Warrior Code
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Herb List
Borage leaves
These are chewed and eaten. They increase nursing queens' supply of milk, and also brings down a fever.
Burdock root
These are chewed into a pulp which can be applied to rat bites. It can also cure infections.
Catmint
Usually found growing in Twoleg gardens. It is the best remedy for greencough.
Chervil
The juice of the leaves can be used for infected wounds, and chewing the roots helps with bellyaches.
Cobweb
Used to wrap around an injury to soak up the blood, keep the wound clean, and stops bleeding.
Coltsfoot
The leaves are chewed into a pulp, which is eaten to help shortness of breath.
Comfrey
The fat black roots of this plant can be chewed into a poultice to mend broken bones and soothe wounds.
Dock
This plant is similar to sorrel. The leaf can be chewed up and applied to soothe scratches.
Dried Oak leaf
Stops infection.
Feverfew
The leaves can be eaten to cool down body temperature, particularly for cats with chills or fevers.
Goldenrod
This plant is usually chewed up and put in a poultice that is terrific for healing wounds.
Honey
Very difficult to collect without getting stung. Great for soothing infections or sore throats of cats.
Horsetail
The leaves can be used to treat infected wounds, and is usually chewed up and applied as a poultice.
Juniper berries
The berries soothe bellyaches and help cats that have trouble breathing.
Lavender
This plant cures fever.
Marigold
The petals or leaves can be chewed up into a pulp and applied as a poultice to wounds to stop infection.
Mouse bile
Put this on a piece of moss and apply to a tick. Wash your paws really well in running water afterward.
Poppy seed
These are fed to cats to help them sleep and to soothe cats suffering from shock and distress. Usage on nursing queens is not recommended.
Stinging nettles
The spiny green seeds can be given to a cat who's swallowed poison, and the leaves can be applied to a wound to bring down swelling.
Snakeroot
Used to counter poison
Tansy
Used to cure coughs, but must be eaten in small doses. NEVER give to an expecting queen as she will miscarriege from shock.
Thyme
This plant can be eaten to calm anxiety and frayed nerves.
Watermint
Usually chewed into a pulp then fed to a cat with a bellyache.
Wild garlic
Rolling in a patch of this can help prevent infection, especially for dangerous wounds like rat bites.
Yarrow
The leaves of this plant can be made into a poultice and applied to wounds or scratches, or fed to a cat to expel poisons.
Warning
Nightshade
This has no medicinal value; it is very poisonous.
Holly Berries
This has medicinal value; they are poisonous like deathberries.
Deathberries
Red berries that can be fatally poisonous to kits and elders. These are NOT medicine. Avoid these.
If I have forgotten a herb please tell me which.
Ceremony List
The Apprentice Ceremony
Leader: This (period of day), we gather together to name a new apprentice. (to kit) Come forward. From this day forward, until (he/she) has earned (his/her) warrior name, this apprentice will be called (insert new apprentice's name here). (insert mentor-to-be's name here), you are ready to take on an apprentice. You will be mentor to (insert new apprentice's name here). (insert mentor's name here), you have shown yourself to be a warrior of (insert virtue #1 here) and (insert virtue #2 here). I expect you to pass on everything (insert mentor's former mentor's name here) has taught you.
The new mentor and apprentice touch noses, and they both go to the side of the clearing.
The Warrior Ceromony
Leader: I, (insert leader's name here), leader of ( insert Clan here), call upon my warrior ancestors to look down on this apprentice. (he/she) has trained hard to understand the ways of your noble code, and I comment (him/her) to you as a warrior in (his/her) turn. (insert warrior-to-be's name here), do you promise to uphold the warrior code and protect and defend this Clan, even at the cost of your life?
Warrior-To-Be: I do.
Leader: Then by the powers of StarClan, I give you your warrior name. (insert-warrior-to-be's name here), from this moment you will be known as (insert-warrior-to-be's new warrior name here). StarClan honors your (insert virtue #1 here) and your (insert virtue #2 here), and we welcome you as a full warrior of (insert Clan here).
The leader rests his/her muzzle on the top of the new warrior's head and the new warrior licks his/her new shoulder in respect. The rest of the Clan chant the new warrior's new name.
The Deputy Ceremony
Leader: I say these words before the body of (insert the dead deputy's name here), so that his/her spirit can approve my choice.
There is a pause.
Leader: (insert new deputy's name here) will be the new deputy of (insert Clan here).
All the cats go to congratulate the new deputy.
