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Just rewriting the Warriors series; don't worry about it

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Spreadsheets about cats? Really?

yes

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Not rewrite related. Mostly. This is my three month old kitten and my reading partner. He's been by my side while I've been reading and anotating the Warriors books. Give him some love!

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Understanding the Timeline pt 2 - Series Spacing

Assuming you’ve read the first one, this Understanding the Timeline post will make things a little bit easier to understand. So the first thing I want address in this post is the canon spacing between the series/arcs.

They’re disgustingly short.

For how close the arcs are to each other, there’s hardly any sense that they happen right after another. For example: Skyclan was forced to leave the forest only twenty-six years before The Prophecy Begins. The average housecat lives about twenty years. Tallstar was ten years old when he died, Bluestar was almost eight, and Yellowfang was seven. Granted they were considered relatively old, however considering the age of the elders in the newest arc, aging and what is considered old is inconsistent. (Mistystar is sixteen, y’all. Tawnypelt are eleven and still just warriors.)

I will be fixing the aging as I’ve explained in the previous Understanding the Timeline post. However even ignoring this, Bluestar’s grandparents would’ve been around to witness Skyclan’s leaving, even if they were extremely young. So for none of the clans to have even heard of Skyclan is a bit ridiculous. Not to mention some major events of prequel books are never even mentioned as gossip. Which I understand that these prequels were written after, but at least spread out how long ago they happened. Mapleshade was around Pinestar’s father was leader. And for Pinestar to never even have some hatred towards Riverclan for the precised murder of his brother is absurd.

So next we come to what I plan to do in correction of these oddities.

What I have planned is a bit extreme, however it will fix the timeline without fail. And that is spreading everything out over the course of five hundred years. Yes this is a long time. No, I will not be filling every year with some sort of event. The most simple and furthest explanation I can give at the moment is that DOtC takes place several hundred years before the main arcs. Some of the prequel novellas will being taking place about one hundred years before the main arcs and most of the prequel super editions will take place twenty years before the first arc.

At this point, I’m not finished with the timeline. What I’m doing is making a complex - almost Sparknotes-like - year-by-year account of what happens. Some years will have no events while others will have some. Most births and deaths will be documented. Once I am finished with the timeline, I will post it. However I wouldn’t expect for a least a few weeks. The timeline is not the only thing I have and will be working on. Please be patient with me and I will continue with updates on my progress.

At always, asks are open and I will answer them to the best of my abilities without spoiling anything too major. ;)

Thank you for following development!

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Understanding the Timeline PT 2 coming this weekend!!!

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Understanding the Timeline - Pt 1, Life Expectancy

So it's time - ha - for the first part of the timeline building. Honestly we have to start with the basics. In order for a timeline like this to work, deaths and births need to be sorted out so that I can properly put characters in and out as I need to. So I've put together what I think will be a pretty basic guideline to go off of when it comes to aging warriors.

As implied, this is only the first part of the timeline building. But for now, let's get into it!

To start, I've placed the average life expectancy for warriors at being around eight years. It's long than most feral cats, but much shorter than the standard housecat. I went with this as warriors are feral cats with basic medicine. Things that generally make housecats live longer are vaccines which are one thing that clans most certainly do not have. I've limited some things that medicine cats do in canon, but most of that will be for later. In short, diseases will be a bit more deadly and will spread quickly.

This makes the mortality rate for both the very young and the middle-aged higher than they were in canon by quite a bit. Especially for the littles. Kitten mortality is about half at where I've put it - which is standard for real life ferals. Once cats hit apprentice age is where I cut back mortality rates. Enough rambling though, I'll break it down.

Birth - Newborns in canon are treated like two-month-old kittens. Which is about as far from reality as possible. I wanted to keep kittens a bit more like they are in reality so I'm going with the helpess newborn kit here! At this point, mortality rate is high for kits, so most queens don't even name them yet. Queens don't allow anyone to visit except the father and medicine cat.

One Month (Moon) - Again, I'm treating kits like real-life kittens. They still drink milk from their mothers, but kits are able to walk around and visit the elders for a short amount of time a day. Kittens start to play with each other and small things like balls and feathers.

Two Months (Moons) - As kits reach two moons, they are weened and basically just really small and clumsy cats. They can play confidently and are at a much lower risk of death at this age.

Three to Five Months (Moons) - At this point, kits are preteens.

Six Months (Moon) - Young cats still become apprentices at six moons. I've also decided to make start persuing romantic interests at this age as it is the cat equivalent to teenagers. Mortality rates increase from what they had been from three to five moons as they are suddenly pushed into battle. Apprentices are more reckless and will make mistakes in battle.

Tweleve Months (Moons) 1 Year - Most cats become warriors at this point and are generally strong enough to take harder hits in battle. Mortality rate will go down once more.

Three to Six Years - These are fully realized warriors and at this point, many have started families. Mortality rate is at it's lowest here and most cats live through at least four years.

Seven to Ten Years - Once warriors reach seven years, they start to kind of slow down. Battle scars will wear on them at this point and many begin to die out from either sickness or battle injury.

