#stoneteller tnp

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Teller of the Pointed Stones(TNP)

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I mentioned this on a previous post but it would be great if you could post lists of how various leaders lost all of their lives in the rewrite to keep track of the lives. I do think it's odd how in canon leaders not named Mistystar don't really live longer than their non-leader counterparts without an explanation that they are considered Ok to kill in battle by the code and/or it being fairly common for certain deaths to take multiple lives. I would love if your rewrite justified some of the earlier deaths like Firestar, Brokenstar, Bluestar to some extent without relying on contrived coincidences of them just getting absurdly unlucky with dying while other cats are likely to avoid death. (Maybe with Firestar in particular he lost multiple lives in the fox trap? And Hawkfrost is keeping track when he oks the DF plan to kill him). So I'd love to see just a list of who lost what lives where.

Honestly, I don't want to make a hard list because I don't want to be beholden to it while I'm still rewriting stuff. All that's required of the plot at certain moments is, "Leader has X amount of lives left" unless they've been an important POV in previous arcs

Plus it would be a lot of effort and planning to make a list of 9 deaths for the nearly 10 leaders who have been on-screen through the arcs, only for me to end up ignoring the 90+ situations I made because something else works better.

Firestar though I am tracking mentally, he is very important here

Killed by Scourge, chest slashed open, gives him 'mayoral sash' scar

Hit by car while saving Sorrelpaw, took the brunt of the impact so that she only got road rash and a broken leg

Damage to body from killing well over 100 rats while possessed by Brokenstar in FQ

Battle for Sunningrocks caused by Leopardstar in TNP

Falling debris caused by bulldozers, either a tree or a den collapse, helping evacuate a camp

Greencough outbreak, the same one that kills Molepaw

Fox trap

Onestar challenging him to a fight to the death during the Battle of the False Eclipse in a display of chest-puffing machismo

Breezepelt, Thornclaw, and Whiskernose's assassination

Blackstar's I'll make when I get around to planning the revamp of his novella, he will be important later

Generally though, a leader WILL burn through their lives fast because that is why StarClan gives them! They aren't supposed to (canon bramblestar) lay around doing nothing with them. A Clan's Star must be at EVERY major battle, helping with every sickness outbreak, throwing themselves into danger without a second thought.

Contrast this to Stonetellers! They have a fantastic new equivalent Leader Power, complete immunity to illness and direct communication with ancestral spirits, but this is perfect for their culture where battles are frowned on. Stonetellers are not supposed to be throwing themselves into chasms, hunting sheep, or involved in political affairs beyond sharing their advice.

The life system was born out of the bloody warfare of the First Battle, and exists to encourage Leaders to be their Clan's strongest, most understanding warrior, unafraid to involve themself in the daily dangers in the lives of their cats.

[duckwhistle]

ok I have like an idea but. I don't know.

I really really despise the Tribe in the canon. I hate how they tried to make an Indigenous American culture and used every last droplet of stereotype they could. I hate how they could make another cat group and while they did not make them evil, the writers made them incompetent and clearly worse than the Clans. I hate how everytime someone's gotta fix something it's the Tribe asking the Clans for help. I hate most TNP books just for that reason.

.... but it's iconic. It's important for a lot of arcs. I can't just axe it away completely...

BUT I also needed a way to introduce Skyclan that was different from the other books, especially since Firestar cannot go and recreate it for a lot of reasons, and I wanted Sandstorm to go instead, but it needed to be after Squirrel and Leaf were a- born and b- old enough to survive without their mom for months. Also I am anti Lake-Skyclan not because I don't want them there, but because it feels more interesting to have a Clan separate from the others.

So here's the idea: The Skypoints, a group hailing from ancient Skyclan (as ancient as it gets) dealing with the curse of a Rat King. They live in a gorge close enough to a town, and twolegs are common to see because there's a lot of small trails. They use the naming system from the ancient Clans, the rule being that they get named after what color thay are. Roles are chosen at birth, but the only role that is different from Medic or Warrior is Deputy. Yes, Deputies are chosen at birth, you can imagine the main problem from this decision. This sets up a few things: -they need help from someone with Skyclan blood (Feathertail) -the mountain lion is gone, but there's a threat that is just as big because the rats try to overtake the gorge constantly. -their numbers are dwindling after a surge of rats and a bad epidemic happening at the same time. I kinda want to have the Shadowclan journey cat (that is not Tawnypelt) get flashbacks from the Carrion Disease, before realizing these rats do not carry it. -in this moment Squirrelpaw gets the idea: "why don't you ask for help from the kittypets? My dad was one and he's become a hero." -recruiting time, I wanna make it clear that not everybody's sold on living with the Skypoints, either because they're stupidly aggressive towards others (Clear Sky propaganda) or have family and friends back in town. -Dappled Leaves comes out with a compromise (she's Leafstar, but not yet considered a great match for a leader because she's not Clear Sky-esque and also a Warrior) that those who might have families can either bring them with, even if they're not able to fight, or go back after helping during the day. Daylight Warriors babeyyyyy -may or may not begin a small moment of civil unrest, that does not tip into a war just because there's a bigger problem at the moment. -in the end, Feathertail dies to the Rat King while slaying it, but I wanna make it clear she's not the only one to be honored in death. I want something like seven or eight cats to die. Stormfur gets a crush on Cherry Tail, and in the Great Migration will be staying behind... alongside Sandstorm, who's found companionship in Dappled Leaves hehe. Leafpaw gets the idea that Starclan might communicate with them through water by seeing the Starcave, where the Stoneteller, the eldest medic, goes to commute with Starclan. Also here medics are a lot more than the usual, and some of them have families (hint hint) -Sandstorm and Dappled Leaves become, through omens and Starclan's approval, Leaders of the new Skyclan, and are named Risingstar and Shootingstar (read one of my previous posts about the renaming in the #duck! tag). Skyclan becomes the first clan to have two leaders, but also begins to make various pairs of deputies for that reason. This sets up Sharp Claws and Darktail as a deputy pair later on hehe

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[Image: A digital drawing of Stoneteller from warriors. He is a brown tabby with one orange eye and one half yellow half blue eye, a pink nose, messy fur, and a necklace of grass and pine cones. The insides of his ears, the sides of his head, his chin, chest, and underbelly are cream. He is sitting. Above his back “Teller of the pointed stones” is written, with “stones” in blue and the rest in orange. End Description.]

“Ignorance is nothing to be afraid of.”

Stoneteller is a dark brown tabby tom with a white muzzle, patchy fur, and amber eyes.

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Teller of the Pointed Stones (Stoneteller) - Tribe of Rushing Water / Tribe of Endless Hunting

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Another quick batch of designs to fill in the gaps of my challenge! I think waaay back when I was originally on ‘S’ I decided I’d draw Crag when I got to C but then just... forgot about that, so I ended up skipping him altogether, oops! Here he is now, either way.

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Stoneteller

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HES GONNA TELL U ABT SOME STONES !

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The Erins gave out all their plot relevance to Crag, buddy. Sorry.

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Crag Where Eagles Nest/Stoneteller(Oots)

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