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Also Clan cats can be called Medicine Cats, Warriors, Apprentices, Kits, Elders, Queens, Deputy, and/or Leaders. It depends what they do. Bluestar is/was a leader. Leafpool is/was Medicine cat.
'Only some leaders and medicine cats are remembered by the Clans. Their names cast long shadows over the forest; their deeds—good or evil—are told and retold by each generation until they pass from history to legend. Of the others, the ones whose names and deeds have been forgotten or, in some cases, banished from living memory, only StarClan knows.'
There have been many ThunderClan medicine cats in the Warrior Cats series, and each has fulfilled their duty as both Clan healer and emissary of StarClan. This page lists those heroes.
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- Celibate Hero: Medicine cats, regardless of gender, are not allowed to have mates or kits. However, this has not stopped some of them.
- Love Hurts: Because of their celibacy vow, a medicine cat's love is always bound to end in heartbreak. If they act on their feelings and pursue a mate, they are forced to keep their relationship a secret, and at some point must choose between their lover or their duty to their Clan. Even a medicine cat who honors their vow and puts their feelings aside must deal with the painful realization that they can never be mates with the cat they love, and possibly watch them become mates with another cat.
- The Medic: A medicine cat's duty is to treat the wounded and ill of their Clan.
- Master-Apprentice Chain: Echosnout-Cloudberry-Goosefeather-Featherwhisker-Spottedleaf. After Spottedleaf's death, the chain goes Yellowfang-Cinderpelt-Leafpool-Jayfeather-Alderheart.
- My Secret Pregnancy: If a female medicine cat secretly takes a mate and accidentally finds herself pregnant, she must hide her pregnancy and give birth to her kits in secret. This happens to Yellowfang and Leafpool.
- Non-Action Guy: As a general rule, medicine cats are not trained to hunt or fight, focusing all their energy on studying herbs and curing cats.
- Resigned to the Call: Some medicine cats take up the position not because they want it, but because other circumstances force them to. For example, Yellowfang was born with the ability to sense and feel the pain of other cats, which crippled her ability to fight and forced her to become a medicine cat.
- Seer: After providing herbs and treating injuries, a medicine cat's second purpose is to communicate with StarClan and interpret omens that foretell the future of their Clan.
- Single Line of Descent: A Clan has many warriors, but usually only one medicine cat and one medicine apprentice at a time. This has the potential to become problematic if a medicine cat dies without an apprentice, such as when Ravenwing was killed by Mapleshade.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Several ThunderClan medicine cats have run into this problem.
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Cloudspots
Cloudspots
'Unite or die! Don't you remember the Great Battle? The spirit-cats told us afterward that we could not live without each other.'
The first medicine cat of ThunderClan. A tom. Also see his entry under Cloud Spots here.
- Hero of Another Story: In Secrets of the Clans it's said that he is the cat who not only figured out that greencough and whitecough were different, but also identified catmint as a cure.
- The Medic: The first ever of ThunderClan.
- Not Good with People: Works hard to care for cats, but likes the job of curing more than the actual interaction with, say, sick kits. Also described as shy.
Ravenwing
'I cannot let you lie to our Clanmates! And now that I know the truth, I cannot lie either.'
ThunderClan's medicine cat when Mapleshade was alive. He plays a pivotal role in her backstory.
- The Apprentice: His mentor, Oatspeckle, died two moons before Mapleshade’s kits are born. He never had an apprentice of his own because Mapleshade kills him.
- Death by Irony: Mapleshade kills him at Mothermouth (a sacred location for medicine cats) and later digs up his body after it has been buried so that the hawks can eat his corpse.
- Dishonored Dead: After he was buried by his fellow medicine cats, Mapleshade dug up his corpse and left it for the hawks to eat.
- Honor Before Reason: When he found out that Mapleshade's kits were half-RiverClan, he immediately told the rest of the Clan, even though it meant a mother and her innocent kits would be driven into exile to fend for themselves.
- The Medic: He was the medicine cat who told the rest of his Clan about Mapleshade's kits leading into their exile.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: If he'd just kept his big mouth shut about Mapleshade and her kits, they wouldn't have been driven out of ThunderClan, the kits wouldn't have drowned trying to cross the river, and Mapleshade wouldn't have had a reason to become the most feared cat in the Dark Forest.
Cloudberry
'There’s more to being a medicine cat than talking with StarClan. There are herbs and ways of healing to learn, and omens to find. The other cats must see you preparing to be a medicine cat in the ways that they expect.'
ThunderClan's medicine cat after Ravenwing was killed by Mapleshade. She was originally from RiverClan.
- The Apprentice: To Echosnout, her mentor in RiverClan.
- Friend to All Children: Implied. When Goosefeather expresses awe and amazement at the birth of Larksong's litter, Cloudberry agrees that seeing kits be born is something she never gets tired of.
- Meaningful Name: She has white fur like a cloud.
- The Mentor: She mentored Goosefeather.
- Riddle for the Ages: It is not known why she left RiverClan to be ThunderClan's medicine cat.
- Secret Keeper: She keeps Goosefeather's gift of prophecy a secret.
Goosefeather
'I may be an old fool. But at least my heart is true.'
