Post by Polygone on Jan 1, 2016 0:26:18 GMT
~A History Of The Clans~
The setting is on a fictional island about the size of Australia, somewhere between Europe and America. Humans did discover it, but they never actually lived there long-term, since there was no need for it. However, it's become a popular spot for people to come and vacation with their families, since the beaches are so desirable. However, some families are less happy than others, using this 'vacation' as an excuse to forget about their problems.
On these trips, like-minded kids started meeting up. All of them were annoyed, troubled, angry, with their families or something about the way they lived. Some of these children met up at night because they really needed an emotional release from their lives; others did because it was a thrill, and they wanted to help comfort new friends; and others just because they had nothing better to do. Some stopped coming, while others returned religiously.
A particular child started seeing an opportunity painted all across this new island/continent. Nobody lived there... so if they traveled deep enough, they could evade human contact all together. So he started telling kids that they had a chance: that they could leave their awful lives altogether, and start anew with each other for comfort. Some of them rejected this idea and stopped coming to the midnight meetings, refusing to confer with a possible runaway crew. However, some of them were just damned enough that they wanted to join him, and soon an entire group stacked up. Word got around with the kids and they started coming forward, between ages as young as 10 and as old as 20 or even higher, all of them wanting to leave their homes, minus a few thrill-seekers who simply wanted to see if it would work.
On the last day the child was to be there, he ran away, leaving a note for his parents to assure them he wasn't dead. He told everyone else to do the same; disclosing the reason they left, and why they would never be returning. He made sure all of them were loyal to the idea of keeping their location a secret, and if they decided to change their mind they wouldn't give away the rest of them. Once he was certain of this, he lead them deep into the woods and left civilized life behind.
They lived in a small clearing on a more hilly, less forested area - something of a moorland. They lived together in peace, using their leader's (whom was named Kevin) old books on nature and edible foods. Some of them started having a fascination with these plants, especially ones who wanted to become doctors and nurses and veterinarians as adults: they started researching the healing properties of these plants, carefully making sure they knew which ones worked in case of emergency.
Others preferred to go on the hunt, and started learning how to make primitive tools like spears and knives, as well as strengthening up to keep the group fed. It was fun for some, and sport for others, and for more it was simply survival as per normal. However, things started to get unsure: some of the aforementioned hunter-gatherers started to hunt in the woods, far away from the moorland where they presently lived. This caused problems in terms of time and energy spent getting food, especially when someone was ill or desperately in need of food when they left in the morning and returned at midnight. Kevin began to recognize that not everyone was satisfied living on the Moor, but he wasn't about to let them leave.
However, luck wasn't on his side, and his own older brother Luke decided to break off and head into the woods with a few of his followers. They established a campsite of their own in the woods that was a few miles from where the original beachside camp was, and decided they would start making repeated visits to see if any more kids would like to go missing so they could leave their lives. Kevin was infuriated, but he knew he couldn't stop Luke, and thus left him to his own devices.
However, Luke's action sparked an idea in the rest. One of the young girls, Aurora, had found a small marshland that reminded her of her home before they moved. She went there for apparently no good reason: just to take a walk, to chase frogs, to enjoy the scenery. Her long walks weren't helping the group, and she constantly got punished for it, and so she started wondering if she should take the same direction as Luke did.
Eventually problems started arising between Luke and Kevin that caused Aurora to leave the moor, and that was Luke starting to stake a claim on the land that was supposed to be shared by all of them. He said that he wanted nothing to do with Kevin, and that he didn't want to be a weak leader, so he decided to set up a border to keep him away. Appalled by this, knowing they all came from the same roots and reason, tried to strike up a deal with him: but nothing worked. In fact, if any of Kevin's hunter-gatherers tried to hunt in the woods, Luke would instruct his own members to hunt them down and chase them out of their forest.
Aurora's group grew ever-stronger, and she eventually followed in Luke's footsteps once she caught news of how secure his people were. She started staking claims to the marshlands, since nobody else wanted it and she got no rebuke for it. However, Kevin saw a rising problem here: he didn't want borders to seperate them! They were all out here for the same reason - to get rid of their family ties and start anew, not cause fights among one another...
