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Post by Brownie on Sept 29, 2022 10:38:18 GMT -5
Goooood morning. I stayed up too late reading a book and grinding a skyfactory server (:
+Spiceleap She's gay and mad about it. She's also super lucky.
+Skydapple She was the old SparkClan ambassador. Thornstar still defers to her judgement on politics.
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Post by Brownie on Sept 30, 2022 17:23:07 GMT -5
Only two yesterday and a late start today. Not looking too hot for my pace; gotta step it up! I need to be less afraid of changing major things (names, family tree, plotlines ect) and just focus on making the best characters I can in the moment. It'll all shake itself out once everyone is situated.
+Scarabcloud A warrior who wishes she was in the first expansion, rife with power struggles and territory grabs. She makes do with Wrenfire's soft rebellion.
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Post by Brownie on Oct 1, 2022 14:16:48 GMT -5
+Raptorblossom a bit of a himbo tbh. Respected his wife and now that she's gone, doesn't know what to do.
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Post by Brownie on Oct 2, 2022 17:16:36 GMT -5
made a "How it works" section under the "About Me" just a bit of information for people new to the thread to know where to navigate first, where the information is, and for me to better label and organize everything. The color coding is somewhat new, and will be updated very soon (after dinner). Maps are also going to be available very soon (maybe tomorrow).
I want to have all three maps up at the same time (Creation Ex1 and Ex2) and I'm still working on some of the layers of the Creation map, and also might make some major edits to the Ex2 map now that I have a better idea of what the world looks like from the ground.
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Post by Brownie on Oct 5, 2022 13:57:44 GMT -5
ElmClan's about done! They have a lot to do with complementary pairs and are known for being loud and sneaky at the same time. They wear their emotions bluntly and honestly, yet speak in lies and hyperbole. They have two Fates, who are in charge of influencing luck and the balance between parts, and all of their cats are divided into two Crowns at birth: the Autumn Crown and the Spring Crown. These titles don't do anything inherently, but the balance between the two influences many parts of the Clan's choices, spirituality, and individual karma
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Post by Brownie on Oct 6, 2022 0:15:44 GMT -5
all historic figures extra details moved to footnotes. they have also all been backed up in my database for easier referencing for me. tbh that takes almost longer than the formatting for the forums zzzz
anyways. sleeeeeeep that took like 40m for a dozen cats. Which is why I did it now rather than try and do it when I had more
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Post by Brownie on Oct 6, 2022 10:29:06 GMT -5
ElmClan's territory basics is up.
Can you tell I love bogs I love bogs. I also love fire-managed systems, which is why CinderClan, SparkClan and ElmClan have to deal with it! Also WhistleClan, to a lesser extent. But CinderClan is named for the fires that destroy their territory: small fires usually pop up in the fall every year, with larger, full-inferno fires spanning the entire territory coming through every five(ish) years. The fires are necessary to maintain the prarie, and life comes back quickly, leaving CinderClan stronger than ever in the year following a fire.
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Post by Brownie on Oct 6, 2022 13:40:13 GMT -5
Hands down ElmClan's Dawn Camp is my favorite camp so far. I love the Sycamore it's huge and awesome and !!
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Post by Brownie on Oct 6, 2022 15:18:23 GMT -5
+cactusclaw he decided to be a main character and I'm not gonna stop him!! I figured that he looks practically identical to Beavertail, who I namedropped to have one dead kid and one that moved to SparkClan (which I forgot about, and didn't include in the allegiances) so I was looking for another cat to fill that random-name-drop slot, and Cactusclaw fit right in. I also dropped a hint that he was acting shifty around a HeatherClan she-cat (from Spottedshadow's bio; he's concerned Cactus was cheating on his sister) and so I wove that into his backstory too in a nice, tidy package! I made it so that he helped Tortoiseleg cover up a forbidden romance (which is an open lead for whatever other cat needs drama~ I love making these open ended leads see what cool things can happen if I just leave a few threads hanging for later?) so Corona/Sandy/Lizard trio aren't his which also means Zenith isn't his by blood either (I wanted to make him a Comet because of blood, but eh. Maybe he IS SkyClan blood from whatever relationship Tortoiseleg is hiding HMMMM).
