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Vultures are holy creatures.

Tending the dead.

Bowing low.

Bared head.

Whispers to cold flesh,

“Your old name is not your king.

I rename you ‘Everything.’”

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just read this and I'm gonna be changing some of the history/backstory for my fanclans. this is one of the biggest issues in warriors and I didn't even realize I was doing it.

its super super important that everyone take the time to read this!!!

please read this educational document covering anti-indigenous writing in warriors:

https://twitter.com/telekitnetic/status/1439730865051881474?s=21

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Reblog if you want your followers to ask you anything they're curious about.

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Herb Guide: Basic Hygiene

A quick aside for @kingmystrie​ who has a stinky Clanmate

[Image ID: sketch of a cat licking its outstretched leg]

For the most part, a healthy warrior can be expected to keep themselves perfectly clean. Cats have special tongues with ridges on them perfectly evolved to keep their coats shiny and healthy.

When a Clan cat is long-furred, sick or elderly, or displaying signs of mental distress, the Clan will give them special attention to keep them clean. This is not just a job for the medicine cat; allo-grooming is a social behavior, close to the heart of a collectivist cat culture.

Herbs only come into play when hygiene becomes a health problem. The two most common issues are Mats and Fleas.

Mats

Time to clear up a common misconception; a mat is not a knot. A mat is what happens when a knot tangles with a bunch of other knots, wrapping up dead skin, dirt, layers of shed fur, and other gross debris into a solid mass. If a mat has formed, there’s been a breakdown in proper care!

When they do form, they are likely to form where the cat has trouble reaching, like the lower back.

Not only are mats filthy, but they can also pose a health hazard by weakening and pulling painfully on the skin below, allowing infection to take root. Mats must be removed as quickly as possible, before they become too large. Taking care of mats can take several painful, time-consuming days.

Oil made from flax seeds can be use to lubricate and loosen them, if the mat is not too large to be a lost cause. Carefully brush with claws, teeth, or a bone comb, if your Clan is capable of simple carving.

The best treatment is to carefully shave the area. A sharpened mussel shell, or a flint or stone blade will do. Take care to not cut the skin below, which could be thin and sensitive from bearing a mat.

Fleas

Aside from ticks which are treated with the infamous canonical mouse bile, fleas are another concern to Clan cats. While they’re only annoying to adult cats, they can sicken elders and kill kittens if they become a camp-wide infestation.

Prevention

Fleas can’t be completely eliminated, but Clans go to great lengths to keep them at bay. Cedar chips are used as den flooring, especially in the nursery, producing a fresh pine smell that insects can’t stand.

Mint can be planted around the camp and rubbed into fur to repel fleas and prevent them from leaping onto a patrolling warrior; but this is kept away from the nursery as mint is extremely poisonous and babies have a bad habit of putting things in their mouths.

Treatment

“barkface what do if flea outbreak bad TIME SENSITIVE“ -Kestrelpaw, desperately texting StarClan

For a VERY bad flea infestation, an herbal bath is an easy but detested solution. A large clay bowl (or, in SkyClan, a stolen birdbath) is filled with water for soaking, vinegar for killing, and a blend of mint and lavender for repellent. From there, the unfortunate warrior is plunged in, usually yowling and crying, and forced to soak for an hour.

Repeat for every. Single. Infested warrior. Even if they are WAILING LIKE BABIES.

They must be prevented from licking clean after this bath. Licking the bathwater off will poison the Warrior from the mint. Since it’s only a repellent, the mint could be optional, but WILL be included if the camp is actively infested… in spite of the soaked warrior’s grumblings.

The number one flea-killer, bar none, the GOLDEN KING of bug eradication, is none other than SALT. In addition to being a seasoning, having as much salt as possible in the medicine cat den is invaluable for controlling flea breakouts. Salt will be added to the herbal bath when it’s available.

In the Forest Territories, there was no salt. In the Lake Territories, collecting salt takes a long journey to the beach, and a patrol capable of carrying it home. As far as the Clans are concerned, salt works miracles so these trips are scheduled visits.

