowess. They fight ruthlessly, and if the cat is wise, they won't start a fight with a member of VileClan.

OddClan - Higher cats of this clan are typically blessed by the Spiral and the Stranger. Masters of illusion and disguise, these cats are never quite what they seem. They are some of the most obviously supernaturally-touched. I mean, no cat should be able to walk through a door whenever they please, or make themselves out of plastic and resin. And yet they stand. Their interest in the twoleg culture isn't as strong as SeeClan's, but it is much more apparent than the other clans.

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The other details, such as the main characters and Pacts, will be in the later posts. Keep watch of the tags on this post for more silly things!! Cat Jon is coming soon 👁️👁️

[bonefall]

Are there any changes to Smokepaw (ShadowClan Apprentice in TNP) in BB? He is my all time favourite Warriors character for literally no reason, he existed twice, the second time to fall off a cliff and die, but I love him. I feel like he was a huge waste of potential, in that first time he appeared I thought of Blackstar as a sort of parental figure to him. Think like Firepaw and Bluestar, maybe? Or maybe more like Firepaw and Yellowfang? I'm sure that was just me serious projecting onto like less than a page of screen time, but I am so attached to him. I even made an AU where there was a conveniently placed river that swept him away to the Sundrown Place where he was taken in by Midnight.

Does BB have anything for my little guy?

Smokefall! Given an obligatory Sardonic ShadowClan name after he fell off a cliff and forced the entire journey to halt in its tracks for almost a month!

because shadowclan is like, ridiculously small and the family tree is a brick, Smokepaw (TNP), Smokepaw (Field Guides), and Smokefoot (Po3) are reworked. SmokeFALL survives, Smokepaw is now BILLOWCLOUD, and Smokefoot is SMOGFOOT.

Smog and Smoke are siblings. Billowcloud is not related to them.

Anyway, Smokepaw got REALLY hurt in that fall, but did survive

A (currently unpicked) Tribe cat actually climbed all the way down to get him. He had to be carried the rest of the way.

But once safe, he really couldn't move or else jeopardize his recovery. That, paired with a lack of travelling rations and a few pregnant cats close to delivery halted the Journey.

But Smokepaw still got ribbed relentlessly for "holding everyone up." Poor guy. ShadowClan humor.

Talonpaw got really close to him in that time. In fact, a LOT of cats developed close bonds in this "intermission," including many of the cats who would ultimately support Mudclaw's claim in WindClan.

Brambleclaw and Hawkfrost, as well.

In general, this is a really important hiatus because it's adding some PIVOTAL breathing room for cats to bond free of Clan divisions.

Clan Culture is never really the same after this. It's a change a long time coming.

He is also one of Birchfall's friends. This entire apprentice/kit generation has a very odd view on Clan divisions, because the Destruction of White Hart and the subsequent journey were so formative.

It was actually Smokepaw's "idea" to make Paw Soup. It came from a suggestion towards some WindClan apprentices, that they should try to make an ancient gumbo recipe that hadn't been seen since the start of Heatherstar's campaign.

Birchkit and his big bro Spiderpaw butted in, RiverClan apprentices didn't want to be left out, and the rest is history.

They never did make that gumbo but they made something new.

At the Lake, he also prevents Talonpaw from dying to Jacques and The Dreaded Susan. By also getting his ass beat.

(But that's probably gonna be offscreen because im not dedicating several chapters to it like canon when theres a civil war that should be in focus)

Smokefall becomes the next Educator of ShadowClan, and the mate of Talonclaw. Eventually Smogfoot surrogates a kit for them-- probably Pinenose.

The couple shows up at various points throughout Po3 and OotS as very important friends of Birchfall, and general friendly faces in ShadowClan which is a major ally through the arcs.

Sadly, though, they meet a gruesome and tragic end in AVoS. The Kin is a cult, and once it takes power, it immediately targets the one who teaches history. Smokefall. Talonclaw refuses to abandon his mate.

His position is taken by the infamous Berryheart, who is the educator through TBC. He is survived by several grandkits through Pinenose-- Slatefur, Puddleshine, and Happyface.

[ex1st3nt1al-th30ry]

Does anyone remember the Lake project on roblox? I haven't actually roleplayed there in about 2 years, since it's been dead for like 2 years ofc. There's like a group dedicated to reviving it but most members aren't in my timezone so the roleplays are taking place early in the morning for me. No active Warriors roleplay games can load and run properly without extreme lag or issues on my device and Lake project is like the only one that runs decently smooth. I'd really like to roleplay there again but I don't know anyone who would be interested in warrior cats roblox roleplay with me. Plus I'm super rusty with role-playing and get anxious talking to new people(even in character), anyways, Idk, still sad I watched my favorite game slowly die out, both from WCUE releasing freely and people growing out of it.

