Post by Shadestar on Jul 30, 2018 4:20:54 GMT -5
ShadeClan
Welcome to ShadeClan, a claim-a-cat roleplay. It is one of seven clans.
Other Clan Pages - BoulderClan | BreezeClan | EvergreenClan | LakeClan | MeadowClan | TorClan
Sub Pages - Borders and Beyond | Cave of Mist and Moon | StarClan | Sycamore Seven | [OoC] Symposium of Seven
Joining Page - Go Here to Join
About
ShadeClan has the greatest variety in the sizes of their warriors. Sure most of them are large and muscular, but there are still those that are not. They make their home between an EvergreenClan's Evergreen Forest and LakeClan. They live in the dankest, darkest and deepest part of the forest. At their borders might be a few evergreen trees, but they have other trees that prefer the moister soils that make up territory beneath the canopies which block out most, if not all of the suns rays even during the brightest of days. Here is where darker pelts and tabby coats are so difficult to detect. Other cats looking into the forest may not spot the warriors of ShadeClan, save perhaps for their eyes and even that telltale sign might go unnoticed or surely unnerve those who do not live in such thick dense overgrowth of trees and ferns.
Many of their trees produce sticky sap that makes it too difficult to climb. Plus the its difficult to get the lowest branches as many of the trees don't have any branches for so many tail lengths its too risky to try save on the youngest of trees - the saplings. However any fallen logs are oft thoroughly explored by young apprentices and kits if they ever wander too far when they're not supposed to.
There really isn't grass here, only natural mulch, moss, ferns and fungi. Other ground covers too which seem to love shade. They still have some shrubs and berry bushes - at least ones that can survive the dense shade.
ShadeClan cats are the sneakiest of the clans and often the most aggressive with the other clans as well as loners, kittypets and rogues. In the forest they lay claim to there are a couple of cabins - two leg dens which are usually in use part of newleaf and much of greenleaf. Beyond even that there is an open field where chickens and turkeys appear to be taken care of by the twolegs. If not for the kittypets and dogs which guard it they'd try to raid it and have tried in leaner times to do so.
ShadeClan wants nothing to do with outsiders be they loner, rogue or kittypet. While they might begrudgingly and with great suspicion allow a member of another clan to join them they are unlikely to allow outsiders and will send them packing even if they are kit or apprentice aged. Even so they'll take lost kits to one of the other clans to deal with if they were born to an outsider. Not even kits with half outsider blood is allowed and so any she-cat that is suspected of having an outsiders kits will have to give them away or leave with them. Half-Clan kits which are still fully clan even if not all ShadeClan are allowed to stay, but they and their mother wont have an easy life and will have to work twice as hard to get half as far as full blooded ShadeClan members.
History
ShadeClan is one of seven clans that came to be countless seasons ago when their ancestors were caught by twolegs and placed in large dens which could float on water (to the twolegs this would be the 11th century Norsemen). On these dens which floated on water for days and moons on end their ancestors caught rats and were given bits of fish by the twolegs when there were not enough rats as kits were born. Some of these cats and their kits escaped once the twolegs anchored in the New World and found themselves living in the wild like their long distant ancestors before them. Still others remained on the ships and returned again and again with other cats who were used to catch vermin on the floating twoleg dens.
One of the first cats to think it would be easier to live as a group rather than on ones own was Shandra so named by the twolegs while they crossed over the sun-drown place. Six others too thought of this and so they and Shandra began their camps. Later on they were given nine lives by StarClan and so Shandra became Shadestar for she had settled her camp in an area of so shady the sun rarely if ever touched the cats that lived there in the lake territories.
ShadeClan, on full moon nights visits with the other six clans that were born at the same time as their own ancestor, Shadestar was given her nine lives. These clans are known as BoulderClan, BreezeClan, EvergreenClan, LakeClan, MeadowClan, and TorClan.
Rules
oo1. Forum rules. Please be sure to follow them.
oo2. Respect is to be given to everyone. Respect must be given to the rules too.
oo3. Be sure to include others in plots, or just let anyone jump in and see what happens.
oo4. In regards to activity I hope to see each individual on a minimum of thrice a week to roleplay. More-so for anyone holding an important role such as leader, deputy, medicine cat, or medicine cat apprentice. If one will need to be absent for over a week please let me know. Otherwise you'll be removed from the roleplay after a fortnight.
oo5. In regards to literacy we'd like to see proper capitalization, punctuation and spelling. Spell-check and Grammarly are your friends. However a few mishaps here and there can be overlooked. But please no 'txt speak' or the like. In OoC its fine.
oo6. Characters should have both weaknesses and strengths. No character is perfect nor the opposite. QUILTBAG+ characters are more than welcome to join. Please note however that while cats cannot have surgery they can still choose to use whatever pronouns they prefer. Just don't make this their only trait.
oo7. There is to be no godmodding, powerplay, or metagaming. If your character tries to kill someone else's character it is up to them whether or not their own character dies. Also please be realistic for no cat can catch every bit of prey, or never get hurt in battle whether against other cats or predators.
oo8. Cats do age and so elders should eventually join StarClan.
oo9. Apprentices can have neither mate nor kits. Only once an apprentice has gained warrior status may they take on a mate. Apprentices however may have crushes.
o10. Please no spotlighting. No one individual should be the center of attention. Not all the time anyway.
o11. Please try to make characters as realistic as possible. At least realistic enough to where they'd fit into the books. Which means no magical powers, not even those seen in PoT or OotS.
o12. Please do not spam or advertise here, thank you.
o13. Please note you may only play one high ranking role at any given time. These are clan leader, deputy, medicine cat, or medicine cat apprentice.
o14. Do note that you may not roleplay until you've used the joining form located at the end of the clan allegiance. And because this is a claim-a-cat clan you'll need to choose a pre-existing feline who is open.
o15. Feel free to PM me if you'd like to help in any way.