The Elder Tales Compendium

Stories for queens to tell their kits and elders to tell their Clan. Take real events that happened on WCC beyond living memory of the current generation, twist the truth, then twist it a lot. Gross exaggerations are part of what makes it fun. Share your tales here for the rest of the site to use whenever they want to spin a story.

Examples
A forbidden cross-clan romance that got discovered? Twist it into a Romeo & Juliet type love story.
A serial murderer who got caught red-pawed? Now they're a monstrous rogue that devoured kits every sunrise, killed on a whim, with the strength of a badger and the ferocity of a fox! They gobbled up kits who didn't go to bed when their mothers told them to, grr!
A great warrior in their day who died heroically? Elders tell stories about how they wrestled monsters into submission and fought off whole Clans by themselves and could leap from Highstones to Twolegplace with a single jump!
Or major events, like the Dark Forest plot, so the legend lives on long after all the cats involved have passed on to StarClan.

Deomilites plot
Reality
A band of rogues invade the forest to cleanse the Clans in the name of their religion. Several Clans are driven from their camps until they unite around a rogue's plan and ambush the invaders at Fourtrees.
Tale
Demon rogues the size of dogs, with fearsome rows of teeth and tusks like boars! Amalric, the legendary trickster rogue avenging his sister's death, earning his warrior name as he dies! Fourtrees flowing red with blood! Sagestar flinging their dark monster king off the Great Rock to impale him on the horns of devils below, Lionstar and Froststar at his side! Noble Fallencloud! Brave Stormstar! Flamestar rescuing SkyClan's last hope, Silentpaw, from the claws of beasts! Jackie Chan was there!
My favorite game with topics like this is counting all the future leaders.

SkyClan plot
Reality
An evil witch with terrible knowledge of the future tries to lead the Clans astray! She cannot be harmed by claws and everyone who touches her is burned! Silentstar returns home with SkyClan at her back! Ferocious battles!
Tale
An evil witch—...! Wait...

Reality

Frozenflame grew old and decided to retire and give way to a more energetic and young warrior.

Tale

Frozenflame fought a fox to save Darkstar and was injured almost fataly. Then StarClaj called him to them for his bravery.

Reality

Twistedkit got sick with kit-cough and was treated by Leafheart and Cindercloud.

Tale

A young kit was struck with a mysterious disease, cursed on her by the Dark Forest! On the border of Starclan, two legendary medicine cats heroically saved her!

Reality:
The RiverClan camp flooded, and they were forced to move to Sunningrocks until the water receded.

Tale:
A great flood, sent by the Dark Forest, swept over RiverClan, as high as the trees! Countless cats drowned! Kits saved from the brink of death heroic warriors! Dens flattened! Then, brave Fishstar lead her Clan to safety, saving them all from the freezing, unforgiving water, but sacrificed a life in the process!

Reality:
Ivyfall goes half-blind by saving kits from a fox.

Tale:
Ivyfall, the noble deputy of RiverClan, fought off a horde of foxes, all on her own, to save and entire nursery full of tiny, helpless kits! She slaughtered them all, but one fox slashed their paw across her face, and she went half-bind!

Reality

Smokepelt attacked Frogpaw on a border skirmish and broke his jaw.

Tale

The blood-thirsty deputy, darkened and sadened by all the losses in hjs mother's life, decided to take the life of Fishstar's own son, and managed to break his jaw.

RiverClan stories XD

Reality

Smokepelt was a young deputy with anger issues and maims apprentices.

Tale

Smokepelt was a true saint, protecting his clan from the growing forces of evil and overly populated fish eating, ScumClan.

Reality:

Dogs attacked WindClan camp and were beat off.

Tale:

A whole Clan of bloodthirsty dogs invaded WindClan's camp, looking for kits to devour. A few brave warriors drove them back single-pawed, making the moor grass red with the dogs' blood. They turned tail and fled all the way to Starfall territory.


