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JULY 2022 ; As the cats of both groups separate in the aftermath of the Great Battle and StarClan’s calling, the storm of change brings a group to the moors. Led by Soot, WindClan is formed. The clan envisions peace and safety, content in the beauty of the moors as they settle into their new territory. They spend some nights in search of their home, yet have no immediate luck. WindClan rests in the tall grass beneath the stars.
+ A loner named Dusk joins WindClan, later becoming Duskfire
+ A Horseplace loner named Weasel joins WindClan, later becoming Weaselclaw
+ A loner named Lunaria joins WindClan, later becoming Moonshadow
♥ Sootstar gives birth to 2 kittens in WindClans' first litter
+ A moorland colony consisting of Sunshine, Pollen, Ember, Heavy Snow, Mallow, and Echo join WindClan; they become Brightshine, Pollenfur, Emberfang, Mallowlark and Echolight
Though WindClan finds peace in their proximity to the starry territory of the deceased, the StarClan omen that follows cannot convince the newly-named Sootstar to trust the first medicine cat of WindClan: Fritter of the pine colony, named by StarClan as Honeytwist. She demands a vow of loyalty, and the clan’s first meeting is ended with lingering tension.
♥ Honeytwist gives birth to five kits.
AUGUST 2022 ;
The relative peace of WindClan’s beginning does not last for long. Horses escape from their pen near the horseplace and wreak havoc, leading to a few injuries throughout the clan.
A few days later, and a half-moon after WindClan's founding, they finally find a permanent home.
Shortly after claiming the moorland as their own, Weasel, one of Sootstar’s warriors who’d joined from the Horseplace, attacks the newly-named Cicadastar on their territory after returning from the Moonstone through their territory.
Sootstar, who had known Cicadastar in the marsh colony, is displeased. She takes a small patrol to apologize for the misunderstanding. Though the RiverClan leader graciously accepts WindClan’s apology, multiple RiverClan apprentices speak out of line and threatening Weasel with violence. Despite this, the Clans part on neutral terms.
Peace between WindClan and the other Clans is threatened again when Haze, a SkyClan warrior, trespasses and threatens Sootstar because of her actions in the Great Battle. Furious at being attacked and challenged on her own territory, Sootstar kills Haze and wounds his brother, Squall who’d followed him. Sootstar’s Clan intercepts the battle and Squall returns to his own territory with his brother’s body.
Shortly after the SkyClanner’s death, Sootstar leads a raid on the chicken coop at the Horseplace and is shot through the heart by the attending farmer. Her warriors drag her body away from the coop and flee imminent death. Days later, she returns to WindClan, disheveled but alive, proving that she has been blessed by StarClan.
↑ Duskfire is promoted as WindClan’s first deputy; Weaselclaw and Hyacinthbreath are promoted to lead warriors.
★ In this same meeting, cats are given warrior names and apprentices begin training for the first time.
SEPTEMBER 2022 ; WindClan receives a visitor of their own. Blazestar of SkyClan brings a patrol to discuss Haze’s death. Sootstar demands they are escorted from WindClan’s territory and unapologetically admits to killing Haze for trespassing. This sours SkyClan and WindClan's relationship for the foreseeable future.
With her ranks now full of dedicated warriors and healers, Sootstar implements her tradition of scarring her council's chests and receiving scars from each of them in turn. All but Dandelionpaw participate, though Sootstar mentally makes a note to absolve medicine cats from receiving scars in the future. Later, Sootstar is challenged and publicly demeaned by a warrior named Kestreltalon. As punishment, Sootstar maims her, taking the she-cat’s eye. Cats begin to realize what sort of leader Sootstar is and how far she may go to enforce subordination. Sootstar injuring her Clanmates does nothing to ease the tension between herself and her medicine cat.
♥ Moonshadow gives birth to three kits
Honeytwist receives what seems to be an omen of good bounty, fat rabbits running through her dreams in abundance. Soon, Dandelionpaw receives an eerier sign about shadows from the sky stealing the rabbits. Sure enough, WindClan’s rabbits—and their cats—are soon under siege by the hawks invading their open skies. Duskfire leads a patrol that is brutally under attack by the hungry predators. Angry and determined to outwit the hawks, a final patrol is led to rid their moor of them.
☠ Rosepaw dies due to his hawk injuries
Separately, Sootstar finds the gruesome remains of a cat on the Thunderpath near the ShadowClan border. After realizing they belong to former ShadowClan leader Briarstar, Sootstar takes a small patrol to offer Pitchstar condolences and a friendship between their Clans. Though suspicious, Pitchstar accepts her alliance.