'You should tread the path you're following with care, Mapleshade. A destiny shouldn't be played with like prey.'
ThunderClan's medicine cat while Pinestar was leader, and early during Sunstar's reign. Sometimes acts insane, but is also fairly wise. However, his predictions are sometimes disastrous for the Clan. Crookedstar's Promise reveals that he's had some association with the Dark Forest, but the extent of this and his reasons for it are unclear.
Stars in a 2015 novella titled Goosefeather's Curse.
- A Day in the Limelight: The novella Goosefeather's Curse expanded on his backstory.
- All of the Other Reindeer: As a kit, the other apprentices and even a few warriors were jealous of him because he was made an apprentice and then a full medicine cat early.
- Ambiguously Evil: While alive, it's incredibly unclear whose side he's on, due to his association with the Dark Forest.
- Anti-Villain: He does some bad stuff, but who knows if it's because he's crazy, evil, or just because the road to the Dark Forest is paved with good intentions?
- The Apprentice: To Cloudberry, who joined ThunderClan from RiverClan after ThunderClan lost their previous medicine cat to Mapleshade.
- The Atoner: After he dies, he goes to StarClan, and he seems much saner and generally more of a good guy after death, even giving Bluestar her sixth life and the gift of patience.
- Back for the Finale: Shows up again for a short time in The Last Hope.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Acts fairly crazy but benign, but he does, and orchestrates, some terrible stuff.
- Blessed with Suck: Having accurate visions of the future isn't so great when it means you get to see all the horrible things that will happen to your Clan, but can't do anything to prevent them.
- Cassandra Truth: Nobody would believe him about Tigerpaw being evil. Oops.
- The Cuckoo Lander Was Right: He was right about Tigerkit, later Tigerstar. Also he was right about Thistleclaw
- Foreseeing My Death: It mentions in the narration that he accurately predicted the date of his death.
- Heel–Face Turn: He is associated with the Dark Forest, but for whatever reason ends up in StarClan.
- Lazy Bum: Mumblefoot mentions that he naps when he says he's going to be collecting herbs.
- Mad Oracle: Acts nutty sometimes, but is correct fairly often, especially about Tigerstar.
- Meaningful Name: '[Silly] goose' is often used as a slang term for a crazy person, apt for a medicine cat who makes seemingly meaningless prophecies at random. He also has whitish-grey fur the same color as goose down.
- The Medic: He was ThunderClan's medicine cat before Featherwhisker.
- The Mentor: To Featherwhisker.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: His sign from StarClan that said to go to battle gets his Clan weakened, causes them to lose a great deal of respect, and gets his sister killed.
- Not Helping Your Case: By the time of Bluestar's Prophecy, most of his Clanmates think he's lazy, stupid and incompetent, giving more credit to his hardworking and better-liked apprentice, Featherwhisker. His leaving of the medicine cat duties to Featherwhisker while he naps and looks for omens doesn't do much to prove them wrong.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: When he visits StarClan and the Dark Forest, both before and after death, he is a lot less crazy than the way he acts around his Clanmates.
- Secret Keeper: He knew the truth about Bluestar's kits, but didn't tell anyone.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: He and Mumblefoot never agree on anything, according to Larksong.
- Walking Spoiler: Crookedstar's Promise reveals that he's apparently had something to do with Mapleshade and the Dark Forest in the past. Despite this, we still know next to nothing about him.
Featherwhisker
'Battles are just a very small part of our lives. A true warrior has more love in her heart than hatred. Love for her Clanmates, for the forest that shelters her, for the prey that feeds us all.'
'Thistleclaw will teach them how to be a fierce warrior. But who will teach him that softness and strength can exist together? And that loyalty to the Clan comes from the heart, not through teeth and claws?'
Click here to see his appearance in Secrets of the Clans
One of ThunderClan's medicine cats. Apprentice to Goosefeather, mentor to Spottedleaf, and brother to Sunstar, Featherwhisker was a well-respected and hardworking medicine cat.
- The Apprentice: To Goosefeather.
- Depending on the Artist: On the picture to the right, he lacks the thick mane of fur and long whiskers he has in Secrets of the Clans.
- Meaningful Name: He has long, feathery whiskers.
- The Medic: He was ThunderClan's medicine cat before Spottedleaf, and taught her everything she knew.
- The Mentor: To Spottedleaf.
- Mr. Exposition: After Bluestar forgets what happened at a Gathering, he shows up to give the reader a recap.
- Nice Guy: Accentuated when paired with the more unstable, lazy, and ambiguously-intentioned Goosefeather. He even passed on his kind nature to his apprentice.
- Non-Action Guy: Since he's a medicine cat, he doesn't do much fighting. He knows how to hunt, though.
- Sibling Team: With his brother Sunstar, who served the Clan as leader at the same time Featherwhisker was medicine cat.
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Spottedleaf
Spottedleaf
'We are the heartbeat of the Clans, not the warrior code.'
'Wherever your paws lead you, you will never be alone.'
Click here to see her appearance in the SkyClan and the Stranger manga
ThunderClan's medicine cat when Firestar first joined, she was also his first love. She is killed in a ShadowClan raid before the relationship has much of a chance to go anywhere, but Spottedleaf continues to show up in Firestar's and his descendants' dreams throughout the series. Mapleshade killed her spirit in The Last Hope.