Anyways, Cactusclaw went from "somewhat boring, good dad" to "I have many secrets and also PTSD" and I'm here for him
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Post by Brownie on Oct 6, 2022 19:43:08 GMT -5
part of the sparkClan family tree? I made a few changes, this is the Accurate verson. the only weird thing is that I made Terrorflash and Zephyrsnap half sibs, meaning that tortoisecactus kids can't really be shipped with terrorthistle kids which is an OOF cuz that'll be 50% of the apprentices next generation. eh I'm not writing that it's ~future that never happens~
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Post by Brownie on Oct 7, 2022 16:25:14 GMT -5
A sneak peek at ElmClan's Dusk Camp, which is based on a real place! I got to walk on a boreal bog for the first time this year and it looked like the Perfect place for a setting!! Still writing it up cuz I gotta figure out the details, but this is what the Vibe is EDIT: the second camp is written up. More things are added than in the picture, that's called good worldbuilding haha but you can see the sunningrock!
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Post by Brownie on Oct 9, 2022 10:21:51 GMT -5
Some ElmClan allegiances done. Turtlestone is chimera, she's cutie! I will say, imma have to plan for family trees BEFORE making the random cats (instead of the fun matchy matchy game I try and play after randomly making a bunch) because they ALSO have to match in Crown (half the litter Autumn and half Spring, with winter or summer only in ODD groups) so that's something I should probably plan in advance.
I did do the healers as a starting point, though. I'm surprised how many turned out to be ElmClan; they are known for having strong ties with both the Order of Honey and SkyClan, where most healers come from, so I was expecting to have a lot of residents from the other two groups. But naw, I made them and they happened to be ElmClan-born, though most of them probably did most their apprenticeship and training in the Order or SkyClan. Crayfishpaw, from CreekClan, is only training in ElmClan due to their fledgling alliance, as a token of good will. She'll get good training there, though it isn't customary to send apprentices anywhere but the Order for Healer training (besides the petals, which default to SparkClan instead), and most of the older apprentices do the last bit of training with SkyClan.
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Post by Brownie on Oct 9, 2022 23:10:58 GMT -5
+Muddywing she's a little 1D, just a stubborn, bull-headed warrior that does not let go of whatever she's currently focused on. But she's good and necessary to plotlines.
that's 2/4 sandshifters done, with Thistlescar having enough Lore that he should follow quickly after.
Also I'm glad footnotes are as good for yall as they are for me!! They are super helpful and I would have been sad if people really struggled to adapt to them </3
I'm def gonna be doing a lot more character bios for SparkClan before finishing off ElmClan. I'm also probably going to do what I did for ElmClan to the rest of the Clans fairly soon (about/traditions, territory, camp sections complete) so that all the Clans have the "basics" up! I do like making them feel "finished" like SkyClan, but the pace is too slow for me to realistically do that in a timely manner, so I think I'll get the basics up for them all FIRST and then go back through and give more detail passes. That should also make it easier for me to ensure that the characters that move Clans feel "real" enough (and that I remember them in family trees!!! I only have four Clans kinda done (less than half AHHH) and I've already missed some big family tree things), but ALSO that I can get the conflicts and territories SOLID as I make more detail passes.
The only downside is I change Lore details faster than those costume-change magic tricks and uhhh changing all those threads is Exhausting. But worth, cuz I want it to be Right and sometimes, things just CLICK and ya gotta add them in. Like Cactusclaw-was-HawkshineSkyClan <3
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Post by Brownie on Oct 10, 2022 15:20:20 GMT -5
+Emberpaw he's the constellation apprentice! He's a natural at it, which displaced Blossompaw, who had been training (and struggling) with the position for the last six moons. He likes Jadedrop, and is glad to have a friend now that most the apprentices avoid him (since whoever talked to him was ignored by Blossom's group; and he's shy and not easy to talk to in the first place)
+Crescentfox He's in SparkClan following dreams about a certain cat-Beast. Thistlescar is not happy, but Crescentfox is patient and impossible to shake.