I'd give anything to have an authentic roleplay here again where I just join and play as a spectator for a bit before being asked to play a kit or someones mate in an rp

This game is so charming to me, or maybe it's just nostalgia(ig that'd be the term?). I more so just miss the community more than the game

[catniplynx]

im surprised that more ppl on tumblr aren't talking about the official warrior cats team (not sure if it's the publisher or what exactly) killing the lake territory: reborn project in favor of the new wcue lake game

[goosehadfood]

WOOOO FINALLY DOING A INTO-POST!!!!

Hi, I have figured I’ve been on Tumblr for long enough that I need a into post so here it is.

Name: I don’t really care what I’m called on here. My irl name is Evie but no one really calls me that here so I go by Goose.

Pronouns: any, but you get brownie points if you use neopronouns (specifically xhe/xim/xer) and I will definitely choose you as my favorite:>.

Fandoms: Wings of Fire, Warrior cats, Persona 2-5, Madoka Magica, Your Turn To Die, Omori, Splatoon, Chainsaw Man and Project Sekai ( I think I got all of them).

Main special interest: Plants (especially trees & lichens).

Smaller special interests: space, art (especially Impressionism), sewing, geography, fossils and lakes ig.

Birthday: July 21st

Also if you want to draw the fantribes I’ve made PLEASE DO!!!!! I LOVE it when people draw them and if you tag me I will literally salivate over it I love seeing them in different art styles, same with my ocs so go crazy! Go ham!

Annnd I think that covers all the bases, if not I will be coming back and editing this.

[nachowaffles1155]

‼ Warrior cats: Ultimate edition has COMPETITION ‼

Shocking, right? but it does now! and no, I'm not talking about that old lake territory's one, I'm talking about a new Warrior Cats roleplay game:

Lake Territory: Reborn [Beta]

Its out now, and perfectly playable! the player base is positive, and i see very few cons from a newly born game!

Pros:

Positive player base

Clean animations

More herbs! (comfrey, feverfew, etc.)

Simplistic editor

Different editing options in editor (eyeshadow intensity, tail length,)

Specific injury selector (click to add system)

More Clans/Groups! (SkyClan, "deceased" but loners & kitty pets are just "Outsiders")

Has a "Dice roller" for combat roleplays!

Game modes! (survival, vs roleplay)

BIGGER desc & name character limits! (250 for desc, 20 for name)

More to territory's! (Referred to Points of Interest)

not overly loud and annoying background music (I actually fell asleep to it while writing this)

Cons:

VERY early in development, there are no accessories, fur options, prey-hunting, or many animations.

no animation leveling (sitting sideways slightly on a slope, for example)

Models are slightly messy (kit neck looks like a dang giraffe)

Small player base (short roleplays)

Here are some screenshots of the game (and gameplay)

Look at Alt Text to see exactly what's being shown!

Want to play? (GOES TO WEBSITE)

Wanna join their group? (GOES TO WEBSITE)

Twitter (WEB)

YouTube (WEB)

Discord (WEB)

[Experience Description]

🌿 Welcome to Lake Territory: Reborn!

🐈 Become a warrior cat and play out your story in the Lake territories! Hunt and fight for your Clan, heal and care for the injured, or grow up as a kit and experience life your way. Shape your own destiny within your Clan and find new friends in this cat roleplay game!

⚠️ This is the Beta version and content will be added over time until full release.

🎮 Controls:

• Q and E to adjust the character movement speed (Q = Slower, E = Faster)

• Press 'Ctrl' to enter Action mode and hold 'RMB' to lunge forward • Press H to use your Scent Vision

• Type "!mod [Your Reason]" in the Chat to call a Moderator into your Server

• Other key binds can be found in-game

🤝🏼This Experience is not affiliated with any other Warrior Cats project.

[End Description]

Now, Go forth and be a War Cat!

not sponsored, i wasn't paid though i wish i was

[cappuccino-bear]

Here's the roles I came up with in my Warrior Cats rewrite!

Present in all clans officially, and will be noted in the allegiances:

Cook: responsible for mantaining the freshkill pile safe from any disease or worms, preparing and cooking food and keeping track of rations and food trade between clans. Works with the Primehunter to regulate food intake for the clan.

Builder: responsible for campkeeping, directing construction projects and major crafting projects, is also responsible for keeping track of leather processing and any other type of important crafting tradition.

Primehunter: responsible for hunting patrols alongside the deputy, keeping track of prey population and organizing pest control, such as driving away competition by sending away predators.