- A Day in the Limelight: She's the star of the novella Spottedleaf's Heart which details her apprentice years and shows why she chose to become a medicine cat apprentice.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Subverted in Spottedleaf's Heart. She did have a crush on Thistleclaw when she was an apprentice, but that ended when she found out he was training in the Dark Forest. Becoming a medicine cat meant she couldn't be his mate anyway.
- Almost Dead Guy: In The Last Hope, she speaks to Firestar while her spirit is dying.
- The Apprentice: To Thrushpelt while training as a warrior, and Featherwhisker while training as a medicine cat.
- Betty and Veronica: She's Firestar's Betty, being sweet and caring while Sandstorm is more blunt and snarky.
- Big Damn Heroes: In The Last Hopeshe shows up to save Sandstorm from Mapleshade, dying in the process.
- Celibate Hero: As a medicine cat, she is sworn to never take a mate. Though she wishes she wasn't.
- Deader Than Dead: Dies in the very first book, and still appears in most of the later books. In the final book of Omen of the Stars, her spirit is killed by Mapleshade, meaning we have actually seen the last of Spottedleaf.
- Death of the Hypotenuse: A variation. She's already dead, but she gets offed by Mapleshade and ends up Deader Than Dead.
- Doomed Moral Victor: In The Last Hope, although she dies facing her Evil Counterpart Mapleshade, she ultimately undermines everything Mapleshade stands for by selflessly choosing to save Sandstorm.
- First Love: Was this to Firestar when he first came to ThunderClan, but when she died he eventually fell for Sandstorm.
- Foil: To Yellowfang, to a certain degree. Both act Spirit Advisors, but have noticeably different temperaments.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In The Last Hope, she permanently dies to save Sandstorm from Mapleshade, her spirit being destroyed in the process.
- Identical Grandson: Has an ancestor named Spottedpelt that looks exactly like her - it's what made Firestar realize that Spottedleaf was descended from SkyClan.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In The Last Hope, she says that she wasn't jealous of Sandstorm, because all she wanted was for Firestar to be happy.
- The Lost Lenore: Firestar loved her, but he lost her in the first book. However, she still lives on in his dreams. As of The Last Hope, she's a complete example of this trope. Her spirit was destroyed, and she's not coming back.
- Love Interest: Is set up to be this for Firepaw in Into the Wild, but then she dies.
- The Medic: Very much concerned with the well-being of her Clanmates. She probably sees the least fighting of any of ThunderClan’s medicine cats, to boot.
- Mixed Ancestry: One of her ancestors, Spottedpelt, is a SkyClan cat.
- My Death Is Just the Beginning: She died in the first book in the series, yet is still a recurring character, acting as a guide and mentor to Firestar and his descendants through dreams and visions.
- Nice Girl: Her kindness is her defining trait.
- Posthumous Character: Almost. She's killed toward the end of the first book, but her spirit shows up in almost every successive book, even to cats born seasons after she died.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Sandstorm's red. Both of them are Firestar's love interests, but while Sandstorm is very blunt and quick to anger, Spottedleaf is a gentle and nurturing medicine cat.
- Romantic False Lead: Seems to be Firestar's love interest in Into the Wild. Then Clawface kills her.
- Spirit Advisor: She gives advice to Firestar, his descendants, and other medicine cats as a spirit in StarClan.
- Stalker with a Crush: She spends the first series stalking Firestar, and still watches over him afterwards. Additionally, she also stalks each successive generation of his family. Although, Firestar does love her back, in spite of him also truly loving Sandstorm, who he fathered kits with (Leafpool and Squirrelflight).
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Is beautiful, young, kind, wise, sincere, hardworking, and killed off partway through the very first novel.
Yellowfang
'We have the wisdom of ages. You have the stupidity of youth.'
'I can keep a secret.'
A former ShadowClan warrior and medicine cat, Yellowfang was exiled by Brokenstar (her illegitimate son) in the first book, and was captured on ThunderClan territory by a young Firestar. She remains in ThunderClan as a prisoner until Spottedleaf's death. Disgusted at what her birth Clan has become, she agrees to formally join ThunderClan as their medicine cat. Currently resides in StarClan.
- Action Girl: As with pretty much all female characters, she can hold her own in a fight. Notable for being a medicine cat.
- A Day in the Limelight: Stars in a Super Edition named Yellowfang's Secret.
- Almost Dead Guy: Survives the fire in the ThunderClan camp just long enough for Fireheart to find her, and for her to confess to him that she is Brokenstar’s mother, and that she murdered him. And also to tell Fireheart that she wishes he were her son instead of Brokenstar.
- The Apprentice: To Deerleap while training as a warrior and Sagewhisker when becoming a medicine cat.
- Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving: In Cats of the Clans, Rock calls her 'stubborn, cranky, and the most loyal cat you will ever meet'.
- Berserk Button: Better not mention her ShadowClan origins. When Jayfeather told her that she was once ShadowClan, Yellowfang basically snapped at him that she was ThunderClan.
- Borrowed Catch Phrase: Uses Deerleap's 'Look, listen, and scent!' more than Deerleap does.
