Post by Sparky on Jun 26, 2016 20:11:20 GMT
The Warrior Code
1. Defend your Clan or Tribe, even at the cost of your life. You may have friendships outside your Clan or Tribe, but your loyalties must remain to your Clan or Tribe, for one day you may meet your friends in battle.
1A. You may not take a mate from, or have kits with, any cat outside your Clan or Tribe.
2. Do not hunt or trespass on another Clan or Tribe's territory.
2A. Medicine Cats and healers are allowed to cross any borders without question. Attacking a medicine cat or healer is forbidden, unless it is in self-defense.
2B. While queens and kit-mothers are not allowed to cross over borders, they are not to be attacked if they do. You must peacefully take them back to either your clan or tribe, or their clan or tribe. Attacking a queen, kit-mother, or any pregnant or nursing cat is taboo.
2C. Cats may travel on other Clan or Tribe territory if it is to report something or ask for help.
3. Elders, queens, kit-mothers, and kits must be fed before any other cat can eat. Unless they have permission, apprentices and trainees cannot until they have fed and hunted for the elders.
3A. If any warrior, field-runner, camp-guard, apprentice, or trainee is injured they are allowed to eat with the elders, queens, kit-mothers, and kits.
4. Prey is killed only to be eaten. Give thanks to StarClan for its life.
5. A kit must be at least 6 moons old to become an apprentice or trainee.
6. Newly appointed warriors, field-runners, and camp-guards will keep a silent vigil for one night.
7. A cat cannot become deputy without having mentored at least one apprentice.
8. If a leader dies and there is no deputy to take their place, the medicine cat or healer of that Clan or Tribe will choose the next leader.
9. After the death or retirement of the deputy, the new deputy must be chosen before moon-high.
10. A Gathering of all three Clan and the Tribe is held at every full moon during a truce that lasts for the night. There shall be no fighting among Clans or Tribe at this time.
10A. On the longest day of green-leaf and the longest day of leaf-bare (the summer and winter solstices) there shall be a full-day truce where all three clans and the Tribe can meet up. Apprentices and trainees are allowed to have contests, but everyone's claws must stay sheathed.
11. No warrior can neglect a kit in pain or danger, even if the kit is not from your Clan or Tribe.
12. An honorable warrior does not need to kill other cats to win their battles, unless they are outside the warrior code or if it is necessary for self-defense.
13. A warrior rejects the soft-life of a kittypet.
14. Each Clan and Tribe has the right to be proud and independent, but in times of trouble they must forget their boundaries and fight side by side to protect the four. Each Clan and Tribe must help the others so that no Clan or Tribe will fall.
15. A cat can love a cat of any gender.
16. The word of the Clan leader is the warrior code.
16A. Cats may challenge a weak or cruel leader is their Clan or Tribe is in danger, or if their leadership threatens the Clan or Tribe.
1A. You may not take a mate from, or have kits with, any cat outside your Clan or Tribe.
2. Do not hunt or trespass on another Clan or Tribe's territory.
2A. Medicine Cats and healers are allowed to cross any borders without question. Attacking a medicine cat or healer is forbidden, unless it is in self-defense.
2B. While queens and kit-mothers are not allowed to cross over borders, they are not to be attacked if they do. You must peacefully take them back to either your clan or tribe, or their clan or tribe. Attacking a queen, kit-mother, or any pregnant or nursing cat is taboo.
2C. Cats may travel on other Clan or Tribe territory if it is to report something or ask for help.
3. Elders, queens, kit-mothers, and kits must be fed before any other cat can eat. Unless they have permission, apprentices and trainees cannot until they have fed and hunted for the elders.
3A. If any warrior, field-runner, camp-guard, apprentice, or trainee is injured they are allowed to eat with the elders, queens, kit-mothers, and kits.
4. Prey is killed only to be eaten. Give thanks to StarClan for its life.
5. A kit must be at least 6 moons old to become an apprentice or trainee.
6. Newly appointed warriors, field-runners, and camp-guards will keep a silent vigil for one night.
7. A cat cannot become deputy without having mentored at least one apprentice.
8. If a leader dies and there is no deputy to take their place, the medicine cat or healer of that Clan or Tribe will choose the next leader.
9. After the death or retirement of the deputy, the new deputy must be chosen before moon-high.
10. A Gathering of all three Clan and the Tribe is held at every full moon during a truce that lasts for the night. There shall be no fighting among Clans or Tribe at this time.
10A. On the longest day of green-leaf and the longest day of leaf-bare (the summer and winter solstices) there shall be a full-day truce where all three clans and the Tribe can meet up. Apprentices and trainees are allowed to have contests, but everyone's claws must stay sheathed.
11. No warrior can neglect a kit in pain or danger, even if the kit is not from your Clan or Tribe.
12. An honorable warrior does not need to kill other cats to win their battles, unless they are outside the warrior code or if it is necessary for self-defense.
13. A warrior rejects the soft-life of a kittypet.
14. Each Clan and Tribe has the right to be proud and independent, but in times of trouble they must forget their boundaries and fight side by side to protect the four. Each Clan and Tribe must help the others so that no Clan or Tribe will fall.
15. A cat can love a cat of any gender.
16. The word of the Clan leader is the warrior code.
16A. Cats may challenge a weak or cruel leader is their Clan or Tribe is in danger, or if their leadership threatens the Clan or Tribe.
