The Clans and the seven deadly sins

Let me add some definitions for the sins since I feel some of these may seem odd for each clan. (I'm taking these from Wikipedia so if you feel they are wrong then please feel free to correct me!) (Also any thing that talks about religion will be in reference to Starclan in this case)

Gluttony
the overindulgence and over consumption of anything to the point of waste. gluttony can be interpreted as selfishness; essentially placing concern with one's own impulses or interests above the well-being or interests of others

Pride
The negative version of pride is considered, on almost every list, the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins: the perversion of the faculties that make humans more like God—dignity. it is irrationally believing that one is essentially and necessarily better, superior, or more important than others, failing to acknowledge the accomplishments of others, and excessive admiration of the personal image or self (especially forgetting one's own lack of divinity, and refusing to acknowledge one's own limits, faults, or wrongs as a human being cat).

Lust
intense longing. It is usually thought of as intense or unbridled sexual desire. However, lust could also mean simply desire in general; thus, lust for money, power, and other things are sinful.

Envy
like greed and lust, is characterized by an insatiable desire. It can be described as a sad or resentful covetousness towards the traits or possessions of someone else. It arises from vainglory, and severs a man from his neighbor. Malicious envy is similar to jealousy in that they both feel discontent towards someone's traits, status, abilities, or rewards. A difference is that the envious also desire the entity and covet it.

Wrath
can be defined as uncontrolled feelings of anger, rage, and even hatred, often revealing itself in the wish to seek vengeance. Wrath, in its purest form, presents with injury, violence, and hate that may provoke feuds that can go on for centuries. Wrath may persist long after the person who did another a grievous wrong is dead.

Sloth
refers to a peculiar jumble of notions, dating from antiquity and including mental, spiritual, pathological, and physical states. It may be defined as absence of interest or habitual disinclination to exertion. he scope of sloth is wide. Spiritually, acedia first referred to an affliction attending religious persons, wherein they became indifferent to their duties and obligations to God(Starclan). Mentally, acedia, has a number of distinctive components of which the most important is affectlessness, a lack of any feeling about self or other, a mind-state that gives rise to boredom, rancor, apathy, and a passive inert or sluggish mentation, Physically, acedia is fundamentally associated with a cessation of motion and an indifference to work; it finds expression in laziness, idleness, and indolence.

Greed
also known as avarice, is, like lust and gluttony, a sin of desire. However, greed (In this case) is applied to an artificial, rapacious desire and pursuit of material possessions. Hoarding of materials or objects, theft and robbery, especially by means of violence, trickery, or manipulation of authority are all actions that may be inspired by Greed.

Yeah I figured Gluttony was great for Riverclan because they were always talked about as plump and shiny and well taken care of. I also picked Greed for them because they like to collect little shells for their nest and pretty things, AND because they claimed the entire lake is their territory that one time?? Sooo yeah. Of course all the clans are greedy with wanting more territory and such but I felt it fit Riverclan the best.



I honestly have no idea. I didn't know there was a movie.... I just really like the book

I see your point but I put Thunderclan as Pride because first of all Thunderclan has been the main clan of the series so the Erins see Thunderclan as the "best clan" And Thunderclan themselves seems to think of themselves above the rest of the clans, they always seem to get the big prophecies and are always the ones to bring the clans together in times of need. The three were even "above/stronger than Starclan" So i feel that Thunderclan best fits the description of Pride above. But yes Shadowclan is almost equally as deserving of the title as most Prideful clan.

They aren't stuck up about it, though. ShadowClan totally would be.

Gluttony/Lust/Greed are almost sunonymous but there are differences!

I originally didn't want to add the other three bc I just wanted to talk about the four clans but your analysis of the 7 are very interesting!
personally I would switch Greed for Bloodclan and Gluttony for Riverclan becuase a lot of what we've seen of Riverclan's culture has to do with Gluttony. Ie. wanting the Sunning Rocks and the shells and trinkets and their abundance of food for me points to that.
While with Scourge his greed was endless, first he wanted revenge against his siblings/Tigerpaw then he wanted teh loyalty of all the rogues in the Twolegplace and then he wanted to destroy the clans and so on. For me that spells greed, but I can see where gluttony can be seen as well(since the two are very similar.

I think Windclan is Envy personally. They are seen as the weakest of the clans by the other three clans and they are envious that for a lot of reasons. They always hated that they had to rely on allies to win battles and especially after Onestar became leader they seemed to start fights and battles for no other reason than to prove that they were strong. If they knew they were strong then they wouldn't need to prove it to another clan by attacking them. So In my eyes that is envy.

I totally agree that the tribe would be Pride!

Lust does fit Shadowclan well. (I would also argue that Sloth fits them but yes Sloth fits (modern)Skyclan)

Which leaves Wrath with Thunderclan. I feel Wrath does fit Thunderclan. Wrath, to me, means that you are angry about being wronged which seems to happen alot in Thunderclan's case. When it comes to Sunning Rocks especially, and when another clan moves borders. Thunderclan gets angry, and its an uncontrollable rage it seems that fills the whole clan, why do you think they don't loose many battles? Wrath can be hidden too. It can be viewed as rightousness or a moral to do the "right" thing. You have been wronged so the right thing is to obviously get them back. (Wrath very much fits Windclan as well but I feel Envy fits them more) Thunderclan is very self-rightous, they think they are always right about things and always in the right. So if another clan does something wrong they seem to feel as if they themselves have personally been wronged and have to fix it. (Which actually is a characteristic of being Prideful so yeah oops) Idk if I explained this part well.

And the Erins favor them because they are the best and least flawed.