#swanwing

"Oracles"

This issue is very lore-dense and exposition-heavy, so there's no shame in giving it a couple reads. Pure xenofiction worldbuilding.

Finally, here's the answer to what's going on between Pinepaw and Nightberry, and what the deal is with Pinepaw's visions and such! The magic powers are very much real, but as has been said before, there is no confirmed afterlife or source of the abilities, like Nightberry says in the issue. It does not mean that StarClan is real in this comic. It's a mystery.

I put a lot of my own ideas and thoughts into oracles, but there are some outside media sources that had a very strong influence I'd like to mention, which are the Eye's powers from The Magnus Archives, shining from The Shining, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, and greensight from A Song of Ice and Fire.

As a reminder, I've begun offering early previews of the next issue on my Patreon, under the $5+ tiers. Issue 42 will be posting there sometime next week, once I finish it.

Warrior Cats ocs family content let’s goooooooo

Common Swanwing diseases:

Avian flu

Cause: birds or other swanwings passing the flu through coughs, sneezes, or other means.

Symptoms: muscle pains, fever, sneezing, runny nose, shortness of breath, coughing, ect.

If left untreated, can be fatal, especially in dragonets and elders.

Certain strains have become plagues

Common cold

Cause: swanwings and other species of dragon coughing or sneezing, or contact of infected surfaces to open wounds.

Symptoms: runny nose, headaches, chest pressure, chills, lethargy, and the occasional fever.

Croup

Cause: spread by coughing and sneezing of other infected individuals

Symptoms: fever, loss of voice, labored breathing. Can be fatal, especially in dragonets and elders.

Synglera

Cause: unknown

Symptoms: horrible shaking in young dragonets, can sometimes be detected by shaking eggs. Intense lethargy and labored breathing. Almost always leads to death- if the dragonet survives, they usually have tourrete-like symptoms for many years up to their entire life.

Synglera is named after one of the first dragonets found to have said disease

Bilum has survived this disease

Ice syndrome

Cause: unknown

Symptoms: low body temperature, sometimes cold and painful throat.

Usually only found in royals with cold colored pelts.

Feather rot

Cause: dirty, damp feathers

Thank you! Swanwing was Nightberry's mother, yes, also named after an old incredibly obscure character of mine.

I wanted this panel to be a mirror of the one from Issue 32, where Nightberry is forcing her knowledge onto Pinepaw versus doing it with his consent.

Old warrior cat ocs from a comic i never finished but still enjoy overall </3