Swiftpaw (TPB)

Swiftpaw is a small black-and-white tom with pale amber eyes.
Swiftpaw was a ThunderClan apprentice under Bluestar's leadership in the forest territories. He was born to Goldenflower and Patchpelt alongside Lynxkit, and was an older half-brother to Bramblekit and Tawnykit. He was apprenticed as Swiftpaw to his half-brother, Longtail. When Bluestar refused to give him, Thornpaw, and Brightpaw their warrior names out of paranoia, Swiftpaw formed a plan with the other apprentices to drive out the pack of dogs near Snakerocks. Brightpaw was the only one to agree to go with him; however, both were quickly overwhelmed by the amount of dogs, and in the end, Swiftpaw was killed, and Brightpaw was severely injured. Swiftpaw ascended to StarClan and gave Fireheart a life for mentoring.
==History==
===In The Prophecies Begin arc===
====Fire and Ice====
:He is apprenticed to Longtail and receives his new name, Swiftpaw. He is shown to be very nervous and shaky as he approaches his new mentor. To Fireheart's annoyance, Longtail treats Swiftpaw much better than he treated him when he first joined the Clan. Swiftpaw is shown to have gradually adopted Longtail's personality when he jeers along with his mentor when Cloudkit is brought to ThunderClan.
====Forest of Secrets====
:During a Gathering, it is thought by Fireheart that Swiftpaw told some ShadowClan apprentices that ThunderClan was keeping Brokentail within their Clan. This causes a war among WindClan, ShadowClan, and ThunderClan because the other Clans are angry that ThunderClan would protect a cat who has done such evil things.
====Rising Storm====
:When Fireheart struggles to organize patrols in his new position as deputy, he suggests that Longtail leads the sunhigh patrol, but Runningwind replies with exasperation that Longtail was out training with Swiftpaw. However, Whitestorm helps Fireheart sort out the patrols and suggests that when Longtail and Swiftpaw return, they can go on the evening patrol with him instead. He briefly chats with the other apprentices before Brindleface's kits are set to be apprenticed. After the forest fire that ravages ThunderClan's camp, he replaces Mousefur on guard duty, and helps out with the rebuilding of the camp.
====A Dangerous Path====
:Swiftpaw goes out on patrol with Bluestar, Fireheart, Cloudpaw, and his mentor, Longtail. They find a RiverClan patrol, led by Leopardstar, invading Sunningrocks, and Fireheart orders him to go back to camp and bring reinforcements. After the battle, Longtail blames Fireheart for his apprentice not being made into a warrior because when he was sent back to camp to fetch more warriors, what he called an apprentice task, he did not get a chance to participate in the fight very much. This lost Swiftpaw the opportunity to show off his battle skills in front of Bluestar.
:He is ready to become a warrior, but Bluestar is thoroughly convinced that every cat in her Clan is a traitor, especially Tigerstar's old allies, Darkstripe and Longtail, with the exception of Fireheart. She refuses to let Swiftpaw become a warrior because of who his mentor is, even after persuasion from Fireheart. She agrees to make Cloudpaw a warrior, partly because of his disbelief in StarClan, even though Swiftpaw has trained for longer than him. Cloudpaw becomes a warrior, Cloudtail, leaving Swiftpaw, Thornpaw, and Brightpaw as apprentices.
:Swiftpaw is furious, and his anger compels him to prove himself to Bluestar. Swiftpaw convinces the apprentices that if they do something really brave, Bluestar will have to make them warriors. He plans to attack Snakerocks and drive out whatever was killing their prey and living there. Only Brightpaw goes with him to the Snakerocks. They are then met by a pack of vicious dogs, much larger than they had expected. Swiftpaw is killed in the attack, and Brightpaw is viciously scarred. Brightpaw clings to one of the dogs as it joins its pack mates in dragging Swiftpaw out of the tree. He is pulled to the ground, where Swiftpaw fights and tries to save Brightpaw, and is brutally killed by the dogs. His body, along with Brightpaw, is later found and brought back to camp by Fireheart and his patrol.
====The Darkest Hour====
:During Firestar's leadership ceremony, Swiftpaw appears as a member of StarClan to give Firestar a life. Firestar apologizes to Swiftpaw for not trying harder to convince Bluestar to make him a warrior, but Swiftpaw is not angry anymore and is more forgiving. He gives Firestar his sixth life, with the gift of mentoring, so he can pass on his knowledge and skills to all the young cats of ThunderClan. When Firestar is given the life, he feels a pang of sheer terror, pain, and a flash of red. He thinks that was what Swiftpaw experienced at the end of his life. At his former denmate, Thornpaw's, warrior ceremony, Firestar mentions Swiftpaw and how he died in honor fighting the dog pack. His former mentor Longtail is seen sitting among the ThunderClan cats with pride and grief on his face at the honorable mention of his apprentice. After Darkstripe is exiled, Firestar gives Longtail another apprentice, Fernpaw, thinking of Swiftpaw as well.
