#nmc lore

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The Legend

Nightstar tells the old legend of the beginning of the clans to a new clanmember, Coyotekit.

Coyotekit joined the clan at moon 16 but I never got that far in the comic.

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Smoketrail's Grudge

One of a couple NewmoonClan comics I started working on but lost motivation for a while. Got back to finish them. Here's Smoketrail's background story. She was one of MoonClan's medicine cats but the other medicine cats ostracized her. Eventually leaving her to die slowly when she was attacked by a fox while gathering herbs. Upon her death, she decided she would get revenge on MoonClan.

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The Story of Nightstar

I wanted to do a comic going over the story of Nightstar since I stopped doing the moon comics, but still wanted to go over the ideas for the story I had myself, I made this.

This goes over the things I made of the past, the intro comic, as well as what happened in the clangen, what I'd gotten to and what happened later. More in-depth explanation of the story and what happened in the clangen after where I left off below.

I really wanted to like the design of the next leader so I tried picking cats whose designs I liked, so the deputy changed several times. Bluestripe ended up dying so I chose an older cat who would die earlier since there were no other cats whose designs I liked.

There was a kit born into the clan who I wanted as the next leader but alas they also died before even reaching adulthood. Next was Wolverinewish, a loner the clan found wounded who joined the clan. In the end she was the only one whose design I liked enough to set as the next deputy.

Nightstar was taken by humans while on a patrol and it got me real nervous as I would have to figure out what to do about it if they were gone for forever. I was thinking they were killed by the humans but left to bleed out, but in the end they managed to return to the clan.

In the meanwhile though the game made Wolverinewish the next leader, Wolverinestar. Now the clan had two leaders in the game. I decided to let Wolverinestar stay as the leader and wait out for Nightstar to die to be the actual switch for the two. That Wolverine stayed as temporary leader while Nightstar was gone and returned to deputy duties after they were back.

Nightstar's death was a rather anticlimactic. They were bit by a snake and slowly died from it. For the story I decided that Nightstar realized their time was coming and only let Wolverinewish to enter the den they were staying in.

Then they revealed the ability they were given by Smoketrail: the ability to take over other cats' bodies upon death. They needed to be in close proximity upon death or it wouldn't work. Smoketrail, who died abanoned, couldn't find any body to move to and became a spirit. Nightstar always kept a spare body around when going around to make sure they had one.

Wisteriashell sees Wolverinewish walk out of the den, pronouncing Nightstar dead and themself as Wolverinestar, the new leader, she is clueless that it is in fact Nightstar themself.

Nightstar continues leading the clan in the new body, gathering power and finally takes on MoonClan, defeating it with smaller numbers as the cats of the clan weren't very loyal to begin with.

Nightstar continues switching bodies unknown to everyone else. The clan cats tolerate them better than the previous leaders as they know how to appeal to them, while hiding the fact that they are taking over the bodies of each new leader.

As a side note I also thought about Rootstar and Duststar having their own special powers. Rootstar had the ability to somewhat see the future, though very flawed. This was one reason for his take-over of other clans. He foresaw a threat outside of his clan, but in the end he himself was the cause of it.

Duststar's power was the ability to read other cats' feelings. Lie detection, general vibe checks and the sorts. He knew Nightflash was rebellious, but didn't see them as a threat. What could they do alone? Most other cats weren't very willing to rise up against him either.

Nightstar could have used the body snatching ability to take over someone important and close to Duststar to assassinate him, but knew it wouldn't work with Duststar's ability, so they went for the more straightforward method.

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Moon 0

Nightstar names the clan NewmoonClan

The clan finds its new home

The clan is now open for asks

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Dreams of the Past Part Two (End)

Second part of the lore comic

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Lore Post

Thought I'd post some of the lore for the comic's setting I've thought of:

Some cats are born with special abilities. The most common ability is future visions. Nearly all medicine cats are cats that were born with this ability. Other abilities exist as well though they're generally pretty minor. It's like they're psychics or something.

When cats die, they enter the afterlife, but eventually they can reincarnate as well. The youngest kits are most likely to reincarnate faster while adult cats can stick around in the afterlife for pretty much forever if they wish.

The afterlife is shared, no cat heaven or hell in this setting. The souls of the dead cats can either reside in the afterlife or wander the land of the living if they wish. They are invisible to all but those few able to perceive them.

These souls can give new lives to leaders. The souls of cats that were born with abilities can give their ability to a cat they want to inherit their ability. They can only give the ability or a life, having to choose between the two.