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1. Defend your Clan, even with your life. You may have friendships with cats from the other Clans, but your loyalty must remain to your Clan, as one day you may meet them in battle.
Rewrite: Defend your clan, even with your life. you may have relationships of any kind with cats from the other clans, but your loyalty must first go to your clan, as one day you may meet them in battle.
2. Do not hunt or trespass on another Clan’s territory.
Addition: Unless you have made a temporary agreement in times of scarcity.
3. Elders and kits must be fed before apprentices and warriors. Unless they have permission, apprentices may not eat until they have hunted to feed the elders.
Addition: Nursing, sick and injured cats must also be fed before apprentices and warriors.
4. Prey is killed only to be eaten. Give thanks to StarClan for its life.
Rewrite: Prey is killed only to be eaten. Respect their body, apologise for taking their life and thank StarClan.
5. A kit must be at least six moons old to become an apprentice.
Addition: weather permitting, kits over 3 moons may enter the territory with supervision and permission from the leader, deputy or medicine cats.
6. Newly appointed warriors will keep a silent vigil for one night after receiving their
warrior name.
7. A cat cannot be made deputy without having mentored at least one apprentice.
Addition: If the clan does not approve of the leader's choice of deputy, they may vote.
8. The deputy will become Clan leader when the leader dies or retires.
9. After the death or retirement of the deputy, the new deputy must be chosen
before moonhigh.
10. A gathering of all four Clans is held at the full moon during a truce that lasts for the night. There shall be no fighting among Clans at this time.
Rewrite: A gathering of all Clans is held at the full moon during a truce that lasts for the night. There shall be no fighting among Clans at this time.
11. Boundaries must be checked and marked daily. Challenge all trespassing cats.
Addition: If the tresspasser is seriously injured, sick, pregnant, young or old you must offer them help. If they are a kit, you must offer them a place in the clan.
12. No warrior may neglect a kit in pain or in danger, even if that kit is from a different Clan.
Addition: Or no clan.
13. The word of the Clan leader is the warrior code.
New rule 13: The leaders word may be challenged and voted on, should the leader break the warrior code their title must be revoked and they may be exiled.
14. An honorable warrior does not need to kill other cats to win his battles, unless they are outside the warrior code or it is necessary for self-defense.
Rewrite: A warrior must only kill other cats if necessary for self-defense or defense of another cat.
15. A warrior rejects the soft life of a kittypet.
Addition: A warrior welcomes former kittypets who reject that soft life.