There’s something lurking in the brush…
Hello! Welcome to my second Clangen blog! I’m trying something a bit different here, so sorry if it seems at all weird!!!
Basic idea:
This story mainly follows Riverbreak, a Thrushclan she-cat whom, alongside 4 others, established The Valley Optimist mission. The mission’s goal is to prove safety within the notoriously dangerous grass valley below the clans’ mountain home, said to house a monstrous beast dubbed “The Greattooth”. Though, Riverbreak’s true hope with the Optimists is to re-find all the unfairly exiled cats from the clans, who had been sent to perish in the Greattooth’s jaws. All seems well for the optimists, until tragedy hits the clans, and the only reasonable blame falls on the four’s heads.
TRIGGER WARNINGS: There will be a lot of bl0od and stuff, d4ad cats, child/kit d4ath, yk… this may not be the best to read if that is a sensitivity!!! They may also be some storylines regarding toxic relationships, a lot of murder (for some reason my clangen is just senselessly violent), terminality, and uh yeah.
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Elongated lore explanation:
The setting of this storyline takes place in Pleistocene North America. I tried my best to align the period from which animals show up, though let me know if any species end up time/location switching by accident! Domestic cats obviously aren’t supposed to be in this time period, and the clans are, to an extent, aware of this fact.
By word of legends passed down through generations, cats once walked among forests of concrete and safety, and were looked after by a higher being, of whom were named the Ancients (twolegs). For a long time, cats were content in life, but the Ancients’ numbers quickly outgrew what the world could sustain, and soon, all walks of life reaped the consequences.
Desperate for a solution, and with new advances, the ancients engineered a rift through to new (though we know them as old) lands, and they settled, bringing their feline subjects alongside them. For some time, life went on, but with this newfound land, the ancients grew greedy, and their new home one more began to wither. At the sight of it, the Stars, the creators and protectors of all space and time, grew furious at the animals. This world was not theirs to destroy, and when the ancients refused to back away, the Stars wiped them off the map. The cats never saw their lords again.
At the fall of their former superiors, the crestfallen housecats were left to fend for their own. Many split off into clusters and colonies, spreading far, far out from each other in hopes to rebuild. One clutter came to the Highpeaks, and settled down forming a clan on and beneath each of the five along its outer rim: Wishclan on the Easternmost peak, with an expansive lake on their territory -Bloomclan to the west border of Wishclan, with a boggish, forested landscape - Thrushclan in the centre of the five, with tundras and a camp towering above their peak’s great cliffs - Wolverineclan to the west of Thrushclan, their territory a mix of Tundra and expansive pine forests - and Lionclan at the Westernmost peak, hunting and weaving their way through water-carved caves and abandoned Beastclaw (Ground Sloth) burrows, building a life almost entirely beneath the surface.
Seeing the error and destruction of their former lords’ constant consumption, the clans firmly turned away from their old ways of life, swearing never to take more than the earth could provide, and never to recieve without giving back to the world that sustained them. They devoted themselves entirely to the Stars - to Starclan.
Other info:
Moons here are going to vary in length and quality from time to time, depending on how important/eventful a moon is. They may also be spaced out into episodes or parts instead of single uploads (example: moon 0)
If you’re referring to me (the author/OP), feel free to use the name Nana :D
Character asks WILL be a part of how I convey the plot cuz I just like drawing them and it makes my job easier PLEASE ASK THE CHARACTERS STUFF PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE
I don’t really have a set end for this. I have conclusions to arcs, but not the story as a whole, so endings may be a bit messy.
This has no set schedule, uploads will honestly only really happen when I have the time for it and motivation.