Nurse/chaperone: responsible for the wellbeing of parents and kittens, works with the cleric to keep track of health and medicine intake in case it's needed, gives advice to parents and helps with the birth.

Teacher: responsible for the education of students (cats from 3 to 6-7 moons) in history, defense, medicine, hunting, cooking and crafting. Helps the leader assign mentorships based on a student's strenghts and preferences. Is also responsible for codekeeping, the act of choosing the correct punishment of codebreakers, but cannot enact it themselves.

Secondary clan specific roles, which are not "official" but will be recognized as a skill of a specific warrior that is useful:

SHADOWCLAN

Bridger: responsible for the building of bridges and safe pathways in the bogs and adjacent areas of Shadowclan, and for keeping track of the amount of maintenance required to keep them safe.

Dam-watcher: required to keep up with the maintenance of the dam, directing maintenance and expansion projects. (Lake territories only)

Toadnurse: responsible for the care of the pond of toads, where tadpoles and young nymphs are collected to be used as food during winter.

WINDCLAN:

Tunnelers: cats who exclusively hunt, patrol and build inside the tunnels in Windclan territory. Will divide themselves in more roles privately. (Now defunct after Heatherstar's war).

Sentinel: responsible for guarding the camp, the moors and the hunting parties by standing on Sentinel Rocks and looking over their charge. Will alert the clan in case of danger by whistling or shouting loudly. The Role is often taken by nurses/chaperones when they're not looking after queens or kits.

Poolguide: responsible for leading visiting cats to the Moonpool safely, harboring them in the makeshift camp nearby and hunting for them after their visit. (Lake territories only)

THUNDERCLAN:

Branchseeker: responsible for hunting, patrolling and leading cats in trees, plus checking for parasites and sickness in bird nests. Excels at climbing, jumping through branches and leaping. (Refuse from ancient Skyclan migrants)

Trapper: responsible in the art of crafting traps, weapons and rope in order to catch bigger prey, such as deer, boars, badgers and stray geese. These are used only in dire situations, it is dishonorable to hunt other smaller animals in such ways.

Gardener: responsible for planting and tending to the Brightglade Garden in the lake territories. Also responsible for the trading of seeds and herbs to other clans, therefore works closely with the menders. (Lake territories only)

RIVERCLAN

Drypaws: responsible for all land-hunting expeditions, leading all patrols on land and noting any geese or duck nests in dangerous areas.

Furnurse: responsible for the care of the fur of other clanmates, making it hydrorepellent through fat and oils, untangling mats or foreign bodies from it, braiding it out of the way etc. in order to make swimming and diving easier and safer.

Icehunter: responsible for icefishing and hunting during Leafbare. Will lead all patrols in order to crack the ice and get the fish out as quickly and safely as possible.

Diver: responsible for all mussel and clam diving in the lake, processing and cooking them, and trading the shells out to the other clans. (Lake territories only)

MODERN SKYCLAN (Skypoint Falls)*:

Eaglewatcher: responsible for looking for eagles, keeping cats safe from them, hunting them down and processing the skull to use to make tools out of.

Stoneteller: responsible for making the mountain pathways safe, noting where rockfalls might happen or if stalagtites are about to break.

Daylight Warrior: Kittypets who have plead to the life of a warrior but return to their Twoleg nest once night falls.

*since it is entirely rewritten, fusing the Tribe of Rushing Water and Skyclan, all roles function a little differently but I will get into it at another time.

[savebatsartedition]

And So We Fall - Fully Animated Fandom AMV

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Warnings: Eyestain, flashing lights, minor injury, and minor spoilers for SOME of the fandoms included. (All of them are listed below in order.) 

There are unfortunately two small visual glitches and an audio glitch in this recording. You play have more luck with the scratch link (IF you have a beefy computer). The other recordings I tried to do crashed my computer. 

I ran out of tags to tag everything so I picked four random fandoms to not tag.

Scratch link: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/504709298 Originally shared: Jul 12, 2024 

(More notes under the cut.) 

Instructions: If you couldn't tell from the DSMP part, I've been working on this for a WHILE. ^-^' (For reference: As of 2024, I have been working on it for at LEAST four years.) 

 It's a little off time, and it's kind of scuffed but yeah.

Please don't steal or recolor or trace or anything! None of that! 

