Warrior Code & Herb List

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Warrior Code

• 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.
  
  
  
• One should never hunt or trespass on another Clan's territory.
  Punishment: most cats are attacked if found.
  
  
  
• 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.
  Punishment: usually no food for the rest of the day.
  
  
  
• Prey is killed only to be eaten. Give thanks to StarClan for its life.
  
  
  
• A kit must be at least six moons old to become an apprentice.
  
  
  
• Newly appointed warriors will keep a silent vigil for one night after receiving their warrior name.
  
  
  
• A cat cannot be made deputy without having mentored at least one apprentice.
  
  
  
• The deputy will become Clan leader when the leader dies or retires.
  
  
  
• After the death or retirement of the deputy, the new deputy must be chosen before moonhigh.
  
  
  
• 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 the Clans at this time.
  
  
  
• Boundaries must be checked and marked. Challenge all trespassing cats.
  
  
  
• No warrior may neglect a kit in pain or in danger, even if that kit is from a different Clan.
  
  
  
• The word of the Clan leader is the warrior code.
  
  
  
• 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.
  
  
  
• A warrior rejects the soft life of a kittypet.
  
  
  
• The Clan is to be fed before any individual cat.
  Punishment: usually, the offending warrior gets no prey for a day.
  
  
  
• The safety of the Clan is more important than that of any individual cat.
  
  
  
• Each Clan has specific borders.
  
  
• Punishment: usually, a conflict or battle will take place regarding the boundary.
  
  
  
• Prey is not to be stolen from another Clan's territory.
  
  
  
• Clan borders are not to be crossed (unless of special occasions going to Highstone/Moonpool, important things like when Riverclan went to Thunderclan for Silverstream and Graystripe's kits.)
  Punishment: The crosser can be attacked by a border patrol.
  
  
  
• A Gathering lasts as long as the moon is highest in the sky.
  
  
  
• There is a truce during the Gathering.
  Punishment: Clouds will cover the moon, showing Starclan's anger.
  
  
  
• Under no circumstances may the truce be broken.
  
  
  
• Medicine cats may not fall in love nor have kits.
  Punishment: The cat, if female, will be forced to give up her kits.
  
  
  
• Cats may not fall in love with nor have kits with cats from other Clans.
  
  
  
• Kits must be at least six moons old to be an apprentice.
  
  
  
• Kits may not leave the camp without permission.
  Punishment: Depends on mother or father; the offending kit usually must stay in the nursery.
  
  
  
• However, depending on the severity, kits' apprenticeship may be delayed.
  
  
  
• Kits may not learn to hunt until they are apprenticed.
  Punishment: usually, the kit will have to stay in the nursery.
  
  
  
• Apprentices must accompany the leader to Highstones/the Moonpool as a part of their training.
  
  
  
• Newly made warriors must sit vigil for their first night and guard the camp in silence.
  
  
  
• Warriors may not kill in cold blood.
  Punishment: the cat may be exiled.
  
  
  
• Warriors must show compassion.
  
  
  
• A deputy must be chosen before moonhigh of the previous deputy's resignation or death.
  
  
  
• To be a deputy a cat must have had an apprentice.
  
  
  
• Warriors may not attack a medicine cat.
  
  
  
• Cats have free passage to the Highstone/Moonpool.
  
  
  
• There may be no more nor less than four Clans in the forest.
  
  
  
• Strangers should be driven from a Clan's territory.
  
  
  
• Cats should show mercy to cats who ask for help.
  
  
  
• Warriors do not fight to kill; they fight to prove their strength and defend their territory.
  
  
  
• Cats must stay within two tail-lengths from the lake on the way to Gatherings/Moonpool
  
  
  
• Female leaders and deputies may not mate. They may have mates, but having kits interferes with leader and deputy responsibilities.
  Punishment: the she-cat may be forced to give up her kits, or her duties until she can perform them.

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Medicine Cat Herbs

• Poppy seeds - used to make a cat very sleepy and to ease pain
  
  
  
• Cobwebs - used to stop bleeding
  
  
  
• Feverfew - used to cool feverish cats and treat head pain
  
  
  
• Lavender - cures fever
  
  
  
• Borage leaves - used to treat fevers and helps nursing mothers with their milk supply
  
  
  
• Dock leaves - used to sooth scratches; can also make a cat's coat slippery; can be used as a surface for vomiting.
  
  
  
• Marigold - leaves used to treat infection and heal wounds and sores
  
  
  
• Horsetail - used to treat infected wounds
  
  
  
• Burdock root - used to treat infections, especially rat bites
  
  
  
• Chervil root - used to treat infections
  
  
  
• Wild garlic - rolling in this can help to keep out infection
  
  
  
• Dried Oak Leaves - collected during leaf-fall; stops infection
  
  
  
• Coltsfoot - used to treat kittencough
  
  
  
• Catnip (also called catmint) - used to treat whitecough and greencough; can help to relax a cat
  
  
  
• Chickweed - used to help treat greencough
  
  
  
• Tansy - used to treat coughs
  
  
  
• Thyme - used to calm a cat
  
  
  
• Chamomile - used to calm a cat
  
  
  
• Dandelion (leaves) - used to calm a cat
  
  
  
• Juniper berries - used to treat bellyache, and give strength to recovering cats
  
  
  
• Chervil - used to treat bellyache
  
  
  
• Watermint - used to treat bellyache
  
  
  
• Daisy leaves - used to treat aching joints
  
  
  
• Goldenrod - used in a poultice to treat aching joints and stiffness; can also be used for severe injuries.
  
  
  
• Ragwort leaves - used alongside juniper berries in a poultice to treat aching joints, sores, or most other hide or muscle retinas, such as scratches, bruises, and broken bones
  
  
  
• Comfrey - used to treat broken bones
  
  
  
• Nettle (leaves) - used to treat swelling
  
  
  
• Wild Basil - used to treat paw problems
  
  
  
• Poison Ivy (leaves) - used on cracked paw pads
  
  
  
• Celandine - used to treat ailments of the eyes
  
  
  
• Snakeroot - used to counter poison
  
  
  
• Nettle (seeds) - used to counter poison
  
  
  
• Honey - used to treat sore throats; can also be used in poultices to sooth injuries.
  
  
  
• Mouse bile - used to remove ticks from a cat's coat
  
  
  
• Yarrow - used to make a cat vomit and expel poisons from the body, used mostly when cats have eaten something poisonous.
  
  
  
• Broom - used in poultices for broken legs.
  
  
  
• Catchweed - used to help protect freshly-applied poultices by sticking them over the area. Green and fluffy seeds.
  
  
  
• -Other Plants-
  
  Deathberries (yew) - of no medicinal value; bright scarlet berries that, when ingested, can easily kill a cat if they are not quickly enough expelled from the cat's body; called night-seeds by the Tribe.
  
  
  
• Nightshade - of no medicinal value; is poisonous.
  
  
  
• Holly berries - of no medicinal value; poisonous like deathberries.
  NOTE: Deathberries are also known as deadly nightshade.

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Warrior Code found at www.warriorswish.net/
Medicine Cat Herb List giving by Ruin at stonefall.proboards84.com/index.cgi
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