Valk

[springstrike]

Your designs are so gorgeous...have you ever drawn a sandstorm??

[silentsnowflower]

ThunderClan Family Tree - Or the Family Wreath

Was pondering Mapleshade’s Vengeance and how it seems that she was completely forgotten within a generation or two and one thing led to another. Below is a very messy, cannon family tree for ThunderClan as best as I was able to draw out the relationships. I still don’t understand how she was forgotten so quickly unless Oakstar decided to bury the whole affair as one buries their dirt.

Few things that are interesting to me:

How is it that the Erins chose from two of the more inbred family lines to make the most inbred protagonist that the series has seen??? Poor Moonpaw, no wonder she’s a little odd.

8 generations of cats isn’t a very long time - or so it seems (as defined by who the leader is). The events of Mapleshade’s Vengeance take place nineteen years before Firestar and the current series is 13 years after Firestar arrives in the forest. So 8 generations covers 32 years. In other words, a single generation spans four years. Considering how quickly as cats reproduce and how harsh life is for feral cats, the total number of cats in ThunderClan doesn’t seem realistic.

The Erins killed off very few cats during “major catastrophes” such as the battle with BloodClan, the destruction of the forest and the journey to the lake, and the final battle. In the most recent arcs, the clans feel very bloated. I think this is attributable to the fact that the Erins kill no one off!

Correcting the Family Wreath

This correction is mostly for my AUs and my rewrite of the warrior series. I could not proceed and stick to the family wreath. I wanted a proper family tree with minimal inbreeding that spans the 8 generations of ThunderClan. Correction of the family wreath necessitated addition of several OCs. I also modified existing relationships and changed names that I did not particularly care for, did not feel very ThunderClan-like, repeated names, etc. Furthermore, cats were limited to two litters and Queens did not have to disclose the father of their kits. When a litter’s father is unknown, they are presumed to be outside of the clan. Certain branches of the family tree have been excluded for simplicity’s sake and because their lineages continue in Clans outside of ThunderClan.

Honestly, this family tree is more confusing and challenging to navigate (for me), but certain lineages do not cross until the 7th and 8th generations (see, Erins? How hard is it?).

This took me far too long.

Divergences from canon (my headcanons and AUs):

Frecklewing had a litter of kits that Mapleshade was unaware of when she murdered the she-cat. Because Thornclaw is related to Frecklewing, Mapleshade recruits him to the dark forest.

Speckleflight and Tawnyspots are littermates. Tawnyclaw is named after him.

Robinchest did not plan on having another litter of kits after her first died during the Great Hunger, but Fuzzypelt eventually persuaded her that they were unlikely to ever see a leaf-bare like that one again. Hollowflight and Hickorynose are named for the Great Hunger - for hollow bellies and gnawing on bark to survive. Robinchest wanted to name Hickorykit Barkkit, but Fuzzypelt wanted the littermates to have similar sounds in their names.

Longtail is made deputy and is blinded during the destruction of the ThunderClan camp. He does not step down as deputy until he falls over the cliff of the hollow and resigns, feeling unsure about his position in the clan.

Lynxpaw and Swiftpaw survived a bout of greencough that swept through ThunderClan, killing Berrykit and Leopardfoot. Goldenflower lost both of her kits to the dog pack, in a foolish attempt to confront the dogs directly and drive them out. Lynxpaw and Swiftpaw gave their lives to allow the rest of the patrol to escape, but in Bluestar’s madness, she refuses to give them a warrior name to carry to StarClan.

Brightpaw and Thornpaw are well past of the age of becoming warriors when they volunteer to lead the dogs to the gorge. Brightpaw is caught and savaged by the dogs, but Tulip-paw comes to her rescue, distracting the dogs and allowing Sandstorm to take over the relay. Tulip-paw was severely wounded and found dead next to his best friend, Brightpaw, who is barely breathing. Fireheart, not yet Firestar, names her Brightheart before traveling to the Moonstone to receive his nine lives. He is afraid that she is going to be there to give him a life.

Cinderpaw takes the name Cinderstep, as a reminder that she needs to just keep on taking one pawstep after the other. She chose her name - not Yellowfang.

Seedpaw swallows too much water when trying to rescue Dandelionkit during the storm and the flooding. Dandelionkit and Seedpaw die together, from dry-drowning, hours after the clan believes that they’re okay.

Dustpelt was never Ferncloud’s mentor.

Cloudtail and Brightheart have a large litter of kits, but only make the journey across the mountains with Whitepaw. Rustpaw was captured by the twolegs and does not join the clans until seasons later - after Graystripe and Millie return. She arrives without a clan name, and three young kits: Snow, Dew, and Amber. She is welcomed back into the clan and is made a warrior without sitting vigil.

Tawnyclaw is named after her father and her fierce fighting skills. Brambleflower is named for his mother and his gentle disposition. Both young cats miss their father - Tigerstar had always been loving towards them, until the end.

A branch does not kill Rainwhisker.

I have more, but I should save them for another post.

