About Warrior Cats

## **Introduction to Warriors/What is Warrior Cats?**

Warrior Cats (or Warriors) is a series of books written by Erin Hunter (multiple authors, Im pretty sure). As you can tell from the title, these series are obviously related to cats. Warrior cats mainly concentrate on the life of a warrior cat, their troubles, and problems. Well, let’s start with some ~~long~~ explanations...

### Joining

So, when you join TWoA (this forum), you have to find a prefix. These are NOT latin or greek prefixes like Gaia, meaning Earth and Animus, meaning wind or soul. Instead, you pick a prefix relating to nature, such as your fur color, types of leaves, flowers, etc! Canon prefixes can be found here but remember that you can make your own prefixes, not necessarily getting an exact one from that list. Some examples of canon kit names are Mistykit, Stonekit, and Mosskit. Some examples of fanon kit names are Shoutkit and Lickkit. Okay, let’s actually begin with the forum and warriors.

Let’s start when you first join. As soon as you say "/join (name)", you will most likely see a user saying "/claim (name)". If you are wondering, what does this mean? Well, claiming is basically adopting you. In WarriorS, kits are born to mothers, however, we don’t have the ability to predict the future so we claim.

### Kits

Now…. WHAT ARE KITS?? Kits are basically newborns, or kittens. They have the ability to play with other kits and chase tails, make mossballs, mess around, etc. They live in the Nursery with their mothers and other queens, aka mothers.

### Apprenticeship

Once six moons/months old (12 days in TWoA), kits are made into apprentices. Examples of Apprentice names are:

* Rainkit → Rainpaw
* Sootkit → Sootpaw
* Sorrelkit → Sorrelpaw

Basically, you add a “paw” to the end of your prefix. Apprentices learn how to be warriors, including hunting, fighting and the Warrior Code. The Warrior Code is a set of rules set by StarClan, the good afterlife for Clan cats when they die.

### Warriors

After about another 6 moons/months of training or have learned everything, paws/apprentices will be made into warriors after a test. They give up the -paw at the end of their name into a different suffix. Suffixes can be found in the same list as the prefixes. Examples of suffixes are -light, -breeze, -pelt, -fur, -heart, -sun, -step and -spring.

#### Examples of names are:

* Icepaw → Icecloud
* Foxpaw → Foxleap
* Birchpaw → Birchfall
* Spiderpaw → Spiderleg

As a warrior, cats have to protect and provide food for the Clan.

### Medicine Cats

If you dislike the way of a warrior, there is a chance you can be a medicine cat. A medicine cat is a healer for their clan. Medicine cats follow the Medicine Cat code instead of the Warrior Code, which includes rules such as Medicine cats cannot have mates or kits.  Medicine cat apprentices learn about herbs, how to communicate with StarClan, and how to interpret signs or omens from StarClan. They visit the Moonpool or Moonstone every half moon to talk with StarClan and to share ideas with other medicine cats. Though they are medicine cats, they need to learn the basics of fighting in case of something dangerous that happens. Medicine cats are respected by their Clan and most times other Clans. Some notorious medicine cats are Spottedleaf, Leafpool, Mothwing, Cinderpelt, and Littlecloud. If you want more info about medicine cats, please click this.

### Deputies

If you are chosen to be deputy and the leader dies, you are now the leader of the clan. Leaders receive nine lives from StarClan and their names end with -star, giving up their warrior name. Examples of leader names are Firestar, Bluestar, and Crookedstar. More info about Leaders here.

### Elders

However, if you serve your clan loyally but didn’t die, you can become an elder (impossible in TWoA though). Elders spend their time telling stories, playing with kits, and sleep to get rest from hunting and fighting. Names can also change when you become an elder. For example, Sparrowpelt lost half of his tail from a badger. When he was an elder, Bluestar changed his name to Half Tail. Another example include White-eye becoming One-eye.

### Clans

As of the series, there are 5 Clans: SkyClan, ShadowClan, ThunderClan, RiverClan, and WindClan.

The clans were each founded by a cat.

SkyClan was first founded by Sky aka Clear Sky or Skystar.

ShadowClan was founded by Shadow aka Tall Shadow and Shadowstar.

ThunderClan was founded by Thunder aka Thunderstar.

RiverClan was founded by River aka River Ripple or Riverstar.

Finally, WindClan was founded by Wind aka Wind Runner or Windstar.

In this forum, we are TWoA (The Warriors of AoPS) clan. We were founded by Oceanstar (bburubburu).

### More Info

For the most 13 facts YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WARRIOR CATS, go here.