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random notes to get to know the clans

EmberClan

- territory is a thick forest on the western side of the valley

- cats spend the majority of their time in trees, like SkyClan but more extreme

- Political system: Monarchy, matriarchal line of succession

- Warrior role is split between Predators (hunters) and Claws (fighters)

- Cats will decorate themselves with various accessories (bug wings, flowers, leaves, etc) for ceremonies, holidays, according to rank, etc

- matriarchal society, female > male

- BIG focus on motherhood and raising kits, not necessarily in a "you are supposed to have kits" way, but a "That takes a lot of work and you are a cats first mentor, greatest influence, and the backbone of the clan" way

- most common threats are birds of prey or dead/falling trees

- Worship 4 deities, each related to one of 4 seasons

NightClan

- live in other half of thick forest, east part of the valley

- Political system: Theocracy (based on religion)

- Leaders are "divinely chosen" - leaders get signs telling them who their successor should be

- Very religious clan

- Leader is political lead and spiritual lead, med cats are strictly healers and have no explicit spiritual role

- Not much of a focus on bloodline - cats are all raised by the same cat and mothers leave the nursery as soon as their kits are weaned

- apprentices do not have an assigned mentor - training them is the shared responsibility of all warriors

- black cats considered beautiful, white cats considered holy

- worship ancestors and a singular god that is seen as the leader and power of starclan itself

RidgeClan

- live in the northern part of the valley, more in the mountains than the valley itself

- Live entirely underground, windclan tunneling to the extreme

- Political system: Council

- Used to have a political structure similair to canon warriors, with an undertone of the physically strongest cat being the leader, but has recently been changed due to RidgeClan's Civil War

- Dedicated roles for Mentors and Constructors - cats responsible for making sure tunnels/caverns are safe and sturdy

MistClan

- token water based clan

- live in the southern part of the valley where the river leaves the valley and all rainwater/runoff pools

- Political system: Democracy

- Leaders are voted for using a pebble system similair to the ancient cats

- All ceremonies happen at a waterfall out of camp, with the exception of burials

- dedicated mentor & mediator roles

- Prefer diplomacy and conversation over battle, would rather solve things with words

- clanblood elitists, least likely to take in outsiders

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torn between wanting to finish an animation meme with one of the main characters or work on drawing clan allegiances

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Designs for the clan leaders! I want each clan to feel uniquely they’re own, with physical differences & even different government systems between the clans, & the leaders are step one! Plus I wanted to take a break from writing lore and draw cats.

From left to right: QueenMother Russetnose of EmberClan, Glowstarsight of NightClan, MothTiger of MistClan, and ThriftRidge of RidgeClan

Transparent ver & image description under the cut

[ID: A digital drawing of 4 cats. The first cat is a large, fluffy female with green eyes and orange-brown fur, sitting at a 3/4 angle facing the viewer. Her ears, tail, and a stripe running from her nose down her back are a slightly darker orange-brown, while her chest, paws, and lower half of her face is slightly lighter. She has 2 cuts on her right ear, a scar across her right eye, a scar across the bridge of her nose, and two scars right next to each other across her back. To her right sits a black male cat, notable shorter & thinner, with yellow eyes and facing away from her. He has white eyebrow dots, a white blaze on his nose, white front paws, and a white tail that is curled around his paws in front of him. On his right a golden brown female steps out from behind him, with a cheerful expression and curly fur. She is a similar height to him. She has bright blue eyes, darker brown rosette patterns across her body, and freckle-like markings of the same color. The final cat in the lineup is another female, sitting at a 3/4 angle the same way as Glowstar, with her front paws out as if she is bracing herself. She is predominantly a grayish-brown color with richer brown patches across the left side of her face, her shoulders, her paws, and most of her tail except for the tip. She has heterochromis, with the left eye being yellow while her left is green, a scar underneath her right leg coming up to her chest, & a v-shaped slash on the tip of her right ear. End ID]

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Hello, I'm Sola (they/fae/she)!

This is my sideblog dedicated to my Warrior cats fanfiction turned worldbuilding project: The Sunlit Valley. My main blog, where I reblog and also post other random thoughts is @solabees and you can find my art @rizzydraws !! Feel free to use this blog for inspiration, but please do not use and of my ocs or worldbuilding without explicit permission.

if you have a question, go ahead and ask! I try and get to as many as I can

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starting this blog off with out of context doodles