[of-course-its-gorse]

The group of Riverclan cats that just, appear in Dark River and then Eclipse in PoT drive me crazy. Where did they come from? Who is their family? And then they proceed to make their kits the majority of future Riverclan after OotS. Icewing, Graymist, Duskfur, Otterheart, Pinefur, Rainstorm, Mintfur. The best "in universe" explanation is that they had been warriors that just hadn't been listed yet, because 9 apprentices (Dapplenose and Pouncetail included) becoming warriors at roughly the same time is ridiculous. But I just cannot for the life of me figure out where to place them in the Riverclan family tree, and there's barely any discussion online about where these random cats might have come from. Im looooost

[dawn-sunlight]

As someone who has spent way too much time looking at all these RiverClan cats, it is really hard to give them all families without completely messing up the future family tree, especially if you're making a bigger RiverClan family tree then just giving these guys families. A big problem that I ran into while trying to create families for these warriors(plus Copperpaw, Nettlepaw, and Robinwing, who also materialize in Eclipse) is that I basically kept running out of toms. There are a lot of she-cats born during Leopardstar's Honor and very few toms, so while making my RiverClan family tree I had to make up some cross-clan relationships and assume some warriors lived longer than their names appeared in the allegiances(which generally works better for early books than later ones because early book allegiances tended to only mention important cats). Other options are to headcanon any number of them as former kittypets or rogues(which I did with Icewing) and/or throw some gender headcanons in there(which I did with Mintfur and his two moms).

With all that said, here are my personal RiverClan family tree headcanons for those cats:

Mallowtail x Grasswhisker - Mintfur's parents

Lilystem x Mudthorn - Graymist and Rainstorm's parents

Sedgecreek x Pigeonflight - Duskfur, Otterheart, and Pinefur's parents

Dawnflower x Voletooth - Copperpaw, Nettlepaw, and Robinwing's parents

Icewing(star) - Former kittypet turned rogue who joins RiverClan between arcs 2 and 3

[growling]

WindClan (headcanon) family tree draft 1

So today I scribbled a family tree of most WindClan cats that aren't from CotC (and with some from the prequels set before TsR), because the canon wc family tree is just so..... barren?? generations missing, huge numbers of random cats with no parents popping up, nobody is related to each other and STILL there's like 3 distinct bloodlines in canon that are inbred to hell and back. Either you're related to everybody, or nobody, I guess. Anyway I shuffled some cats there to different families, filled in the void and used some su susann non-canon cats (that's drizzletrickle, rustlefern and cranberrynose) and saved some random dead kittens (adderdusk and buzzardglow) because it STILL wasn't enough cats!!! Anyway it looks like tangled computer wires

Green highlight is for cats that don't have parents decides (but most of them don't need to, also, i have ran out of cats so they aren't getting any anyway), yellow is for cats outside WindClan, and red is for foundlings/cats that joined WindClan on their own.

(Anyway just because two cats are parents of kits doesn't mean they're necessarily together, friends co-parenting is pretty common because I've decided that. Gorsetail and Onestar for example were just really good buddies and both wanted a little guy. Currently I added two polycules in wc: Breezepelt/Heathertail/Harestar, and Featherpelt/Hootwhisker/Oatclaw. But I have to like add them sparingly since they can really fuck up the three later. You know, three separate lines to track)

[growling]

ShadowClan (headcanon) family tree draft 1

^Long fuck

[GROANS OF PAIN] This one was way harder than the WindClan one because there are many major characters in here so I had to actually keep most relations intact to maintain the narrative cohesiveness instead of just going "fuck it we ball gorsetail is heathertail's mom now". Also, ShadowClan's family is INFINITELY more fucked up I just realized. While hardly any WindClan cat has a canon family and thus I can do whatever, ShadowClan is almost entire consisting of cats who do, and let me tell you the modern (as of ASC) ShadowClan consists of the tiger/dove family (+ grandma tawnypelt), the grass/stone family, the slate/cinnamon family (+ uncle puddleshine), blazefire say hello to blazefire, and... the snow/scorch family.

Now, the Snowbird x Scorchfur parents arc has FUCKED UP ShadowClan beyond belief. Snowbird has gave birth to three whole litters of three. That's nine fucking cats in total, she is a mother of NINE. Six of them are currently alive and still residing in ShadowClan. Two of them had kids of their own. She has six living children and five living grandkids. That is, (counting the whole snowscorch family, + uncle ratscar hello uncle ratscar) 14 fucking cats in this wretched family. ShadowClan consists of 28 cats sans the infants. Snowbird, Scorchfur, their spawn and uncle Ratscar hi uncle Ratscar take up 50% OF SHADOWCLAN. HALF OF THE ENTIRE GROUP.

There is no way to salvage this. No fucking way. Snowbird and Scorchfur cannot keep their god forsaken kindergarten. Fuck staying close to canon, I cannot do this anymore. Snow/Scorch now only have one litter; their second and third is shuffled over to Olivenose & Blossomfrost and Swampspot (Blossom and Swamp are former Canon Dead Babies I gave back the privileges of life in order to spread their genes in this hellhole).

