Do you have a certain naming system for your world? I’m curious to see how a cat could get Shimmer- and Talon- as a prefix or -whisper as a suffix! I’m personally using a traditional naming system to limit the naming choices for me as I’m so indecisive lmao. I also see that Graypaw is going to be changed to Bearpaw, have the cats seen a bear before? For my naming system I’m thinking of excluding large predators like wolf, bear, and coyote as it’s seen as sacrilege. I might include some specific northern American flowers as prefixes but I have no idea how people use flowers that are like pink or purple lol.

I do!! I’m currently in the process of writing it all out into a neat document that I plan to share as soon as I’m done :D

A lot of prefixes rely on family names, the happenstances of a cat’s birth, or just aesthetic. For Talon-, cats with that name are silver, and are given that name in hopes that they will become powerful fighters. (Thistleclaw chose that name)

The cats have seen bears before, yes! There’s actually a common folktale within the Underwood Guild about a Mindful bear, but modern patrols will commonly stumble across bears as well. Most of them are respectful of the Guild’s territory. Others are not

OFND is set in a universe where human meddling is eons in the past, and the world itself is laced with magic. I’m super indecisive as well, so I did this in hopes of allowing myself more creative liberties in terms of where certain plants/animals/etc are located within this new world. So on very rare occasions, a crew of monkeys might stumble across the guilds, or a parrot will be caught, etc etc, but nothing so outlandish that seems just like. Entirely out of left field, if that makes sense :O

Old Faces, New Dawn

A fresh beginning from a darkened past

I am so happy with how this came out. This is for @spottyistired and their rewrite i am just so intrigued by, featuring Rust (Firepaw), Ravenpaw, Bearpaw, Sandpaw, Gracklepaw, Spottedleaf, Dreamtongue, Shiningstrike, Scourge and lastly Wolfstorm. The designs and lighting was super fun to do and I hope you like it Spotty!

(ID- the whole poster has a dawn lighting and background with the main five lit in a yellow, pink, and orange light. The antagonists are lit in a mix of purples, blues, golden, and pink. Bushes are behind the protagonists with a oak tree on the left and pine trees on the right.

Firepaw/Rust is standing in the center with a split pelt, the left a dark brown and the right a orange tabby. His right ear is torn, and he has one amber and one green eye. His front paw is forwards with his tail puffing up behind him, a unsure expression on his face. To his left is Ravenpaw who is a lanky black and white cat with a pretty purple eye and fang similarly to a snakes, his ears are tall like a bats. They are looking at Rust with a curious, and knowing expression as if they can see something the chimera cat cannot. To the right is Bearpaw who is crouched down and looking at Rust, his fluffy tail sweeping over Rust’s left leg and a smile on his face. He is a brownish gray color with a darker heart marking on his cheek and sweet golden eyes. Sandpaw is on the other side of Ravenpaw and is crouched down as if she’s about to pounce. She has a mischievous look in her green eye and her tail, which is grey at the end, is swooped to the left. On the other side of Bearpaw is Gracklepaw who is rather standoffish with a spiteful/angry expression looked towards Ravenpaw, he is brown and white with a underbite.

Above Rust is Wolfstorm who is looking straight forward with blank orange eyes and a unknown expression on is face, his mane fluffed out. He is a gray and white with a moon in his chest and markings across his face. To his left is Shiningstrike who is looking upwards with blank golden eyes, she is orange, brown, and cream with a tear like marking down to her chin. On the right id Scourge who is looking downwards. A blank blue eye and black tufty hair almost covers his face and his muzzle and chest is bare of fur. Two necklaces hang over his chest, the top with three claws and the bottom with a talon and a bird skull. Above Grackle is Dreamtongue who is facing the left with a downturned face and a green X as his pupil. He is a red tabby with white fur falling down from hid ears, and a tusk decorating his face. A green breathe comes from his mouth and is reaching out, as if to grab onto those he wishes to persuade. Across from him is Spottedleaf who is looking up with a golden star pupil and golden mist wrapping around her face. She is a brown, red, and white cat with purple and pink petals decorating her fur, a entranced expression on her blank face. Written across the poster is “OLD FACES NEW DAWN” with a lighter corresponding color behind the black bold text. End ID)

Is it OK to ask what are you gonna do about graystripe? I feel.... strongly about his character. Don't like him much. I really want to see what you do with him!

And, are mottled and fire going to be alive at the same time in the story? Weird question but I want to play theorist too!

Literally anybody who wants to play theorist about OFND and ask me questions is my new best friend

Graystripe!! I’m not a fan of him in canon. Canon Gray just feels like,, they want to present him as the ultimate best bro who always has Fire’s back, but his actions directly contradict that?? To quote the almighty Moonkitti, “he’s the wishiwashiest traitor to ever betray his leader”, and he does it like. Six or seven times over the course of his life

Graystripe (renamed Bearpaw in OFND because color) is more leaning towards being very unsatisfied in the Underwood Guild. He loves his mom, he respects his older brother, he adores his mentor, but he’s never felt like he belonged in the guild he was raised up in. Fire comes along, and the two are actually on pretty bad terms with one another at first; Fire kicks his ass when they first meet, and when news that a half-starved fluffball of an outsider got the best of Bear, the combat-oriented Underwood Guild pretty quickly starts to whisper about Bear, which only adds to his feelings of not belonging. But the two bond, and have a pretty tight relationship, but for the most part it’s strained up until they both get their full names, and Bear gets an apprentice. And then he meets Silverstream.

Mottled and Fire have many interactions, yes! Mottled actually takes acute interest in him when he first comes into the guild and takes him under his wing, which leads to Sand’s reasoning for bullying him because he gets so much attention from her father. If Mottled didn’t already have an apprentice at that time (Raven), no doubt he would have taken over Fire’s training. Mottled dies shortly before Fire gets his full name, however, and his death kicks off the real start of the plot