Post by Mistybreeze on Aug 19, 2019 0:21:32 GMT -5
What an absolute mess. It baffles me as to how the LS allegiances are practically perfect and they still manage to complete butcher the SH allegiances. So let's go through it with a fine-toothed comb and discuss just how bad they really are.
For ThunderClan, Cinderheart's and Ivypool's kits shouldn't have moved up. Cinderheart's have only trained for four moons and Ivypool's kits are about five moons. It's possible that Ivypool's kits are just barely six moons, due to the jumbled mess that is ROF. But from my math, they are only five moons. However, Cinderheart's kits should absolutely still be apprentices. It is possible that one of them could have done something to earn their name early, but I doubt it under the current circumstances. The Clans had been at peace since the TRS storm and there was no mention of a daring rescue or impressive catch in Squirrelflight's summary of the last three moons. Even then, there was no way all three of could have done something so amazing to earn their names on the spot.
As I mentioned in the SH preview thread, I suspect Sorrelstripe's kits haven't been born yet. With all the talk about new kits in the other Clans, there was no mention of them. And later, Squirrelflight's language suggested that the nursery was empty. And there's the fact that they should have been apprenticed before or in LS. But it is entirely possible that I am wrong and these kits are as old as stated.
ShadowClan is the biggest mess. Yarrowleaf's kits are about the same age as Ivypool's, so they should still be in the nursery. I'm kind of iffy on Berryheart's kits. I think they are six moons, but just barely. None of the apprentices should be warriors, all had only four moons of training. Well, most of them did. Even if you want to say Cinnamontail earned her name early, there's no way she did it after only two moons of training. Dovewing's kits were six moons at the end of TRS, meaning that would be apprenticed immediately after. Stonewing can't mentor two apprentices at once, so that would imply that Cinnamontail had to become a warrior first. Since Yarrowleaf's kits are definitely younger than Berryheart's, there's no way she could have mentored Spirepaw.
For WindClan, Heathertail should have be listed as a queen with kits.
RiverClan is fine.
SkyClan has similar issues. Tinycloud's kits shouldn't be warriors yet; they would have been training for four moons max. Cherrytail and Cloudmist are still missing, I'm counting it since Cherrytail appeared in TRS. Bellaleaf should be a queen.
Taken as a whole, it looks like someone aged up all of the young cats and assigned mentors at random without a single consideration for past events. This is the epitome of laziness.