Also: Russetfur, Blazefire and Cinnamontail (+ her babies) aren't on this tree. Russetfur and Blazefire because they are former outsiders that aren't really related to anybody so there's hardly any point, and Cinnamontail because ehhhhh I just didn't want to. She can still be Slatefur's wife whatever. It's good she is his wife because she's a former outsider which is fantastic hell yeah new blood whatever

I realized I had an opportunity to do something very funny and thus... I put Komaeda in Warrior Cats. I repurposed Hopekit from YS (Yellowfang's dead baby; she doesn't need dead baby angst she already has "my son grew up into a war criminal dictator and doesn't know im his mother because doctor nuns giving birth is illegal" angst) so that they're born earlier and a parent of Whitewater. Yep, that's Hopefire! He is a ShadowClan warrior and a proud single father of Whitewater and grandpa of Snowbird herself. His dad, Snowtuft, was residing in cat hell and legitimately didn't remember why he forgot his atrocities and then got fucking double killed his soul got GOT rest in rip Snowtuft, and his aunt, Sagewhisker, was a morally dubious ShadowClan's medicine cat and mentor of Yellowfang, whose most distinguishing character traits were 1) old, 2) guilt tripping Yellowfang into swearing celibacy to become her apprentice because she got cat superpowers or something 3) suggesting feeding cat cyanide pills to an injured teenager to Spare His Suffering instead of treating his injuries which is her job because like whats the point mannn!! (Yellowfang told her to go fuck herself and treated him herself, he actually ended up surviving and then dying in a war a year later <3) 4) suggesting Yellowfang either: cat abort(??) her illegal fetuses (i mean not rrly bad but how would that work + Yellowfang didn't want an abortion) OR wait until they're born and kill them (what the fuck) she could mean either it was worded vague as hell 5) died of a heart attack rip in piss. What a character

Anyway that's Hopefire aka Komaeda Danganronpa he's canon to the growling headcanon warrior cat universe <3 thank you for your contribution to the tree. Komaeda from warrior cats, his beloved baby daughter Whitewater, his evil amnesiac double-dead dad, and stinky celibate priestess aunt with a medical degree and something deeply, deeply wrong with her.

That is all folks. As in the previous one: green marker means no parents decided (or ive ran out of canon cats; most of them don't need specified parents anyway whatever), yellow marker means outsider, red marker means outsider that joined or was taken in by ShadowClan. Toodles.

(So, uh............. RiverClan tree is next up)

[growling]

I've been thinking about Komaeda warrior cats ever since. He won't leave. Good for him I mean (aside from the fact realistically he would have been serving Brokenstar during the 76 WindClan-ShadowClan wars and very likely participating in driving them out their territory, and potentially living until Tigerstar's rule when he briefly starts executing half-clan cats + attempted execution of half-clan children but they survive n remain relatively unscathed aside from The Horrors. The question is, does he leave the Clan and renders Whitewater fatherless to go be a house kitty or something when shit hits the fan or does he stick around to engage in war crimes and other such activities and teaches Whitewater the glory and hope of dying in a war which she also instills in her daughter Snowbird which she also instills in her daughter Berryheart which is why she came out a conservative white mom. Truly it is a hard decision to make..........)

[growling]

(headcanon) RiverClan family tree draft 1

Kill me. Gently.

(this should be the last one since I'm not touching ThunderClan with a 15 foot pole, and I unfortunately do not care about 90% of SkyClan. this statement has the potential to age)

[growling]

The above statement did, indeed, age

I don't know if I'm making a second draft, but anyway, there's the changes I'm considering:

(a bit of TC tree info here too) Frostfur and Snowfur must be related in the wc growlingverse, since my designs for them are very similiar, and also, like, come onnn. Frostfur is probably the daughter of Brambleberry (also a very similiar design haver. whats up with these appaloosa mutation looking cats with blue eyes.) and Featherwhisker, but raised by Sunstar (Featherwhisker's brother), as a younger sister of Lionheart and Goldenflower. Brambleberry and Shellheart are siblings and kits of Willownose and Daisytoe; Daisytoe later got with Rooktail and had Moonflower and Goosefeather, and then it's basically pretty much like canon.

