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Post by Flame13 on Mar 18, 2022 10:44:38 GMT -5
How long do you think the clans have been around?
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Mar 18, 2022 11:26:19 GMT -5
We know that SkyClan left the forest about ~20 years before Bluestar was born (courtesy of Vicky), so it's definitely more than 25 years at least. I believe Skywatcher mentions that his mother's mother was born into SkyClan before it disbanded, so that seems to check out.
I personally like the idea that SkyClan left the forest roughly halfway through clan history by Firestar's time, so 50 years seems like a good number to me between DOTC and modern clans. I can't imaging 100 years or more, since DOTC-era books mention a paved thunderpath with cars, and those weren't widespread until the 20s or so.
No clue how long the ancient tribes might have been around the lake, since we know next to nothing about them.
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Post by 𝔯𝔞𝔟𝔟𝔦𝔱𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔱 on Mar 18, 2022 14:02:39 GMT -5
I want to say 100+ years, but as everybody else pointed out, cars didn't exist 100+ years ago, and we know cars exist in DOTC. We also have the clue that SkyClan left around 20 years before Bluestar was born. I'd say it's been another 20-ish years between when Bluestar was born and the modern Clans at the lake (considering we've had Bluestar's entire generation live full lives and die, and then we've had the next generation, like Spottedleaf's generation, live full lives and die, and now Firestar's generation is pretty much died out. And I tend to think that the cats live around 8-10 years if they live until old age since they're wild cats, so it makes sense that about 3 generations of cats would live and die within 20-ish years). That adds up to around 40 years.
But this doesn't give us much information about how much time passed between DOTC and SkyClan's leaving. Considering by the time SkyClan leaves, none of the cats have a living memory of DOTC, none of them are likely even aware from word of mouth about how the Clans came from the mountains, I'd say several generations will have had to pass. So I'd easily say another 30-40 years between DOTC and SkyClan leaving the forest. That puts us at about 70-80 years total of Clan existence.
So given the poll options, my best guess would be roughly 75 years. So I'd guess that DOTC took place in the 1940s-1950s ish (assuming the most current arcs take place in current time).
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Post by BҽɾɾყႦʅσσɱ on Mar 18, 2022 15:42:56 GMT -5
75 years sounds good to me as well. Maybe the series could do a timeskip to where it has actually been 100 years after the creation of the Clans in DotC (so roughly 25 years forward) after ASC is wrapped up. Just to shake things up a bit. Or go back in time for a DotC sequel arc.
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Post by Ṣanɗypaw™ on Mar 18, 2022 17:20:21 GMT -5
Last I heard they've been around for 60-ish years, but a lot of time has passed in the books since I saw that, so around 70 years seems right.
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Post by Twilight Sparkle on Mar 19, 2022 6:59:21 GMT -5
I voted 75 years.
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