Reality:

Twoleg traps on SC territory trapped and damaged many cats, and Magpiewing was taken and neutered by Twolegs.

Tale:

Evil Twolegs hid monsters in the marshy grass of ShadowClan territory, hoping to wipe out every cat in the forest. A hunting patrol got stuck in them, breaking their feet and twisting their paws. They were all rescued by Thrushstar and brave young Leopardfang, except for Magpiewing, who was stolen and mutilated by the vicious Twolegs. However, he managed to escape and return moons later.

Reality:

During a border fight, Hawkpaw accidentally bit down on Squirrelpaw on the neck, muting her.

Tale

An evil Shadowclan cat, secretly a Dark Forest cat seeking vengeance on the Clans, attacked a patrol of innocent Windclan cats, willing to kill! A brave apprentice Squirrelpaw fought hard, but he clamped his jaws the size of a tiger's down on her neck! Just as she was about to die, Starclan brought her back, but they cannot save her voice with her!

Reality:

Moonpaw jumped into the swamp to help save Hazepaw but died

Tale:

The almighty Moonpaw flew across the lake alongside the rest of of her clan. The maiden Hazepaw was in need of help so she freed her admirer from the prison and they started fighting the swamp monsters until Moonpaw the Mighty was pulled into the prison herself. ShadowClan tried as hard as they could to prevent her from being captured but failed. StarClan called for this might leader to join them and lead them throughout the rest of time itself.

It's Hazepaw the insane maiden with depression
Reality:Hazeflight and Eagleheart had a forbidden romance.They even had kits!Unfortunately their forbidden romance was discovered
Tale:When Hazeflight was just an apprentice she met Eaglepaw.Despite the fact he was from SkyClan the beautiful silver she-cat couldn't help crushing on the handsome dappled tom.Eventually they met each other across the border and they both admitted their feelings for each other.Hazeflight:And then they both Nuzzled each other and groomed each other...*sigh*.Kits:Mum,ewww that's gross!Hazeflight:Well,you won't be saying that later on...Eventually Hazeflight and Eagleheart had kits and there names were Hollykit,?kit and ?kit.Hollykit went with her handsome father to SkyClan and the others...Well I don't know yet!Sadly though their forbidden romance was discoveredand all of ShadowClan was reminded that Hazeflight was really just a rogue trying to live a clan life.The end!

Reality

Shadowclan was decimated by the Thunderclan, Riverclan, and Windclan over the wrongdoings of Soulfang murdering one cat of each clan (except Windclan) and Cormorantpelt catnapping a Windclan apprentice.

Shadowclan's Tale

The three clans destroyed Shadowclan long ago because they were envious of how well the clan was doing and wanted to make sure that they did not stay that way. They were not victorious in destroying Shadowclan's pride, however, and Shadowclan is still wonderful and great and the other clans are more jealous than ever.

Other Clans' Tales

All of Shadowclan is evil and filled with murderous rogues who will kill as soon as they find any reason to attack. In order to stop this evil clan, Thunderclan, Riverclan, and Windclan got together to stop their forces and cleanse them of their sins.

Reality

A sickness from a random puddle infects RiverClan. The medicine cats cured the sickness after a while.

Tale

An innocent looking puddle in RiverClan territory, was cursed by the dark forest with a terrible illness! The illness got inside almost all of RiverClan! But the medicine cats, gifted with the power of StarClan themselves, heroically cured the vicious disease and the clan was saved!

Reality
A selfish she-cat named Mapleclaw who thinks herself above all else becomes deputy. After a flood runs though the RiverClan camp, she believes it as a sign from StarClan that the current leader, Reedstar, is unfit to rule. So, she attacks him in surprise during a hunting patrol and throws him into the gorge in an attempt to get rid of him. Becomes Maplestar but is forbidden her nine lives from StarClan and shortly into her reign, Reedstar shows up and kills her - sending her to the Dark Forest.