REALLY considering the Crooked/Oak and Gray/Willow litters to swap fathers, with Graypool and Willowbreeze being now daughters of Fallowtail and Shellheart, and Crookedstar and Oakheart being the sons of Rainflower and Reedfeather. 1) because I don't like how two gray cats had two brown kittens (crooked/oak), and two brown cats and two gray kittens (gray/willow). like, sorry, chyba co sie pokićkało. 2) i just like it better if Crooked and Oak were halfclan instead. Thinking that maybe instead of running away to the barn 20 kilometers away (??? how did he even do it he was a literal kitten lol lmao even), Reedfeather instead takes him and his brother to WindClan (like he did with Willow and Gray in canon but like. in a more... evil. way.) after seeing their mother call Crookedkit ableist slurs when he was a preschooler. Reedfeather decided that's enough Rainflower I am taking full custody, my sons now. Or maybe just takes Crookedkit, since idk if RiverClan would let him? Anyway, Crookedkit joins WindClan with his deputy dad Reedfeather, where his name is changed back into Stormkit because What The Fuck, and actually has a very good time there, his parent actually likes him, he becomes friends with Hopkit/Deadpaw (also: What The Fuck), relearns how to chew/speak/hunt with his twisted jaw, and prefers it over RiverClan where everyone just ignored his neglect and let his mother Do All That (also Hailstar). But of course after a while he gets either A.) continuously guilt tripped and pressured by Mapleshade to leave WindClan and his father to return to his birth clan RiverClan and back to his abuser because """"clan loyalty"""" or whatever, which he internalizes for the rest of his life there, or B) similiar to in canon gray/willow's return to RC, Hailstar and his battle patrol win him back by force (not sure if Stormkit sees it, but I'm def keeping Hailstar near drowning Reedfeather until he surrenders) and take him back themselves. Back to the torture gauntlet you go, no, Crookedkit, we're the good guys and have just honorably won you back, it was Reedfeather that kidnapped you and not us :) you don't know what you're talking about. dumb baby :) anyway we're leaving like right about now also half ur mom thinks you're a very naughty boy for this and we encourage you to work very hard to earn back all our trust and love :) ok bedtime, don't be late for cat jingoism class tomorrow. Crookedstar then internalizes it for the rest of his life so hard he becomes their leader years later. He's just not allowed to be happy ever I guess fuck this cat in particular??? Mapleshade doesn't even need to be present if I think about it..... anyway are we going with option A or B my wc followers which are you feeling .

[moths-wc-aus]

HF - The Healer Code

The med. cat code in canon is super vague, and never actually... stated, aside from a few one-off rules. So, I wrote up a whole code for the healers in Healing Fire! Asterisks have been added for laws that I want to talk about a little bit more in-depth, and you can find my notes below the "read more" cut ^-^

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1 - No healer may take a mate or have kits. It is fine to fall in love, but no feelings can be acted upon. *

2 - No healer can allow personal views to guide the way they heal. They cannot refuse a cat treatment, nor can they put a loved one's health above another's.

3 - A healer must do everything in their power to save a sick, injured, or dying cat, regardless of which Clan they are or are not from. **

4 - A healer may only retire when their apprentice has been fully trained and is ready to take their place. However, if a healer dies or cannot continue their work, the former healer will be pulled from retirement. ***

5 - Every half moon, healers will meet at the moonstone and commune with StarClan.

6 - Healers may only discuss their visions and omens with their leader, deputy, or other healers unless given permission to do otherwise.

7 - Borders are open to all healers, unless otherwise stated by a leader. ****

8 - Healers are free to share whatever news from their Clan they desire, so long as they keep in mind that those they speak to may share that information with their Clan.

9 - While a warrior may become a healer, no fully-trained healer may become a warrior.

10 - While healers are outside of Clan rivalries, they must learn how to fight.

11 - A healer cannot share private information shared with them, unless that information may lead to the harm of others.

12 - If there is no deputy after a leader's passing or exile, the healer must wait for a sign from StarClan of who the new leader will be. Until then, they will act as Clan leader. *****

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* - No healer may take a mate or have kits. I absolutely abhor this rule in canon, because it has such a stupid reason for existing, but it drives a lot of early (and later) plot in the canon books that would be kind of tough to write around. And thus, I turn to Clan cultures. In WindClan and Ancient SkyClan, a healer having a lover and/or kits is super frowned upon. You may as well be kicked out entirely for it. In ThunderClan and RiverClan, it's definitely not encouraged, and healers with kits tend to become a bit ostracized, but it's not like breaking that law will completely destroy your life. In ShadowClan and Modern SkyClan, it's a rule, it exists, they just don't give a singular fuck about it. Generally it's expected that you've trained an apprentice before having kits, but it's not a super big whoop if not.

** - A healer must do everything in their power to save a sick, injured, or dying cat, regardless of which Clan they are or are not from. Really the only thing I wanted to talk about here is the "Regardless of which Clan they are or are not from" bit. I always thought it was kind of stupid that the rule in the warrior code talking about kits only ever specified that it didn't matter what Clan they were from. I mean, logically, even if they were a kittypet kit, it'd be a warrior's duty to help them. So, yeah, I tacked the last bit of that code on in order to keep any healers from going "Well they weren't a Clan cat, so I legally didn't have to help them."

*** - A healer may only retire when their apprentice has been fully trained and is ready to take their place. However, if a healer dies or cannot continue their work, the former healer will be pulled from retirement. Again, I only want to talk about the second bit. It's less of explaining my thinking and why I added it this time around, and more of "Here's a little lore tidbit I want to tell people about ^-^". The first sentence was made as the entirety of this code, and the second sentence was tacked on later when a Clan faced the problem of "Oh fuck our healer just died uhhhhhhhhhhhh shit" and had their former healer come out of retirement.