A new friend joined the mix, a young man named Ryan. He was excited to join their group until he saw how split it had become. He decided he might as well get a stake on a spot across from the moorland, filled with rivers that fed into the ocean surrounding the island and the territories. He started making runs with his sister, Rachel, to find people that would join them in their river-crossed homeland. Soon all four groups were pegged down, and they knew there was no way to get them all back together again - it was like a puzzle that was missing a piece, and that piece was another group, and a formal name.
Eventually they all grew up, and over the years Luke eventually found himself a rather illegitimate father of three. He was ecstatic to discover he was a father, but this didn't last long. His girlfriend, Sabrina, didn't want to raise her kids among the foliage, and decided to return to civilization - her family hadn't left yet, as they had started coming back to the island with every timeshare they had to look for her. However, when they discovered she was a mother, they immediately set her kids up for adoption. They gave two of the children - little girls - to their friends to foster, but they could never give away the third - the only son. Sabrina ran back into the forest and tried to look for her boyfriend, the father of her beloved kids whom she'd lost so suddenly, but she never got the chance. Her mother, in a fit of wild rage, set the forest on fire to look for her. Instead of bringing her daughter and grandchild back to society, she killed her daughter after a falling tree crushed and seared her. However, hidden in the cool folds of her clothes, their child still remained alive, rescued by his mother's body.
Kevin found the little boy first, having almost passed over him in the dusty rubble. He quickly scooped him up, wrapped him in his winter scarf, and carried him to Luke's home, hoping he would take the boy and raise him the way he wanted to. But instead of take the child, Luke entirely denied him, not wanting a reminder of his failure - he didn't want to face the grief of his fallen soulmate, and the eternal loss of his two daughters to total strangers...
Years passed, and Kevin kept the child with him. He decided to name the boy something unconventional: Thunder. His relationship to a storm of emotions, and the thunderous claps of the fallen tree that took his mother away, inspired the name: the fact that he survived despite the hardship of his early life. However, he was always told he was discovered in a violent thunderstorm. He grew up quickly and happily under Kevin, but it was clear he didn't like - nor did he fit into - the moorland. So he decided to break off while in his teenage years, and left the middle-aged Kevin with some of his best friends and peers to make that final piece in the puzzle: his own group, in the forest just north of Luke's woodland territory.
Around this time, other kids were starting to find their place, and a new way of life was beginning to show through. Now kids weren't being named "normal" things, but rather nature-related things. They saw the nature around them as sacred, seeing as it saved them from their terrifying home lives and gave them all a new start. So names that pertained to plants, animals, or weather started to erupt forth with great strength: Thunder's name may have started this trend. Soon, people were changing their own names to better match their childrens' names, and to break off any ties with their former lives.
Soon, a ranking system came up. The leaders were Kevin's best friend, Wind, Luke (Sky), Thunder, Ryan (River), and Aurora (Shadow). Next came the hunter-gatherers, or the Warriors; and then Apprentices, and Children. However, there was one more rank that needed to be brought up before things were entirely fitted: Healers. Wind's daughter, Moth, ended up fulfilling this role, and soon other Healers discovered their talents and became the official healers of their own group.
Kevin eventually got an illness and slowly started dying of it, much younger than people in civilization died. His last wish was to have a meeting, under the Full Moon, with those he used to live with. So it was; under the closest Full Moon, all of them arrived. He told everyone to keep the peace as long as possible, and to keep communication wide open as long as possible. When he looked at the sky, he watched a few stars streak across the sky with excited vigor: Five. Exactly five stars. He suddenly looked back down and gave each of his comrades their new names: Windstar, Skystar, Thunderstar, Riverstar, and Shadowstar. He then said that each of them needed a name for their groups, but they all needed the same ending to show that they all had the same roots, and so they would never forget where they started no matter what. So they named their Clans after themselves: WindClan, SkyClan, ThunderClan, RiverClan and ShadowClan.
Generations passed, and the Leaders kept visiting under the Full Moon in Kevin's honor and memory. They started bringing trusted Healers with them just in case, and soon Warriors started sneaking along. Down the line, the scene of Kevin's death was known as the first Gathering the Clans ever had.
