(credit for the pretty text to my cool friend whom i challenged to write pretty purple prose /silly)

“When the souls of the living pass into the afterlife, the memory of them remains among those who still draw breath, creating visions and apparitions within one’s dreams that are known simply as “Echoes”. Though communication is impossible under normal circumstances, these Echoes serve as the only known way for the living to reach those who have passed. When an Echo is realized within a dream, the souls of these echoed cats shall sense who it is that is remembering them. While it is through these echoes that the living may nourish and sustain the deceased individuals link to the living, know that as one’s memory fades… The Echoes of those fading memories too, shall fade, gradually growing warped and distorted beyond recognition”

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Me: [Sees Starclan] [Throws it out] I will do my own thing >:))

The universe of Cloververse’s afterlife is a somewhat different than the canon and I will elaborate in the future, but basically, the afterlife is a realm called The Beyond, on which souls walk until they fade. Clan cats, being a group focused on keeping memories alive, had enough will to keep going that it manifested in the form of The Silver Fields, where clan souls reside for eternity once they find their way to it. Cats with unfinished ambitious and hateful goals can never find their way to the Fields and find themselves walking the Valley of Shades, from which they can either reflect and change or get increasingly worse.