+Swallowflame She has anger issues. She was trying to improve until Wrenfire got ahold of her. :(
+Topazrain 3 introverts to one Swallowflame today is balanced, I think
One day, imma forget to delete the ! before an entry. I use punctuation markings in my google sheets as a tagging system, so if I wanted to find a character's bio I could search "!Swallowflame" and it would take me EXACTLY to her bio, but if I searched "Swallowflame" I would get all instances of her name, including mentions in others bio's. Very useful tool for large worldbuilding docs, for those of you who use those. I use different symbols for locations, and sometimes tag certain plotlines or keywords I want to keep separate for certain instances but not for others.
Also why am I doing so many? because I'm currently afk xp farming in a game and this is what I want to do for 5-8m between location changes xp
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Post by Brownie on Oct 11, 2022 19:27:46 GMT -5
+Star-once-Halfkit sister of Butterflypaw and Dapplepaw; the replacement seer after Star-once-Sootkit's death.
All Seer apprentices are named "Star" during their apprenticeship. Once they are Marked, usually at birth, they are removed from the rest of the Clan and are raised in the Spiral: a series of isolated caves and tunnels deep in the desert. There is an attempt to remove individuality from Seer apprentices, so they can better be suited to slip into other cats' minds and See from their eyes. Once they learn to See, they are allowed more individuality again, including their given name, once the Seer deems them ready; reclaiming one's name is a huge milestone in Seer training. Seers always have an apprentice, who isn't fully named until the Seer's death. Which usually isn't long, since Seers tend to have a short lifespan, rarely living past three years of age.
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Post by Brownie on Oct 12, 2022 18:59:49 GMT -5
Failed my third attempt at making a decent design for nightlion :,) idk how people do tabby markings tbh they are IMPOSSIBLE
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Post by Brownie on Oct 13, 2022 17:01:45 GMT -5
IMMA DO TEN CATS RIGHT NOW BET I'm also going to do a CHALLENGE and use a personality generator (the fantasynamegenerator one) for TWO positive and ONE negative per cat. The challenge is that I can only click the button once, and I have to pick from those ten. If that feels too easy, then I'm going to FORCE myself to take the first positive trait and maybe the 4th negative. Wish me Luck (: You'll also get to see in real time how long it takes for some of these. Depending on the Vibe, they can take anywhere from 6-8 minutes on the short ones, to 15-30 for the ones with backstory. Most that time is spent cross referencing family trees, other mentions, picking cats to be best friends or enemies ect ect.
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Post by Brownie on Oct 13, 2022 17:32:26 GMT -5
1) Wildflare - Energetic, incorruptable, destructive wow three traits is LONG. Anyways, she's Wrenfire's ex, and broke up with her after realizing Wrenfire's firey core wasn't loyalty to SparkClan, but her own ambition. She's a crafty, creative type that def has a hyperactivty thing going on and never sleeps.
[ intermission because PANCAKES ]
[[ intermission over we're back on track ]]
2) Moorpaw - Warm, Modest, Amoral I didn't exactly know how to slot in the "amoral" trait to an apprentice, especially not when the precursor was "warm". But I think I did alright. She is very focused on her close friends, but gets carried away with retaliating any harm that might come to them. She is enamored with Windypaw, and tbh she's probably a few inches away from being a full on yandere; I'm kinda okay with her riding that boundary for a while and seeing which way she gets pushed.
3) Mesastripe - Elegant, Cultured, Vain, Prejudiced okay so this name slot has been just, a constant struggle for me. I could never come up with a good personality to fit her description, but this personality gen challenge really stepped up to the plate for me on this one. I needed a few other cats that firmly were in Wrenfire's camp, and Mesastripe is one of them. She's a traveler that sees SparkClan as superior, since they control almost half the Circle through the Petals. And it's kinda true! SparkClan does have by far the most cats and the most territory, and throughout the history of the Circle, was undoubtably the strongest single Clan. But that's not quite true anymore, not in the era of Starpacts, and she hasn't really come to terms with that yet.
