Post by ⌭ ᑕᖇᑌIᑎᑎ ᔕᗩOᒪ ⌭ on Jul 30, 2017 18:52:36 GMT -5
The chronology of cars doesn't matter, because Warriors clearly takes place on another planet colonized by humanity. There's too much evidence for anything else to be true.
The forest resembles a place found in the real world, and yet the geography just beyond it is completely different than it is in the real world, and somehow has mountain lions. Thus, we have to assume that the Old Forest was terraformed to resemble the location on Earth that it's based on, but that the surrounding geography was left unchanged.
As well, there are twelve moons in a year. However, a lunar cycle is 29.5 days, so that would mean that a year in Warriors is only 354 days long. That doesn't make any sense, unless the series is set on a planet where year lengths and lunar cycles are slightly different.
Next, where do the cats get their stories about LionClan, LeopardClan, and TigerClan from? They've never been to Africa, but if the series is on another planet, the explanation for it is obvious. Cats were kept near lions, leopards, and tigers on the ship they were taken to this planet on, and they passed down the stories of those animals. This mythology doesn't seem to be around at the beginning of the Clans, but if a ship with new arrivals landed on the planet, cats kept there might have had kits that joined the Clans and knew the stories of those animals.
Rock and Midnight also claim to have existed since the Dawn of Time, and apparently watched the first sunset over the lake together. When you consider the entire history of the Earth, this also doesn't make sense, but it makes complete sense if this is another planet. Rock and Midnight were a cat and badger kept on the first spaceship sent to colonize the planet. When the ship landed, the two managed to escape and ended up at the lake. They were the first animals on the planet to watch a sunrise. This also explains how Midnight learned so many languages. She learned them from the other animals on the colony ship.
There's even some major setup for this that the Erins have given us. Vicky has said that Seekers takes place in the future, when the world has become even more polluted. Because of this pollution, mankind seeks other places where they can thrive, and the first colony ship is sent out, landing on the planet that Warriors takes place on. This is also why Vicky has stated that it would be impossible for the Seekers to find the Clans. Unless four bears were somehow able to steal a spaceship, they could never reach the planet that Warriors takes place on, and even then, the Clans don't exist yet during the time of Seekers.
It's possible that some of the fantasy elements of the series are also because of it taking place on another planet. Perhaps the planet has special properties that preserves the minds of its inhabitants after their deaths. As well, the Moonpool and Moonstone may be able to induce regenerative abilities in cats. Also, if the lake has some special quality to its water, it could explain Heavystep, and the increased longevity of the Clan cats once they reached the lake.
I hope you now understand how clear it is that Warriors takes place on another planet.
As for the clans passing down stories of Lionclan, Leopardclan, and Tigerclan, it could easily be a myth they created many years ago and it just stuck with each generation and became part of their belief. Or they could've heard it from kittypets that joined the clan. It's likely if kittypets in DOTC joined the clans, and kittypets now do, they could've easily in the timespace in between. Kittypets would've likely heard about lions, leopards, and tigers from twolegs or something, and told the clans about these mythical large cats if they ever joined.
Its hard to explain away Midnight and Rock and the whole "we've been here since the dawn of time" thing. Mabye they mean since the clans started forming back with the lake cats, and they actually started keeping track of time? Or Mabye they've been around for so long they've lost track of time? I know they haven't been around since the Big Bang, but it's likely they don't actually mean they were formed right beside the sun from stardust or what not.
The fantasy element wouldn't really make much sense even if the series did take place on another planet. If the world works like we think it does, then it's highly unlikely some other planet with a different atmosphere or solar system would bend reality as we know it and actually give cats 9 lives. The fantasy element is clearly there to add some mystical elements for the clans, the most likely explanation is that it takes place on a different version of Earth in a different reality. This would explain why humans apparently can accept the fact that legions of cats live in their forests, I mean, seriously, how would those construction workers explain away a large group of cats coming in and attacking them, opening cages and freeing the other cats, and running away? It's likely because their used to the idea that this is how the cats work (I know that sounds stupid but it's the best I got).
As for how moons are measured, the clans do measure months by the moon cycle. To their knowledge it's the best way of keeping track of time, since they likely don't know what years are and how long they actually are. Heck, they don't even have proper names for seasons.