Tribe of Flaming Sands
This tribe is not like your usual tribes, mostly because of their choice of territory. This tribe has settled at the base of a dormant volcano, in a network of caves and tunnels that run through it's base. This tribe is as fiery as their choice of home, their tempers often being as red hot as the magma that flows beneath their feet. The tribe is not welcoming at all to strangers, often looked on a being a very mean tribe. The leader keeps a very strict control over it's cats, both with the rules that are set and with an iron paw. This tribe has many different customs as other tribes, and most of them can be very alien for new members.
The leader is Teller of the Flaming Water, or Flameteller, because instead of pointed stones they work in a special cave. There is a pool of water that had a clear crystal bottom that looks into a giant shaft leading deep down into a pit of molten lava, so the red color is seen through the water and it is always boiling gently.
This clan values bright red and black cats over any other color, because it reflects the flaming home that they live in. Most of the surrounding is very fertile black soil that gives way to a giant birch forest that is almost always shrouded in a light to a heavy fog. although it seems like a place that would not harbor any life, there is plenty of prey to be found if you know how to find it.
The cats of this clan are amazing at climbing and jumping, and swimming as well. The cats are mostly shades of red, black, and grey. White cats are not acceptable under any circumstances, if a Queen gives birth to a white kit, then two things happen, they are forced to kill their own kit and they are banished from the tribe. The father of the litter is kept, but is never allowed to take a mate again. Any remaining kits are given to a different queen to raise as their own and they are never allowed to find out about their real heritage. Any cat who tells a kit that their family is different then the one that they grew up in will be banished from the tribe, if the father of the kit ever has any contact with the kit in a "family" way then they will be killed.
Cats in this tribe are not allowed to chose their own mates, they take the mate that the leader tells them to. The one thing that matters overall to this tribe is strength and skill, so the leader chooses the best of the best to mate with each other in hopes of making the best offspring for the tribe. The leader is determined by a battle of skill rather then being chosen. When the current Flameteller gets a sign from the ancestors that it is time to chose a to-be, then they will hold a contest to see who is the strongest and most skilled. This contest will make all to-bes, even ones that currently have mentors, to fight to see who is the best. This is a fight to the death, but it is not frowned upon when a to-be surrenders to an opponent, because it is acceptable to acknowledge that someone else is better then you and it is seen as a form of pledging your loyalty to your possible new leader. In battles these cats will always fight to the death, if a cat of the tribe surrenders to an enemy in battle, it will be seen as weakness and that cat will be banished from the tribe without any medical help at all as soon as the battle is over.
Almost everything is decided with a fight of some sort for this clan, and nothing but the best will be accepted. The leader's word is law, period.