#the duneraiders

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Pre-Story - The Duneraiders

Chief: Embertalon - dark ginger molly with amber eyes 

Novice: Skunk

Delegate: Foxear - ginger molly with black paws and white chest with green eyes

Augar: Dreamsight - ginger tabby tom with red eyes with black highlights

Clerics: Trufflefang - dark gray charlie with golden markings with yellow eyes (They/Them)

Knotspeckle - small gray and white charlie with light gray speckles with green eyes (He/Xe)

Teachers:

Mantisfang - gray tom with dark gray paws with green eyes

Rockstep* - huge gray tom with yellow eyes

Messengers:

Willowfur - gray tom with amber eyes

Mattedfoot - brown dappled tom with amber eyes

Lēohts:

Pricklestreak* - brown tom with gray streaks with green eyes [Head]

Weevilspots* - tortoiseshell charlie with blue eyes (They/Them)

Duststripe - brown tabby molly with green and blue eyes 

Architects:

Winecapmask - pointed ginger molly with brown markings with yellow eyes [Head]

Speckledfleck - black and ginger tortoiseshell molly with yellow and amber eyes

Ratfall - gray tom with blue eyes

Powderbelly - white tom with blue eyes (Lorekeeper)

Nettlewing* - gray tabby molly with yellow eyes 

Trappers:

Admiralwing - mottled black tom with white streaks with green eyes [Head]

Houndscreech - black tom with yellow eyes

Heatwing - ginger tabby tom with green eyes (Lorekeeper)

Lantrunwhisker - ginger tom with amber eyes

Tarantulacrawl - tortoiseshell and white molly with amber eyes

Boulderfang* - dark gray tom with green and blue eyes 

Flarecloud - ginger tabby molly with amber eyes 

Otacustes:

Raspberryclaw - mottled reddish-brown molly with light green eyes [Head]

Beetlemaw* - scarred dark gray tabby tom with yellow and green eyes

Spiderpelt - black tom with green eyes

Coalthorn - dark gray molly with golden speckles with yellow eyes

Gladiators:

Leechflight - black and white tom with yellow eyes [Head]

Cicadaface - brown tom with amber eyes (He/It)

Twistedpelt - brown molly with gray flecks with green eyes

Scorpionsnap - dark ginger molly with green eyes

Dragonflyfoot - pointed black tom with yellow eyes with blue highlights

Aphidpelt - brown tom with amber eyes

Rangers:

Velvettail - dark gray molly with red splotches with green eyes (They/Them)

Bonnetfur - brown tom with gray markings with amber eyes

Cadets:

Skunk - black tom with a white chest and paws with blue eyes

Nurses:

Tickstorm - dark brown tabby molly with green eyes [Head]

Lichencloud* - pale golden molly with green eyes

Slateheart - dilute tortoiseshell molly with blue eyes (expecting) 

Poppymaw - light brown tabby molly with green eyes 

Cubs:

‘Stinky’ - brown tom with yellow eyes

‘Crawly’ - brown and white tom with green eyes

‘Buzzy’ - pale golden tabby molly with blue eyes

‘Laugh’ - dark ginger tabby molly with green eyes

‘Cry’ - gray tom with green eyes

‘Silent’ - white molly with blue eyes

Veterans:

Harvestfoot - pointed ginger tom with amber eyes (Lorekeeper)

Yolksnout - golden tabby molly with brown spots with amber eyes

Pebblecloud - gray and white molly with blue eyes 

Widowtalon - pointed black molly with blue eyes

Archglare - chimera gray and black tabby tom with green and violet eyes

Nightthroat - black tabby molly with green and blue eyes (Lorekeeper)

Geckospot- light brown and white molly with brown spots with blue eyes

Toadbelly - dark brown and white tabby tom with green eyes

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The Duneraiders Culture

Values: The felines of secrecy and shadow, they value Stealth, Cunning, Strategy, and Adaptability.

~Based on leopards and manticores~

Ranks

A Chief is the face of the guild, their word is final as the founder's law.

Delagate - the second command of the guild. Tasks include things such as being charge of setting up patrols and deciding elite cats, and on occasion helping peace talks

Elites are the next highest with Otacustes under them. Elties are - one of a special rank who who are in charge of maintaining order; typically, can be chosen as a delegate, while Otacustes are the ones behind the scenes of the guild. They are trained to scout for information and to kill at any means necessary. Typically cats of the elite as well.

Clerics and Augars are around the same authority of rank.