OCTOBER 2022 ; At one of the first every Medicine Cat Gatherings ShadowClan's Medicine Cat, Bonejaw, announces her intention to abandon the profession. Honeytwist is shaken by this, having left a happy life within the pines to become WindClan's Medicine Cat. Enraged, she along with ThunderClan's Medicine Cat Cinderfrost attack Bonejaw. In the end, ShadowClan's Medicine Cat staggers home, despite Cinderfrost attacking with the intention to kill.
Honeytwist, disillusioned with WindClan’s cruelty and driven to a moment of madness following her attack on Bonejaw steps down from her position. Her apprentice, Dandelionpaw, is not trained and is left to his own devices. Sootstar soon learns of Honeytwist’s lapse in judgment when ShadowClan’s leader, Pitchstar, comes demanding Honeytwist’s punishment for drawing her claws against his aunt and medicine cat. Sootstar tries to placate him by falsely claiming that she has demoted the medicine cat for her crimes, but is ultimately forced to exile Honeytwist lest she risk losing her alliance.
↑ Dandelionpaw receives his medicine cat name of Dandelionwish
Emberfang challenges Sootstar for her brutality and for exiling Honeytwist. In response, the she-cat is exiled, much to the dismay of her remaining family.
NOVEMBER 2022 ; At a Gathering, Sootstar learns Leopardcloud, a former WindClan queen, had taken her kits to SkyClan. She leads a patrol, including the kits’ father Juniperfrost, to SkyClans’ border to demand the kits’ return. Unwilling to cause bloodshed, Coyotepaw chooses to return with his father and Sootstar.
Paranoid and wishing to strengthen her ranks, Sootstar enlists her deputy, Duskfire, to scout the loner lands for rogues to join WindClan. They express little interest at first; their leader, Gin, rebukes the Clan cats and sends them home. Persistent as always, Sootstar requests an audience with Gin and he kills her for her audacity. The rogues are astonished and intrigued when Sootstar rises from the dead and kills their leader for good. Awed, they accept her offer to join WindClan—and she leads them to their new home.
DECEMBER 2022 ; Leafbare sends the rabbits underground, and the Clan becomes thinner. Weaselclaw chases a rabbit over the Twoleg Bridge and it is caught by a RiverClan apprentice; a border skirmish over the lost prey breaks out. WindClan suffers no casualties, but Weaselclaw does maim Smokethroat, a RiverClan lead warrior. Weaselclaw defends his choices to his Clanmates, who do not think prey was worth fighting over in leafbare, but Sootstar has had enough of his animosity toward RiverClan.
Still angry over the skirmish because her daughter, an apprentice, had fought in the battle, Hyacinthbreath accosts Weaselclaw and attacks Juniperfrost; she is exiled for needlessly assaulting her Clanmates. Shortly afterward, sickness begins to plague WindClan, and Dandelionwish urges his Clanmates to eat chickweed to stop their colds. It soon becomes apparent WindClan has an outbreak of greencough, and Sootstar banishes the sickly tothe Abandoned Badger Set.
Meanwhile, Dandelionwish has noticed Mallowlark, one of the warriors, seemingly improving. He’d caught the white warrior talking to Dawnglare, SkyClan’s medicine cat, at the Gathering. Dandelionwish asks Mallowlark if Dawnglare would give him some catmint to heal the other WindClanners. At the next halfmoon medicine cat gathering, Dandelionwish asks Dawnglare for catmint to treat his Clan, and due to their Clans’ relationship, Dawnglare refuses.
Sootstar also learns she is pregnant and uses the news to rekindle her relationship with Weaselclaw.
☠ Wisteriapaw dies from greencough
↓ Duskfire is severely injured, and due to his inability to due his duties any longer, is demoted
↑ Badgermoon is promoted to deputy; Sunstride is promoted to lead warrior and Weaselclaw’s title is officially re-instated
+ A kittypet named Silver is permitted against all odds to join the Clan and becomes Silverpaw
JANUARY 2023 ; Dandelionwish returns empty-pawed and tells his Clan Dawnglare of SkyClan refused to give him the catmint needed to save their Clanmates. Sootstar and the rest of WindClan are furious and demand a call to action. Badgermoon leads a patrol to SkyClan’s border to demand catmint or fight in the middle of a snowstorm; Blazestar refuses, and a skirmish breaks out. While the bulk of SkyClan’s strongest warriors are on the frontline, Sunstride and Coyotepaw lead a second patrol into SkyClan’s camp to raid herbs. Greenpaw of SkyClan runs to RiverClan to get aid, and WindClan escapes with two doses of catmint and pawfuls of other assorted herbs.
