Polar Night: INTRODUCTION
Polar Night: A Warriors Roleplay is set in a fictional valley in north Scandinavia. Because they are placed in the Arctic Circle, the cats experience polar nights and midnight suns. Their summers are three moons long while the rest of the year they are plunged into a dark winter with scant prey. Because of the severe cold and fleeting warmth, the cats have developed lighter coats and thicker pelts.
Polar Night: CURRENT STORY
ARC 1: A CLAN DIVIDED
There is a rustle at the Clan entrance.The blizzard outside muffles the sound of something gently shoveling away the packed snow. You hear it: it is subtle and inconspicuous. You hear it even though you try so hard to squeeze your eyes and go back to sleep. It tickles the fur in your ears, it sends an uncomfortable shiver up your spine, and it has you twitching your tail in annoyance.Yes, you hear it, and you also hear a shrill, terrified shriek as the tunnels fill with fear-scent. What is it?!
WarrenClan swells like snowmelt as their warriors spill out of every tunnel. They are forced into the crannies of their underground sanctuary, each cat abreast of their peer. At some point, WarrenClan was no longer a home, now something humid and permeated with the stench of death.Weepingstar, green as a summer sprout and the son of Charstar, ascends. Opinions are split down the middle: while many support his reign, many undermine his capabilities to lead. He is the son of a paranoid murderer, after all - who would blame them?WarrenClan is running out of time to solve its overpopulation problem as its short summer begins. In the back of their minds, every soul in the Clan thinks the same thing: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.Mutations that we are expressly denying 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 Hungry and Divided
The warrens swell with overpopulation and reek of the putrid stench of death. It is common to stumble over a body in the tunnels - a cat gone cold with starvation... and the lack of prey in the cold winter months does not help. If Weepingstar doesn't act soon, you might be next. What side will you pick?
LEADER
Weepingstar - a white tomcat with striking eyes. APPRENTICE: OwlpawDEPUTY
Bitterdraft - a silver-backed tabby tom with blue eyes. APPRENTICE: ColdpawMEDICINE CAT
Crowquill - a large half-white half-brown tomcat with yellow eyes.WARRIORS
Luckywish - a calico she-cat with two different colored eyes.
Egretmask - an albino she-cat with lion-like fur and clear eyes.
Jaegerwing - a fat tabby she-cat with a brown pelt and heterochromia.
Morning-gaze - a fluffy grey and white cat with amber eyes.
Mooseridge - a brown and black tom with yellow eyes.
Cloverpool - a gray tabby tomcat with green eyes.
Fawnfall - a freckled brown and white she-cat with pale green eyes. APPRENTICE: Rainpaw
Palemoth - a gray and brown she-cat with green eyes. APPRENTICE: Barkpaw
Boltstorm - a gray tabby she-cat with white streaks through her coat like lightning. APPRENTICE: Quillpaw
Harebriar - a dilute tortoiseshell tom with different colored eyes.
Shiverstone - a senior gray-pelted tom with a torn ear and blue eyes. APPRENTICE: Scatterpaw
Ternslip - a frost gray tom-cat with teal eyes.
Cherryveil - a handsome lynx-point tom with dusk eyes.
Starlingloom - a tom-cat with dark marbled fur and violet eyes. APPRENTICE: Frostpaw
Darkfrost - a brown-and-cream tom with cobalt blue eyes.
Umbradusk - a black she-cat with a white face and blue eyes.
Ravensnarl - a black-colored she-cat with striking blue eyes. APPRENTICE: CrescentpawAPPRENTICES
Quillpaw - a scrawny gray-and-white she-cat with spiky fur and a short tail.
Owlpaw - a red-pointed she-cat with ticking and two different colored eyes.
Coldpaw - a white-furred she-cat with a bobbed tail and piercing amber eyes.
Barkpaw - a black-and-brown tabby tom with yellow eyes.
Wingedpaw - a gray-point she-cat with pale green eyes
Crescentpaw - a blue, black, and white tom with pale yellow eyes.
Scatterpaw - a speckled brown tom with messy tangled fur and bright green eyes.
Lemmingpaw - a calico she-cat with lime eyes.
Frostpaw - a white she-cat with gray points and blue eyes.
Rainpaw - A gray and ginger she-cat with different colored eyes.ELDERS
XQUEENS/DENDADS
Doewhisper - mostly-white tom with long curly fur and icy blue eyes.
Ivybreath - a silver tom with white stripes and sage green eyes.KITS
Moorkit - a skinny she-cat with dark, tangled fur and amber eyes.
Mistykit - a small white and gray tom with gray-blue eyes.
ARTIST CREDIT
Names link to each artist's social media.
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Clan Icons, Colors & Patterns diagram, “Polar Night: A Warriors Roleplay” LogoAerwolf
Polar Night cover art, Polar Night character templateHannah Landesberger
Polar Night's Maps