There is no leader of the Dark Forest. All the forces of evil are too chaotic to have a leader. No roleplayers are permitted to become the Dark Forest leader. The closest thing to a leader in these dark woods is a strange being simply known as HATRED. HATRED has a few minions that periodically appear to make the lives of the Dark Forest cats as miserable as possible. These minions were once living too, and they were evil. What sets them apart, however, is how much they relish the pain of others. Every twenty moons, HATRED may approach a random cat that interests it and ask them to be one of its minions. If this cat accepts, HATRED will give them a random power of chaos that can spell misery on another cat. If this cat declines, HATRED will give them a curse. HATRED’s pronouns are It/It’s, and HATRED has no gender. It’s name is all capitalized. Legend has it that if you worship HATRED and give it enough offerings (aka kills) it will come out of the shadows and and bless you by letting you return to the living in a new, shadowy body. These cats are known as Shadow-Cats. Beware them. They can possess any cat they wish, for they don’t have a physical form any more. Don’t worry, they’re really real anyways. There’s only two ever recorded, and they were both eventually rebanished to the Dark Forest by MossStar. Still. Lastly, HATRED doesn’t see itself as the Dark Forest leader. More like a creature created from all the hatred, more like a enforcer of pain and misery. More like a punishment.
