#chatterstone

you're gone but you're on my mind i'm lost but i don't know why

StarClan

- looks like the clan territories, but way bigger and more spread out with rolling fields between each territory

- sunny during the day, lit by starlight at night

- full of prey, has very nice, comfortably warm weather

- cats in starclan have specific appearances based on how they died

- cats fade very, VERY slowly

- cats who give lives to leaders or big prophecies to medicine cats fade faster

- pretty much any interaction with the living makes you fade a little more

- when a cat fades entirely they are reincarnated as a clan kit

- these kits hold a few memories from past lives when they are very young but they go away by three moons of age 

- at the center of starclan territory is the starpool

the Starpool

- huge hollow with a large, ancient tree on one side, mirrors the clan meeting hollow

- the pool is fed by three streams, each one stemming from a different clan's territory

- spiderleap, chatterstone, and asterheart live in the hollow and manage the starpool, keeping track of leaders' lives and and healer herbs

- a vision of the three current clan leaders is in the pool, with stars around their necks that represent how many lives they have left

- swimming into the starpool transports a cat to the starpool domain (name?? idk)

- looks like salar de uyuni, it is eternally night and the water reflects the stars perfectly

- the only part of starclan a clan cat will ever see when they go to the starpool

- where healers visit during the half moon, leaders get their lives, and apprentices see before they get their name

the Inbetween

- border between starclan and the dark forest where a cat initially goes when they die

- misty autumn forest with tall yellow grass and spindly trees covered in red-brown leaves, sky is cloudy and white

- some cats stay in the inbetween forever by choice, where they turn misty and white (crowmask, birchstripe, winterdusk, icewhisper, etc.)

- a cat will go here to be led to starclan by their family or decide whether to either go to the dark forest or surrender their memories to go to starclan

- cats who might go to the dark forest talk to a dead family member, and if they regret what they've done, they become a kit or an apprentice in starclan and memories of their life feel like they happened to someone else

the Dark Forest

- huge, endless forest of tall, dead trees and bushes interlaced with wickedly sharp brambles, and mist along the ground

- no natural light save for a huge red moon in the crimson, starless sky

- ground is muddy and gross, and covered in snow for half of the year

- the only water is dark and weirdly oily and just generally gross

- cats are ragged and dark, with eyes that have glowing red pupils and blackened sclera, legs covered in muck, and old wounds from life black and oozing

- cats here don't fade and instead suffer forever

Not sure where this came from but i like how it came out :D especially the little patch of clover

this is Asterheart and Chatterstone (two of the first three healers in the mountain clans). The two were unofficial mates and had to split to be the healers of different Clans, and Chatterstone was eventually caught in the crossfire of a battle and killed. He is the first of many healers to be buried at the top of the meadow between the three Clans.

edit: alternate version because i felt Chatterstone wasn’t visible enough and i’m a sucker for drawing night skies XD

First healers of the mountain Clans!

Asterheart: Formerly a rogue named Aster who got picked up by the travelling cats, along with his sister Hollyhock. He and Chatterstone had a brief fling during the journey and Chatterstone taught him a bunch of stuff about herbs and healing, but they eventually had to split up to become the healers of different Clans (GlenClan and PineClan respectively). It is because of him that healers can have mates if they have someone to take over for them if/when then have kits. 

Chatterstone: A fairly young but capable RiverClan healer whose mentor, as well as most of his Clan, died during the earthquakes. He taught Asterheart much of what he knew, and gave him his name when they first went to the Starpool. He died after getting caught in a battle between GlenClan and PineClan, and was the first of many healers to be buried in the valley between the two Clans.