I mentioned this on a previous post but it would be great if you could post lists of how various leaders lost all of their lives in the rewrite to keep track of the lives. I do think it's odd how in canon leaders not named Mistystar don't really live longer than their non-leader counterparts without an explanation that they are considered Ok to kill in battle by the code and/or it being fairly common for certain deaths to take multiple lives. I would love if your rewrite justified some of the earlier deaths like Firestar, Brokenstar, Bluestar to some extent without relying on contrived coincidences of them just getting absurdly unlucky with dying while other cats are likely to avoid death. (Maybe with Firestar in particular he lost multiple lives in the fox trap? And Hawkfrost is keeping track when he oks the DF plan to kill him). So I'd love to see just a list of who lost what lives where.
Honestly, I don't want to make a hard list because I don't want to be beholden to it while I'm still rewriting stuff. All that's required of the plot at certain moments is, "Leader has X amount of lives left" unless they've been an important POV in previous arcs
Plus it would be a lot of effort and planning to make a list of 9 deaths for the nearly 10 leaders who have been on-screen through the arcs, only for me to end up ignoring the 90+ situations I made because something else works better.
Firestar though I am tracking mentally, he is very important here
Killed by Scourge, chest slashed open, gives him 'mayoral sash' scar
Hit by car while saving Sorrelpaw, took the brunt of the impact so that she only got road rash and a broken leg
Damage to body from killing well over 100 rats while possessed by Brokenstar in FQ
Battle for Sunningrocks caused by Leopardstar in TNP
Falling debris caused by bulldozers, either a tree or a den collapse, helping evacuate a camp
Greencough outbreak, the same one that kills Molepaw
Fox trap
Onestar challenging him to a fight to the death during the Battle of the False Eclipse in a display of chest-puffing machismo
Breezepelt, Thornclaw, and Whiskernose's assassination
Blackstar's I'll make when I get around to planning the revamp of his novella, he will be important later
Generally though, a leader WILL burn through their lives fast because that is why StarClan gives them! They aren't supposed to (canon bramblestar) lay around doing nothing with them. A Clan's Star must be at EVERY major battle, helping with every sickness outbreak, throwing themselves into danger without a second thought.
Contrast this to Stonetellers! They have a fantastic new equivalent Leader Power, complete immunity to illness and direct communication with ancestral spirits, but this is perfect for their culture where battles are frowned on. Stonetellers are not supposed to be throwing themselves into chasms, hunting sheep, or involved in political affairs beyond sharing their advice.
The life system was born out of the bloody warfare of the First Battle, and exists to encourage Leaders to be their Clan's strongest, most understanding warrior, unafraid to involve themself in the daily dangers in the lives of their cats.