**** - Borders are open to all healers, unless otherwise stated by a leader. While borders are open to healers, that doesn't mean that they can just go wandering off into other Clan territories. To be more specific- borders are open to healers when needed. If a healer is in desperate need of an herb, or they need advice from another healer- those are all valid reasons for them to be crossing borders. Just wandering over for a chat with a friend is not.

***** - If there is no deputy after a leader's passing or exile, the healer must wait for a sign from StarClan of who the new leader will be. Until then, they will act as Clan leader. This law is heavily inspired by the reason law nine (a new deputy must be chosen by moonhigh) came to be. If you haven't read Code of the Clans, what happens is essentially this; ShadowClan deputy gets sick and dies before they can earn their nine lives or appoint a new deputy. There's some fighting about who will be the next to lead, two cats die, and the resident med cat fakes a sign from StarClan about who the true new leader of ShadowClan will be. I imagine that scenario lead to this rule being created, as a "just in case" sort of policy.

[dawnfinchh]

allegiances masterpost

masterpost for all my series of full "canon" allegiances, meant as references for fanworks and such. will edit/add as i make new ones

main series:

into the wild

fire and ice

forest of secrets

midnight

the sight

the fourth apprentice

the apprentice's quest

super editions:

bramblestar's storm

[petalkitshadow]

i cant lie i feel like you are one of the smartest warriorcaters people..

can you please with a cherry on top

please tell me the estimated moons of everyone in into the wild..

ive lloked at the events timelines but my brain is small like a peanut it didnt

Yep heres a list of how old everyone is (approx, give or take a few moons) from oldest to youngest

ThunderClan:

Smallear: ~127 moons (10 yr 7 moons) (only shown as an apprentice but not a kit, assuming hes around 6 moons old at the start of Goosefeather's Curse)

One-Eye: ~112 moons (9 yr 4 moons)

Speckletail: ~112 moons (9 yr 4 moons)

Dappletail: ~111 moons (9 yr 3 moons)

Halftail: ~105 moons (8 yr 9 moons) (pops into existence in Bluestar's Prophecy as a warrior so take this with a huuuuge grain of salt)

Yellowfang: ~79 moons (6 yr 7 moons)

Patchpelt: ~75 moons (6 yr 3 moons)

Bluestar: ~72 moons (6 yr)

Rosetail: ~69 moons (nice) (5 yr 9 moons)

Lionheart: ~68 moons (5 yr 8 moons)

Goldenflower: ~68 moons (5 yr 8 moons)

Tigerclaw: ~57 moons (4 yr 9 moons)

Whitestorm: ~56 moons (4 yr 8 moons)

Frostfur: ~56 moons (4 yr 8 moons)

Brindleface: ~56 moons (4 yr 8 moons)

Spottedleaf: ~55 moons (4 yr 7 moons)

Redtail: ~55 moons (4 yr 7 moons)

Willowpelt: ~55 moons (4 yr 7 moons)

Runningwind: ~42 moons (3 yr 6 moons)

Mousefur: ~42 moons (3 yr 6 moons)

Darkstripe: ~27 moons (2 yr 3 moons) (should be taken with an extreme grain of salt; he is only shown as a kit in the allegiances of Onestar's Confession and is never shown in-text as an apprentice.. all we know is he is young enough to be Willowpelt's son, but old enough to mentor Longtail)

Longtail: ~14 moons (1 yr 2 moons)

Ravenpaw: ~8 moons

Dustpaw: ~8 moons

Sandpaw: ~7 moons (i just put her between Raven&Dust and Fire&Gray)

Graypaw: ~6 moons

Firepaw: ~6 moons

Swiftkit: >1 moon

Lynxkit: >1 moon

Frostfur would be about 1 moon along in her pregnancy, with Cinder, Bright, Thorn, and Bracken 1 moon away from being born

Brindleface woudlve just gotten pregnant with Ashfur, Ferncloud, Tulipkit, and Elderkit, they're 2 moons from being born

I could do the other clans, tho ShadowClan and RiverClan are HUGE so i opted to do just ThunderClan

[valkyrie-00]

i absolutely need Shadowclan's ages now omg, i love this /sobs

[tall-shadow4]

Reedfeather (silver chocolate tabby with partial heterochromia) and Fallowtail (black mackerel tabby)

Willowbreeze (blue silver classic tabby)

Silverstream (silver classic tabby)

[basildusk]

RiverClan Family Headcanons

Please let me know if you notice any big errors (siblings paired together, dead cats having kittens, etc.)

Early Prequels (StormClan’s Folly to Mapleshade’s Vengeance)

Mossleaf is Birchstar’s son.

Appledusk and Rushtooth are Mossleaf’s sons.

Rainfall, Echosnout, and Darkstar are Sloefur's (FQ) kits.

Eeltail and Splashfoot are Darkstar and Spiketail's kits.

Reedshine is Foxclaw’s granddaughter.

Perchsplash (Perchpaw) and Duskwater are Eeltail's kits.

Cloudberry and Milkfur (MV) are sisters. Milkfur died giving birth to a daughter, Milkkit (later Milkfur the medicine cat).

