Polar Night: INTRODUCTION
Polar Night: A Warriors Roleplay, hosted on Discord, is an audition-based semi-literate Warrior Cats roleplay based in a fictional northern Scandinavian area called The Frozen Valley by the cats. WarrenClan and CavernClan, once a single Clan, now wars for their share of the valley.Due to the cats being placed in the Arctic Circle, they will experience polar nights and midnight suns. Their summers are three months long, while the rest of the year they are plunged into a dark, menacing winter. The severe cold has granted them natural mutations, usable by any prospective member, such as lighter-colored pelts, thicker fur, larger paws, and smaller, tufted ears.
Polar Night: CURRENT STORY
ARC 1: A CLAN DIVIDED
WarrenClan swells like snowmelt as warriors spill out of every tunnel. They are forced into the crannies of their underground sanctuary, each cat abreast of their peer. Disease and starvation run rampant. At some point, WarrenClan transformed from a home into a prison.Weepingstar, green as a sprout and son of Charstar, ascends. Opinions are split down the middle: while many support his reign, many undermine his leadership capabilities. He is the son of a paranoid murderer, after all - who would blame them?And then... WarrenClan frays.Rebels leave their generational home and strike out on their own, calling themselves CavernClan. As leafbare envelops the valley, the Clans must choose. The Frozen Valley used to be WarrenClan's, and WarrenClan's alone. Now, friend is pitched against former friend, and CavernClan must fight for their place in the valley before it is too late.It is on the back of every cat's mind: Will they survive the polar night?
Naming Conventions
DISALLOWED:
- Sacred words (Polar, Moon, Sun)
- Most compound words (firefly, dragonfly, bluebird, etc.)
- 3 or more syllables with some exceptions
- Complex or rarer words (glace, nocturnal, verdant, etc.)
- Extreme or "violent" (crusher, breaker, blood, etc.)
- Scientific names ("douglas" in douglas fir, "bloody" in "bloody dogwood," "burnet" in "burnet rose," etc.)
- Animals not native to northern ScandinaviaWe follow traditional Clan naming traditions found in the canon series. Names should be spelt as Prefixsuffix, not Prefix'Suffix, PrefixSuffix, or just prefix (when roleplaying). Names that have the same letter between prefix and suffix can be dashed, such as Rowan-nose or Wolf-frost, but try to avoid these.
Mutations & Disabilities
Natural, canon Clan mutations:
- Larger, webbed paws
- Longer double-coated fur
- Larger bodies, generally taller (16" MAX)
- Smaller tufted earsMutations and disabilities should be written with care and properly researched. Some mutations don't need to be approved (i.e. curly fur, heterochromia, syndactylism/polydactylism, bobtails, deafness), but any not on this list will need to be approved in our design-and-name-check channel. To prevent abuse of disabilities and mutations, we also have a shop item that requires purchase.Mutations that we expressly deny are breeds that lose fur such as lykois, sphinxes, wolf cats, etc.Within character backstories, we do not allow mentions of sensitive topics such as
Accessories
Accessories are okay as long as cats can naturally make them. Crude stilts, rock/bone/flower necklaces, bones, feathers, flora, etc. are okay. However, we do not allow things like sweaters, skulls on heads, or feathers behind the ears/on heads.If you want to educate yourself on why we do not allow feathers on the heads of characters, please read this document.
Colors
We allow any colors in Polar Night, but we would prefer if players used light-pelted cats due to the environment the cats live in.We don't allow geometric designs or characters inspired by other fandoms. Cats are okay to have bright, unnaturally colored accents, but this should not make up the whole design. For example, you could have a red streak on a bird-inspired design, but the entire cat shouldn't be saturated red.We are okay with unnaturally colored eyes, but they shouldn’t be too saturated, and sclera should be white if visible. Cats can have “hair” but shouldn’t resemble human styles — essentially should pass as a scruff or a mane.Please see these diagrams that visualize our guidelines. We do not allow:
- Oversaturated eyes or black sclera (most colors okay though, like muted red)
- Saturated pelts (accents ok)
- Geometric patterns
- Stars (reserved for leaders and medicine cats)
WarrenClan
The Diligent & Dutiful
WarrenClan is composed of cats from all walks of life, open to those of varying religious views and opinions. These cats make their home within a hard-won mountain hare warren, situated under a sacred tree they dub “The Warren Tree.” Their home is malleable, able to be manipulated to create false tunnels and new exits, all the while being able to patch them up as if they had never existed.
LEADER
Weepingstar - a white tomcat with striking eyes. APPRENTICE: BarkpawDEPUTY
Bitterdraft - a silver-backed tabby tom with blue eyes.MEDICINE CAT
Crowquill - a large half-white half-brown tomcat with yellow eyes.WARRIORS
Scarletdream - a reddish brown and white mackerel tabby tom with taupe eyes.
Jaegerwing - a fat tabby she-cat with a brown pelt and heterochromia. Currently missing.
Morning-gaze - a fluffy grey and white cat with amber eyes.
Fawnfall - a freckled brown and white she-cat with pale green eyes.
Palemoth - a gray and brown she-cat with green eyes.
Ternslip - a frost gray tom-cat with teal eyes.APPRENTICES
Barkpaw - a black-and-brown tabby tom with yellow eyes.
Scatterpaw - a speckled brown tom with messy tangled fur and bright green eyes.ELDERS
XQUEENS/DENDADS
Ivybreath - a silver tom with white stripes and sage green eyes.KITS
CavernClan
The Proud & Flexible
CavernClan is a new Clan within the Frozen Valley. These cats have split from WarrenClan, exhausted from constant starvation, overpopulation, and rigidity. These cats make their home within an expansive cave, which becomes more dangerous the deeper you go. Their home is rigid, but this does not reflect the cats that live within, having molded the once cold and uninhabitable caverns into a home, warm and welcoming.
LEADER
Boltstorm - a gray tabby she-cat with white streaks through her coat like lightning.DEPUTY
Cherryveil - a handsome lynx-point tom with dusk eyes.MEDICINE CAT
Doewhisper - mostly-white tom with long curly fur and icy blue eyes.WARRIORS
Lemmingchirp - a calico she-cat with lime eyes.
Crystalsong - a dilute tortie she-cat with opal eyes.
Raincharm - a gray and ginger she-cat with different colored eyes.APPRENTICESELDERS
XQUEENS/DENDADSKITS
Moorkit - a skinny she-cat with dark, tangled fur and amber eyes.
ARTIST CREDIT
Names link to each artist's social media.raiyokin
Clan Icons, Colors & Patterns diagram, “Polar Night: A Warriors Roleplay” Logo
idrilfox
Polar Night banner
Aerwolf
Polar Night character template
Hannah Landesberger
Polar Night's Maps