#crystalclan asks

[plushieclan]

Question for mudfoot, what's your favorite food?

[plushieclan]

Leopardcloud and lionmane! How do you feel now that your kits are apprentices?

[plushieclan]

Who in the clan has the weirdest eating habits? Like who eats the most odd things..?

She’s the cat equivalent of a keto diet jsksksjksjskjs

[plushieclan]

for leopardcloud and lionmane: is gingerpaw your son?

[plushieclan]

We haven't seen very much of the wanders (I think, I hope I'm not getting clangen blogs mixed up), so if it's not spoilers, What's their internal structure like?

Thank you for sending this ask! Yes, this is the blog with the Wanderers. I haven’t talked much about its structure, but I really should!

The Wanderers are split into many different sects. Each of these sects have a leader, who meet once a season to discuss plans and plot routes. There is one clan liaison, the Torchbearer. The current Torchbearer is a tom named Fran. His apprentice is Penny!

Each sect has a home base, where they will stop at once a month to trade out members. Each home base will differ, but will usually stay consistent no matter what route they take in the season. Starleaf’s old sect has a home base of a suburban house’s back yard! The house is on the lake, and they don’t check the thick trees often for fear of ticks. Starleaf’s parents are actually the house cats of the family

The leader of each sect is known as the Trailblazer. Starleaf’s sister, Maya, is the Trailblazer of the Bushgrove sect.

The second-in-commands are known as the Couriers. There are three at all times. When Maya retires, one of her Couriers will take her place. The Couriers’ job is to organize day-to-day, keep the home base safe, and keep Maya in the know how with every sect. One Courier is always assigned to the wandering group, one is assigned to protect the home base, and one is always assigned to travel to the other sects. Each will rotate through these responsibilities!

Wayfarers are cats who temporarily join the Wanderers to change their current place. This includes loners, kittypets, and even former clan cats. The Wanderers will teach them the ways of the wild if needed, and rotate them around sects until they find the home they are most suited for. Some even find that the Wanderers themselves are what they were looking for!

The main bulk of the sect are Pathfinders. These cats are like the warriors. They are the semi-permanent members who take up this nomadic lifestyle willingly. Children of the Pathfinders are taught by their parents (if they have no parents, the Trailblazer will adopt them) how to be a Wanderer. Two Pathfinders are required to stay at the home base at a time, though usually more will stay to take care of any Wayfarers and other permanent dwellers of home base.

Children learn under their parents for their first year of life. When they turn one year old, they become Journeyers. Journeyers will spend a year visiting every sect of the Wanderers. This is meant to allow them to choose where they want to live the rest of their lives; whether they want to join another sect than their parents, or become a loner or kittypet, or even join the clans. While they can still make these choices after becoming a Pathfinder, allowing the young cats to find their way around the Great Lake gives them a better idea of what life is like everywhere else. Shimmersky’s littermate Wolf is currently a Journeyer!

When a cat is too old, too sick, or otherwise unable to wander, they become an Indweller. They live in the home base of their sect, and are taken care of by whatever Courier and Pathfinders stay in camp with them.

That’s pretty much it! They’ll be very important in the prologue to the next part. I’ll say you only have to remember what Journeyers and Wayfarers are for now!

[plushieclan]

Not sure if anyone has asked yet, but is there anything special about certain prefixes?

Yes actually! A few special ones

First, the Star- prefix. Depending on its context, it’s either a very good or very bad thing. Anyone with this prefix cannot become leader.

As a vanity name for a particularly devoted cleric or mediator? It’s a great honor. As a vanity name for a warrior? It’s seen as a punishment. And for a kit’s given name? Well… that child would have to be cursed in order for them to be handed that fate.

Kits cannot be named after the four clans, as those were the names of the original leaders. To name a kit Treekit, Grangekit, Baykit, or Marshkit is seen as haughty and self-important. Crystalkit and Swampkit would probably also be looked down upon now, although those names have existed in the past.

The last thing that a kit cannot be named after is an infamous Depths cat. That makes sense, after all. Who would give their kit that name?

Some of these are:

Sharp-, after the infamous deputy of Grangeclan, Sharpthroat, who was killed by his own son after his tyrannical rise to power

Jagged-, after the ancient cleric Jaggedivy, who caused the rule preventing clerics from caring for their own family after her actions caused half of Treeclan to succumb to greencough.

Tangle-, after the ancient warrior Tanglepelt, who massacred many in his home clan of Bayclan

Quiver-, after the infamous mediator Quiverbright who stoked the flames of war between Marshclan and Treeclan for their own amusement

And a recent one… Rose

Rose █ █ █ █ █ was a █ █ █ █ █ █clan cleric who █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ five █ █ █ █ and one █ █ █ █ █ after her █ █ █ █ were █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █

Her clan doesn’t like talking about it. Won’t even say her name

[plushieclan]

i saw that some of the clan members you have are based on plushies!! is sand based on the webkinz tabby cat? i love this story so far, amazing scenery! the stakes feel so high and your faces are so expressive!

Yup! He is! I think he’s officially called the alley cat? I’ve always loved his cool stripes and he always matched well with Nightflower, who is a black and white webkinz cat. Here’s a side profile shot of him! (I get side profiles for all my plushies)

Thank you for following along with my story. It’s a labor of love, and I try my best to share it! Here’s an image of irl Sand enjoying the sun as a present!

[plushieclan]

Do you have references of every cat known outside of CrystalClan?

If so can you link them all here under this ask?

🥃

Thank you for sending an ask! I’ll put your emoji down for the future

Well, not *every* single cat, but I do have references for most important non-clan cats! Some of these are old and need to be redone, but here they are. If there are any other specific cats you’d like references of, I can make some! There are a stupid amount of side characters, many who don’t have references!

This is minus Wolf, who does have a reference but… that’s spoilers for next week 🤫

Clearstripe, Aspenstripe, Mitepool, Coppereye, and most other one-off characters don’t have proper references. I just draw them for the comic and reference themselves! If you’d like references of any of them, let me know!