The Leader's first Deputy Ceremony
Leader: I say these words before StarClan, so that the spirits of our warrior ancestors can hear and approve of my choice.
There is a pause.
Leader: (insert new deputy's name here) will be the new deputy of (insert Clan here).
All the cats go to congratulate the new deputy.
The Apprentice to Medicine Cat Apprentice Ceremony
Medicine cat: Cats of (insert Clan here), I have an announcement to make. It is time I took on an apprentice. Your next medicine cat will be (insert apprentice's name here).
Leader: (insert medicine cat's new apprentice's name here). Do you accept the post of apprentice to (medicine cat's name)?
Medicine cat's new apprentice: Yes, (insert Clan leader's name here).
Leader: Then at the half moon you must travel to Mothermouth, to be accepted by StarClan before the other medicine cats. The good wishes of all (insert Clan here) will go with you.
The medicine cat's new apprentice and the medicine cat come together and touch noses.
The Medicine Cat Apprentice to Medicine Cat Ceremony
Medicine cat: I, (insert medicine cat's name here), medicine cat of (insert Clan here), call upon my warrior ancestors to look down on this apprentice. (he/she) has trained hard to understand the ways of a medicine cat, and with your help (he/she) will serve (his/her) Clan for many moons. (insert medicine cat apprentice's name here), do you promise to uphold the ways of a medicine cat, to stand apart from rivalry between Clan and Clan and to protect all cats equally, even at the cost of your life?
Medicine cat apprentice: I do.
Medicine cat: Then by the powers of StarClan I give you your true name as a medicine cat. (insert medicine-cat-to-be's name here), from this moment you will be known as (insert medicine cat apprentices's new name here). StarClan honors your (insert virtue #1 here ) and your (insert virtue #2 here), and we welcome you as a full medicine cat.
The medicine cat rests his/her muzzle on the top of the new medicine cat's head and the new medicine cat licks his/her shoulder in respect. The other medicine cats chant the new medicine cat's name.
The Leader Ceremony\
The Leader to the Moonstone/Moonpool to share tongues with StarClan.
StarClan: Welcome (insert new leader's name here). Are you ready to receive your nine lives?
New leader: Yes... I'm ready.
Nine StarClan cats that were closest to the new leader will offer lives of their own.
First StarClan cat: With this live I give you courage. Use it well to protect your clan.
A shock of pain goes through the new leader, leaving him/her gasping.
Second StarClan cat: With this life I give you justice. Use it well as you judge the actions of others.
Again, a shock of pain goes running through the new leader.
Third StarClan cat: With this life I give you loyalty to what you know is right. Use it well to guide your Clan in times of trouble.
Less pain goes through the new leader. There is goodness in this life.
Fourth StarClan cat: With this life I give you tireless energy. Use it well to carry out your duties as leader.
This life feels like running forever and the exhilaration of speed.
Fifth StarClan cat: With this life I give you protection. Use it well to care for your Clan as a mother cares for her kits.
The life pains the new leader, like a mother defending her kits.
Sixth StarClan cat: With this life I give you mentoring. Use it well to train the young cats of your Clan.
The life is a great cloud of anguish so great thenew leader will think he/she was having a heart attack.
Seventh StarClan cat: With this life I give you compassion. Use it well for the elders of your Clan, and the sick, and all those weaker than you.
The life doesn't hurt as much as the ones at first, and the new leader bares it.
Eighth StarClan cat: With this life I give you love. Use it well for all the cats you care about-especially (insert new leader's mate's name here).
The new leader braces for the pain, but it doesn't come. This life is filled with warmth and love.
Final StarClan cat (the last leader): Welcome, (insert new leader's name here), my warrior and deputy. I knew you would make a great leader one day.
The new leader bows his/her head.
Last leader: With this life I give you nobility, certainty, and faith. Use it well as you lead your Clan in the ways of StarClan and the warrior code.
The warmth of the last life lulled the new leader, and he/she wasn't ready for the agony that followed the last leader's. He/she got fierceness, sadness, and suffering. It got happiness and terror and finally, power. It finally ended in calm acceptance and joy. All the StarClan warriors rise and signal the new leader rise too.
Last leader: I hail you by your new name, (insert the new leader's new name here). Your old life is no more. You have now received the nine lives of a leader, and StarClan grants to you the guardianship of (insert the new leader's Clan here). Defend it well; care for the young and old; honor your ancestors and the traditions of the warrior code, and live each life with pride and dignity.
Just like a warrior ceremony, the warriors of StarClan chant the new leader's name.
If I have forgotten a ceremony, please tell me which.
Fighting Moves
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