- Break the Cutie: She started off life as a warrior before being forced into becoming a medicine cat because of her powers. She later has kits, even though she is a medicine cat, with a cat who later essentially refuses to acknowledge her existence, although it is speculated that they may have become traditional mates if her circumstances were different. Only one of her three kits, Brokenstar, manages to survive birth. Yellowfang must then give up her remaining kit to a queen who refuses to love him. Yellowfang now has to watch her son grow up without knowing of his full heritage. Brokenstar eventually kills his father and kicks his mother (though he doesn't know it) out of ShadowClan, allegedly for killing her own younger siblings (her mother is distraught enough over this that she winds up in the Place of No Stars after her death). Finally, Yellowfang is forced to kill Brokenstar in order to save her new Clan.
- Combat Medic: She's a medicine cat, but she fights as ferociously as any warrior. Bluestar's Prophecy explains that she was a fully trained warrior before she became medicine cat of ShadowClan.
- Continuity Snarl: In The Fourth Apprentice, she witnesses Breezepelt and Brokenstar attacking Jayfeather and tells him that the Dark Forest is rising. In Fading Echoes, a book written by a different author, Jayfeather tells her about the attack and the uprising within the Dark Forest and she is shocked and apparently doesn't know anything about what he's talking about.
- Cool Big Sis: Acts like one for Cloudpelt in Yellowfang's Secret.
- Cool Old Lady: Yellowfang is sarcastic and jaded but always tries to help ThunderClan and advise Fireheart.
- Dark and Troubled Past: She's a medicine cat who had kits with the Clan leader (another forbidden relationship). Two of them died, and the one that lived became cruel and bloodthirsty, killing his own father and taking leadership, breaking the warrior code by stealing kits from other Clans, and even murdering kits from his own Clan and framing Yellowfang.
- Deadpan Snarker: She is rather sarcastic and blunt.
- Defeat Means Friendship: She and Firepaw get along very well after he beats her in combat.
- Dr. Jerk: A rare female example, but Yellowfang fits this to a t. She’s grumpy and snappish and sarcastic, and, of course, the heart of gold comes standard.
- The Empath: Yellowfang's Secret reveals that she can sense the pain of other cats.
- Exact Words: When Brokentail demands a medicine to ease his pain, Yellowfang gives him deathberries, telling him that they'll make the pain go away for good. They do...because after he eats them, he dies.
- Foil: To Spottedleaf, to a certain degree. Both act as Spirit Advisors, but have noticeably different temperaments. Spottedleaf is young, soft-spoken, and mysterious, while Yellowfang is old, sarcastic, and blunt.
- Grumpy Old Cat: She's grouchy and has a sharp tongue.
- Have You Come to Gloat?: She asks Molepelt this after she kills Brokenstar, since she had been feeling very guilty about it. To her surprise, he says he would never gloat. ShadowClan was his Clan too.
- I Lied: Tells Squirrelflight that she lied about Squirrelflight's inability to have kits in the epilogue of Bramblestar's Storm, and that she can and is going to have some.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Spends a large portion of Yellowfang's Secret claiming that she wants to be a warrior, not a medicine cat.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Fireheart, who befriends her after bringing her into ThunderClan. Later, while Cinderpaw is staying with her while recovering from her broken leg, she takes her on as a helper and eventually a medicine cat apprentice.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Does everything she can to serve her Clan, and genuinely cares for her Clanmates, despite being grumpier than a badger.
- Like a Son to Me: Claims that Fireheart is like a son to her, and a better son than Brokenstar. She also has something of a motherly relationship with Cinderpelt.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Dramatically chooses to reveal her relationship to Brokenstar right before she kills him.
- Mama Bear: She defends Brokenkit from his foster brothers and sister in Yellowfang's Secret.
- The Medic: Resigns herself to becoming a medicine cat after getting her warrior name because her ability to sense what other cats are physically feeling cripples her ability to fight.
- The Mentor: To Runningnose and Cinderpelt.
- Mentor Archetype: Although she isn't his mentor in the sense the series usually uses the word (training the character to be a warrior or medicine cat), Yellowfang serves this role to Fireheart; she's the elderly, dear friend he always goes to for advice. She later becomes Cinderpelt's actual mentor (training her to be a medicine cat) and does the same for her, and they both remember her wisdom after her death.
- Mentor Occupational Hazard: Both her own mentors and Yellowfang herself, as a mentor to Cinderpelt.
- My Greatest Failure: She came to view her forbidden relationship with Raggedstar as this, because it resulted in the birth of Brokenstar, who grew up to become one of ShadowClan's most tyrannical leaders. Indeed, she believes that Brokenstar being born was a punishment from StarClan for falling in love with Raggedstar.
- My Secret Pregnancy: She hides her pregnancy from the rest of her Clan, but not from the father, Raggedstar. Her mentor, Sagewhisker, also knew she was pregnant.
- Never Mess with Granny: She's a formidable fighter even as an elderly medicine cat.
- The Nicknamer: In Into the Wild, where she gives Firepaw the nickname, 'kitty'.