The setting is on a fictional island about the size of Australia, somewhere between Europe and America. Humans did discover it, but they never actually lived there long-term, since there was no need for it. However, it's become a popular spot for people to come and vacation with their families, since the beaches are so desirable. However, some families are less happy than others, using this 'vacation' as an excuse to forget about their problems.
On these trips, like-minded kids started meeting up. All of them were annoyed, troubled, angry, with their families or something about the way they lived. Some of these children met up at night because they really needed an emotional release from their lives; others did because it was a thrill, and they wanted to help comfort new friends; and others just because they had nothing better to do. Some stopped coming, while others returned religiously.
A particular child started seeing an opportunity painted all across this new island/continent. Nobody lived there... so if they traveled deep enough, they could evade human contact all together. So he started telling kids that they had a chance: that they could leave their awful lives altogether, and start anew with each other for comfort. Some of them rejected this idea and stopped coming to the midnight meetings, refusing to confer with a possible runaway crew. However, some of them were just damned enough that they wanted to join him, and soon an entire group stacked up. Word got around with the kids and they started coming forward, between ages as young as 10 and as old as 20 or even higher, all of them wanting to leave their homes, minus a few thrill-seekers who simply wanted to see if it would work.
On the last day the child was to be there, he ran away, leaving a note for his parents to assure them he wasn't dead. He told everyone else to do the same; disclosing the reason they left, and why they would never be returning. He made sure all of them were loyal to the idea of keeping their location a secret, and if they decided to change their mind they wouldn't give away the rest of them. Once he was certain of this, he lead them deep into the woods and left civilized life behind.
They lived in a small clearing on a more hilly, less forested area - something of a moorland. They lived together in peace, using their leader's (whom was named Kevin) old books on nature and edible foods. Some of them started having a fascination with these plants, especially ones who wanted to become doctors and nurses and veterinarians as adults: they started researching the healing properties of these plants, carefully making sure they knew which ones worked in case of emergency.
Others preferred to go on the hunt, and started learning how to make primitive tools like spears and knives, as well as strengthening up to keep the group fed. It was fun for some, and sport for others, and for more it was simply survival as per normal. However, things started to get unsure: some of the aforementioned hunter-gatherers started to hunt in the woods, far away from the moorland where they presently lived. This caused problems in terms of time and energy spent getting food, especially when someone was ill or desperately in need of food when they left in the morning and returned at midnight. Kevin began to recognize that not everyone was satisfied living on the Moor, but he wasn't about to let them leave.
However, luck wasn't on his side, and his own older brother Luke decided to break off and head into the woods with a few of his followers. They established a campsite of their own in the woods that was a few miles from where the original beachside camp was, and decided they would start making repeated visits to see if any more kids would like to go missing so they could leave their lives. Kevin was infuriated, but he knew he couldn't stop Luke, and thus left him to his own devices.
However, Luke's action sparked an idea in the rest. One of the young girls, Aurora, had found a small marshland that reminded her of her home before they moved. She went there for apparently no good reason: just to take a walk, to chase frogs, to enjoy the scenery. Her long walks weren't helping the group, and she constantly got punished for it, and so she started wondering if she should take the same direction as Luke did.
Eventually problems started arising between Luke and Kevin that caused Aurora to leave the moor, and that was Luke starting to stake a claim on the land that was supposed to be shared by all of them. He said that he wanted nothing to do with Kevin, and that he didn't want to be a weak leader, so he decided to set up a border to keep him away. Appalled by this, knowing they all came from the same roots and reason, tried to strike up a deal with him: but nothing worked. In fact, if any of Kevin's hunter-gatherers tried to hunt in the woods, Luke would instruct his own members to hunt them down and chase them out of their forest.
Aurora's group grew ever-stronger, and she eventually followed in Luke's footsteps once she caught news of how secure his people were. She started staking claims to the marshlands, since nobody else wanted it and she got no rebuke for it. However, Kevin saw a rising problem here: he didn't want borders to seperate them! They were all out here for the same reason - to get rid of their family ties and start anew, not cause fights among one another...
