Sablestar

**Sablestar** is a black-and-white tuxedo tom of medium fur length. He has asymmetrical face markings with a black chin and white spot on his forehead and yellow eyes.

## History

### *Living*

#### **- Warrior**

Sablefrost has been an erratic, selfish cat since kithood. He believed in StarClan as spirits, but not as ghosts; he did not believe in an afterlife of any kind and truly thought that death was the ultimate end. Eventually, after sleepless nights of contemplating the void of nothing that was sure to come, his fear of death completely overwhelmed him. Living forever became his obsession. The closest thing to becoming immortal that he could think of was gaining the nine lives of a leader.

He convinced their leader to send him out on morning patrol with the RiverClan deputy at the time, Littlestream. When they got to the lake, he held her head under the water, dragged a branch on top of the body, then ran back to camp claiming that it had fallen on her while she was swimming.

Much to his dismay, Sablefrost was not chosen as deputy. Snowpelt, a much more popular cat with three apprentices under his belt, was chosen instead. Sablefrost once again convinced the leader to let them go on patrol, but this time they had a third warrior with them. A skirmish with ShadowClan left their third wheel temporarily blinded via dirt kicked into his face long enough for Sablefrost to kill the deputy and blame it on ShadowClan.

For bravely saving and guiding home the surviving warrior, Sablefrost was named deputy.

He trained only one apprentice to completion as a warrior, and was assigned a second - Bluepaw - shortly before becoming deputy.

#### **- Deputy**

 The then-leader of RiverClan - Toadstar - regretted making Sablefrost his deputy almost immediately, but didn't have time to denounce him before he was killed. Sablefrost knew that the leader had only two lives left from an eavesdropped conversation between he and the medicine cat. He lured Toadstar away from camp by saying that he smelled a badger and then killed him twice. His lie when he got back to camp was that the badger had killed him.

#### **- Leader**

 Now re-named and at last with his coveted nine lives, Sablestar proceeded to be the most lazy, useless, and selfish leader in clan history. He forgot gatherings and had to be dragged to them by his clanmates, ate before the queens during leaf-bare, mumbled during ceremonies, picked pointless battles with other clans and then refused to help fight in them, and gave the worst names to new warriors.

Some examples of his horrible rein: the apprentice he had been given as a warrior, Bluepaw, was given the warrior name of...Bluepaw; he waited two full days to name a deputy and when finally forced to, he picked his brother out of a sheer laziness; the medicine cat tried to warn him about an upcoming plague and he completely ignored her, saying that she was "talking nonsense with uncaring spirits again."

He lost his first life to illness, his second in a battle, his third to another illness, his fourth to the cold, his fifth to eating rotten food, and his sixth to a dog.

Sablestar's seventh, eighth, and ninth lives were taken by RiverClan. Fed up with their leader and having lost too many good warriors to his negligence, the majority of his warriors held mutiny against him. The final straw came during one of his signature awful naming ceremonies; warriors and apprentices suddenly began chasing him and attacking him once caught. His last three lives were lost with relative quickness. His brother, the deputy, was killed as well for trying to help him flee and fight off attackers.

The medicine cat left that night for the Moonpool to ask StarClan who the next leader should be. They picked the cat who had orchestrated the mutiny.

### *Post-death*

Sablestar was shocked and disgusted to learn that he had been wrong about a lack of afterlife.

He instantly regretted his actions upon waking up and realizing that he was not gone from existence, not because he was in the cat equivalent of Hell, but because so much of his life and energy had been wasted achieving an ultimately useless destiny.

Self-pitying and depressed, Sablestar lays around the Dark Forest in a constant state of dramatic anguish. He does his best in-between naps to warn visitors that this is not a place they want to wind up, no matter what rewards they think that this dark path may give to them.

His relationship with Tawnybriar is far from loyal; he could not care less about her high-and-mighty act nor her decision to take over. As far as he's considered, he is neutral ground in her war. However, he will still agree to help out from time to time if it means not getting beaten up or having his naps/lamenting-tantrums interrupted.

Once, he was falsely informed by another Dark Forest cat that Tawnybriar was too busy to mentor her living apprentice, Sneezepaw, and he needed to train him for the time being. He gave in after some time and met Sneezepaw, however, instead of training him to fight, he ordered that the apprentice lay down with him and tell him about why he wanted to train with the Dark Forest.

The two had something close to a heart-to-heart before Tawnybriar herself showed up along with her deputy, Falconswipe. She beat Sablestar for tainting the mind of her apprentice and threatened to double-kill him. Sablestar retaliated by saying that someone had given him false information that she *wanted* him to mentor Sneezepaw. Tawnybriar left Sablestar to hunt this cat down, drag him in front of Sablestar, and double-kill him in front of both he and Sneezepaw. Tawnybriar then ushered her apprentice away and dubbed Sablestar with the insulting nickname of "Sablepaw."