Seer's Curse

Spottedstar was building an army to drive ShadowClan from the forest

Coal (previously labelled as The Instigator) and Tinkerbelle are responsible for this entire situation. As kittens they disrupted Spottedstar’s life ceremony (unsure how, this was a work in progress). This disruption caused the spirits of the Seers to be fused with Spottedstar’s lives, giving him access to their various prophecies and flitting memories. The inability to tell the difference between past, future, and present led him to believe the Clan was in terrible danger. This is why the Seers are not present in StarClan, and why Tinkerbelle has prophetic dreams– her soul was fused with a Seers in the incident

Rosestar’s ancestor, whose name I’ve forgotten, experienced something similar where a soul in the lake was disrupted and fused to her. This is why she killed her friends

Stormstrike was uncovering the truth. He knows Brambletail would hurt him without control, and so refuses to confront her despite whatever you Contacts may have said or done to persuade him to do something about it. In the end, he is unable to hide his reaction to the ‘monster’ (Spottedstar controlling Brambletail’s body) and Brambletail kills him to keep him quiet

This expands into a major investigation, and Ravenwhisker is of course called forward. Still trying to act as the traitor in order to keep his kits safe, he refuses to comment

Stormstrike wakes in Limbo, and we learn that the legendary figure of Limbo itself has successfully whisked him away to hide him from the dark forest’s straling of souls. Limbo is frightened, and asks for help stopping their father.

Spottedstar attacks the forest to drive ShadowClan away, in his mind trying to remove them from all the danger he sees. Many are killed, despite Spottedstar’s strong insistence to his group that they are to keep killing to a minimum. In the pandemonium Spottedstar exposes Brambletail and kills her, taking her soul away with him

(Fun fact) Ravenwhisker, when giving his first confession in front of Rosestar, got every cause of death wrong. Because he didn’t kill anyone, he had to try and guess what had happened based on public information

ShadowClan runs, with Spiderbounce and Coal leading the way to the Tribe. Ravenwhisker and Bluebell come too, being pardoned of their Crimes but not fully trusted. The journey is long and rife with misadventure depending on how you Contacts interacted with it. Cats would be lost and gained.

On the way they run into Swiftdawn and his family. Sunfire has a go at him for abandoning them again, which Swiftdawn feels is fair, but negative feelings don't last long. Clawheart in particular is delighted by her many new grandkits who are all pretty much her size already

Stoneteller is unprepared for this amount of guests and is not exactly thrilled, and is downright appalled that Hollystar was stupid enough to bring kittens on this journey. After berating and picking on Hollystar for some time, despite Hollystar’s protests, it becomes clear that Stoneteller is relaxed and simply bantering

Stoneteller expresses condolences for the losses on the journey, mentioning Stormstrike by name with a particularly heavy heart. Hollystar being Hollystar is instantly suspicious of this, and Stoneteller takes him away to meet the Tribe of Endless Hunting

We return to Dark Forest Question Time. Pestilence has taken to spending more and more time away from the Forest in favour of exploring the empty camp, imagining what her life might have been like if she’d lived

Pestilence is more open to receiving direction from the Contacts than usual and will learn what has happened. She decides to go and find Stormstrike (“Pestilence is key” prophecy)

Stormstrike, Pestilence, Hollystar, and Stoneteller all meet up in the white void thanks to Limbo’s risky intervention. They’re all as surprised to see each other, and even more surprised when Hollowmoon and Owlpaw walk in.

Hollystar immediately starts pandemonium over Owlpaw in particular being alive, and is quickly silenced. Owlpaw seems nervous, not liking this at all, but explains that Limbo brought them here too.

I did not think out any of this as it was so far in the future but all the powerful cats are now in one room, and together they learn that Eclipse, Silverpelt’s ex-mate and Limbo’s father, has corrupted and been imprisoned in his own domain. He’s been trying to build his power to escape by taking souls from Silverpelt.

I did not get much further than this. They fix it probably or maybe it goes horribly wrong but either way life changes dramatically, souls are fused and unfused, etc etc

Ashkit takes her warrior name, chosen by you lot, and is accepted into StarClan with her mother. Even Spottedstar is fine, though he stays in the Dark Forest to do his penance. We get to see the cat he was before his life ceremony, and he understands that even though his soul has been separated from the seers, he needs to remain in the dark

Everyone lives happily ever after

Thank you for being on this journey with me! I wanted to slam everything down, in part so I wouldn’t forget what I was doing. You guys have done so much from me during the years I was drawing this.

Thank you!