Hello! sorry for the delay, energy during the week is low due to work. But i'm happy to see others interested in the concept >:3
gunna nail down some details to keep plotting moving forward:
Historical Disaster: I'm fine with having the clans having been brought together by something awful. If we want a swamp+forest, it could be loggers. They accidentally let a forest fire break out --> oil spill in the swamp --> severe lack of prey.
Because Starclan was unable to halt the disaster, they were deemed "weak" and turned away from. Medicine cats were forbidden contact with them and the Dark Forest rose to power on the grounds that a more ruthless leader must come forward and "save" the clans from starvation by uniting their resources. Under the idea that only the strong should be permitted to survive, changes to the warrior code are made.
1.
Defend your Clan, even with your life. You may have friendships with cats from the other Clans, but your loyalty must remain to your Clan, as one day you may meet them in battle.2.
Do not hunt or trespass on another Clan's territory. 1 & 2 no longer apply since it's only a single clan.
3.
Elders and kits must be fed before apprentices and warriors. Unless they have permission, apprentices may not eat until they have hunted to feed the elders.
Elders are deemed to have lost their usefulness to the clan; they eat last unless another cat hunts for them specifically.
It's believed the potential of kits are reflected in their parents- a queen's mate is responsible for hunting for her. If he cannot (they do not have the option to refuse if they are able-bodied), she must implore another to hunt for her sake.4. Prey is killed only to be eaten.
Give thanks to StarClan for its life.
5. A kit must be at least six moons old to become an apprentice.
6. Newly appointed warriors will keep a silent vigil for one night after receiving their warrior name.
7. A cat cannot be made deputy without having mentored at least one apprentice.
8. The deputy will become Clan leader when the leader dies or retires.
9. After the death or retirement of the deputy, the new deputy must be chosen before moonhigh.
10.
A gathering of all four Clans is held at the full moon during a truce that lasts for the night. There shall be no fighting among Clans at this time.
11. Boundaries must be checked and marked daily. Challenge all trespassing cats.
12. No warrior may neglect a kit in pain or in danger,
even if that kit is from a different Clan.
Also unnecessary as only one clan, but outsider kits are left to the discretion of the cat(s) who find them- if an outsider is brought to the clan, the clan cat who brought them is in charge of integrating them into clan life. IE, teaching them, hunting for them, etc.13. The word of the Clan leader is the warrior code.
14.
An honorable warrior does not need to kill other cats to win his battles, unless they are outside the warrior code or it is necessary for self-defense.
A threat is no longer a threat only when they're dead 
15. A warrior rejects the soft life of a kittypet.
Bloodclan emerged because the cats were now all of one clan, or "blood". I think the leader will keep the -star aspect; clan leaders like Tigerstar went to the DF after all.
But instead of being granted, they take them. The barrier/border between Starclan and the Dark Forest has collapsed and, empowered, the DF cats have overtaken Starclan territory and captured SC cats as prisoners.
A new Bloodclan leader must kill 9 Starclan spirits in order to obtain their lives.
I want the memory of Starclan to not be completely lost to legends. Because WC cats FAR outlive their real, feral counterparts, I'll be sticking with an avg. lifespan of ~10 yrs.
So we'd flash forward, like, 3-4 generations/40-50 yrs and potentially have grandsires and great-grandsires (maybe still alive, but definitely elders) to 'present day cats' who COULD have been kits during "unification".
Meanwhile Starclan has been warped into a cowardice's cautionary tale. But, so some of the braver ones might tell the "truth" to their kits- that the clans did not unite by choice, but by force.
added in some aspects ive been wanting to experiment with for a while now. i want the clan to be brutal (believably), but not bloodthirsty (despite the topic name. lol) if that makes sense?
so we can RP starclan cats struggling to get through to the living while maintaining their forms with the DF everywhere.
the living trying to decide what's right or wrong. and if they do choose to rise up; whether it's worth it to fight to return to the life of 2 separate clans or to simply loosen the harshness of current Bloodclan
lemme know what y'all think
Hawkeyes258 Junospower Cloverwood
somehow. but with some sort of restrictions (potentially ones not even the DF were aware of until the got the power to bestow lives) to prevent them from giving lives all willynilly?
