Traditional Rules

What has changed from the books?
One of the first things you might notice is we replaced the Queen rank with 'Caregiver' as oftentimes the primary parent of a litter may not want the feminine term of 'queen' to be applied to them. You are welcome to still refer to your cat as a queen, as a den dad, as whatever you like! But the rank itself is known as Caregiver to remain gender neutral.

By virtue of being a sequestered group of feral cats fighting one another there will be varying degrees of xenophobia within people's characters and the world as a whole. We ask this be played respectfully and not be portrayed as something overly positive OOC.

The Tribe of Rushing Water is not and will never be present in the roleplay due to it's poor handling and how it leans too close to indigenous stereotyping.
In a similar vein feathers may not be worn on the head or behind ears, the neck and below is fine! Bones and animal skulls are not permitted as accessories as well though your cat may collect them.

After a lot of discussion and researching several sources we are keeping the term Medicine Cat for the rank, though we allow them to be referred to as healers, medics, etc at your discretion!

The books were not very good at keeping track of family lines, often allowing accidental incest to closely related cats. This is not something we want to allow to any degree, please be mindful of your character's lineage and double check before committing to a ship. A mass site ran family tree may be something we consider in the future to help…

Things to be mindful of when shipping:

• Please avoid shipping cats on the same family tree! This means no second-cousin ships period.
• Adopted/Step relations are, for all accounts, considered family as well - we do not humor the 'not related by blood' aspect. They are still family and thus unshippable.
• When using reincarnation, please keep in mind this will prevent said reincarnation from being able to ship with anyone in their former life's family to avoid uncomfortable scenarios.
• If a character under the age of 24 enters a romantic partnership with an older character, the older of the two may not have been older than 10 moons when the younger character was born.
• Adult characters in any clan may not at any point date another they knew as a kit/very young apprentice.
• Apprentices can not engage in physical romantic relationships. Puppy-love, small crushes, and "awakenings" are allowed within reason, but crushes or romantic gestures towards older (adult) characters may not be reciprocated in any fashion.
• Romantic relationships between warriors and apprentices are strictly forbidden. This includes "borderline" relationships, where a player or character would wait until a character is "old enough" or "earned their warrior name" to enter into said relationship. The exception to this is when apprentices have a small 2-3 moon age gap and wait to date when they are both warriors. (ie The Romeo/Juliet law)
• Romantic relationships between a mentor or parental figure and their mentee are strictly forbidden. This includes "pseudo" aunts, grandparents, or other extended "stand-in" for kin.

While we reference the books heavily, please keep in mind this is an AU and things are alterted and adjusted to improve our roleplaying experience! For example, we've made some adjustments to the herbs most commonly used in the books and added our own for flavor! Things will always remain semi-traditional (we won't allow insane magic powers or wings) but some more mild powers similar to what the book characters can have (dream walking, good hearing etc...) and the ability to play cats with wildcat blood may be present!

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