Darktail's Group

> "*We have developed our own code. After we left the other Clans, SkyClan realized our members were becoming weak, and we decided to make up some new rules. SkyClan rules reward the strong and aggressive—the cats who will best defend the Clan.*"
> ― Darktail lying to Sparkpaw about being SkyClan[source]
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## Clan Information

### Current leader:

None

**Darktail's group** are a group of rogues, led by Darktail,
 who are responsible for exiling SkyClan from their home in the gorge as
 well as taking over ShadowClan for a short amount of time. When taking over ShadowClan, Darktail renamed the now Clan-sized group The Kin.

## Description

Darktail's group are a band of rogues who don't believe in the warrior code and are not considered a Clan. They appear to have no medicine cat, but know what several herbs are and what they do. They are ruthless, and attempt to copy the Clans' ways of life. They lived near the ShadowClan border, and while they are close to the Clans, their way of life is vastly different.
 They live off fear, and only the strongest cats can survive. Weakness
is not tolerated in any way, and those they consider weak do not last
long.

### Camp

After driving SkyClan out of their territory, Darktail and his rogues live in the gorge for several moons. When Alderpaw's patrol to find SkyClan returned to the lake territories, they are unknowingly followed by Darktail's group, who take up residence near the border. They later overrun ShadowClan, taking over their camp, just as they did SkyClan's.
## History

### In the *Super Editions*

#### *Hawkwing's Journey*

Darktail first meets Hawkwing while the SkyClan warrior is out of camp. The two talk, and Hawkwing offers to bring Darktail back to camp,
 possibly to stay with SkyClan. Rogues start appearing more often in
SkyClan's territory, causing fear. Later on, the white tom brings Rain, a member of his group, to the camp.
 Several cats are wary of the two cats but do not hesitate to welcome
them both. Hawkwing wakes up to the rustling of branches, and leaves the
 den to investigate. He smells the scent of foreign cats, and is shocked
 as rogues begin to attack the cats.

During the battle, Darktail betrays SkyClan, revealing himself
as the leader of the rogue groups who ambush SkyClan. This vicious
assault on SkyClan and its members results in the death of many cats,
including Sharpclaw, SkyClan's deputy. SkyClan is driven from their
camp, and Darktail's group of rogues take over.

### In the *A Vision of Shadows* arc

#### *The Apprentice's Quest*

While Alderpaw, Molewhisker, Sparkpaw, Cherryfall, and Needlepaw

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are on a patrol in search of SkyClan when they discover Darktail's

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group residing in SkyClan's home. The patrol is brought back to camp,
unaware that they are not SkyClan. After the arrival of the Clan cats,
 the hunters come back and let Darktail chose a plump pigeon from the
line of prey. The rest of the group begins to fight for the prey,
shoving the weaker cats away. The patrol watches, horrified, but
Needlepaw joins in and fights for a mouse.

Sparkpaw confronts Darktail over what they're doing and provokes
 him, causing him to growl at her. Molewhisker leads her away and
Alderpaw is shocked that the SkyClan cats had become so ruthless and had
 strayed so far from the Warrior Code. Cherryfall suspects that they
aren't the cats that Alderpaw thought they were and thinks they should
just go back home. Alderpaw runs into a former SkyClan warrior named Mistfeather,
 and discovers the truth about the group. Darktail comes across Alderpaw
 during his conversation with Mistfeather, killing the gray loner.
Alderpaw and his friends are taken as prisoners, but manage to sneak out
 of the camp during the night time, fleeing back to the Clans.

#### *Thunder and Shadow*

Darktail and his rogues attack a WindClan patrol, causing Furzepelt to die, and Onestar to lose a life. Alderpaw considers the rogue group all traveling to the lake from the gorge. Later on, Needlepaw takes Violetkit to meet Darktail, with Sleekpaw,
 and there they scorn the Clan life ways. After Needlepaw convinces
Violetkit to go tell Rain she can't meet him, she is saved from an owl
by the rogues, who allow her to stay the night in their camp. Violetkit
is watched closer, but notices how the younger cats take interest in
her, even asking what the rogues were like. After Rowanstar

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turns down some of the rogues, Needlepaw takes most of the apprentices,

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 including Violetkit, and joins the group. Needletail renames herself,
along with Sleekwhisker, with the former being interested in Rain.
However, Rain and Darktail have a fight over the group leadership,
resulting in the gray tom losing an eye. Shocked, Violetpaw leaves the
group and rejoins ShadowClan. Darktail takes his rogues to the pine
forest Clan, fights Rowanstar, and takes over the camp, forcing
Rowanstar, Tigerheart, and Tawnypelt out.

#### *Shattered Sky*

Violetpaw mentions to Oakfur that Darktail calls his rogues 'Kin' now.
## Known residents

### Darktail's group

* Darktail
* Flame
* Nettle
* Rain
* Raven
* Silt
* Beenose
* Cloverfoot
* Berryheart
* Needletail
* Juniperclaw
* Sleekwhisker
* Violetpaw
* Dragonfly
* Roach
* Unnamed black tom
* Unnamed tabby she-cat with yellow eyes
* Unnamed white she-cat
* Unnamed huge tabby tom
* At least two or three elders
* A she-cat with three kits

## See also

* Darktail
* The Kin