===In the Power of Three arc===
====Outcast====
:Swiftpaw is mentioned when Whitetail says that Breezepaw had gone out with other apprentices to fight dogs without orders and no warriors for backup. This reminds Lionpaw of the story of how Swiftpaw was killed when he and Brightheart were attacked by the dog pack back in the old forest.
===In the Omen of the Stars arc===
====The Last Hope====
:Swiftpaw is seen briefly at Firestar's death along with the rest of the cats that gave him his nine lives. Jayfeather notes that he gave Firestar the life of mentoring, to which Brambleclaw comments that Firestar was the best mentor he could have hoped for.
===In the Super Editions===
====Moth Flight's Vision====
:Although unnamed, Moth Flight sees him giving Firestar one of his nine lives.
====Yellowfang's Secret====
:In the manga at the end of the book, Swiftpaw and Brightpaw are seen being told by Fireheart that they have to check the elders for ticks.
===In the Novellas===
====Redtail's Debt====
:Redtail spots him playing with his littermate and Frostfur's kits near the nursery as their mothers watch them protectively.
===In the Stand-alone graphic novels===
====A Thief in ThunderClan====
:Moons after the battle against BloodClan, Brightheart still experiences nightmares about the dog pack attacking her and Swiftpaw. No matter what she tries, Swiftpaw always dies. The night after Firestar and Sandstorm leave on their mysterious quest, Brightheart has another nightmare of Swiftpaw's death. 
==Character pixels==
===Main images===
===Alternate images===
==Official art==
==Ceremonies==
===Lives granted===
==Kin==
===Members===
Father:
:Patchpelt: 
Mother:
:Goldenflower: 
Sibling:
:Lynxkit: 
Half-brothers:
:Longtail: 
:Brambleclaw: 
Half-sister:
:Tawnypelt: 
===Tree===
==Appearances==
==Trivia==
===Interesting facts===
*Swiftpaw's father is not Tigerstar.
===Author Statements===
*On her Facebook page, Vicky does believe that Patchpelt may be Swiftpaw's father.Revealed on Vicky's Facebook
**This is later proved to be true on the Warriors website's family tree.
===Mistakes===
*Swiftpaw was shown as a solid-colored cat in the manga in Yellowfang's Secret.
*Swiftpaw is mistakenly shown as mostly white on the Warriors website's family tree.
===Continuity===
*In Secrets of the Clans, a 2007 field guide, When Goldenflower, his mother, becomes an elder, she remembers that she nursed Swiftpaw, then Swiftkit, in the nursery. Brightheart tells the story of when she and Swiftpaw tried to take on the dog pack by themselves. Brightheart says that he was killed at Snakerocks when she and Swiftpaw were trying to prove themselves so that they could become warriors. They were trying to find out who or what was stealing ThunderClan's prey at Snakerocks. Brightpaw tried to stop Swiftpaw, but he did not listen, and got them into a fight with a dog four times their size. Six more dogs emerged, and Swiftpaw died fighting, while Brightpaw lost an eye and an ear, but recovered from her severe injuries under Cinderpelt's care. As the story ends, Brightpaw says she will always remember him "fighting like all of LionClan," despite the fact they were impossibly outnumbered.
*Swiftpaw's sibling, Lynxkit, was originally introduced on Vicky's Facebook. Lynxkit was identified as one of the kits in Into the Wild who died of weakness.Revealed on Vicky's Facebook
*In the Chinese full-color version of Into the Woods, Swiftpaw and Longtail appear as the ThunderClan trespassers.Revealed on the Chinese WikiRevealed in Into the Woods, Chinese full-color edition, page 70
*In The Prophecies Begin graphic novel adaptation, Swiftkit is one of the kits that Clawface steals, replacing Brightkit. He is also apprenticed alongside Cinderpaw and Brackenpaw, when he was originally apprenticed prior to Fireheart and Graystripe searching for WindClan.
==Quotes==
==External links==
* 
* 
* 
* 
*
* 
* 
===Fan content===
*
*
*
*
*
* 
* 
* 
* 
* 
* 
* 
* 
* 
* 
* 
==Notes and references==
cs:Rychlíkde:Wieselpfote (DonnerClan)es:Zarpa Raudafi:Nopsatassufr:Nuage Agileit:ZampaLestako:스위프트포(1부)nl:Snelpootpl:Prędka Łapapt-br:Pata Ligeiraru:Быстролапsv:Snabbtassuk:Прудколапko:스위프트포(1부)
Category:StarClan cats
Category:ThunderClan cats
Category:Apprentices
Category:Deceased characters
Category:Characters
Category:The Last Hope characters
Category:Toms
Category:The Disappearing Herbs characters