u/Celouest

Right now, I’m making a medieval Warrior Cats AU.

ThunderClan is a clan of honorable knights, helping the weak while following the warrior code (which became a knight’s code in this AU).

RiverClan would be a clan of fishermen. They’d love shiny objects and would often trade fish with others.

ShadowClan would be a fierce clan of cats, masters of poison.

WindClan would be made up of more free-spirited felines and would have good relationships with loners.

The roles are different too:

- Leaders are more like kings and queens.

- Deputies are knights considered especially honorable, chosen to become the next leader.

- Medicine cats are alchemists or clerics. Instead of simple herbs, they make potions and study books.

- Warriors are knights and must follow the knight’s code.

- Apprentices go through the same training, but to earn their warrior name they must complete a solo journey to a specific place.

If you have ideas for the worldbuilding, character designs, or questions, feel free to ask! :)

(I’ll try to reply to as many people as possible.)

I really dislike how the Erins wasted the potential development of StarClan and the Dark Forest.

Sure, StarClan probably makes mistakes for the sake of the plot, but they could’ve turned those mistakes into something genuinely fascinating. StarClan makes SO MANY questionable decisions: sending Ashfur to StarClan but not Juniperclaw, putting Leafpool and Squirrelflight on trial even though THEY were following StarClan’s orders, or the weird personality changes cats get after dying…

It could’ve led to an amazing revelation: StarClan isn’t perfect. Maybe they’re flawed. Maybe biased. Maybe even manipulated by something bigger.

Then in arc 7, we start seeing Dark Forest cats helping the protagonists. But honestly, it gets annoying when every single helpful Dark Forest cat immediately gets linked to Tigerstar and suddenly goes “OMG HE’S MY IDOL.” It feels really forced.

Arc 8 could’ve gone in such an interesting direction. The Clans could’ve started questioning the system and trying to change it, leading to an actually powerful message: redemption and forgiveness are possible.

When I was a kid, I HATED reading the descriptions, so I just made up my own interpretation of Warrior Cats. I thought the cats lived in little wooden cabins with stairs, books, carpets, and stuff like that. I also thought Mousefur and Yellowfang were males because their names sounded masculine to me. In my head, the cats were basically medieval warriors. (Honestly, I’d really love to see Warrior Cats in an actual medieval setting.) Did any of you have weird ideas like that when you were kids? (Or would you also love to see medieval Warrior Cats lol.-)