4)Shellshadow - Articulate, Witty, Meddlesome We love meddlesome elders in this house!! Seriously, I'm attached to so many cats here, they are so soft and squishable <333 Once a great warrior, now a great storyteller.
(It's been over an hour and I've only done THREE. These things take a while!! Genius takes a while!! (also they are LONG save me please its like 500 words a cat))
5) Briarbite - Anticipative, Upright, overzealous. I defined "Anticipative" as "determined" (he was at once point hopeful, now that hope has worn down into a core of anger) and "Upright" as "military strict". "Overzealous" is his anti-StarClan views. Anyways, he's Marblegleam of SkyClan's bro, and I love them both very much. Briarbite hated that his brother was chosen to be a Comet ("a violent waste of a good cat") and what really turned him to the desert was a fire that he had to help heal ElmClan cats from early into his life, where many died. He blamed StarClan for not warning them of the fire, and moved to SparkClan to fight the Eclipse Beasts, which was his way of fighting against StarClan themselves.
[ intermission; half way break so I can play a game of isaac. 5 cats = 2hrs ]
[[ another intermission over. I will try my hardest to finish these but it's late ahhhhh ]]
6) Midnightpaw - Enthusiastic, resourseful, rebellious They were found as a kit (not Created) on CinderClan land and nursed by Coronagleam alongside Zenithpaw, though they were weaned quickly after and named two moons before their adoptive littermate. They are still close with Coronagleam, though they were really adopted by Obsidianfur, as they came into SparkClan almost immediately following Star-once-Sootkit's death, looking very similar to Obsidianfur's nephew and coming from CinderClan, their home Clan, by similarly mysterious circumstances. It all lined up too perfectly, and Obsidianfur took Midnightpaw's arrival like a gift from StarClan.
7) Brookshine - Insightful, agreeable, flirtatious See this challenge is so NICE because I have no real preconceptions of these cats coming into this, I just choose a name and then Scramble. It's so satisfying to fit in character arcs like puzzle pieces. And that's why I love this method of environmental storytelling: each character is defined by their Clan, their politics, their history, the world, but some characters also use their traits to define the world around THEM, which enriches it for everyone else. Unfortunately, that means retconning some things when later additions are made, but that is a very, very small price to pay for the dynamic and explosive reactions that arise from such methods of worldbuilding. Anyways, uh, Brookshine is a Flirt and she loves too hard she is very, very valid.
8) Blossompaw - Driven, Logical, jealous* Okay okay, so I didn't take a trait from the chart. Only for this one!!! and that was because Blossompaw's trait was already determined by Emberpaw's backstory earlier this week: she needs to be the catalyst that makes him who he is, just as much as he was the catalyst that makes her who she will eventually be. And THAT means that she needs to be a little petty and a lot jealous, so that's her negative traits instead~ I do love her a lot and see a lot of myself in her. I def could have been that person back in high school if my life was just a little different, so I feel for her. and seeing someone come in and instantly be better than you could ever see yourself being is just so. freaking. disheartening. girl I get you. You have bad coping mechanisms but your pain is valid and you WILL get a redeption arc and love I promise.
[[ I'm stopping at 8 because WOW that took like 3+ hours and ALSO it's 1am. BUT I DID IT! I did a lot! Be proud of me <3
I'll do more tomorrow ;) I think doing this many a day is kinda doable for weekends especially and then I can be DONE I also super duper have to come up with parents for all these freakin apprentices and also make some more family trees. Trying to keep them straight without a reference is getting tedious (Read: 143 cats, multiple Clans, several with family members that are not even LISTED anywhere yet, just namedropped!!) and yea. I'm an absolute LEGEND that can usually remember all this so far, but I'm spending more time looking things up to double check than I'd like to and I just need to make the family tree already. ]]
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Post by Brownie on Oct 14, 2022 13:31:17 GMT -5
I was curious of the word count for those 8 cats and.
