Leaders Deputies and Highranks ✦ All ranks play an important role in the clans, but highranks need to be looked at extra closely. If your a highrank this is REQUIRED to read! (and follow the guidelines/rules!) ★LEADERS ▸Leaders handle ceremonies, major choices (of their clan), Clan direction, and highrank management. ▸They follow the clans 'vibe', culture and long term goals. ▸They host meetings, gatherings, patrol news, and emergency announcements. Note: Huge events, emergencies and big things will be passed by me or announced in the event project (which is active now that the clan has warriors) ⋆Duties⋆ •Leaders preform ceremonies (apprentice, warrior, name changes, demotions, exiles). •Make final decisions on territory, alliances, punishments, and disputes. • Oversee deputies and med cats. (and for that matter a lot of the entire clan) • Keep Clan activity steady through events ⋆Expectations/rules⋆ •Be active, especially in major events. •Must communicate with deputy and med cats regularly. •If your unavailable for a time let me know and deputy will take over while your gone. •If your going unactive-account deleting, leaving scratch - let us know right away and find a solution. (find a realistic death for your cat) •Your a leader- act like it. • No "Um...I don't know...Someone else decide for me..." Your going to make big choices follow what is most reasonable to your cat. •Be realistic, you can't make ghost badgers attack your camp or grow wings or be posessed by a demon. •When doing ceremonies use the proper words, ceremonies and links in notes/credits. •Again---Huge events are passed by me or announced in the event project! •Unless your cat is 'bad' or 'evil' (which also requires permission!) then don't exile cats unless your cat truly thinks they did something wrong or they did. (but cats cannot do evil things unless there cat has been allowed to be evil.) •Roleplay quality, being a leader this is important you cannot put little couple word responses, you have to use proper grammar, spelling etc and at least 300 characters long. Please do your best writing. ⋆Choosing Deputies⋆ A leader should choose a deputy not because someone asked them to be, not because their friends OOC, not because you feel bad for them and not randomly chosen. Leaders when there is need for a new deputy will be given 4-20 Deputy choices, those choices were choses from: ▸Roleplay Quality ▸XP/REP ▸The best experience for /everyone/ ▸Meeting of rules and expectations. ▸Age and mentoring Anything else you have questions about this rank? Let me know! DEPUTY ▸ Deputies manage patrols, daily Clan life, and warrior activity. ▸ They support the leader and step in when needed. Duties: • Organize hunting, border, scouting, and special patrols. • Assign tasks to warriors and check on apprentices. • Track activity and report issues to the leader. • Run minor ceremonies if the leader is absent. • Help maintain Clan structure. Expectations/Rules: • Must be very active. • Must be organized and communicative. • Must be approachable and fair. • Like leaders, do not make up events, be realistic, follows most leader rules. • Works with the leader, not against them. (unless your evil with permission) • Avoids favoritism in patrol assignments. ▸ Questions?
Medicine cats ▸ Med cats are healers, starclan messengers and overall very important to the clan. Duties: • Diagnose and treat injuries and illnesses. • Manage herb storage, gathering, and shortages. • Receive and interpret dreams, omens, and spiritual signs. (Please don't make them up and don't make major things without permission) • Assist with ceremonies and Clan starclan events. • Introduce visions or warnings. • Act as a neutral party during disputes. Expectations/rules: • Must be very active. • Players rely on med cats for healing and plot progression. • Herb shortages, plagues, and starclan events require presence. • Must remain calm, neutral, and fair. • No favoritism in treatment or starclan guidance. • Must communicate clearly about injuries, herbs, and visions. • Must collaborate with leaders and deputies on major plot arcs. • Must not force visions or outcomes on other players. Medicine Cat Apprentices: • Learn herbs, healing, and starclan • Assist with patient care and herb gathering. • Must be active and follow their mentor’s guidance. • May receive minor visions but should /not/ overshadow full medicine cats. [Note: Medicine cats will be healing a lot of cats, full med cats should be very active with their apprentice, med cats use foraging and med den making and other med cat projects, they make their own den if full med cat, they use herb list, they are active, they should have roleplay quality like the others.] ▸ Questions? ────────────────────────────────── General rules for all highranks: ▸Don't make up events ▸Be realistic ▸Be active ▸Get permission for big things and evil cats ▸Be Roleplay quality ──────────────────────────────────────── ✎INACTIVITY & RANK REMOVAL ✎ • Leaders, deputies, med cats, and highranks may be replaced if inactive. • Warnings are given unless absence is extreme. • Deputies may temporarily act as leader if needed. • Med apprentices may temporarily act as healer. • Highranks who ignore duties will be replaced. ────────────────────────────────── ✎ Links and Ceremonies! ✎ Warrior ceremony: Leader: I, (Leader), leader of (Name)Clan, call upon my warrior ancestors to look down on this apprentice(s). They have trained hard to understand the ways of your noble code, and I commend them to you as a warrior in their turn. Leader: (Apprentice), do you promise to uphold the warrior code and to protect and defend your Clan, even at the cost of your life? Apprentice: I do. Leader: Then by the powers of StarClan, I give you your warrior name. (Apprentice), from this moment on you will be known as (new warrior name). StarClan honors your (virtues), and we welcome you as a full warrior of (Clan). [Note: If theres a lot of apprentices just say Leader: I, (Leader), leader of (Name)Clan, call upon my warrior ancestors to look down on this apprentice(s). They have trained hard to understand the ways of your noble code, and I commend them to you as a warrior in their turn. ---at the start, skip the asking part and do this for each apprentice--- (Apprentice), from this moment on you will be known as (new warrior name). StarClan honors your (virtues), and we welcome you as a full warrior of (Clan).] The leader rests their muzzle on the apprentice's head, and the former apprentice licks the leader's shoulder The rest of the Clan then greets the new warrior by calling them by their new name The warrior will sit a silent vigil guarding the camp that night Apprentice ceremony: Leader: (Kit), you have reached the age of six moons, and it is time for you to be apprenticed. From this day on, until you receive your warrior name, you will be known as (new name, ending with the suffix "paw"). Your mentor will be (name of warrior or medicine cat). I hope (name of warrior or medicine cat) will pass down all they know on to you.[3] The leader calls up the warrior they have chosen as a mentor.[3] Leader: (Warrior), you are ready to take on an apprentice. You have received excellent training from (former mentor), and you have shown yourself to be (quality) and (quality). You will be the mentor of (apprentice), and I expect you to pass on all you know to (apprentice).[3] The mentor touches noses with the apprentice,[3] and the Clan greets the new apprentice by calling out their name.[4] After this, the apprentice will usually go greet their family,[4] or go see their mentor.[5] Med apprentice ceremony: https://warriors.fandom.com/wiki/Apprentice_ceremony Medicine cat ceremony: https://warriors.fandom.com/wiki/Medicine_cat_ceremony Deputy ceremony: https://warriors.fandom.com/wiki/Deputy_ceremony
