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CLAN MYTHOS: RIVERCLAN

Thought it could be a fun exercise in creativity to create mythos for the clans!

Here’s our first creature of Riverclan mythology, the Mere.

Mere or the Mere toes the line between fish and feline, a fully aquatic legend that reaches far into the past of the cats by the lake. The Mere has a scruff of gills, webbed paws on stout legs and a large, powerful tail it uses to propel itself. It’s stout legs allow for better balance on the slippery boulders that litter the stream and mouth of the lake.

The Mere is rarely seen, if only by warriors on border patrol in the early morning. The Mere can be an indication of dangerous water, such as flash flooding or a storm.

Kits learning to swim for the first time often report feeling something slippery slithering around their paws; this is said to be Mere helping to teach the young kits, gifting the Riverclan cat’s their love of water.

The Mere loves gnawing on dried fish skin, and occasionally leaves the remnants of its victims skinned on the banks of the stream. Riverclan gives offerings of fish skin interwoven with reeds to help the snacks float on their journey. The skin must be rainbow trout, as any other fish skin has not resulted in the clan’s protection during dry and flooding seasons.