please pleeeease share some lore you haven’t gotten to!!
hm yes... lore in a project where i am making this all up on the spot.... /nm
im literally just making up the plot on the spot. if you hopped on my pc, you'd see that the savefile is on moon 14.. so... free lore dump about the founders and general Clan stuff I wanted to give later.
nightingale is very visibly in hell... so are the others! but... we dont have genuine lore about them... on moon 0 we got no real reason why all of the adults died...
lss: Tachycardiaclan was really, really fucked up, including having a monarchy, and Starclan got sick and tired so they prompted the incident to occur.
(yap is below, i simplified it because im nervous that i yap too much)
basically: pre-incident Tachycardiaclan started off like the canon-clans, as a group of rogues. Only difference: canon cats were from the Tribe, and Tachy cats are from Twolegplace.
..basically the Clan started from a group of loners and kittypets, like if Warriorclan was taken seriously.
And the Clan thrived, it was literally a dream come true. No fights outside of verbal arguments, the loners taught the kittypets how to hunt and fight, absolutely no roadblocks stopped them from thriving as a Clan unlike the canon cats.
..the only problem? The makeshift Clan took ahold of some distasteful traditions and never moved on.
One of the biggest traditions, was that a monarchy was in place. The firstborn of the leader was promised the deputy role, getting it the second they graduated.
This partially lead to the Clans downfall. It lead to a lot of confusion regarding morals and ethics within the Clan. You could have a kind and careful leader, Sweetstar, who wanted to keep the Clan large and healthy, just for a leader like Milkweedstar to tear that all down and insulate a rule that cats who retire get executed.
Regarding the incident, the Clan was under the rule of Milkweed. Milkweed is like Darktail in a way, he didn't want a speckle of weakness in the Clan unlike his mother.
Surprise! Killing off half of your Clan isn't the best choice! The Clan was in absolute shambles near the end of his reign. This left his daughter and deputy, Nightingalepelt, to take things into her own paws.
With the help of Whiskermallow, the two brought a group of badgers into camp. This killed off half of the Clan again, but it did the job.
This "half of the Clan" included Nightingale's mother, Milkweedstar, her sole littermate, Whisker's mate, and a handful of other cats that don't matter right now.
Nightingale took the role of leader, almost tweaked out because now almost her whole family was dead, and took Wispspike as deputy.
"but wait.. arent firstborns the deputy?? isnt Wisp unrelated??" correct! very correct! She chose Wisp because he looked promising and his father was a good friend of Milkweed. I'll make a yap about the monarchy system later to explain that.
anyways um. she hooked up with a kittypet, had Flickkit, aaand then Starclan noticed what happened to the Clan (because they thought Sweet was still in charge and that nothing serious happened. oops.) and killed all of the adults to give the kits a fresh slate to not repeat the mistakes their ancestors did.
The badger incident happened a little over a year and a half before moon 0, hence why Whisker wasn't executed.
..aaand to satiate the hidden question of "wait a minute liz, nightingale was 111 moons old on moon 0."... Milkweed was a hypocrite. He would've been around 150 moons on moon 0 if he lived.
and the other Tachyclan cats (ex: the actual founding rogues & kittypets) rebelled against Starclan, making it that they can't talk with the kits. i love setting up my ocs for failure the second they're out of the womb.
ok thats it i hope you loved todays moment of Liz-World-Building-On-The-Spot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hi. i promised this. free role system of how the Clan functioned before the big incident on moon 0. (and technically moon -18 but... um.)
1: Leader
Tachycardiaclan ran on a monarchy before the incident. It started with the strongest cat in the founding group (let's call this guy Obsidian).
I can yap about him later. The leader is the highest role in the Clan.
A Tachyclan leader isn't different from a canon leader in the books, they have the same traits. 9 lives, they make meetings, they plan out and control battles, etc.
2: Deputy
this is where the whole monarchy bit comes into play.. oh boy...