Volestar and Sparrowfeather (StaC) are brothers.

Later Prequels (Goosefeather’s Curse to Bluestar’s Prophecy)

Shellheart is Willownose and Perchsplash's son.

Cedarpelt, Marshcloud, and Fallowtail are Volestar's kits. 

Hailstar and Lightningpaw are Duskwater and Troutclaw's kits.

Rainflower is Lilyflower’s daughter.

Timberfur and Mudfur are Mudthorn's sons.

Ottersplash and Brightdawn are Tanglewhisker and Birdsong's daughters.

Shimmerpelt (CrP) and Brambleberry are sisters.

Whitefang, Ivytail, and Softwing are littermates.

First Arc

Mosspelt and Emberdawn are Mallowtail's daughters. Their father is Redtail of ThunderClan.

Heavystep, Shadepelt, and Silverpaw are Lilystem and Rippleclaw's kits.

Otterheart and Graymist are Sedgecreek and Whitefang’s daughters.

Swallowtail and Pinefur are Grasswhisker and Loudbelly's daughters.

Duskfur and Greenflower are Skyheart and Reedtail’s daughters.

Second Arc

Icewing is Dawnbright’s daughter.

Beechfur and Rippletail are Pinefur and Hawkfrost's sons.

Rainstorm and Mintfur are Swallowtail and Rainwhisker's sons.

Voletooth, Stonestream, and Splashpaw are Vixenleap and Heavystep's kits.

Pebblefoot, Minnowtail, and Tumblekit are Dawnflower and Blackclaw's kits. They were born when Blackclaw was no longer with Mistyfoot.

Willowshine, Pouncetail, and Dapplenose are Mosspelt and Voleclaw's kits (first litter).

Third Arc

Robinwing, Copperpaw, and Nettlepaw are Mosspelt and Voleclaw's kits (second litter).

Sneezecloud and Mallownose are Graymist and Stonestream’s sons.

Troutstream and Rushtail are Voletooth and Dapplenose's kits (first litter).

Mossyfoot and Hollowflight are Otterheart and Rippletail's kits.

Fourth Arc

Podlight and Curlfeather are Duskfur and Reedwhisker's kits.

Shimmerpelt, Heronwing, and Lakeheart are Minnowtail and Beetlewhisker's kits.

Lizardtail, Havenpelt, Perchwing, and Pikepaw (BotC) are Voletooth and Dapplenose's kits (second litter).

Rushpaw, Tanglepaw, and Duckpaw are Otterheart and Reedwhisker's kits. Reedwhisker cheated on Duskfur with Otterheart, and this soured his relationship with her and their kits.

Sixth Arc

Foxnose and Shadepelt are Shimmerpelt and Podlight's kits.

Cypresspaw and Wavepaw were kittypet sisters taken in as trial apprentices. They weren’t cut out for warrior life, so they returned to Twolegplace.

[silverpeltsfury]

can i see your as-accurate-as-possible itw allegiances please?

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i don't actually have shadowclan 100% certain but here's river and wind, and i'll include one of my older shadow's that may be a touch off. family tree notes or apprentices with no known mentors are a mix of canon and mine, and family tree notes may contradict canon, but the cats mentioned are accurate to the time. this is, to the best of my ability, an accurate list of cats on the day Rusty joins ThunderClan using the awful unbearable timeline. i'm actually in the process of going through the main arcs and documenting every specific mention of time passing so i can make an accurate timeline for me to work with (because i ignore anything that contradicts the main arcs unless it's vital and will happily fudge SE and novella timelines, it's easiest to start from there). windclan is especially tough because of how brutally onestar's confession obliterated every ounce of a reasonable timeline (shoutout to whitepaw's 3 year apprenticeship)

RIVERCLAN

Leader: Crookedstar

Deputy: Oakheart (Mistyfoot and Stonefur’s father)

Medicine Cat(s): Mudfur (Leopardfur's father)

Warriors: Rippleclaw Timberfur (Ottersplash’s mate) Ottersplash (Sedgecreek, Loudbelly, and Reedtail’s mother) Cedarpelt (Lakeshine’s mate) Owlfur (Softwing’s mate) Piketooth (Shimmerpelt’s mate) Apprentice, Grasspaw Lakeshine (Sunfish and Frogleap’s mother) Shimmerpelt (Skyheart and Blackclaw’s mother) Petaldust (Greenpaw’s mother) Beetlenose (Whitepaw, Grasspaw, and Vixenpaw’s father) Voleclaw Graypool (Mistyfoot and Stonefur’s mother) Sedgecreek Apprentice, Silverpaw Loudbelly Reedtail Frogleap Leopardfur Apprentice, Whitepaw Skyheart Blackclaw (Mistyfoot’s mate) Apprentice, Greenpaw Dawnbright Mallowtail Mistyfoot Apprentice, Vixenpaw Stonefur

Apprentices: Whitepaw Grasspaw Vixenpaw Greenpaw Silverpaw

Queens: Lilystem (Shadekit, Heavykit, Silverkit; Lakeshine’s mother) Softwing (Emberkit, Mosskit; Dawnbright and Mallowtail’s mother)