3537
UHM. It's not like Real Writing that takes Plot and Pacing but that's still a LOT of words for ~3hrs of character creation.
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Post by Brownie on Oct 14, 2022 15:24:53 GMT -5
+Gingersneeze - Independent, Fair, Possessive. A Healer. She's good at her job, but hates when other Healers try to give unsolicited advice or use her personal herb stock without permission.
+Sunrisefoot - Strong, Critical thinker, Gruff. One of the senior warriors in SparkClan and, along with Pitayashadow, Thornstar's closest friend. He's always been in love with Thornstar since they were apprentices, but the feelings were unreciprocated and while he's respectful of that, he's still not over it.
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Post by Brownie on Oct 14, 2022 22:12:35 GMT -5
+Weaselflight - Careful, dignified, tempermental The youngest healer in SparkClan, Weaselflight got her name in November 55. She distances herself from childish games, trying a bit too hard to be an adult. While she suffers quick changes in mood, she often holds her emotions inside and refuses to let others know what she's feeling.
can you believe I'm not even half way done with SparkClan? Not even close really. It's been over a month!!
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Post by Brownie on Oct 16, 2022 16:45:26 GMT -5
+desertstorm she lost her soulmate and it broke her soul </3 Umber Ochre and Quartz's mom, mate to Thistlescar's brother Sparkthorn. Speaking of, the timeline doesn't QUITE line up with Sparkthorn's death, the age of Secret et al and the age of Umber and co. Secret and them should be at least a moon or two younger than Umber's litter, but they're ~5 moons OLDER. I really really want Ichorpetal to be the exchange cat as a young healer, so she has to stay that age, so it might be Umber and Quartz moving up to be young warriors instead (Ochre is still an old apprentice, since he's in SkyClan Comet training; that's allowed)
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Post by Brownie on Oct 16, 2022 20:50:31 GMT -5
also 4k views today woooooo at LEAST a quarter of those are me editing this but hey that's still a lot~
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Post by impala67 on Oct 25, 2022 15:27:52 GMT -5
Omg, just read through all this and it's so cool! I really love how inventive your universe is :3
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Post by Brownie on Oct 25, 2022 16:05:27 GMT -5
Omg, just read through all this and it's so cool! I really love how inventive your universe is :3 yo thanks for taking the time to post! It means a lot! Which is your favorite Clan so far? Yea this project has taken a lot of time and is still a massive work in progress (and will be for a long while yet). I was hoping to add another few bios tonight and maybe actually start on some landmarks for SparkClan 0.0
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Post by Brownie on Oct 25, 2022 17:27:34 GMT -5
+Harepounce I had a feeling that I wanted him to have had a SkyClan mate, but that they weren't around anymore. And I also had the idea that they would use the prefix Frost- ANNND wouldn't you know it I have a perfect cat named Frostleaf just sitting in ElmClan's allegiances that was previously SkyClan! It lined up perfectly!!
Anyways, these two had a very explosive relationship back in their youth, a fling when Harepaw was in the Order of Honey to heal from a broken paw and Frostpaw was doing her training there. The crush lasted a long time, and after he was named a warrior, Harepounce kept finding excuses to visit the Order while Frostpaw was still training for her own name. She convinced him to join SkyClan with her once she was made a Healer in full, and he never looked back, only having eyes for her. Eventually their lives moved in different directions: Harepounce mellowed out, finding himself in his new home like he never could in HeatherClan, and ceased needing to rely on Frostleaf for his own happiness. Frostleaf, in turn, put her ranking as a Healer above everything else and without Harepounce to initiate everything in the relationship, it crumbled.
They didn't have fights so much as simply didn't spend time together anymore, and Frostleaf eventually started courting the young Redcloud. Harepounce tried to rekindle their relationship, but he was a different cat when he wasn't dependant on her for validation, and she didn't reciprocate. They officially broke up, and Frostleaf expected him to return to HeatherClan, but he had found his own life here and had no intention of returning. She couldn't stand seeing him around every day, especially since he seemed so content with his own life, and so she moved to ElmClan to avoid him.