The battle patrols return, and Dandelionwish condemns Sootstar for sending them to SkyClan. In retaliation, Sootstar reveals a dream from StarClan in which the moors were choked with dandelion weeds; she uses this as an excuse to imprison Dandelionwish and appoint Vulturemask Medicine Cat in his place. Galeforce and Yewberry speak out, and they are exiled and chased from the Clan.
Despite his new status as a WindClan prisoner, Dandelionwish teaches Vulturemask to heal their Clanmates after the skirmish. Though Sootstar has promised him freedom after Vulturemask is trained, he begins to doubt her word and fears he will be killed without mercy. Meanwhile, Sootstar takes Badgermoon, Sunstride, and Vulturemask to receive their ceremonial scars under the moon. They all swear fealty to Sootstar.
After being used to find SkyClan’s camp, Coyotepaw leaves WindClan out of guilt to return to SkyClan. The Clan finds him gone and expresses anger at his disloyalty.
FEBRUARY 2023 ; Vulturemask receives a prophecy from WindClan’s former medicine cat, Honeytwist. Honeytwist tells him, When the trees sprout their leaves, a confession will bring about an era of harmony. Vulturemask goes to report the prophecy to Sootstar, though no cat can discern its meaning.
His paranoia reaching its peak, Dandelionwish attempts a silent escape into the night. He’d planned to go alone, but he is followed by Daisypaw, Coalfoot, Coldsnap, Thymeroot, and Jasperglare, and is assisted (though this remains undiscovered) by disloyal WindClan cat Jaggedoak. All exiles are chased away with gruesome wounds and all are presumed dead or near-dead.
MARCH 2023 ; Sootstar visits the Moonstone to share tongues with StarClan, but she instead receives a foreboding warning to change her ways and is rejected by StarClan entirely. Sootstar keeps this a secret from Vulturemask, choosing to continue the farce that she receives StarClan's blessing.
The Clan is outraged after Hyacinthbreath kills Juniperfrost, and in retaliation, Tigerfrost announces a raid on RiverClan’s camp in the middle of the night. The warriors rally, and Badgermoon leads the first wave into RiverClan’s makeshift camp. Once RiverClan is battered and bloody, in a familiar tactic used on SkyClan, Sunstride leads the second wave of warriors; in this battle, Heathclaw unknowingly kills RiverClan warrior Clearsight. Triumphantly, WindClan returns in high spirits, victorious although they had not killed or captured Hyacinthbreath as intended.
StarClan’s ire continues, seemingly, as at the this moon's Gathering, StarClan strikes Sootstar’s spot on the Great Rock with lightning, leaving it charred and black. Shaken but in denial, Sootstar privately goes to ask Vulturemask about the meaning of the prophecy. Vulturemask, not wanting to risk her ire, lies and says StarClan is clearly displeased with the other Clans in the forest. At the next Clan meeting, Sootstar urges Vulturemask to convince WindClan the sign was scorning every other Clan, though both know this isn’t the case. Despite her crumbling faith in StarClan’s blessing, Sootstar gets a blessing in another way when a cat she detests. Mallowlark, disappears from WindClan to be with his SkyClan mate. The Clan cares little for him and writes him off as dead.
After the disturbing omen and display at the Gathering, ShadowClan’s new leader, Chilledstar, comes to break ShadowClan and WindClan’s alliance off. The two Clan leaders part with animosity on their tongues, now closer to enemies than allies. Feeling vulnerable, Sootstar goes to ThunderClan’s border to request an alliance with Howlingstar. Howlingstar politely refuses, unwilling to put a target on her Clan’s back. Though displeased, Sootstar leaves on neutral terms. To add gasoline to the fire, ShadowClan deputy Smogmaw visits Sootstar and tells her ShadowClan, RiverClan, and SkyClan are planning to ambush WindClan.
APRIL 2023 ; Paranoid based on Smogmaw’s warning, Sootstar calls a meeting to put the camp under lockdown until further notice. The Clan is disgruntled but follows her directive.
Sootstar announces the new warrior code implemented by ShadowClan due to Smogmaw’s lies about being attacked; at this time, the WindClan leader also dismisses her camp from lockdown, no longer afraid of retaliation from three of the five Clans.