- Offing the Offspring: Kills her son Brokenstar in Forest of Secrets so that he would no longer cause harm to other cats, and then kills him again in The Last Hope.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Even though medicine cats aren't supposed to have kits, she had three kits. Wishkit was stillborn and Hopekit died right after birth. Yellowfang killed her son, Brokenstar, to save other cats from him.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: To her son Brokentail, before she feeds him deathberries.Yellowfang:Here. Eat these berries, and the pain will go away for good.
- Retired Badass Roundup: In Into the Wild, she gathers a group of elders to form a resistance against Brokenstar.
- Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: She does not soften her opinion of anyone, for anyone.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here!:
- After Firestar fights her, then gives her some food, a ThunderClan patrol shows up and she decides to ditch him. Subverted, because her legs had stiffened up and she couldn't move.
- In The Last Hope, while she complains about the Clans working together, Sunstar invokes this trope by snapping at her 'You can leave if you want!' Amazingly, she stays and cooperates.
- Spirit Advisor: Even after her death, she hangs around to give a bit of advice to Firestar and later Leafpool. When Jayfeather shows up, she becomes much more involved.
- Storming the Castle: In the climax of Into the Wild, she leads a ThunderClan patrol into the heart of ShadowClan's territory to confront Brokenstar.
- Tsundere: She is often characterized as grumpy and obstinate, with a tongue described as 'sharp as thorns.' However, she holds a surprising amount of inner compassion in her heart despite her rough exterior; her softer side was usually brought out through her relationships with Cinderpelt (her apprentice), Raggedstar (former mate), Brokenstar (son) and Firestar (who she claimed was like a son to her while on the verge of death).
- Undying Loyalty: To ThunderClan after they take her in and give her a place to stay. She becomes their medicine cat after Spottedleaf's death, and remains with them for the rest of her life.Rock: Brave, loyal Yellowfang, who fought enough battles for nine lifetimes.
- You Got Spunk: Says this to Firestar in Into The Wild when he finally snaps at her grumpiness.
Cinderpelt
'We cannot change our destiny. We just have to have the courage to know what it is, and accept it.'
'There are times when a storm is just a storm.'
Firestar's first apprentice, Cinderpelt was hit by a car early in the series, badly breaking and twisting her leg. Because of this, she was unable to become a warrior, and instead trained under Yellowfang as medicine cat. She remains a close friend and confidante of Firestar throughout the series. She is killed during the badger attack, but StarClan reincarnated her as Cinderheart, who is now able to live the life of a warrior that Cinderpelt had to give up.
- Action Girl: Averted. Unlike nearly every other female character in Warriors, she is unable to competently fight, due to her broken leg. That doesn't stop her from trying, as shown in Twilight when she battles the badgers to protect the nursery.
- Almost Dead Guy: She talks to Leafpool for a little bit before dying.
- The Apprentice: To Firestar before her accident, then to Yellowfang.
- Birth/Death Juxtaposition: She dies shortly before her niece Cinderkit is born.
- Break the Cutie: As an apprentice, she severely injures her back leg after an accident on the Thunderpath and walks with a limp for the rest of her life. She also has crush on Firestar, but she can never act on it because she is a medicine cat.
- Call-Back: In The New Prophecy, she asks Leafpool, 'Do you think I talk just to hear my own voice?' Yellowfang asked her the same thing in The Original Series.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Is never able to confess to Firestar about her love for him.
- Career-Ending Injury: Dreamed of being a warrior until she was hit by a car.
- Celibate Hero: Comes with the territory of being a medicine cat. Unlike several cats throughout the series, she succeeds in keeping her vow.
- Character Tics: Her special paw twitch that Leafpool mentions in The Sight.
- Dream-Crushing Handicap: As a young apprentice, she gets hit by a car, leaving her permanently crippled and destroying her dreams of becoming a warrior. After spending some time recovering in Yellowfang's den, she learns about healing herbs from her and eventually becomes a medicine cat apprentice instead.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Does anybody remember that blue-eyed, gray-furred kitten that Firepaw picked up in Brokenstar's camp? You know, in the first book?
- Face Death with Dignity: She foresaw her own death in a vision that StarClan showed her, but chose to die saving Sorreltail.
- Foreseeing My Death: StarClan showed her a vision of her death in the prologue of Twilight, which happened when she dies defending a kitting queen from badgers.
- Genki Girl: Back when she was Firestar's apprentice, he bemoaned the fact that he couldn't control her energy.
- Heroic BSoD: Has one when she fails to keep Silverstream from dying in kitbirth.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Dies preventing the badgers from harming her brother's newborn kits. She actually gets reincarnated as one of those kits.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: She blames herself for not being able to save Silverstream, and despite Yellowfang explaining that every medicine cat loses patients from time to time, she resolves to do her best to never let another cat die again.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Up until her accident, that is. After that, she is a lot more serious.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Yellowfang, who ends up training her to become a medicine cat.
- Just Friends: This is what Firestar thought of their relationship. According to Word of God, however, Cinderpelt had feelings for him, but due to her position as medicine cat, couldn't act on them.
- Look Both Ways: Was hit by a car in Fire and Ice. She didn't die, but she did break a leg.
- Love Informant: She tells Fireheart that Sandstorm loves him (and that it's obvious to everyone else).
- The Medic: She serves as a ThunderClan medicine cat from Forest of Secrets to Twilight.
- The Mentor: To Leafpool.
