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trying to think of group ideas for cats that aren't "clan" or "just a bunch of guys in one space" and i feel like i'm loosing my mind (i am just stupid )

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Another concept for PalmClan designs!~ This isn't my final pass at her (it isn't my first either) but this is the one I'll be basing the final off of. She's PalmClan's head mediator! Both her adopted daughter and biological son followed in her pawsteps too it was so cute <3

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Warrior cat Card Games

So I've been working on the leisure, sports and games of my Granite Circle Clans worldbuild. Some sports, like capture-the-flag, or Boule-like games were super easy to make cat-friendly and slot into their culture, but I was having a harder time making creative gambling games that would have naturally developed. And they WOULD have developed, since ElmClan and CreekClan are both huge on trying to divine the future and predict events.

CreekClan has their own versions of gambling games, but I thought it would be fun to draft some version of card games as well. Playing cards are a very new invention in the Granite Circle, more below the cut!

The first set of proto-cards--flat, carved bone with engraved faces--were used by SkyClan (and quickly adopted by ElmClan's Fates) to help interpret StarClan's messages.

It was a group of ElmClan warriors who decided to make a game out of predicting which tiles would be flipped, and that ended up making their own deck of cards specifically for the game they'd invented. They also adapted the form of the "cards" giving them a lever on the back so they can be flipped upright when pressed with a paw, allowing a card face to only be read by one individual instead of only having "flipped down" or "flipped up" options.

In the Granite Circle, there are three ranks and twelve suits of card. Each of the ten main Clan suits have five cards in a set: one leader, one kitten, and three warriors. The Order of Honey and Order of Crows suits each have three cards, all of the same rank. There are three cards representing StarClan Created, which are used as wilds/jokers and can replace any Clan cat in a set, though can never become Order members.

Using this base deck, cats attempt to draw a full Clan of five cards from a pool before their opponents can do the same. There are also gambling games, where a cat must predict the suit of a drawn card. More complex games are constantly evolving, as the invention of the card deck is rather new, with only two complete playing card sets available to use in the Granite Circle.

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Lightningfoot

Been a while since I did a quick kitty~ Lightningfoot is a flame point tom from the very early days of SparkClan. He filled the role of temporary deputy for the Clan after his daughter, Mistythorn, died unexpectedly. He's a stern and grumpy old guy, who generally dislikes being in charge, as he gets super stressed when he's expected to take responsibility for his subordinates' actions--he's very strict and tends to micromanage, ensuring warriors follow his commands to the letter.

Luckily, he was only expected to take the role of deputy for a few moons; he was partially retired when Mistythorn died, and helped his great-niece Spottedmist when she was made leader, stepping down after winter so Mouseflight could take his place when war broke out between SparkClan and RiverClan. After Spottedstar died in the war, he and the senior healer Meadowsoul voted against Greydust taking leadership over the then-deputy Mouseflight, not wanting to set a precedent of overturning the established hierarchy, but they were unable to convince the majority of the warriors and were overruled.

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you guys NEED to see my BABY he is a TURNIP and I

love him

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This, too, is yuri

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didn't end up getting this finished, I don't really have the right program to easily do actual digital painting, but I wanted to at least see if I couldn't try to lay out a composition. Thumbnails aren't they called?

I started on some texturing but I haven't done any of that in *checks watch* over a decade. Another thing to add to the list of things I need to remember to relearn!

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Heatherstar

Might be working on a bit of a Clangen-adjacent project O.O

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Some idles for the other rp members' cats.

Violetmane the healer with a slow blink + custom flower accessory

Stagcatcher the deputy kicking an ant because he deserves it

And Scalepaw doing a big stretch

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nervous boy

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Yall I am so addicted to making Clangen sprites move. Look at him bounce!! Look at the sleepy boy!!

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Pythonrain

His sister, Jetsight, recently moved to CinderClan to be with her mate when she was expecting his kits, and Pythonrain went along with her so she wouldn't be alone in a new Clan. He's a young warrior who loves exploring and learning new things. He is particularly intrigued by CinderClan's fire-strewn territory and the climate that allows such odd phenomena. Pythonrain is chatty and friendly with an obvious WhistleClan accent and temperment.

Pythonrain is a black tom with grey dorsal striping and orange eyes. His mix of HeatherClan and WhistleClan blood ended up giving him a startlingly average build for an Eastern cat, though he's smaller than most the other CinderClan warriors.

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I usually don't polish sketches like this but he deserved it. Gave him actual lines + fixed his hair

Waxcrest

Waxcrest is my absolutely awful son. he has hair because he Deserves It.

He is a medium-furred fawn tabby tom with grey eyes. He has white paws, chest, tail bands, and white flecks on his muzzle and beside his eyes. He is one of SparkClan's younger warriors, and is an absolute jerk. He is spoiled and from a very prominent family in the Clan, so he gets away with everything.

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did another pass on her pattern, just because the first one was Lazy and was bugging me a lot lmao

early morning kitty sketch <3 Still working on face shapes and expressions, I feel like I'm learning, slowly! I did this one without any refs, and I feel like I'm slowly learning proportions and shapes. Getting there. I'm not happy with how I did her patterns at ALL (probably should have spaced the spots out more and made them larger) but design wasn't the focus of this sketch session, that's for another day.

Amethystcall is a long-furred silver black spotted tabby molly with amber eyes. She is 38 moons old, a warrior of SparkClan, and was Created at 23 mons old along with her three littermates. She has a single son, Onyxpaw, who she spoils rotten. Amethystcall is playful, genuine, and petty. She has a huge crush on Cicadawing and thinks she'd be a much better mate than Cicadawing's current mate, Spikyflight, who is off chasing danger with the Jeweled Claws.

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early morning kitty sketch <3 Still working on face shapes and expressions, I feel like I'm learning, slowly! I did this one without any refs, and I feel like I'm slowly learning proportions and shapes. Getting there. I'm not happy with how I did her patterns at ALL (probably should have spaced the spots out more and made them larger) but design wasn't the focus of this sketch session, that's for another day.

Amethystcall is a long-furred silver black spotted tabby molly with amber eyes. She is 38 moons old, a warrior of SparkClan, and was Created at 23 mons old along with her three littermates. She has a single son, Onyxpaw, who she spoils rotten. Amethystcall is playful, genuine, and petty. She has a huge crush on Cicadawing and thinks she'd be a much better mate than Cicadawing's current mate, Spikyflight, who is off chasing danger with the Jeweled Claws.

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Waxcrest

Waxcrest is my absolutely awful son. he has hair because he Deserves It.

He is a medium-furred fawn tabby tom with grey eyes. He has white paws, chest, tail bands, and white flecks on his muzzle and beside his eyes. He is one of SparkClan's younger warriors, and is an absolute jerk. He is spoiled and from a very prominent family in the Clan, so he gets away with everything.

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*shiny pokemon sound*

Three more Clangen sprite recolors. Shrubstar, leader. Wingdapple, deputy. And Stormchest, the only tortie in the founding set of BugClan and the coolest color mix I designed!