Positers and Fabers are around the same however there is a splint. Positers are the construction cats. The ones who help keep the camp in shape and re-enforce the walls. Fabers are cats who excel with using their paws and claws to craft all sorts of things such as nets and traps

Gladiators are the cats trained to excel in fighting process. Looking for new tactics and tree running techniques.

Lēohts are the cats who operate during the daytime. They patrol and guard the land in careful steps in the daylight.

Veterans are retirees who have given service to their guild and have earned rest.

Trappers - the primary hunters of the guild. They operate with more crafty ways to obtain prey such as using traps.

Nurses and Rangers typically are put in the same authority rank.

Succession of the Chiefdom

Passed from bloodline. However, it is not linear. A cat can challenge the current bloodline to put theirs at the top, once defeated, that bloodline is blocked. 

Only the most powerful lines may prosper.

Native Prey

The land is marshy yet dry at the same time. This leaves room for many sorts of animals to to found.

Frogs / Toads

Lizards / Salamanders

Woodpeckers

Dragonflies

Beetles / Worms / Grubs

Trading

The dry land may not offer much but it does still offer things to the ones living as well as supplies from there.

Reptile skins and scales

Eggs 

Mud

Decoration

Scars are viewed as marks of stupidity. Many try their best to remain as unmarked as possible. The worst scar one can get is one on the face or chest. 

They don’t often don themselves with accessories. It gets in the way of being sneaky and shadow-like. 

Their ears are typically cut to deal with the harsh territory, cut by the cleric.

Body Traits

These cats have small frames. They are the smallest of all the guilds.

Small paws

They either have short, bobbed tails or longer tails with a sharp prick at the end.

Decent sized wings, used for gliding.

Heterochromia is common, especially complete heterochromia. 

Their small paws typically have unsheathed claws, unable to sheathe all the way.

They have narrowed eyes even when relaxed.

Spines that grow from the back of the neck, usually two, rarely four

They have long upper canines and sometimes lower canines.

Fur tends to be thin and often missing fur or patchy.

Naming Conventions 

Their names typically involve their surroundings. Often also include some crude humor with their promotion names.

They also partake in their version of legacy naming. If a guildmates dies, and litter is born, a cub shall be given the name of the fallen.

Religion

Just as religious as the Meadows, some would say even more so. They see themselves as more connected to the stars due to their founder and Sirsha’s closeness, especially during after the war when they were practically banished from the day.

Their patrons are the Leopard, Jaguar, and Sirsha.

Holy Days

Sirsha’s Gleam is a prime night of activity. The time to celebrate the seniors and loved ones of since passed. The main opportunity for partners to be bonded under the eye of the beloved moon. 

Shadowed Night - A night when their founder and Sirsha are together and display a night of trust to them. A judgement of what they will do without their watchful eyes. 

Courting / Bonding Habits 

Romance is few and far between with most cats coupling solely to bare the guild young however that’s not to say it doesn't happen. 

Courting varies such as hunting and fighting. A romantic might bring their desired partner in a private area with fireflies. 

Pairs are joined during the full moon, where Sirsha and their founder’s eye is full. To not be joined during the full moon is said to lead to a failed bonding.

Very encouraging to polyamory

Family dynamics

Cubs are weaned at 2 months old at the latest. Cubs are encouraged to start trying small bits before then to become more self-sufficient.

Bonds between siblings, especially ones between littermates are said to be the strongest. 

Parental bonds aren’t the strongest, but it isn’t discouraged. 

Death + Burial 

Kin of the fallen (blood or found) are allowed witness the safe passage of their loved one’s journey to the stars. 

The bodies is left to the dark birds, to give back the cycle. Bones are collected and cleansed. Skulls are kept and carved while teeth and claws are passed to the kin of the fallen then to rest of the guild so the fallen may continue to contribute to the guild and their way of life. 

The remains are slathered with pine sap and are taken to the Rika’s Tree where the roots slowly entrap them and it becomes one with it. The leaves and fruit of the tree is sacred and to take or stars forbid, eat it, is to spit on the gods, your ancestors, and to damn yourself to agony beyond the grave. 

Other Information

These cats look like their close to death and it baffles the younger cats from other guilds that these cats keep living.

Toms aren’t barred from the position of chief or second, but they have a long history of being led by mollies that it’s shocking when a tom rises to chief. 

They tend to have a dark sense of humor and don’t realize they are being creepy to an outside perspective.