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I have learned so little about cedarstar but already he’s my little guy. My little meow meow. Blorbo from the bonefall. The idea of him and pinestar being friends tickles me so much tree 4 tree friendship. silly guy who chose his DAD as his deputy. The designated Cedarbringer for thunderclan I love him (if you have any more facts could I perhaps hear them?)

Here, warm up sketch be upon ye lmao

I'll make a summary on him when one of his appearances is relevant again, he has a minor role in Tallstar's Collapse as Heatherstar begins the Campaign Era, and would probably get a few scenes in a more beefy version of Pinestar's Crusade. He may not get as much screentime in Brokenstar's Cataclysm as he had in Yellowfang's Secret.

Canon doesn't let cats have friends enough. I feel like it should be especially important to Pinestar, his whole thing is how much he struggled with not being the ideal leader.

Cedarstar was well into his reign when Pinestar took over. He had no strong feelings on Doestar, who was busy running crusades.

He ended ShadowClan's participation in the crusades a lot earlier, when Snowtuft ended up slaughtering several children.

The brutality of that era had an impact on him. I think Cedar would have liked to lead his Clan through a peaceful time, he was surprisingly agreeable to Pinestar's negotiations.

See, negotiation in those times was somewhat rare, usually only happening when something had already gone wrong. Like a death in battle, a time of starvation, a flea infestation...

Clans didn't like to admit weakness back then, and they rarely talked. It had been like this since the Ripple Era, probably from hostility at Ripplestar's nearly successful campaign.

Unfortunately Pinestar didn't change this like Firestar eventually would, but he did at least try.

And for a brief period of time, he succeeded with ShadowClan. There was trading between the Clans, but Shadow and Thunder really took the cake.

Like I mentioned, ThunderClan supplied leather, meats, animal glue, stuff like that. ShadowClan provided cedar chips, fruits through the winter, linen and flax oil, so on.

Cedarstar was a jovial dude who loved food. He was easy-going and hard to offend, even when he went into battle he was usually cracking gruesome jokes the whole time. The word in my head when I think of him is, "agreeable." Guy came from a big, happy family and it shows lmao.

But that's not to say he was free of the problems of his time. There would be no bargain over his territory, and he was completely willing to show off the might of ShadowClan. He didn't roll over and try to compromise with WindClan; HIS Clan was strong off the exports of flax and that was their favorite summer hunting ground. Cedarstar immediately announced battle, and met Heatherstar's campaign with force.

He underestimated Heatherstar's tenacity, and was on his deathbed before the war was even halfway over. To his deputy Raggedpelt, he asked for a promise; that Raggedstar would not allow Heatherstar to win in the end.

And that's Cedarstar! All things considered, a minor character. But his first deputy Stonetooth was his dad and I feel like his family was full of respected warriors at one time.

Also @animatewarriorcats put a bib on their design of Cedarstar and I've never been able to unsee it. I've stolen it, I apologize thusly, but he's a man with a bib now and that has been an innate part of Cedarstar in my head for months

#sketch requests #bone babble #BB!Cedarstar #I'll probably clean the sketch up for his summary later

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