Eleven to Fourteen Years - These are the elders. Few cats reach this age and it doesn't take much to knock these cats out. They go down to newborn mortality rate.

Now comes with the mortality ratings. I rule most things in the rewrite based on dice rollings. Just to make it interesting and to keep it from being to plot-armorish. I also just really think it's fun. So once again, I'll assign a ratio to an age group.

Kits (Newborns to one month) and elders are 1/2. A coin toss, really. Kittens aged two to six months have a 5/6 chance. Apprentices have a 4/6 chance. Once they are given their warriors names they move back to a 5/6 chance. Queens during birth have a raiting of 3/5. Senior warriors have a 1/4 chance.

Which all sounds terrible. And it is. Feral cats reproduce like crazy and Thunderclan arc 6 make it obvious.

Questions are open!

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To-Do List

So the first order of business here is simple: a to-do list. This is actually lifted from my Google Doc, but I can’t do that formatting here on Tumblr, so this is going to be a bit confusing. I’ll make a separate post where it’ll just be the list, but I’ll post this first as an explanation for most of the list. This list goes as follows:

Genetic Overhaul

World Building

Expand Clan rules and relationships

Expand individual Clan lore

Explore territory settings

Language creation

Starclan and Place of No Stars complete reboot

Create a set timeline

Character Switches + Additions

Expanding family trees to make more sense

Adding more characters that are consistent

Develop background/secondary characters

Rewrite villains

Fix most characters

Outside Forces

Twoleg growth

Explanation of Loners/Rogues

Expansion on Kittypets/Barn cats

Skyclan?????

Other animals

Cats

Create a more solid life expectancy with milestones

Add a more realistic aging system

Decide on anthropomorphism

Individual Books

I feel as many of these are pretty self-explanatory, so I’ll only explain the ones that seem a bit odd to me. If anyone has any questions on any point, feel free to just ask! But let’s get into it.

In terms of world building, I felt as if Firestar had set it up perfectly in the first books when he asked why the clans couldn’t just live together. In the main series books, there’s not much separating the clans culturally except ‘there are four trees, four seasons, and the riverclan cats like to swim.’ I always thought that there should be more meat to it. The same point goes to territory settings. I like the idea of the forest and lake each have almost separate biomes that each clans lives in. Next is the language creation. That’s actually something I just kind of want to do on the side. It’s not entirely important, but I feel as if it adds some life to the clans. It’s marked as lowest priority, so it’s not much to worry about. Starclan and PONS are honestly two of the hottest messes in the series and I can’t stand to read about either at this point. Neither follow the same rule system from book to book much less arc to arc. So I'm going to completely rewrite both. I’m going to do a separate post on the timeline issue, so watch out for that post this week.

Character switches and additions I feel are fairly easy to comprehend. They’ve been something that’s always been talked about with the series and they’re probably most people’s biggest beefs with the series.

So the outside forces part is a bit odd. I want there to be enough information on the outside creatures that they aren’t completely unknown but little enough so that they’re still something strange and foreign. I honestly think that’s the best way I can describe them. Skyclan and Bloodclan are both going to play way bigger roles in my rewrite than either do in canon. They’ll each be getting large posts in the future.

Cats. The series has a weird relationship with the animals it’s supposed to be about. I always thought that there was never any solid grasp on anything about cats in the series. So I’m going to take it upon myself to really set standards that the characters live by in terms of life expectancy and psychology. They’re still cats, after all.

That’s probably as deep as I’m getting today. I have a little injury while skateboarding so my right hand is all torn up and sore. More to come in the following week!

Follow for more updates and remember that my asks are open. So if there are any questions, feel free to ask and I’ll get to it ASAP!

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Introduction

Hello Warriors community! In short, this is my introduction for my blog: abattlecatsrewrite.

I’m not a well known blogger; my main blog is pretty small and my art blog smaller due to my own inconsistent posting. But I’ve been working on this rewrite for a couple years now and I’m finally ready to make something to post all of it on! I want to share my progress and writing with all of you!

I’m a long time Warriors fan - I’m going on nine years here! - and I’m a bit of a lurker. I’ve adored the series since I was about twelve but I was always bothered by the arcs following the first. I loved them, don’t get me wrong, but there was always something missing about them. I ended up re-read the series as an adult and got back into the fandom after being out of it for several years and wow! A bit’s happened, hasn’t it?

So I started simple with a genetic overhaul. I adore genetics as a hobby and I just figured I’d give it a wack. As I kept finding more strange things about characters while I was reading wikia pages. So I started adding some realism and coming up with small stories. It continued to grow after I found some various other rewrite blogs (Death of the Authors, Skyclan Redux, Redtail-Au, and a couple more I can’t remember at this moment) and came up with some au’s that would really bring some more depth into the series. So I kind of just mushed ‘em all together!

I’ll continue to post updates in the following days including some content I’ve already written - mostly some short oneshots - and post my to-dos and some observations I’ve noted.

That’s all I have for y’all for now! Stay tuned! Thank you all so much for reading!

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