A new friend joined the mix, a young man named Ryan. He was excited to join their group until he saw how split it had become. He decided he might as well get a stake on a spot across from the moorland, filled with rivers that fed into the ocean surrounding the island and the territories. He started making runs with his sister, Rachel, to find people that would join them in their river-crossed homeland. Soon all four groups were pegged down, and they knew there was no way to get them all back together again - it was like a puzzle that was missing a piece, and that piece was another group, and a formal name.
Eventually they all grew up, and over the years Luke eventually found himself a rather illegitimate father of three. He was ecstatic to discover he was a father, but this didn't last long. His girlfriend, Sabrina, didn't want to raise her kids among the foliage, and decided to return to civilization - her family hadn't left yet, as they had started coming back to the island with every timeshare they had to look for her. However, when they discovered she was a mother, they immediately set her kids up for adoption. They gave two of the children - little girls - to their friends to foster, but they could never give away the third - the only son. Sabrina ran back into the forest and tried to look for her boyfriend, the father of her beloved kids whom she'd lost so suddenly, but she never got the chance. Her mother, in a fit of wild rage, set the forest on fire to look for her. Instead of bringing her daughter and grandchild back to society, she killed her daughter after a falling tree crushed and seared her. However, hidden in the cool folds of her clothes, their child still remained alive, rescued by his mother's body.
Kevin found the little boy first, having almost passed over him in the dusty rubble. He quickly scooped him up, wrapped him in his winter scarf, and carried him to Luke's home, hoping he would take the boy and raise him the way he wanted to. But instead of take the child, Luke entirely denied him, not wanting a reminder of his failure - he didn't want to face the grief of his fallen soulmate, and the eternal loss of his two daughters to total strangers...
Years passed, and Kevin kept the child with him. He decided to name the boy something unconventional: Thunder. His relationship to a storm of emotions, and the thunderous claps of the fallen tree that took his mother away, inspired the name: the fact that he survived despite the hardship of his early life. However, he was always told he was discovered in a violent thunderstorm. He grew up quickly and happily under Kevin, but it was clear he didn't like - nor did he fit into - the moorland. So he decided to break off while in his teenage years, and left the middle-aged Kevin with some of his best friends and peers to make that final piece in the puzzle: his own group, in the forest just north of Luke's woodland territory.
Around this time, other kids were starting to find their place, and a new way of life was beginning to show through. Now kids weren't being named "normal" things, but rather nature-related things. They saw the nature around them as sacred, seeing as it saved them from their terrifying home lives and gave them all a new start. So names that pertained to plants, animals, or weather started to erupt forth with great strength: Thunder's name may have started this trend. Soon, people were changing their own names to better match their childrens' names, and to break off any ties with their former lives.
Soon, a ranking system came up. The leaders were Kevin's best friend, Wind, Luke (Sky), Thunder, Ryan (River), and Aurora (Shadow). Next came the hunter-gatherers, or the Warriors; and then Apprentices, and Children. However, there was one more rank that needed to be brought up before things were entirely fitted: Healers. Wind's daughter, Moth, ended up fulfilling this role, and soon other Healers discovered their talents and became the official healers of their own group.
Kevin eventually got an illness and slowly started dying of it, much younger than people in civilization died. His last wish was to have a meeting, under the Full Moon, with those he used to live with. So it was; under the closest Full Moon, all of them arrived. He told everyone to keep the peace as long as possible, and to keep communication wide open as long as possible. When he looked at the sky, he watched a few stars streak across the sky with excited vigor: Five. Exactly five stars. He suddenly looked back down and gave each of his comrades their new names: Windstar, Skystar, Thunderstar, Riverstar, and Shadowstar. He then said that each of them needed a name for their groups, but they all needed the same ending to show that they all had the same roots, and so they would never forget where they started no matter what. So they named their Clans after themselves: WindClan, SkyClan, ThunderClan, RiverClan and ShadowClan.
Generations passed, and the Leaders kept visiting under the Full Moon in Kevin's honor and memory. They started bringing trusted Healers with them just in case, and soon Warriors started sneaking along. Down the line, the scene of Kevin's death was known as the first Gathering the Clans ever had.
that way members that don't have them will be surprised by anything that happens there! Once the other healers post up, I'll give out the password>>