Elders: Birdsong Echomist (Petaldust, Beetlenose, and Voleclaw’s mother)

SHADOWCLAN

Leader: Brokenstar

Deputy: Blackfoot

Medic(s): Runningnose

Warriors: Mousewing Finchflight (father of Dawncloud’s kits) Blizzardwing Brackenfoot (Brightflower’s mate) Amberleaf Toadskip (Nettlespot’s mate; Nightpelt, Darkflower, and Clawface’s father) Poolcloud (Wolfstep’s mother) Frogtail Scorchwind Nutwhisker Rowanberry (Stumpytail and Cinderfur’s mother) Wolfstep (Fernshade’s mate) Russetfur Apprentice, Whitepaw Boulder Apprentice, Wetpaw Nightpelt Clawface (father of Rowanberry’s kits) Apprentice, Littlepaw Darkflower Fernshade Flintfang Deerfoot Stumpytail Apprentice, Brownpaw Cinderfur

Apprentices: Brownpaw Littlepaw Wetpaw Whitepaw

Queens: Featherstorm (Scorchwind, Dawncloud, and Volepaw’s mother) Brightflower (Nutwhisker and Rowanberry’s mother) Tangleburr (Oakkit, Tallkit, Applekit) Dawncloud

Elders: Archeye Hollyflower (Mousewing and Finchflight’s mother) Crowtail Ashfur

WINDCLAN

Leader: Tallstar

Deputy: Deadfoot (Ashfoot’s mate)

Medic(s): Barkface

Warriors: Cloudrunner Apprentice, Stonepaw Stagleap (Wrenflight’s mate) Doespring Ryestalk (Mudclaw’s mother; Tornear’s nurse-mother) Pigeonflight Bristlebark Flytail Wrenflight (Onewhisker’s mother; Morningflower’s nurse-mother) Rushtail Oatwhisker Tornear Mudclaw (Morningflower’s mate) Crowfur Darkfoot Ashfoot Apprentice, Thrushpaw Onewhisker Morningflower (Thrushpaw and Stonepaw’s mother)

Apprentices: Thrushpaw Stonepaw 

Queens: Sorrelshine (Runningkit, Webkit, Whitekit)

Elders: Redclaw (Barkface’s father) Appledawn (Oatwhisker and Rushtail’s mother) Plumclaw Larksplash (Ashfoot, Crowfur, and Darkfoot’s mother)

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RiverClan Family Headcanons

Please let me know if you notice any big errors (siblings paired together, dead cats having kittens, etc.)

Early Prequels (StormClan’s Folly to Mapleshade’s Vengeance)

Mossleaf is Birchstar’s son.

Appledusk and Rushtooth are Mossleaf’s sons.

Rainfall, Echosnout, and Darkstar are Sloefur's (FQ) kits.

Eeltail and Splashfoot are Darkstar and Spiketail's kits.

Reedshine is Foxclaw’s granddaughter.

Perchsplash (Perchpaw) and Duskwater are Eeltail's kits.

Cloudberry and Milkfur (MV) are sisters. Milkfur died giving birth to a daughter, Milkkit (later Milkfur the medicine cat).

Volestar and Sparrowfeather (StaC) are brothers.

Later Prequels (Goosefeather’s Curse to Bluestar’s Prophecy)

Shellheart is Willownose and Perchsplash's son.

Cedarpelt, Marshcloud, and Fallowtail are Volestar's kits. 

Hailstar and Lightningpaw are Duskwater and Troutclaw's kits.

Rainflower is Lilyflower’s daughter.

Timberfur and Mudfur are Mudthorn's sons.

Ottersplash and Brightdawn are Tanglewhisker and Birdsong's daughters.

Shimmerpelt (CrP) and Brambleberry are sisters.

Whitefang, Ivytail, and Softwing are littermates.

First Arc

Mosspelt and Emberdawn are Mallowtail's daughters. Their father is Redtail of ThunderClan.

Heavystep, Shadepelt, and Silverpaw are Lilystem and Rippleclaw's kits.

Otterheart and Graymist are Sedgecreek and Whitefang’s daughters.

Swallowtail and Pinefur are Grasswhisker and Loudbelly's daughters.

Duskfur and Greenflower are Skyheart and Reedtail’s daughters.

Second Arc

Icewing is Dawnbright’s daughter.

Beechfur and Rippletail are Pinefur and Hawkfrost's sons.

Rainstorm and Mintfur are Swallowtail and Rainwhisker's sons.

Voletooth, Stonestream, and Splashpaw are Vixenleap and Heavystep's kits.

Pebblefoot, Minnowtail, and Tumblekit are Dawnflower and Blackclaw's kits. They were born when Blackclaw was no longer with Mistyfoot.

Willowshine, Pouncetail, and Dapplenose are Mosspelt and Voleclaw's kits (first litter).

Third Arc

Robinwing, Copperpaw, and Nettlepaw are Mosspelt and Voleclaw's kits (second litter).

