So I decided that I want to focus my rewrite/au on the period of time between Mapleshade's Vengeance and Into the Wild instead of DOTC because there are a lot of characters but most of them are blank slates aka more things I can change without it becoming super duper complicated.
But in order to do that I've been going through all the novellas, SEs, etc between those two books to piece together a decent idea of how old everyone is and so I can set up a family tree. Nothing is funnier than looking at some of these allegiances. Leopardstar's Honor is particular is a mess and that's a recent book. Mousefur, Runningwind, and Willowpelt are all listed as warriors while Thistleclaw is an apprentice which isn't even remotely accurate to every other book from that time period
Also like half of Thunderclan just pops out of the ether between MV and PC so that'll be fun to deal with.
Oh, and Windflight is alive forever
