Kestreleye

## Overview

### General Info:

Kestreleye is a ThunderClan Warrior, but you knew him as an apprentice for most of Act I. His mentor was Galeflower. He is one of your main party members.

### Appearance:

Kestreleye is a ginger-brown tabby tom, with white paws and tail-tip, and green eyes.

### Personality:

Kestreleye is rather introverted, and spends a lot of time thinking. He has a very low self-confidence, because of his sickness highly reducing his abilities, especially in fighting. He is afraid of not being remembered if he died.

### Family:

Grandfather: Mosstail

Mother: Olivetail

Father: Firetail

Sister: Badgerfang

Aunts: Thrushfeather, Thornstep

Cousins: Nettleclaw, Tempestpaw

## Fighting:

### Stats:

Kestreleye has pretty low stats, except for his very high agility, accuracy and evade rate, making him most generally move the first. However, his low health leaves him vulnerable.

### Fighting style:

Kestreleye uses mostly invalidating moves, that can blind, stun of immobilize the enemy. His Dual Strike also enables him to deal a nice amount of damage when both him and Badgerpaw are in the party.

His tactical use is generally to weaken the enemy using his debuff moves, though this tactic is most efficient against a single, strong opponent (Fox).

### Skills:

Double Strike: A standard ThunderClan offensive technique. Lands two standard blows in quick succession.

Hamstring: Deals damage and Hamstrings the target opponent (highly reduces agility, counts as immobilization).

Cheap Shot: Deals damage and can stun enemy for 1-2 turns (prevents from moving, counts as immobilization)

Sand Throw: Can blind the target opponent (highly reduces accuracy)

Hit Weak Spot: Weak attack, but deals more damage the weaker the enemy is (one-hit kill to rats, heavy damage to apprentices during ShadowClan war)

Dual Strike: Deals very high damage, but requires both Kestrelpaw and Badgerpaw to use.

## In-game history:

### Day 0:

When you first meet the other apprentices, Kestrelpaw is not there because he is in the medicine den. He does eventually come in to introduce himself, telling you that you can take his nest since he’ll be sleeping in the medicine den. The apprentices do mention he has breathing problems, but they clarify it isn’t anything contagious.

### Day 1:

After Blackheart jokingly makes you think that he’ll kill you and take your heart to treat Kestrelpaw, you can talk to Kestrelpaw in the medicine den, and he thanks you for visiting him, and he’ll give you tips about sparring with the other apprentices.

After the tour of the territory, Nettlepaw asks you to not spar with Kestrelpaw because she doesn’t want to worsen his low self-confidence. If you go to the Sky Oak, you’ll see Kestrelpaw there. He talks about how many apprentices trained there, and how he worries about being forgotten. He then makes a mark on it saying “This is my mark, may my story live on it.”

When Duskpaw asks you to help check Windclan border because he smelled something strange, you see Kestrelpaw there, thinking by himself. He joins your party and helps fight Tempestpaw.

### Day 2:

If you choose to spar with Kestrelpaw, Nettlepaw will hate you for it. When the kits go missing, and you confront the rogues at the abandoned twolegplace, Kestrelpaw helps you fight the rogues along with the other apprentices. If Eaglekit is safe, but Nightkit isn’t, then Kestrelpaw will wait in the abandoned twolegplace while you look for Nightkit.

### Day 3:

Before meeting with the apprentices, Kestrelpaw is patrolling the Shadowclan border with his mentor, Galeflower. During the meeting, if you said you believed in Duskpaw’s prophecy, Kestrelpaw says that you shouldn’t be afraid to tell your friends the truth. When the fox attacks, Kestrelpaw suggests sending one cat to get help. Sending him will lower your relationship with him. If you send yourself or refuse to go to the thicket that day, Kestrelpaw will be killed by the fox.

If he’s still alive, Kestrelpaw will be the only apprentice to go to the gathering that night.

### Day 4:

If Kestrelpaw likes you enough, he will wake you up to tell you about the gathering. He’ll tell you how ShadowClan accused ThunderClan of murdering Spidershade, who was found dead on ThunderClan’s side of the border the day before.

If you chose him for the patrol, you can ask him if he knows anything about Spidershade’s death. He’ll say that he was patrolling the border with Galeflower, and that neither of them saw anything out of the ordinary.

When you see the ShadowClan apprentices, Kestrelpaw suggests sneaking up on Mousepaw.

If you joined the hawks meeting, you have the option to say that Kestrelpaw could possibly join them. In camp, you can try to convince him to be willing to go to war with ShadowClan. This is easier to do if he likes you. Getting him to join the hawks will make Nettlepaw hate you.

### Day 5:

When you go to the mossy clearing, Kesterelpaw is there, sparing with Badgerpaw. Kestrelpaw wins the fight. Badgerpaw tells him he didn’t have to be so rough.

Kestrelpaw is also on the patrol to help Blackheart get to the Moonpool. Kestrelpaw says he’s never seen it before. When Nettlepaw compliments him, saying he is good at fighting rats, Kestrelpaw says that they are just rats, and they aren’t that hard. When Nettlepaw continues, and says that she was just trying to be nice, Kestrelpaw tells her that fake compliments just remind him about how bad at fighting he really is. After fighting the Rat King, he accepts her compliment, and says he enjoys fighting her.

In camp, you have the option to ask Kestrelpaw if he knows any RiverClan apprentices if you had done the Fight Club side quest with Duskpaw. If Kestrelpaw likes you enough, he’ll tell you that Reedpaw and Creekpaw might be interested.

### Day 6:

If you convinced Kestrelpaw to join the war effort on day 4, he will be on the ShadowClan border patrol with the hawks.

After you complete your duties, Badgerpaw will suggest doing something fun with Kestrelpaw. If he likes you enough, he’ll do something with you and Badgerpaw. If you choose climbing trees, he will climb the Sky Oak with you. At the top of the trees, he’ll notice the different perspective from seeing everything so small. He worries again that he’ll be forgotten, and that no one would care about him. Badgerpaw reassures him that she cares, and you have the option to say that you care as well. He then thanks you for doing this with him.

If you give him a feather, he thanks you and says that its nice to be remembered of. If you give him all of the feathers, he says that he doesn't know what to say, and that it must have taken you so much effort.

### Day 7:

At the start of the day, you can join Kestrelpaw and Badgerpaw’s hunting patrol. You can talk to him in the thicket, and he’ll say that he does still have problems with his breathing, but he’s fine if he does things at his own pace. If he likes you enough, he will bring you a thrush, in front of Foxclaw, congratulating you on the catch you made. You did not catch it, but Kestrelpaw caught it for you to be nice.

### Day Final:

Kestrelpaw can be on the your patrol when fighting ShadowClan. When Sootleg reveals that Rabbitclaw is Nettlepaw’s father, he says that he thought everyone knew that. If you send him to the other patrol, he’ll tell everyone to stay safe.

If he likes you enough after you become a Warrior, Kestreleye will say that the distinguishing trait of a Warrior is never giving up, and their skill or strength doesn't matter. He says that you could have given up so many times, but you are a true Warrior because you never gave up. He says that he's happy that you are here with them.