Problems with Starclan by Wolfwing

Wolfwing points out some things about the afterlives in the Warrior Cats universe.

Okay, so today we are going to look at all of the problems with Starclan and the Dark Forest, since there are a lot.

Right now, this is basically the rotation of Starclan:

The warrior cat is born
The warrior cat dies
The warrior cat goes to starclan
The warrior cat fades away when everyone forgets them, OR they get murdered by a ghost or living cat (Depending on the situation)
The warrior cat is ripped from all its memories, feelings, and soul and they get shoved into the body of a new living cat.

Given what has happened in the books before, this makes no sense.

On a surface level, its a little harsh, but it makes some sense. But looking at the books and the way things are written it just doesn’t work.

For example, cats like Skystar are still kicking, but Mapleshade is fading away. The thing that makes this weird is that in the books it doesn’t specify if the cats that remember you have to be alive or not, and if they have to be alive, then cats like Rainwhisker or Shrewpaw might not have made it to Starclan at all. If this is true, then Starclan would be a lot smaller and only cats like Firestar and Tallstar would be there. In any series past The Prophecies begin, cats like Whitestorm would probably have faded away by now, which begs the question why they are still there. And, if the cats that remember them don’t have to be living, then literally no one in starclan would be fading away because all of their family and friends are there to remember them. This is also, again, confusing with Mapleshade since Crookedstar, Appledusk, and her kits would have remembered her. In my opinion, fading should be scrapped completely, but I do think that the ghosts being able to be murdered if they are in the physical world is a nice touch.

What’s also odd is the fact that ghosts being able to murder each other is that it wasn’t a plot point before Omen of the Stars, and the only reason they added it was to get rid of extra love interests like Spottedleaf. This isn’t a great reason to add something this major to the books in my opinoin… but I’m not going to sit here and criticize the authors, since that isn’t the topic.

The reincarnation thing is weird also. You are ripping a cat from their memories and past just to shove into a new body. And what about all the cats that knew them before? I think that reincarnation would be better if it was a choice.