Tale
An evil she-cat who is an agent of the Dark Forest manages to become deputy of RiverClan after making many cats fall under her sway. She causes a horrible flood to sweep though RiverClan in an attempt to destroy it but fails thanks to the heroic efforts of the noble warriors of the Clan. The great leader Reedstar finds out and tries to kill her but thanks to her dark power, she overpowers him and tries to send him to his death in the gorge but StarClan themselves save him. She takes over the Clan, getting her nine lives from the Dark Forest themselves but before she can destroy RiverClan, Reedstar appears and with all of StarClan at his side, he kills the foul Maplestar in a single blow - stripping her of all of her lives and saving RiverClan.

Reality:
Blacktwig loses nearly all of his children and becomes super sad.

Tale:
"I lost my children... but I remained strong! I kept through, all for you and totally didn't cry, not even once."

Reality:
After realizing that what he had been doing was wrong and switching sides, Scorchfrost secretly rises a mini-army under Treestep’s nose to fight the Dark Forest, conformed of himself, Gentlenose, Stormpaw, Tulipheart, Blizzardshine, Blazingpaw and Sedgewhisker. Sedgewhisker, however, fell off a tree during a windy night and died because of the fall. The rest of the group, which was named “StarClan Avengers” fought alongside the rest of the StarClan loyal cats during the last fight.

Tale:
On a great act of unbelievable bravery and willpower, the cat known as Scorchfrost managed to get free from the ferocious claws of the Dark Forest who had attempted to brainwash the great warrior to make him part of their twisted army! In secret he gathered those cats that just like him had managed to avoid falling on the Dark Forest’s blood soaked claws, Gentlenose, Stormpaw, now Stormstrike, Tulipheart, Blizzardshine, Blazingpaw, now Blazingleap, and Sedgewhisker, to fight off those fox hearted monsters, the name of the group… “StarClan Avengers”!

Blessed and trained by StarClan themselves, they got ready for the final battle, but the Dark Forest managed to discover one of them before time! Brave Sedgewhisker, on the top of a tree during a dark night, was forced to fight alone several ghosts sent by the awful cats he had been trained to fight! After defeating ghost after ghost, Morningstar, leader of the Dark Forest himself, decided to engage him in battle! Sedgewhisker would’ve won if the dark leader wouldn’t had sent a strong blow of wind just as he was almost defeated, throwing the warrior off the tree with his dirty trick. With several broken bones and bleeding after the fall, Sedgewhisker was forced to face yet another wave of ghosts on the forest floor! He fought until sunrise, but in the end the bloodthirsty cats of the Dark Forest came out victorious!

During the last battle at Fourtrees, the remaining cats from the group finally revealed themselves! Mocking them for the death of Sedgewhisker, the Dark Forest cats tried to bring their spirits down as they surrounded them, but between the trees, the dead warrior made a triumphal appearance with his pelt full of stars! They fought with the bravery of LionClan, the speed of LeopardClan and the strength of TigerClan! There was no stopping them as they fought hundreds of wicked ghosts all on their own, keeping them for reaching those they loved even if that meant putting their own lives at risk! The foul putrid blood of the ghosts they slayed was enough to cover your paws as you stood!

They were tired, deep wounds covering their whole bodies, their pelts crimson red! But they never retreated, never took a rest, knowing they carried their clans over their bloody shoulders! It wasn’t until the very last ghost fell defeated under their sharp claws that they looked up and witnessed the glorious moment when the leaders and clanmates they had been defending from the waves of ghosts threw the true leader of the Dark Forest back to his murky prison! We owe them so much and we must never forget their heroic actions that were key to our victory against the Dark Forest so many moons ago!

Long and good life to those that are still within us! Honor and glory to those that now look at us from their well-deserved place between the night skies! Scorchfrost, Gentlenose, Stormstrike, Tulipheart, Blizzardshine, Blazingleap, Sedgewhisker! Remember those names! The names of those who never strayed from the right path even during the darkest times! The names of those whom many of us owe our life! The name of those that fought against the Dark Forest and won!