General Clan Information

Within The Muted Call universe, cats live in a highly structured society that is firmly divided into five groups known as Clans.

Clan cats are divided into five Clans: StormClan, MushroomClan, ReedClan, BreezeClan, and BarnClan. Deceased cats who believed in StarClan and generally followed the warrior code could join StarClan. Cats who have broken the warrior code would go to the Dark Forest. BarnClan was the fifth Clan, created for all loners, kittypets, and Barn Cats who lived at hound's crest. They have made new roles in the Clans that most of the Clans enjoy, like the Night Gaurd and the Star Sprinters.

## The Clans

### StormClan

StormClan cats have a lot of shared characteristics with BreezeClan, but unlike BreezeClan, a StormClan cat's most useful skills are speed and digging. As StormClan favors hares, they have to be quick while hunting, and are one of the only clans to make their own hunting technique for hunting fast prey.

### MushroomClan

MushroomClan is known for living in the dense forest located in the lower left. They are also willing to eat lizards, and crowfood at times, but mainly eat weasels and woodpeckers, sometime with some honey on the side. Their first leader was Mushroomstar, who picked The Forest of Shadows to make her camp, because she was the only one whos pelt was dark enough to blend into the forest.

### ReedClan

ReedClan is known for its skill of swimming. They are also known for their skill at catch and scooping up fish from the lake. Their main source of food are trout, carp, water voles, and other freshwater fish they can catch. Their first leader was Reedstar, headed to the Lake of Fresh Fish and made her camp there, since she was the only one that could fish and liked swimming.

### BreezeClan

A BreezeClan warrior's greatest skill is stealth, due to living on a flat open area, they have to be quiet and quick on their feet while catching prey, or else they will be spotted and the prey will escape. They are a little smaller than an average cat, as a result they stick in groups while fighting. As they say, "Strength in numbers." Their first leader, Breezestar claimed the foothills and montane area called Sky Rocks, since he was the only one sneaky enough catch prey in that area.

### BarnClan

BarnClan is the fifth Clan in the forest. It was created by Blacksun and Maple(star). A BarnClan warrior's skills vary from cat to cat but they all have at least one skill in common. They are well versed in Twoleg Culture! They live under one of the twoleg barns, which can have pros and cons. Some pros of living by the twolegs are that no predators come near their camp and the twolegs sometimes leave out food. One of the main cons is that some of the Clans criticize their choice of life with the twolegs. Kits that have BarnClan ancestors can sometimes talk to other animals including dogs or horses.

## Clan hierarchy

Each Clan (Excluding StarClan) shares the same basic ranking system, consisting of ten distinct ranks. These are just the unique roles in the Muted Call universe.

### Night Gaurd

The night gaurd is usually made up of at least three warriors and the maximum is around six. They patrol the camp grounds and make sure no one sneaks up on their Clan. They sleep during the day and wake up at night.

### Digger

The diggers are only in StormClan. Since the area where the StormClan camp is located is plagued by thunder storms. They travel around the territory through tunnels, so they don't get hurt. The diggers make complex tunnels that are in a pattern around the territory. They're job is to memorize each tunnel and each direction, so that they can accompany the warriors on hunting trips and show them the way to the hunting grounds.

### Star Sprinter

Star Sprinters are a fairly new role of the Clan. Invented by Maplestar, the star sprinter is a cat who can run very fast or a cat with a lot of endurance. This is used as a way of communication between Clans. All of the star sprinters would meet at raven's point, once a day, to talk to the other Clan's sprinters on what is going on in their Clan.

Messenger apprentices would be trained by a warrior for a small period of time before the messenger is ready to become a mentor to the apprentice. This way they would know basic fighting skills just in case they come into danger.