- Mentor Ship: One-sided on her part, in that she was in love with her (first) mentor, Firestar.
- Non-Action Girl: Doesn't fight most of the time, due to her broken leg keeping her from doing so and her status as a medicine cat.
- Only Sane Man: Among the Clan cats on the subject of StarClan. While she does believe in their power, she also points out that not everything is controlled by them.
- Reincarnation: She's alive and well even after her death, as Cinderheart. She doesn't remember her past life until The Forgotten Warrior, though (at least, not while awake).
- Secret Test of Character: She receives one from StarClan to determine if she will be allowed to be reborn and live as a warrior. When they give her a vision of her death, she faces her fate with dignity and dies heroically to save Sorreltail from a badger. She passes, and is reincarnated as one of Sorreltail's kits.
- Secretly Dying: In Twilight, an unknown cat in the prologue is told by StarClan that they are going to die soon. This cat ends up being Cinderpelt, and she never tells anyone until her death. Turns out that being told in advance was a test, and since she kept it secret she is rewarded by being reincarnated as her own niece, who was born the same instant Cinderpelt died.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: In Rising Storm, she treats two sick ShadowClan warriors, even though she would be punished if she was found out, and there was a risk that she herself would be infected.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: When she and Brackenfur were first apprenticed to them, both Fireheart and Graystripe lampshaded how energetic Cinderpaw was to the more responsible Brackenpaw.
- Shared Unusual Trait: She evidently would always flick her paw a certain way when grooming, and later on her reincarnation, Cinderheart, would do the same; this is one of the first times that other characters notice a resemblance between the two.
- Spanner in the Works: She accidentally ruins Tigerstar's attempt to get Bluestar run over by a car, by running into the trap herself.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: In Fire and Ice, Tigerstar sets a trap for Bluestar by the Thunderpath, intending for her to get hit by a car and die, but Cinderpaw runs into it instead, leaving her with a permanently crippled leg.
- Unlucky Childhood Friend: Towards Firestar.
- Unrequited Tragic Maiden: A case of this towards Firestar. She loved him but never acted on her feelings, pushed him towards Sandstorm to let him be happy with her instead, and died tragically. Though, she also got reincarnated.
- You Shall Not Pass!: Does this in Twilight to protect Sorreltail and her kits from badgers. She dies in the process, but is reincarnated as one of Sorreltail's kits.
Leafpool
Leafpool
'It's all right. I'll stay here and take good care of the Clan, I promise. One day we'll meet again, walking among the stars.'
'Destiny isn't a path that any cat follows blindly. It is always a matter of choice, and sometimes the heart speaks loudest.'
One of Firestar and Sandstorm's daughters, and a protagonist of The New Prophecy. Leafpool takes the opposite path her sister does, and becomes ThunderClan's medicine cat. She is described as being her sister's complete opposite, polite and soft-spoken where Squirrelflight is loud and brash.
- All-Loving Hero/Nice Girl: Kind to most cats, and rarely loses her temper.
- The Apprentice: To Cinderpelt.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Crowfeather. She can't stand him at first, but she slowly grows to love him.
- Break the Cutie: Hoo, boy. She has a bad day, to say the least. First she falls in love with Crowfeather, but ultimately can't be with him and he goes off to have a mate and a kit of his own. She ends up having his kits, but has to give them off to her sister to raise. Then when the truth about her being their mother comes out, her daughter goes insane and tries to murder her, her sons get angry with her for lying to them, and then she has to step down from her medicine cat position in disgrace. Yeesh.
- Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: She's the gentle girl to Crowfeather's brooding boy.
- Celibate Hero: As a medicine cat, she can never take a mate. However, she breaks this rule when she falls in love with Crowfeather.
- The Chief's Daughter: She is a daughter of Firestar, leader of ThunderClan.
- Cool Aunt: She acts this way to Squirrelflight's kits, bringing them the softest moss and sweetest honey. She is revealed to be their actual mother in Sunrise.
- The Cutie: She's adorable, but she goes through a lot of breaking.
- Dead Guy Junior: She may be partially named after Spottedleaf.
- Fire/Water Juxtaposition: In Cats of the Clans she is compared to a calm pool of water and Squirrelflight to a burning fire.
- Freudian Trio: In The New Prophecy she, Feathertail and Tawnypelt were the Superego to Brambleclaw and Stormfur's Ego and Squirrelflight and Crowfeather's Id.
- Irony: She starts off as The Dutiful Daughter in comparison to her rebellious, hotheaded sister, but is the first to break the warrior code by having kits in secret as a medicine cat.
- Keeping Secrets Sucks: Keeping the secret about Brambleclaw's prophecy puts Leafpaw in a position where she's strained by loyalty to her sister and loyalty to her father.
- Killed Offscreen: Died in between A Vision of Shadows and The Broken Code from a rockslide.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: In Sunrise, she reveals that she is the mother of Lionblaze, Jayfeather, and Hollyleaf.
- Mama Bear: She's extremely fussy and protective over her sister's kits Hollyleaf, Jayfeather, and Lionblaze, even before it's revealed she's their real mother. When receiving his medicine cat name, Jayfeather senses a powerful emotion of love coming from her. After it's revealed in Sunrise, she still tries to protect them, even when her daughter tries to kill her.
