#strelles etherforth

[strelles-universe]

The Greenwood Empire - The Soulguided

A collection of four factions that have long since lived in the western forests. It’s been suggested by many that the cats of the forest came from many walks of life - loners of the coast, cats from the mountains and those who scattered from the gentle migration to the west. At one point there were five factions - the Stormborn, the Galespun, the Shorerisen, Fennyield and Etherforth but the Lost Faction found themselves at war with the migrating cats of that would become the new Kingdom of the Shining Sun. The violence between the two societies built higher and higher until Etherforth crossed a boundary triggering all-out war that the Etherforth lost.

The relationship between the Shining Sun and it’s neighboring factions has long since improved, the might of the cats of the kingdom have proved to the factions that isolationism was their best. As so, for a long time; the factions have remained private from the rest of the world, rarely accepting traders and artisans.

Recently this has changed and no one is sure yet if it was for better or for worse…

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⬨⬨ Workings of the Empire⬨ ⬨

General Faction Info - Stormborn | Galespun | Fennyield | Shorerisen

Authority - The amount of control and influence the leader has over their faction

Roles of the Empire - General Roles | Specialized Ranks

The Legionary's Code - The laws and rules the factions abide by

Names of the Empire - A collection of prefixes/suffixes and their meanings

Naming Conventions - The styles and reasons behind how each faction names their warriors

The Marked - One of the more severe universal punishments of the empire, names that denote a cat as someone who violates the words and teachings of the Souls

Wastes - The most commonly used Marked Affixes that range from trivial to severe in usage, the Galespun has a fairly robust system

Assessments of the Empire - The tests that cadets must go through in order to advance in rank in the prides

Ceremonies of the Empire - Key ceremonies and rituals performed by the empire at specific times

Consequences of the Empire - Punishments that happen throughout the empire

Wanderers - How the factions treat individuals that leave them and occasionally, the ones that come back

Parenting - The various approaches to raising kits taken by the four factions

Nursery Leave - The way the empire handle cats needing time off to have and recover from having their kits

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⬨⬨ Language of the Empire ⬨ ⬨

The Ancient’s Tongue | Lexicon - The old language of the empire that was reconstructed by the Shining Sun and the Skulks

Common Phrases - A few words and phrases used by the greenwood empire to speak

Seasons of the Empire - the Nuyate words for each of the seasons

The Silent Signal System - A series of milital handsigns and gestures initially used for ambushes and hunting slowly becoming repurposed into a sign language

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⬨⬨ Beliefs of the Empire ⬨ ⬨

The Soul Cycle - The Calendar Cycle that lines up with the Souls

The Great Souls - The main pantheon of gods believed in by the Empire + Littlespirit

The Great Spirits - A collection of the most renowned and widely respected spirits, often regaled as minor gods

Patron Spirits - A collection of spirits only believed in by the factions that are specific to each of the factions

The Ancient Factions - the mythical era from before the loss of the Ancient Forms; a demigod age

Starlands | The Meadows - the place where empire cats wants to be, to reunite with your deceased faction-mates and family. The place of Gleaming Stars.

Starlands | The Glade - the in-between; where cats of gray morality or those who are manipulated end up until they settle. The place of No Stars.

Starlands | The Canyons - the place for cats who’ve doubled down on the mindsets that led them there in the first place. The place of Red Stars.

The Mother Maw - The petrified form of a great beast whose chest cavity contains the Moonstone

The Moon's Fang

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⬨⬨ Magic of the Empire ⬨ ⬨

Soulsparks - General Info | Specialized Sparks

Omens - The primary way that menders receive messages from the Souls

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⬨⬨ Celebrations of the Prides⬨ ⬨

The Full Moon Gathering - All Prides

The Ushering of Leaders - The Shorerisen

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⬨⬨ Stormborn Specifics ⬨ ⬨

Stormborn Profiles

Line of Succession

The Nine Lives - Callastorm

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⬨⬨ Galespun Specifics ⬨ ⬨

Galespun Profiles

Line of Succession

The Nine Lives - Magpiestar

The Starmender Lineage

Casualties of the Massacre

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⬨⬨ Fennyield Specifics ⬨ ⬨

Character Profiles

Line of Succession

The Nine Lives - Viperclaw | Tigerslash | Scorchwind

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⬨⬨ Shorerisen Specifics ⬨ ⬨

Character Profiles

Line of Succession

The Nine Lives - Stormdrift | Leopardshine

Bullet Point Super - Stormstar’s Family

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⬨⬨ Allegiances of the Main Series ⬨ ⬨