The deputy is usually the leader's first-born. There are exceptions to this if the leader has no kits, then the deputy is either a close friend (ex: Nightingalestar & Wispspike, or Flickstar & Scarletfur) or a sibling. Leaders are expected to have an heir to take their role, so the exceptions are usually fixed withing a few moons.
If the leader has an heir but they aren't of age, then their sibling takes the role.
A leaders firstborn becomes the deputy the second they graduate. The "a warrior must have at least one apprentice to be a deputy" rule doesn't apply.
The deputy still has the same roles as a normal deputy, helping the leader with decisions and hosting patrols.
..if the deputy doesn't have a crush on anyone by the time they become an adult, they are forced to become mates with one of the most compatible cats in the Clan. This is to ensure that the bloodline doesn't die out.
in the case of a leader having a single kit and said kit being dead, their sibling would take the leader role instead. Usually a sibling that already has kits.
3: Medicine Cat
Medicine cats are the same as canon, minus the whole "no having kits/mates" bit.
i um.. i have nothing to say.. other than medicine cats being seen as very noble and clever. like some families get absolutely hyped when their kit turns into a medicine apprentice.
4: Warriors
Same as canon, nothing different.
5: Apprentices
Same as canon..
6: Kits
Kits are cared for very well. If a warrior or medicine cat finds an abandoned litter, they adopt them. If that cat is too young, then the leader adopts the kit.
Adopted kits don't qualify for deputy, unless all biological kits are dead.
7: Elders
oooh boy..... ok.. so... this is where it gets a little confusing...
The leaders of Tachycardiaclan had different perspectives, that's what lead to the downfall.
"nice" example: Sweetstar was.. well, sweet. She wanted a Clan that acted like a comforting and healthy community. Elders were praised for their hard work, like in canon.
"aggressive" example: Milkweedstar was hypocritical and bossy. He wanted a Clan that was powerful enough to scare the others off. Elders didn't exist, once a cat was 120 moons old they would be executed for being weak.
Tachyclan post-incident (ex: with Flickstar as leader) will treat the elders like canon.
the only difference is that warriors retire the second they reach 120 moons old.
ok that's it i hope my worldbuilding is cool... very very cool...
ok so it all starts with the Clan's grandpa, Whiskermallow. (pic is below)
lil grandpa... he was 130 moons old at the incident. he was Charismatic & a Good Storyteller. would probably be the most stereotypical grandpa if he lived.
anyways.. he has two babies... Halffreeze and Foxglovefreeze. heh. siblings with the same suffix... (i did not plan that i was just lumping up founders into families based off looks)
Foxglove continued the bloodline so... Halffreeze is next! look at him! 94 moons old at the incident. Strict, Great Speaker & Good Storyteller.
here's Foxglovefreeze! she's the mama of Rainbow and Scarlet.... she was the founding medicine cat! 55 moons old at the incident. Rebellious, Excellent Teacher & Very Clever.
she also had another baby before our favorite founders! that cat is...
..Barkstripe! she's cool. but that might purely because im a sucker for marbled kitties and torties. she was 30 moons old at the incident. Vengeful and a Good Hunter.
now Bark and our favorite founders didnt have any kits... so... onto the next founder!
Wispspike! He's the founding deputy and the father to Bitternholly. again i am a sucker for marbled kitties so to me he is very, very pretty.. he was 37 moons old at the incident. Confident and a Fast Runner.
i dont have anything funny to say about Wisp or his wonderful daughter so we're jumping to our last founder!
Nightingalepelt/star! she's the only founder that actually showed up! woah! anyways she's the founding leader and the mama of Flickleaf/star. her baby is a copy-paste... aww....
anyways she was 111 moons old at the incident. she was Nervous and an Eloquent Speaker.
ok that's it i'll make a familyecho link when scarletflick kits are a thing.
or maybe clangen will screw me over and make scarletbittern kits a thing.... he likes both of them after all....
ok bye i think that's enough yapping about the founders.
