Warrior

Warriors are adult Clan cats who feed and protect their Clan. Their duties are extremely important to the overall survival of the Clan.
==Description==
Warriors have been trained in the ways of fighting and hunting in addition to the ways of the warrior code. They are charged with the responsibility to feed and protect cats who are elderly or unable to spend time out of camp.
Warriors make up most of a Clan; many cats are, were, or will be a warrior (an exception being medicine cats), unless they die before they become are able to become one (e.g. Swiftpaw, Gorsepaw). When a she-cat is expecting or nursing kits, they temporarily give up their warrior duties and become queens, but take them up again when their kits are apprenticed, although some cats would rather stay in the nursery as permanent queens to help other queens and the arrivals of new kits (such as Daisy and Ferncloud).Daisy and Ferncloud are always listed as queens.
==Tasks==
Warriors have the following tasks:
*Providing defense and security
**Border patrols
***Marking borders
***Evicting or chasing out trespassers
**Camp security
***Stand guard and raise the alarm if invaded
***Protect the camp in the event of attack 
*Providing food for the Clan in the form of fresh-kill/doing hunting patrols 
*Serving in offensive operations
**Perform preemptive attacks against other Clans, either to eliminate a specific threat or to carry out another objective defined by the Clan leader
*Mentor warrior apprentices
==Education==
Kits are apprenticed at the age of six moons to a warrior, and are made full warriors when both their mentor and their leader are satisfied with their skills and knowledge, and they pass an assessment required to be completed. On the topic of these assessments — tasks their mentor gave them, these usually include hunting in a specific place whilst being followed by the mentor, making sure to be unseen to check how they are getting on without knowing when they are watching.
An apprenticeship usually lasts for six moons or more (Exceptions are Graystripe and Firestar, who became warriors at nine moons, if an apprentice was away like Squirrelstar, or become injured so they cannot take on tasks properly, like Crookedstar, etc.), thus, the warriors have to be at least 12 moons old. Cats become warrior apprentices after an apprentice ceremony, and full warriors after a warrior ceremony.
===Mentors===
A warrior who instructs an apprentice is called a mentor. Mentors will teach their apprentices the way of a warrior: how to hunt and fight, and the ways of the warrior code. Clan leaders are to decide who will mentor which apprentices, and have the option to inform them who they are mentoring. An apprentice is given their mentor at their apprentice ceremony. Before a warrior can become a deputy, they must mentor at least one apprentice. This is not always true, as sometimes StarClan will send an omen to tell the leader or medicine cat who to choose, even if they have never been a mentor. For example, Leafpool had been given a dream of brambles with claws surrounding the ThunderClan camp to keep it safe, thus causing Firestar to choose Brambleclaw to be deputy when Graystripe was gone, although at the time he had not been a mentor yet, though he was promised Berrynose when he came of age. 
==Special cases==
===Senior warriors===
A senior warrior is a warrior who is older and more experienced than the others, but has not decided to become an elder yet, and would rather serve their Clan as long as they can. Senior warriors are given respect, and are often asked for advice by the Clan leader. Senior warriors are also tasked with leading patrols, and filling in for the Clan deputy should they be unavailable, such as Adderfang filling in for Tawnyspots or the ThunderClan senior warriors splitting up and doing Graystripe's duties when he was captured.
In the warriors' den, the senior warriors sleep towards the middle where it is warmest, while the younger warriors sleep towards the sides. An example of a senior warrior is Whitestorm of ThunderClan, who was well respected by all his Clanmates.
===Daylight-warriors===
The concept of "daylight-warriors" was introduced in SkyClan's Destiny. It denotes kittypets who sleep with their Twolegs in a Twoleg nest at night, but participate in a Clan's activities by day, like hunting and patrolling. They can even train apprentices (an example of this would be Billystorm training Snookthorn or Ebonyclaw training Hawkwing), or become a medicine cat apprentice (as is the case of Frecklewish). These warriors are generally scorned for being "half-kittypet" by their full-Clanmates.
However, with SkyClan moving to the lake, the position of a daylight-warrior appears to have been rendered defunct.The daylight warriors who stayed in SkyClan's old territory became kittypets again, and the cats who left with SkyClan became full members of their Clan. Hawkwing's Journey has Harveymoon and Ebonyclaw decide to stay with their Twolegs, while Macgyver and Frecklewish are seen in SkyClan's lake territory and are no longer mentioned as daylight warriors or kittypets.
==Trivia==
===Author statements===
*Kate stated that the system in which warriors are promoted to senior warriors is "unspoken" and "there's no official role".
*When asked about some of the SkyClan daylight warriors keeping their kittypet names, Vicky said, "they had a basic idea of the two-part structure, helped by Firestar and Sandstorm, but most of them already had names from their Twoleg owners. What's more, many of the new SkyClan warriors liked these names. They were used to them and didn't necessarily want to change them. I loved that we could show the stubborn, loyal nature of some of these cats; they didn't hate their kittypet lives, they had great affection for their Twoleg families, and they didn't see why they should have a completely different name for this other part of their life."
==See also==
*List of warriors
*List of senior warriors
*List of daylight warriors
*Apprentice
*Mentor
*Warrior ceremony
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==Notes and references==
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