Strike the Match - Before | After

Spark a Light - Before | After

Ignite the Pyre - Before | After

Fan the Flames - Before | After

Embrace the Inferno - Before | After

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⬨⬨ Allegiances of the Super Editions ⬨ ⬨

Asterdawn's Voice - Allegiances | Ao3 Link

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Now revamped and not as ugly lmao

[strelles-universe]

What is skyclans spark?

SkyClan were bug typed

[strelles-universe]

Did SkyClan disappear because of the Kingdoms (the closest thing to twolegs) or dogs or something else?

SkyClan dissolved because of the Rising Sun yes but it was mostly their own fault. I made another post that I'll link when I find it but the tldr is that SkyClan attempted to run them from the forest while still adhering to Clear Sky's example. They waged wat against the Sun and none of the other clans helped them - turned them away even and eventually, one of the leaders of SkyClan deemed that enough was enough. SkyClan ended the war and disbanded not many moons later than most of the warriors has begun deserting when it became clear that the war was never ending.

Links - One | Two

[strelles-universe]

Does SkyClan exist in your AU?

Yes but SkyClan crumpled in on themselves after trying to uphold the ways of Clear Sky. When the Sun Walkers (the initial form of the Shining Sun Kingdom) first came to the area, they resisted aggressively. They fought them ever step of the way launching raids, ambushes and stealing prey from them considering the newcomers to be poachers.

It eventually culminated into an outright war that the other clans furiously refused to get involved in. The war lasted a full two season cycles and SkyClan lost two leaders during this war. Cloudstar, the last leader of SkyClan, declared that they would no longer fight this war and made peace with the newly dubbed Shining Sun.

During this war, much of SkyClan fled to other clans for safety and protection to remove themselves from war so when Cloudstar came about, it was clear that SkyClan wasn't going to recover. When Cloudstar died, what was left of SkyClan joined ThunderClan and their descendants were the founders of the Treewalker rank specialty.

[strelles-universe]

What mutation does aharsa (sorry if I misspelled that) have? And will she be joining thunderclan as well as her brother?

It's fine I know her name is hard to spell lol. Ahasra's mutation is her deep blue eyes. They're not normal and usually when a kit is born with those eyes, they experience a slow health decline as their body steadily becomes harder and harder to move. After a while, they're completely paralyzed and their body begins to shut down.

Ahasra is "lucky"- her mutation never progressed beyond a form paraplegic. Some days her everything from her waist down stops working, other days her lower half is sore and it feels like pins and needles with her every step. And then some days, feels more or less fine and is happy to run around like other cats. Ahasra will join ThunderClan with Soryn eventually! For now though, she hasn't found a reason to want to leave.

[strelles-universe]

Real quick while I'm still awake and have time:

Reworking the Old Prides into being part of the Ancient Prides in the eyes of Strelles. The First Battle (from Dawn of the Prides) is called the Great Battle and the Souls were so furious with them and so upset by the devastation it wrought, that they took away the clans' Great Forms leaving them with only traces of their former glory.

Etherforth were long-tailed, thick coated Clouded Leopards. Shadowyield were massive regal tigers, Stormborn were bold lions, Shorerisen were sleek, agile jaguars and Windspun were swift, flying cheetahs.

As you probably guessed, these also relate to the founders of the clans who were reimagined as such;

Tallest Shadows -> A massive melanistic tigeress with vibrant green eyes Wind Runner -> A sleek, chocolate cheetah with amber eyes and a torn ear Clear Sky -> Large cream clouded leopard with blue eyes River Ripple/Shore Ripple -> A leucistic jaguar with pale blue eyes Faint Thunder -> A massive, bushy tailed silver lion with a golden mane

For those wondering, Storm was indeed a lioness that Clear Sky fell hard for. In the pride's myths, she was probably fooled and had her cubs stolen from her.

Faint Thunder formed his clan after his mane started growing in.