↑ Scorchstreak and Bluepool are promoted to lead warriors
MAY 2023 ; Sootstar fosters a temporary environment of peace, but things do not remain this way for long. Ghostwail orders rogues who owe her a favor to murder lead warrior Tigerfrost. Ghostwail’s part in this goes undiscovered for now, but the Clan mourns a courageous member of Sootstar’s council. Feeling haunted by the deaths occurring around her and by StarClan's repeated dismal omens, Sootstar confides in Weaselclaw that she has lost StarClan's favor. Though terrified, he shares her burden and denounces StarClan with her.
+ Houndthistle’s son Foxpaw joins the Clan
Sootstar’s son Adderpaw is attacked and tagged in the ear by a Twoleg kit, leading his parents to become concerned for WindClan’s safety and disgusted by the kittypet object in his ear. They bring him to Vulturemask for an examination, wanting the medicine cat to rip the tag out, but Adderpaw refuses to have his ear torn to remove the tag. Sootstar and Weaselclaw reject their son for this display of defiance.
Not long after, Sootstar announces that WindClan will attack ShadowClan. She takes a patrol and is intercepted on the Thunderpath, where they fight brutally. Sootstar loses a life to ShadowClan warriors Smogmaw and Sabletuft, and instead of waking up in StarClan’s forest, she wakes up somewhere strange and shadowy…
Not long after, Sootstar and Weaselclaw’s daughter, Cottonpaw, is held hostage by Smokethroat of RiverClan after daring to get too close to the Twoleg Bridge. A fight breaks out, and Weaselclaw is forced to call a retreat after Cottonpaw breaks free.
JUNE 2023 ; After the battle with RiverClan, Wolfsong begins openly treating Clanmates’ wounds, revealing Vulturemask has been teaching him herbs. Vulturemask is nearby to assist. When Sootstar leads her patrol back from the ShadowClan battle as well, WindClan begins to feel the weight of their back to back defeats. To add insult to injury, Twolegs capture Echolight, a WindClan queen.
Vulturemask is murdered on his way to Highstones by Galeforce, and Sunstride returns home bearing his body. Nightly border patrols are organized as a response to this offense, and Vulturemask’s kin—and a pawful of his Clanmates who do not loathe him—mourn his passing. At the Gathering, Sootstar learns Blazestar of SkyClan has been harboring Coyotepaw—now Coyotecrest—as well as Dandelionwish and Mallowlark. Enraged and feeling disrespected, Sootstar calls for battle against SkyClan, intending to attack their camp in the dead of night by surprise. She leads a patrol to ThunderClan, attempting to convince Howlingstar to let them cross to attack SkyClan; Howlingstar refuses. Furious but not wishing to further damage relations with ThunderClan, Sootstar attempts to go around the long way, but by this time ThunderClan has unknowingly warned SkyClan of their attack.
SkyClan intercepts WindClan’s intended ambush, and the two battle fiercely. Sootstar manages to take one of Blazestar’s lives, but he fatally wounds her, so she calls a retreat. She calls this a victory, though somewhere between home and SkyClan, she will pass away from her injuries. Yet again, Sootstar visits a mysterious shadowed forest, and this time, she hears unnerving whispers through the trees… She says nothing of this to her Clanmates, again claiming WindClan is victorious over SkyClan. Alongside this, Wolfsong is promoted to Medicine Cat.
Sootstar is approached by a young ShadowClan cat named Granitepelt on the border. He questions her about her kits, and she reveals her oldest two share his father, Flint. Sootstar and Granitepelt make a blood pact and he pledges his loyalty to her as a ShadowClan spy.
JULY 2023 ; In a characteristic display of ruthlessness, Sootstar tears the hunting tag from her son's ear with her teeth after the cats she'd employed to remove it are evaded. She finally reconciles with her kit after this display. Many in the Clan judge her for her brutality toward her flesh and blood.
Sootstar also announces a new tunneling project to build a new tunnel to RiverClan territory.
OVERVIEW AS OF 7.23.2023 ;
► Allied with no Clan; Formerly allied with Pitchstar and ShadowClan
✦ Serves alongside deputy Badgermoon
✦ Serves alongside medicine cat Wolfsong
✦ Serves alongside lead warriors Weaselclaw, Sunstride, Bluepool and Scorchstreak
✦ Served alongside deputyDuskfire
✦ Served alongside medicine catsHoneytwist;Dandelionwish;Vulturemask
✦ Served alongside lead warriorsHyacinthbreath;Tigerfrost;Wolfsong
WINDCLAN HISTORY - written by Marq with help from Rev; edited & with art by Floppie
