Warrior Code

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Warrior Code as written in Warriors Field Guide: Secret of the Clans:

1. Defend your Clan, even with your life. You may have friendships with cats from other Clans, but your loyalty must remain to your Clan, as one day you may meet them in battle.

2. Do not hunt or trespass on another Clan's territory.

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.

4. Prey is killed only to be eaten. Give thanks to StarClan for its life.

5. A kit must be at least six moons old to become an apprentice.

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.

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 te night. There shall be no fighting among Clans at this time.

11. Boundaries must be checked and marked daily. Challenge all trespassing cats.

12. No warrior may neglect a kit in pain or danger, even if that kit is from a different Clan.

13. The word of the Clan leader is the warrior code.

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.

15. A warrior rejects the soft life of a kittypet.

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Our Additions the Warrior Code as Observed in the Warriors Series

1. Obey StarClan.

2. Be loyal to your Clan and put them before all else or any individual cat.

3. Kits and extremely young apprentices cannot go to Gatherings.

4. Respect your elders.

5. Do not share Clan secrets.

6. Do not mate with a cat outside your Clan, whether it be a loner, rogue, kittypet or cat from another Clan. The exception is if the leader allows a cat to join their Clan (as was the case for Millie and Daisy).

7. Cats on the way to Moonstone must be granted safe passage.

8. Kits under six moons may not leave camp or hunt.

9. Apprentices can not have kits.

10. All apprentices must visit Moonstone once and sit vigil outside before they become warriors.

11. Only leaders and medicine cats may touch the Moonstone.

12. When a clan-mate dies, those cats closest to him or her will sit vigil beside their body for the night before the burial.

18. Queens who have kits in the nursery can not be made deputy.

19. Deputies are temporarily demoted from their deputyship if they become pregnant, until the kits are apprenticed.

21. The new leader must travel to the Moonstone to be accepted by StarClan and receive his or her nine lives.

22. Leaders may never speak of their leadership ceremony in StarClan unless it is with the medicine cat.

23. Attacking a medicine cat is forbidden.

24. Medicine cats must not fight unless they are defending themselves.

25. Medicine cats choose a path of solidarity. They may not have kits or mates.