Timberstar

Timberstar is a sleek-furred, muscular, large brown tabby tom with cream colored muzzle, belly, and legs, and green eyes. There a various scars on his body and face, and he has a torn left ear.

## History

### *Pre-clan*

Timberstar was born into a run-down two-leg trailer home. His mother was one of the many she-cats that the humans kept for the only purpose of breeding them to sell off the kittens. Timber was named for the often bare trees that his mother could only view from a window, longing to escape to flee to them and climb to freedom. But she knew somehow that her son would be a turning point for the poor cats kept captive in the small home and let herself remember that by naming him for the one symbol of freedom that she knew.

Timber grew up into a large tom cat without being sold or adopted away, since the humans took a liking to his appearance; planning for him to breed with other she-cats for more kittens. His mother had died of an untreated illness when he was about a year old, leaving Timber to work for freedom on his own while surrounded by multiple other hopeless cats. It took moons to accomplish, but whenever the two-legs were away, he would start to claw a small opening through the flimsy shell of the wall. All of the cats escaped through this hole one day and lived near each other on the edges of the forest and small human town before gradually dispersing their own ways. Not long after that, Timber began to have recurring dreams involving starry cats that beckoned him to talk with them, though for many nights he couldn’t reach them in his visions. Troubled by this, he journeyed to an ancient starry pool of which he’d heard stories of. He believed that the effects of the mystic waters would allow him to make sense of the dreams, and that it did. When he slept after drinking from the water, he was surrounded by Starclan warriors in his dream and told of the prophecies that called for the recreation of the warrior clans and he learned how clan life worked. He was bestowed with the warrior name of Timberfur upon his agreement.

### *Creating The Clans*

Timberfur was told to travel around the forests and twoleg place surrounding the lake to recruit more cats to build the fallen clans. He was told that his duty was to create Shadowclan, the clan that lived in the marshy pine forest before them. Once he was awake, Timberfur hardly wasted any heartbeats in getting to work. He near constantly patrolled the forests and alley ways of twoleg place to speak to any hospitable cats he came across about creating the clans. Many of them turned him down, but he kept working. One of the cats who turned him down more than once was a loner named Flick who lived around the pine forest. But on one of Timberfur's routine patrols, he heard a commotion in the forest and raced to the spot to find Flick being cornered by a badger. Timberfur fought off the creature valiantly, earning a few of the scars that can be seen now, but succeeded in saving the loner. Flick then agreed to take up his offer and Timberfur made him the clan's medicine cat-- since that is the destiny Flick admitted to apparently having. Timberfur gave him the name Crowdream for his black pelt and the dreams he at last followed.

### *Shadowclan*

Traveling together with Crowdream among the forests and outskirts of the human cities, they gradually recruited more and more cats to the ranks of their growing clans. Some they spoke to, some they rescued, but together they created a sturdy camp in the heart of the pine forest and began to sort themselves to different ranks and duties. When the new Shadowclan seemed to be stable enough to rest for a time, Timberfur had dreams of the same starry cats telling him to again travel to the moonpool with Crowdream. He had led the cats well and it was time to make his leadership official.

Without knowing what was in store, Timberfur and Crowdream traveled to the ancient pool and slipped into a shared dream. With some explanation, Timberfur received nine lives from ancient starry warriors and was granted the leader name Timberstar. On their way back to their camp, Crowdream expressed concern for the leader-- warning him not to waste his lives recklessly. That conversation was the beginning of the two toms becoming very, very close.

Later Timberstar, Crowdream, and an apprentice named Rabbitpaw ungracefully discovered two kits holed up in a ditch together after Rabbitpaw slipped and fell into their hiding spots. Scared out of their wits, the kits named Trinket and Ember allowed the wild cats to take them in and nurse them back to proper health since they were malnourished and weak. Timberstar and Crowdream, now mates, became the guardians of the new kits and consider them to be their own now. Trinket was renamed Batkit, for his large ears, and Ember took on the name Emberkit.

One day Emberkit went missing, having wandered out of the camp when no one was watching her. The same day a rogue named Nettle was found by a Shadowclan patrol and first accused of stealing the kit. This, however, was false as Emberkit was found by Barksong (Shadowclan's deputy). However, a fox showed up and attacked Barksong's patrol. Barksong fought the fox alone and Timberstar soon joined the effort. However one false move allowed the fox to pick up the leader and throw him into a tree. Timberstar lost his first life due to these injuries, and the fox was slain by a team of rogues who belonged to "The Gang" in twolegplace: a gang of rogues who weren't happy at all that the clans were returning. Given a warning, Timberstar and Barksong returned to the camp.

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