I'm gonna finish up SkyClan first! Then we'll go back to cleaning up SparkClan's bios, then SnowClan's, and after all the S's are done, THEN I can move to ElmClan's allegiances. I'll be working on territory, camps, borders and Starpacts between all that to fill in the gaps I've left, don't you worry. I'm feeling those gaps start closing in my mind and it's time to get them down so more things can grow!
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Post by Brownie on Oct 25, 2022 23:09:20 GMT -5
I just matched all the SparkClan apprentices to mentors =O
Some have two mentors! Mostly this is due to having one "regular" mentor and one "Gladiator" mentor for those that are currently training with the Jade Claws.
Ivorypaw is nominally mentored by Dustvenom, but the sisters don't do anything apart. Likewise, Midnightpaw is assigned to Raptorblossom, but since he often neglects his duties, Obsidianfur has been doing much of their teaching. Windypaw was mentored by Cottonwing for his first few moons in SparkClan, but after the tom announced his intention to care for Redflower's kits, he's been given to Owlnose. Cottonwing still helps in training while he can and still wants to be a part of Windypaw's training (he feels somewhat guilty for letting his apprentice down). And lastly, Quartzpaw is a bit of a diva and so Prariescorch took him, but since she rarely has the time to train an apprentice on top of her own duties, most of his actual training comes from Zephyrsnap (who, after Vineripple went with Beetlepaw to the Claws, has also become the most senior and has her paws full too)
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Post by impala67 on Oct 26, 2022 10:59:01 GMT -5
Omg, just read through all this and it's so cool! I really love how inventive your universe is :3 yo thanks for taking the time to post! It means a lot! Which is your favorite Clan so far? Yea this project has taken a lot of time and is still a massive work in progress (and will be for a long while yet). I was hoping to add another few bios tonight and maybe actually start on some landmarks for SparkClan 0.0 I really like Snowclan so far! Their mentorship style is super interesting to me and I like the fact that a lot of them are polydactyl, that's a cool little unique trait :3 I think my favorite cat so far is Bravepaw, I just think she's neat!
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Post by Brownie on Oct 26, 2022 11:35:04 GMT -5
yo thanks for taking the time to post! It means a lot! Which is your favorite Clan so far? Yea this project has taken a lot of time and is still a massive work in progress (and will be for a long while yet). I was hoping to add another few bios tonight and maybe actually start on some landmarks for SparkClan 0.0 I really like Snowclan so far! Their mentorship style is super interesting to me and I like the fact that a lot of them are polydactyl, that's a cool little unique trait :3 I think my favorite cat so far is Bravepaw, I just think she's neat! I try to have organic reasons why traditions begin, and a lot of SnowClan's were super clear to me. The group training of apprentices comes about because there are usually more apprentices than warriors, and if each warrior had to deal with one or two apprentices each, they wouldn't have time to hunt or patrol normally! It's easier for them to have a duet take over training for half the apprentices in large group sessions, but the inefficiency with this does make their apprenticeships take longer on average. Of course, SnowClan cats also want to delay the older apprentice's Snow Trials for as long as possible, both so they can be completely ready, but also because the Trials have a high mortality rate and a fully-trained apprentice is much more useful than a dead warrior. And Bravepaw is super cool! She's one of my favorites tbh and will have a whole lot to do with politics on this side of the globe. There's actually a short story about her! It hasn't yet been moved to footnotes (none of the SnowClan stuff has yet) but you can find it in the #Lore page under SkyClan: Dewpaw. It's from Bravepaw's sister's pov as she's leaving SkyClan to go to SnowClan.
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Post by Brownie on Oct 26, 2022 15:43:52 GMT -5
There, cleaned up SnowClan's allegiances. I've been meaning to do it since I did SkyClan but man is the process tedious to fix.
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