Sneezecloud and Mallownose are Graymist and Stonestream’s sons.

Troutstream and Rushtail are Voletooth and Dapplenose's kits (first litter).

Mossyfoot and Hollowflight are Otterheart and Rippletail's kits.

Fourth Arc

Podlight and Curlfeather are Duskfur and Reedwhisker's kits.

Shimmerpelt, Heronwing, and Lakeheart are Minnowtail and Beetlewhisker's kits.

Lizardtail, Havenpelt, Perchwing, and Pikepaw (BotC) are Voletooth and Dapplenose's kits (second litter).

Rushpaw, Tanglepaw, and Duckpaw are Otterheart and Reedwhisker's kits. Reedwhisker cheated on Duskfur with Otterheart, and this soured his relationship with her and their kits.

Sixth Arc

Foxnose and Shadepelt are Shimmerpelt and Podlight's kits.

Cypresspaw and Wavepaw were kittypet sisters taken in as trial apprentices. They weren’t cut out for warrior life, so they returned to Twolegplace.

[canon-notcanon-warriorcats]

fun facts about my rewrite and the family trees so far, windclan version:

-morningflower and ashfoot are from an earlier litter than onepaw. morningflower was also originally an only kit, but then ashkit was found abandoned under an ash tree and they adopted her

-rushtail was a loner from twolegplace that came to live with windclan when he was apprentice aged

-crowfur and cloudrunner are darkfoot's parents (surrogated by plumclaw)

-plumclaw and appledawn are thrushpaw and stonepaw's parents (surrogated by cloudrunner)

-pigeonflight and rabbitear are webpaw and runningpaw's parents

-oatwhisker and doespring are mates

[canon-notcanon-warriorcats]

fun facts about my rewrite and the family trees so far, shadowclan version:

-cloudpelt and ashheart are whitewater's parents. ashheart becomes mates with boulder moons after cloudpelt dies

-oakpaw, who's going to become oakfur, is actually older than wetpaw, who becomes wetfoot, even though in the canon series wetfoot is actually oakfur's mentor. oakpaw was the last apprentice raggedstar appointed and was the last kit to be made an apprentice at the proper age of 6 moons old before brokenstar took over

-boulder and ashheart are oakpaw's parents

-newtspeck and nutwhisker are wetpaw, brownpaw, and littlepaw's parents

-crowtail and archeye are darkflower, tallpoppy, and applefall's parents, tallpoppy and applefall are from a second litter

-applefall is the cat named applefur in tigerclaw's fury, but since later tallpoppy has a kit also named applefur, i changed her name. tallpoppy actually names applefur after her sister!

-whitepaw becomes whitethroat and he and badgerpaw are brothers, their parents are wolfstep and fernshade

-frogtail and tangleburr are snaketail and sparrowfeather's parents

-you know sparrowfeather from the dark forest? yeah that's this sparrowfeather. she ends up in the dark forest because she's one of brokenstar's closest followers. she's also madly in love with him. brokenstar is not madly in love with her lol

[canon-notcanon-warriorcats]

fun facts about my rewrite and the family trees so far, riverclan version:

-whiteclaw is actually beetlenose and sunfish's oldest kit, vixenpaw and grasspaw (and technically silverpaw) are the youngest

-sedgecreek and mudthorn ("who the fuck is that" you know, the random guy that's in tallstar's revenge and leopardstar's honor's allegiances but is never in the actual books) are greenflower's parents ("who the FUCK is THAT?" you know, the cat that originally was going to foster silverstream's kits but then never appeared and was never in the allegiances)

-sedgecreek isn't really mates with mudthorn though, they're just friends and sedgecreek wanted to have kits

-graypool's not an elder yet because WHY THE FUCK WOULD SHE BE

-petaldust and blackclaw are mosspaw and emberpaw's parents

-voleclaw was the father to graypool's kits, not rippleclaw, rippleclaw is WAY older than graypool and is mates with lilystem

-greenflower and whiteclaw are mates

-reedtail and skyheart are mates

-stonefur and mallowtail are mates

[canon-notcanon-warriorcats]

fun facts about my rewrite and the family trees so far, riverclan version:

-whiteclaw is actually beetlenose and sunfish's oldest kit, vixenpaw and grasspaw (and technically silverpaw) are the youngest

-sedgecreek and mudthorn ("who the fuck is that" you know, the random guy that's in tallstar's revenge and leopardstar's honor's allegiances but is never in the actual books) are greenflower's parents ("who the FUCK is THAT?" you know, the cat that originally was going to foster silverstream's kits but then never appeared and was never in the allegiances)

-sedgecreek isn't really mates with mudthorn though, they're just friends and sedgecreek wanted to have kits

-graypool's not an elder yet because WHY THE FUCK WOULD SHE BE

-petaldust and blackclaw are mosspaw and emberpaw's parents

-voleclaw was the father to graypool's kits, not rippleclaw, rippleclaw is WAY older than graypool and is mates with lilystem

-greenflower and whiteclaw are mates

-reedtail and skyheart are mates

-stonefur and mallowtail are mates