Territory

**map made by stork :)**

## **MoonClan**

MoonClan is located SOMEWHERE. Their territory is situation in a dense forest with little light, frequently blanketed in a thick cloak of fog. More often than not, the climate is cold and damp, leaving cats with an ominous chill running down their spine. The terrain is both rocky and mossy, with a healthy amount of overflowing streams. Trees vary from coniferous to deciduous. Due to the darkness of the territory, MoonClan warriors use stealth to their advantage, and are prized night-time hunters.

Outsiders rumor that unnatural beasts lurk within the fog that plagues the clan's territory...but these are only old wives tales.

In the center of the damp territory is an abandoned rock quarry that was the result of an explosion, which was flooded and closed several generations ago. The clan now uses it as an oasis-like camp. It is said to be like a place of dreams, to those rare few outsiders that are seldom let inside. Only in camp is the moon and sun visible, and it makes for some glorious mornings and evenings.

MoonClan's camp is an abandoned rock quarry, with a small freshwater pool in the center.

* The leader's den is in a cave in the cliff face above the Highledge, which oversees the pond.
* The medicine cat den is a large log found beside the water.

* The warriors' den is in a rockpile, found next to the quarry's path that leads to the entrance/exit for camp.
* The apprentices' den is on the flat rocks beneath the overhang beneath the Highledge.
* The nursery is in a bush on the flat rock in the bottom right corner of the picture.
* The elders' den is next to the medicine cat den, in an abandoned burrow protected by bracken.
* The Highledge is a cliff-like boulder built into the quarry, sticking out from the leader's den and overshadowing most of camp.
* The fresh-kill pile is kept on the banks of the gravely shoreline, surrounded by a series of twig-less branches to keep the prey secure.

## **LakeClan**

The southernmost clan's name is deceiving, as camp is actually held around a small, pond-like water that is fed by a waterfall. Most of their territory is rich deciduous trees, but the land here is moist and often swamp-like. That being said, mosquitoes can be quite the pest! Farther north leads into MoonClan's territory, while south of LakeClan is a massive lake that ends their borders. The territory is also bordered to the east and west by large creeks: Perch creek to the east, and Suneater creek to the west. Smaller creeks feed out of these larger water ways, one of which is responsible for the waterfall in LakeClan's camp. As the most southern clan, their climate is generally warm and wet, meaning that cats with shorter fur at put at a greater advantage.

There is a rocky wall in the northern side of camp that has the waterfall streaming off of it. The remainder of camp is a rocky beach littered with trees and shrubs that look onto the pond. Their home is said to have been an abandoned camp site.

* The leader's den is in a secret cave behind the waterfall.
* The medicine cat den is in the shallow divets of the rock formation.
* The warrior's den is located in a series of shrubs found on the rocky beach.
* The apprentices sleep in the large, gnarled roots of an old oak found right beside the warrior's den.
* The nursery is very secure, as it is an abandoned beaver dam with a make-shift exit. The dam once blocked a stream that lead away from the pond, but the stream has since dried up, and therefore the dam is dry as well.
* The elder's sleep in a large log that was once driftwood.
* High Cliff is their meeting place, as it is the top of the rock formation where the waterfall streams off of. However, it can be slippery, so kits and apprentices are forbidden from climbing it.
* The fresh kill pile is hidden away in the soft grass that borders the rocky beach.

## **CliffClan**

CliffClan resides in huge, towering cliffs called Hawk's Talons. Hawk's Talons are the largest, widest set of cliffs known to cats, their peaks scraping the sky and the wind blowing more fiercely the higher the elevation. Within these massive cliffs are hollowed out caves. The caves dot the face of the cliffs.

The caves serve as dens for queens, kits, warrior, elders, and the leader.

The walls of Hawk Talon's are sheer and have almost no slope. The only thing connecting the caves together are jagged, rocky pathways. Once a warrior retires to the elder's den, they stay there. An elder isn't as agile as they were back in the day, and it is easy to fall off and plummet to the ground below. Same goes for heavily pregnant queens, weighed down by their unborn kits, confined to the queen's cave.

Inside these caves the atmosphere is cool and airy. The nests are made of thin bracken leaves, dusty and old. Long before, CliffClan warriors set out to the ground to gather materials to create the dens, but it has became very dangerous on the ground after time. Warriors refuse to send apprentices from the caves to fetch fresh bedding. Predators hunt day and night, eager to catch a cat alone. Foxes and badgers lurk on the ground.

CliffClan cats hunt on the top of ridge, where they scramble up the slope and hunt the meager prey that runs up there. Prey mostly includes small birds, but sometimes, if the Clan is lucky, they catch a rodent or two.

The cats get their water from and underground river running behind the queen's den. In the back there's a narrow tunnel that leads to the river. Apprentices use wiry scraps of moss and various plants to soak up the water.