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A Clan meeting is an event held in the Clan camp when a Clan leader convokes the Clan members to share important information with them.[1]

Purpose[]

A Clan meeting has one or more of the following purposes:

  • Announcing important events or sharing information, such as relating what happened at a Gathering, such as Firestar sharing the news of the Gathering when RiverClan proclaimed that the lake was theirs.[2]
  • Conduct a ceremony, such as appointing new apprentices, warriors and deputies, confirming the retirement of elders, or changing the name of a cat, such as Firestar calling a Clan meeting for the appointment of Lionblaze as a warrior.[3]
  • Warn Clan members about dangers, such as the fox traps, a flood, or an impending attack, such as Firestar calling a Clan meeting from the results of the battle with WindClan and ShadowClan.[4]
  • Bring the Clan members together to discuss an important matter, such as Leafstar calling the cats together to decide what to do about the Twoleg torturing cats.[5]

Procedure[]

Brackenfur: "Mousefur just called a Clan meeting."
Brambleclaw: "Mousefur called a meeting? Can she do that?"
Brackenfur: "She's done it."
Cloudtail: "Oh, good. More trouble. Just what we need."
—ThunderClan's confusion when the elder Mousefur calls a Clan meeting Sunset, page 235

Clan meetings have no fixed dates; a meeting can be called at any time, whenever the leader feels the need to do so.[6] It is the privilege of the Clan leader to convoke a meeting.[7] However, sometimes other Clan cats do it; for example if they feel that an important information or question must be brought to the Clan, such as Mousefur calling a meeting in Sunset,[8] or if the leader is not available, such as when Fireheart called a meeting in A Dangerous Path.[9]

To begin the meeting, the leader climbs to a high place, (such as the Highrock in the ThunderClan forest camp) where all cats gathered below can see and hear them well.[10] They open the meeting with the words "Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather here beneath the Highrock (or Highledge) for a Clan meeting".[1][2] The call is similar for the other Clans with the Clan leader calling the Clan together underneath a vantage point. RiverClan's call is different, and references those old enough to swim with "Let all cats old enough to swim gather to hear my words!".[11][12]

ShadowClan's call is "Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey join here beneath the Clanrock (Pinebranch) for a meeting!"[13][14] SkyClan's call is "Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey join here beneath the Rockpile (Highroot, Tallrock, Tallstump) for a Clan meeting!"[15][16] WindClan's call is "Let all cats old enough to catch prey gather beneath Tallrock for a Clan meeting."[17][18] On the rare occasions of Clan meetings in the Dark Forest, a leader calls out with these words: "Let all cats old enough to kill their own enemies gather here!"[19] Once having the attention of all cats, the leader passes the message or performs the required ceremony.[20]

Meeting locations[]

ThunderClan[]

In the forest territories

Highrock: A large boulder on top of the Clan leader's den.[1]

Highrock.RP

In the lake territories

Highledge: A ledge inside the ThunderClan gorge about half-way up the cliffside.[21]

When ThunderClan had to leave their camp temporarily due to a flood, they used a mudfall/mudslide for Clan meetings in their temporary camp.[22]

ShadowClan[]

In the forest territories

Clanrock: A large, smooth, lichen-covered boulder at the edge of the clearing opposite from the camp entrance. Another rock is propped against it, creating a sheltered half cave beneath it - the medicine cat den.[23][24]

Clanrock.EFS

In the lake territories

Pinebranch: A pine branch that hangs over the leader's den.[25] Clan leaders may also use a tree stump in the middle of the clearing to speak from.[26]

ShadowClanmeetingbranch

RiverClan[]

In the forest territories

Unnamed: Leopardstar addresses the Clan while standing on a large rock surrounded by a stream.[27]

Clan meeting.ASIR

In the lake territories

Highstump: A tree stump in the clearing.[12]

WindClan[]

In the forest territories

Tallrock: A jagged, dark, large granite boulder with the leader's den at the back of it.[28][17] It is encircled by a large, sandy crater called the Meeting Hollow.[28][17]

In the lake territories

Tallrock: A giant boulder, bigger than all the others.[29][18]

Tallrock
WindClan camp.WOC

SkyClan[]

In the forest territories

Unnamed: A gnarled thorn tree.[30]

In the gorge

Rockpile: A pile of boulders where the river appears.[31]

Rockpile.SS

In the lake territories

Highroot: A tangle of cedar roots near the leader's den.[15]
Tallrock: A massive boulder in SkyClan's new camp blotched with yellow lichen three tail-lengths high.[16]
Tallstump: A stump in the clearing.[32]


Trivia[]

Author statements[]

  • Victoria Holmes explained that in the lake territories, RiverClan leaders sit on a hawthorn tree stump and ShadowClan's leaders stand on a fallen log.[33]

See also[]

Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Revealed in Into the Wild, page 33
  2. 2.0 2.1 Revealed in The Fourth Apprentice, page 36
  3. Revealed in Eclipse, page 311
  4. Revealed in Sunset, page 184
  5. Revealed in SkyClan's Destiny, page 264
  6. Revealed in SkyClan's Destiny, page 18
  7. Revealed in Sunset, page 237
  8. Revealed in Sunset, page 236
  9. Revealed in A Dangerous Path, page 97
  10. Revealed in Night Whispers, page 284
  11. Revealed in Crookedstar's Promise, page 53
  12. 12.0 12.1 Revealed in River, page 58
  13. Revealed in Yellowfang's Secret, page 14
  14. Revealed in Lost Stars, page 222
  15. 15.0 15.1 Revealed in River of Fire, page 30
  16. 16.0 16.1 Revealed in Lost Stars, page 15
  17. 17.0 17.1 17.2 Revealed in Tallstar's Revenge, page 24
  18. 18.0 18.1 Revealed in Crowfeather's Trial, page 35
  19. Revealed in The Forgotten Warrior, page 220
  20. Revealed in The Fourth Apprentice, page 37
  21. Revealed in Twilight, page 6
  22. Revealed in Bramblestar's Storm, chapter 20
  23. Revealed in Yellowfang's Secret, page 12
  24. Revealed in Yellowfang's Secret, page 29
  25. Revealed in Lost Stars, page 223
  26. Revealed in Outcast, page 125
  27. Revealed in A Shadow in RiverClan, page 91
  28. 28.0 28.1 Revealed in Tallstar's Revenge, page 7
  29. Revealed in Winds of Change, page 148
  30. Revealed in Cloudstar's Journey, chapter 8
  31. Revealed in Firestar's Quest, page 246
  32. Revealed in Veil of Shadows, page 41
  33. Revealed in Erin Hunter Chat 6
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