Cometclan

Cats of Highpeak Mountain, the Rugged Survivors.

Cometclan's camp is a hollow with small caves for optional dens in it near the peak of a well-forested mountain where the night sky is clear and every star and comet are visible.

Legends say that Cometclan’s first leader, Comet Rider, fell from the stars, taking the form of a kind mountain lion. She led the cats to the Hollow and the Starspring Cave where cats can commune with ancestors in the stars through the Starspring, a pool of water where the crystalline walls reflect moonlight into stars on the bubbling beginning of their main source of water, Comet’s River. Comet is said to have died here, watching her far-off siblings dance in the sky as she succumbed to a mortal death with the cats she came to love.

Prey can get sparse on top of the mountain, so sometimes in deep winter Cometclan expands their hunting grounds to include more southern slope, and some of the unclaimed north slope of the mountain. That north slope is also summer home to a wandering rogue group called the Ever-Wandering Paws that keeps the Mountain Clans supplied with information from far Clans, city cats, and other rogue wanderers. The Cometclan and Deepclan leaders are sure to keep up their relationships with their rogue and loner contacts. Forestclan is too arrogant at present to try and keep tabs on the outside world. They have seasonal cats that they used to share their warmer south slope with in summer and exchanged information and kindness with, but Forestclan’s hostility in recent generations has driven them to the North slope instead, despite the worse conditions and prey there. At least the Ever-Wandering Paws haven't completely left the Mountain out of their trails.

Cometclan has a third adult job category, Guardians. Guardians are caretakers of the camp, hunters, gatherers of medical plants, and masters of the Softpaw Style of fighting. Softpaw Style was developed by medicats to defend themselves and their patients in battle, only relatively recently honed to battle-worthy perfection by Guardians. They keep the camp and sleeping tunnels structurally sound and clean. They also tend to survive longer, and are the cats usually in the Elder’s Den.

The Elders have specific roles, too. They are more like spiritual advisors and keepers of this clan’s history and stories than just old cats. They learn from each other, and are considering making a dedicated Mythkeeper role similar to a Medicat role but specifically for remembering and recounting Cometclan's and the other Clans' histories.