- The Medic: Serves as ThunderClan's medic starting before Midnight. She steps down for a while after it's revealed that she had kits with Crowfeather, but she officially takes back her post later, working alongside Jayfeather as an equal.
- The Mentor: Briefly to Hollyleaf before she decided it wasn’t for her. Also to Jayfeather, Alderheart (shared with Jayfeather) and Puddleshine.
- Meaningful Name: Named after Leafstar and possibly Spottedleaf.
- The '-pool' suffix of her name was given to her because she found the Moonpool.
- My Secret Pregnancy: She hides her pregnancy from everyone but Squirrelflight, who then raises the kits as her own. Also, the father was from WindClan.
- Non-Action Guy: Due to having been trained to be a medicine cat, she's a poor hunter and fighter, as noted by Jayfeather when she steps down from her medicine cat position after the events of Sunrise and becomes a warrior.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Like Yellowfang, she had kits even though it was forbidden. Her daughter, Hollyleaf, was killed in the Dark Forest battle.
- Poison Is Evil: This is what she believes.
- Princess Classic: Technically, as Clan Leader's daughter. She's fairly refined as reserved. However, she starts getting rebellious tendencies as early as Midnight.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Squirrelflight's Red. She's calm and thoughtful, while Squirrelflight is hot-tempered and flighty. They're explicitly compared to water and fire.
- Second Love: To Crowfeather, after his first love interest Feathertail dies.
- Secret Keeper: She's the only cat back in the Clans that knows why the traveling cats left, and she also is trusted with keeping the fire-and-tiger sign secret. She also figures out later that Hollyleaf killed Ashfur, and keeps this secret as well.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: With her sister Squirrelflight. Leafpool was once compared to water and Squirrelflight to fire.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: How her relationship with Crowfeather turns out, as they're forced apart.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Though it's not specifically pointed out, she strongly resembles her paternal aunt, Princess, with light brown tabby fur, a white chest, and white paws.
- Supporting Protagonist: She is the protagonist of The New Prophecy, but Brambleclaw is the hero.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly girl to Squirreflight's Tomboy.
- Twin Telepathy: She can tell what Squirrelflight is feeling at all times.
- Tsundere: Type B towards Crowfeather, she originally tended toward tsun before they got together.
- Wham Line: From Sunrise:Leafpool: 'Hollyleaf, why did you kill Ashfur?'
- What the Hell, Hero?:
- In Sunset, it's subtly implied that she disapproved of Squirrelflight's decision to leave Ashfur.
- In The Forgotten Warrior, she also disapproved of Jayfeather telling Cinderheart about being Cinderpelt.
Hollyleaf (Former Medicine Apprentice)
Jayfeather
Jayfeather
Alderheart
Alderheart
'Embrace what you find in the shadows, for only they can clear the sky.'
'We need to find SkyClan!'
Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight's son. He tends to worry and overthink things a lot. While he started out as a warrior apprentice, both his lack of skill and Leafpool's vision had him become a medicine cat apprentice, where he excels at more.
- Always Someone Better: Has a bit of a chip on his shoulder because his sister is The Ace, and he is not.
- The Apprentice: First to Molewhisker while training to be a warrior. Then he got both Leafpool and Jayfeather after switching over to be a medicine cat.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: In The Apprentice's Quest, he quotes one of Jayfeather's favorite phrases: 'You're fine when I say you are.'
- Character Development: Learns to have faith in himself and stop worrying so much in The Apprentice's Quest.
- He learns to speak his mind and stand up for what's right in Thunder and Shadow.
- Deadpan Snarker: Spending time around Jayfeather helps him pick up some of his cheek, apparently.
- Guilt Complex: His grandmother Sandstorm sums it up nicely.Sandstorm: Sparkpaw thinks she can solve every problem, while you think you cause every problem.
- Loved I Not Honour More: He develops a crush on the kittypet Velvet when she temporarily shelters with ThunderClan. Despite wavering internally a few times, he ultimately decides to cut any friendship short so it won't tempt him. The last time he sneaks away to visit her is only to return her toy and get closure. Notably, this makes him the first ThunderClan medicine cat since Cinderpelt to actually turn down romance.
- Nervous Wreck: He frequently second-guesses himself and worries about the consequences of every decision he makes—even for something as small as which way to leap while hunting. He gradually grows out of this though...even if he reverts to this behavior when Twigpaw is involved.
- Nice Guy: He's genuinely compassionate for cats from other Clans, and privately vows not to end up as snarky and grumpy as Jayfeather.
- Non-Action Guy: Even when he was in training to be a warrior, he had much more trouble with training than his sister.
- Parental Substitute: He essentially acts as Twigpaw's father, offering her advice, comforting her when she's sad, playing with her when she's a kit, and panicking whenever something may have happened to her.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue oni, both to Sparkpelt's red and Needletail's red.
- Romantic False Lead: Seems to be Needlepaw's love interest until it's revealed in Thunder and Shadow that she's in love with the rogue, Rain. The fact that Alderheart is a medicine cat sure doesn't help.
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Has this dynamic with the more cheeky Needlepaw, as well as his sister.
