End Tales Redtail Lore Dump

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Redtail is a End Tales character that won't appear for a while, but @_RedPaw_ , their original role-player, wanted to know some things about them as far as the story version goes, so here's a lore dump on all I have about her. Redtail was born as Redkit to Mudfur and Nosey, with her brother Bluekit. They were named simply because Nosey was new to the naming system of warriors. Their names would have otherwise been Paisley and Jacob. Nosey was a rogue born to Smiley and an unknown father. She is a black and white calico cat with sky blue eyes. Mudfur was born to Mapleleaf and (see bottom of notes and credits) with his sister Cinderpaw, who died as an apprentice, and his other sister Blossomtail, who later mated with a former kittypet. He is dark, reddish brown with dark, forest green eyes. Redkit and Bluekit are both tabbies, Redkit a dark ginger with her fathers forest green eyes and Bluekit a light gray with golden eyes from his grandmother, Smiley. Bluekit's gray is likely hailed from a recessive gene carried by his father, who got it from his mother, whose father was gray. So Bluekit got his color from his great-grandfather Boulderfoot. His eyes likely came from his grandmother Smiley. Redkit and Bluekit grew up with a fairly normal kithood. When apprenticed, Bluekit decided to train with the medicine cat Brambleheart as a medicine cat apprentice. Redpaw was apprenticed to Lichenfur. However, soon into the apprenticeship, Redpaw and Bluepaw realized that they had chosen the wrong paths, and so switched. Bluepaw pursued his path as a warrior under Lichenfur, and Redpaw took over as medicine cat apprentice under Brambleheart. One of the most prominent moments in her apprenticeship was towards the end of it, when she helped the warrior Livingpool deliver her kits. Livingpool had a long and hard kitting, and both her and the kit were on the edge of death. In fact, the kit was born not breathing. Brambleheart and others tried all that they knew, trying to get the kit to breathe. But it was Redpaw who came up with the idea that saved the kit. Taking the kit, she swung it from side to side, getting faster and faster until at last the kit yelped in distress. The kit was named Russetkit and later become Russetfeather. For her duties, Redpaw was named Redtail the next half-moon, as a tribute to her ancestor Snaketail, who was a murder victim. Seasons later, Brambleheart drowned in a flood that ravaged the FireClan camp, leaving Redtail as the sole medicine cat. She served under Swiftstar and Breezestar, and was very old by the time she took the kit Shallowkit to be her apprentice. She died a couple seasons after giving him the name Shallowstripe. She died of old age, peacefully, in her sleep.