im really into your colony universe tell me more about the roles and characters please :3
eek! glad you're interested!
id say the colonies work more like old working villages than the clans do in the books, there are many many roles and jobs and new ones get invented pretty often! every colony does have key roles though, Helms, Navigators, Herbalists, Officers, Cheif Officers, Hunters, Avines and Queens.
Navigators are your typical med cat and herbalists are sort of like nurses, they also do more of the sciencey work. Navigators are believed to be a sort of vessel for the god their colony follows, this is why only the Helm and the Navigators are allowed to bury the dead.
Heres more about burying:
Officers are pretty much just soldiers, wars do not break out often and cats are allowed to mingle in other clans (again more like villages) however during conflict cats from opposing colonies are of course not treated so warmly. Cheif officers are like deputies and tend to lead mostly the Officers, the Helm directs everyone else.
Hunters are one of the roles that have many jobs within it depending on your colony, some train to exclusively catch fish and some train exclusively for birds, others may train for a different aspect of hunting like teaching. Speaking of teaching, every cat studying or striving for a job is called a Cadet.
Avines weave tools, again many pathways with this one.
and Queens raise young, however unlike the books the Queen can be a job title, like working in an orphanage.
Theres much more but this post would go on forever haha, as for the characters i will certainly reveal more about their stories once i get some of my animating juice back