- Ship Sinking: The Ship Tease he has with Needlepaw in The Apprentice's Quest results in unrequited love on his part when Needlepaw is revealed to have feelings for the rogue, Rain. Not to mention the whole 'medicine cats can't have mates' thing...
- Ship Tease: With Needlepaw. More than a few times he thinks about her with admiration, and notes that his 'chest hurts' whenever he sees her laughing with another tom.
- Shrinking Violet: He's very shy and withdrawn, and has a hard time socializing at the Gathering.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Basically the opposite of his sister Sparkpelt.
- 'Well Done, Son!' Guy: Constantly worries about making his parents proud, even though they're much kinder and loving than the ones usually seen in this trope.
Index
ALDER
Reduces swelling and prevents infection when chewed and appliedto a wound. May also be chewed by a cat with a toothache to reducepain, swelling, and aid in preventing complications.
ALFALFA
Used to prevent tooth decay.
ALOE VERA
Use the gel inside of leaves to cure skin problems or burns.
ASH (TREE)
New shoots are to be eaten, and chewed and applied to the bit ofan Adder or Viper to stave off the effects of its poisonedbite.
Keys (seeds) of the Ash tree may also be consumed to fight thepain caused by a stitch in the side.
BORAGE
Leaves and Roots should be consumed to stave off fevers. Seedsand leaves should be consumed by the nursing Queen to increaseavailable milk.
Borage should never be used dried, only green.
BURDOCK
Leaves may be chewed and applied to wounds that are clear ofinfection to speed healing.
Roots may be chewed and applied to a wound to draw infectionfrom it. Especially good for rat bites.
CATCHWEED
Burrs can be used to help hold treatment onto a cat.
CATMINT (CATNIP)
Leaves and Flowers can be used to relive congestion and coughs.Used to counter greencough and whitecough. Usually found neartwoleg places.
CELADINE
Used to strenghten weak eyes.
CHAMOMILE
Leaves and Flowers may be consumed to sooth a cat and add totheir physical strength.
CHERVIL
The juice of the leaves are used for infected wounds, andchewing the roots helps with bellyache.
CHICKWEED
If there is no catmint around, it is a good substitute tocounter greencough.
COBWEBS
Gathered and pressed into wounds to stop bleeding. Generallyonly used with wounds that risk bleeding heavily as they can causeincreased risk of infection.
COLTSFOOT
The leaves are eaten to reduce shortness of breath.
COMFREY
Used when healing broken bones.
DAISY LEAVES
If chewed into a paste, can be a useful remedy for achingjoints.
DEATHBERRY (DEADLY NIGHT SHADE)
Berries, or any other part of the plant, when consumed will killthe cat who swallows if they are not given immediate help, and eventhen they may not always be saved.
DOCK
The leaf is chewed and applied to scratches to soothe them. Alsocan make a cat's fur slippery to help her out of tangles such as ina bramble bush.
DRIED OAK LEAF
Used to stop infections.
ECHINACIA
Used to ease infection.
FERNS
Used to clean out wounds.
FEVERFEW
Leaves can be used to reduce fever, in addition to beingconsumed to aid against colds and stomach ailments.
GOLDENROD
The poultice of this is for healing wounds.
HONEY
Used to sooth the throat. Particularly good for smokeinhalation.
HORSETAIL
The leaves are chewed up and applied to infected wounds.
JUNIPER
Berries ease the stomach and can serve as a counter poison.Leaves are used to ease coughs and other respiratory problems.
LAVENDER
Leaves & flowers are particularly good when eaten for easingpains in head and throat, and curing fever. Inhaling the sent offresh flowers can also calm the nerves.
MALLOW
use to soothe the belly
MARIGOLD
Leaves and Flowers should be consumed to relieve chills.
Leaves and Petals can be chewed and placed on wounds to preventinfection.
MOUSEBILE
Bile from the liver of the common mouse may be harvested andused to kill stubborn fleas and ticks.
PARSLEY
Used to stop the flow of a queen's milk.
POPPY (WILD)
Seeds can be consumed to remove pain and aid is sleep.
Flower heads should be consumed together to relive continuouscoughs.
Petals and Leaves should be chewed to aid in sleep and improveresting.
STINGING NETTLE
The leaves are applied to reduce swelling, while the seeds areingested by those who have swallowed poison.
SNAKEROOT
Used to counter poison.
TANSY
Leaves, flowers, and Stems should be eaten together to removeworms.
Leaves may be chewed to relive joint aches.
Flowers should be consumed to remove coughs.
Pregnant Queens should NEVER be given Tansy, for it causesmiscarriages.
THYME
Should be consumed to calm the anxious cat, or to aid in briningrestful sleep.
WATER MINT
Used to help cure bellyaches.
WILLOW TREE
Water from beneath the bark of the flowering willow may bedripped into the eyes to help clear blurriness of vision. It mayalso be applied to dry patches of skin to sooth itches.
Small amounts of Willow Bark may be consumed to ease pain, actagainst inflammation, and to ease diarrhea or fevers.
WILD GARLIC
Rolling in a patch helps prevent infection.
YARROW
Entire plant should be consumed to induce vomiting.
Entire plant should be chewed and applied to wounds to relivepain and prevent infection.
YEW