Carving on Olden Wood

## Appearance

Carving Upon Olden Wood is a tall dark brown tabby with long fur and a white underbelly. Her sharp eyes are pale blue, giving her an icy stare, and her mouth is in a permanent scowl. While many cats assume her to be grumpy, the scowl is caused by her large and overcrowded teeth, which makes it impossible for her to smile properly. Her paws are large with long, black claws, and her body has a few scars here and there. Her tail is thick and feathery, and easy to mess up, so she spends quite a lot of time grooming it.

## Personality

Carving, despite her intimidating appearance, is a very friendly and out-going cat, with a slight obsession with romance. Though she quite enjoys romance, she’s never been in the middle of any romantic scandals, she just prefers to watch, and enjoy the life of a romantic. Sunsets, flowers, birds singing, you name it, she loves it.

Carving has an especially soft spot for kits, spending her extra time letting them play with her tail to give the mothers a break. She hopes to be a mother one day, but hasn’t found the time to court anyone.

## History

### Time as a To-Be

Carving, as a to-be, was a clumsy and awkward kitten, as if she was unused to her own size. Luckily, her mentor was Flick, the Head Cave Guard and future Stoneteller. He was patient with the young cat, and taught her proper control and responsibility. She especially loved being his to-be because of his complicated love life, dude was basically a soap opera. Flick often called her ‘Olden’, and she doesn’t let anyone else call her that. She saw him as a father, even if she had no relation to him, as he had shown her more care and patience than anyone in her own family.

### Time as a Cave-Guard

Cave Guard
Life

Carving was a diligent cave-guard, often picking up any slack for cats who were sick or overworked, she’d wanted to follow in Flick’s footsteps one day, though that never came to be. She loved to work with the to-be’s, and took on one of her former mentor’s current to-be's after he became Eagleteller.

### Time as Heritor

Eagleteller, struggling with no Heritor training and the sudden disappearance of the former Stoneteller, was brought in a dream to the cliff where he had trained Carving, and he took that as a sign from the ancestors that she was meant to be his Heritor. While shocked and confused at the sudden responsibility, Carving swore to work hard and serve the tribe well. She took over organizing Cave Guard patrols as there was no Head, and continued to train her apprentices, at the same time as she was learning with Eagleteller the ways of Stonetellers.

She came across Rivulet, the former to-be of Eagleteller, and tried to form a bond with the younger cat, tried to take her on as a to-be, but Rivulet refused. Carving continued to try for a while, but eventually she backed off, allowing Rivulet to continue solitary training. She still checked in when she could, but aside from that, she respected the boundaries set.

### Stepping Down

After coming down with a sickness caused by over excursion and stress, Carving realized that she was unhappy as a Heritor. While she wanted to help Eagleteller and the Tribe, she was pushing herself too far, and couldn’t cope with the responsibility. She was too young, too inexperienced… and she’d had other life goals before becoming heritor. Such as falling in love, and having kits, and spending time with the cats she loved. As a heritor, while she could technically still have kits, she would be unable to give them the proper care and time needed for them to grow happily and healthily, and so, after making up her mind, Carving explained her reasons to Eagleteller, and stepped down, once more rejoining the ranks of Cave Guards.