Fandoms: Dream SMP (Ranboo lore) Pokemon DPA (Koya) Hetalia (Germany, Italy, Japan, England, Russia, France, China, America.) 3rd Life SMP (Grian) Warrior Cats (Jayfeather) Gameknight999 (Gameknight999, King of Griefers) Pokespe (That part where Gold got thrown in the lake) Miraculous Ladybug (Cat Noir and Ladybug) HTTYD Books (Windwalker) PJO (Percy + Hades and Persephone) Magic Tree House (Jack and Annie) Beowulf (Grendel's Mother and Beowulf) Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword (Link + the gate of time) Kirby's Epic Yarn (Prince Fluff and Kirby) Servamp (Litch and Lawless) Series of Unfortunate Events (Sunny) Norigami (Yato +Yukine in sword form) Pokemon Anime (Ash) Brother Bear (Kenai, Bear Form, then human form) My Little Pony (Rainbow Dash) Hamlet (Hamlet) Spiderwicks Chronicles (Mallory, Simon, Jared) Animaniacs (Yakko, Dot, and Wakko) A to Z Mysteries (Josh, Ruth Rose, and Dink) Warrior Sheep (All of them, focus on Wills, the phone) Sonic The Hedgehog (Sonic The Hedgehog) Dungeon Meshi (Chilchuck)  Hermitcraft 8 (Impulse, Pearl, Mumbo, Scar, Grian) Prodigy Math Game (The Puppet Master) Disney's Fairies (Vidia + Mushroom with pixie dust) How To Train Your Dragon Movies (Toothless pre film) Scratchcraft (Mallonations, Stormlordzeus) The Iliad (Achilles and Patroclus) Shark Wars (Velenka, Goblin) Me :3 

Sorry to Cleopatra in Space, Amulet, Narnia, Danny Phantom, Harry Potter, Wild Cratts, The Hobbit, Foxcraft and all the other things I like very very much but didn't even get into this amv. Also sorry to the parts, Pokespe in particular, which are way too short for how much I love them. :") 

Notes and Credits: @savebatsfromscratch (me) for the animation and code. Scratch bitmap is the program of choice. The Stupendium on YT for the song. The creators of the characters.

[post-clans]

History of the Post-Clans

The Post-Clans are a fan-Clan/AU of Warrior Cats based around a universe in which an offshoot group of cats from the lake territories left the lake to return to the forest territories. I have purposely kept it unclear exactly what caused their exodus, but I usually imagine it to be the result of a conflict between the lake Clans.

A group of cats, made up of a handful of warriors from each of the five Clans, left the lake territories on a journey to return to the forest territories. When they arrived, they found out that the Twoleg invasion that had driven the original Clans out of the territory had been abandoned. The Twolegs had begun to build their nests on what had been WindClan territory, but they built one of their nests right over one of the moor’s tunnels, which caved in and collapsed the nest. Deeming the land unsafe, the Twolegs gave up their project, leaving the territory alone. Now, two abandoned Twoleg nests lie on the moor, one of which is fully built but abandoned, and the other completely collapsed into the tunnel cave-in.

The damage that the Twolegs and their monsters did to the territories cannot be undone, but in the years since the Clan cats first left, the forest has begun to recover. Fourtrees was completely uprooted along with the Great Rock, but a new tree has begun to grow from where they once stood. The Post-Clan cats call it the Great Tree, and believe it to be a descendant of the now-gone Fourtrees. Right now, it is still a small tree, but it is large enough for the Clan leaders to use it for Gatherings.

Also during the time after the original Clan cats left the forest, StarClan spoke to a kittypet descended from the Clan cats, and urged him to found a new Clan. Made up of recruited kittypets and loners, this new Clan, JewelClan, makes its home in the vast cave system connected to the Moonstone cave. They hunt deep in the caverns and share with StarClan at the Moonstone, even in the several years where they were the only Clan living there. When the Post-Clans came back, JewelClan was accepted as the official sixth Post-Clan. They gave up the Moonstone cave as neutral territory, but they still occupy the rest of the cave system connected to it.

When the refugee cats from the lake Clans found their way back to the forest territories, they decided that while they were still Clan cats, they did not want to try and re-create the Clans they had come from. Because ThunderClan, ShadowClan, RiverClan, WindClan, and SkyClan still existed, out of respect for them the refugee cats decided to found their own new Clans.

The former ThunderClan cats took up the forest territory of the old ThunderClan, calling themselves SunClan. The former ShadowClan cats moved into the swamp territory of the old ShadowClan, calling themselves NightClan. The former RiverClan cats claimed the riverland territory of the old RiverClan, calling themselves RainClan. The former WindClan cats made their home in the moorland territory of the old WindClan, calling themselves GaleClan. The former SkyClan cats decided to make their territory in the rocky foothills and gorges outside of the Moonstone cave and JewelClan territory, a piece of land not unlike the gorge that SkyClan once lived in. They called their new Clan RidgeClan.

These five Clans along with JewelClan make up the Post-Clans, which operate under a similar code and traditions as the original Clans, though with some notable differences. The Post-Clans coexist in the same time as the original Clans, but have no active contact with them.