Jayfeather

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Mother: Crowpool

Father: Leaffeather

Adopted Mother: Bramblestar

Adopted Father: Squirrelflight

Brothers: Hollyleaf and Cinderheart

Half-Brother: Heathertail

Half-Siblings: Two unnamed kits

Despite being born blind, able to see only in her dreams, Jayfeather was confident in her ability to also navigate her world when awake. She shared her littermates' courage and curiosity, which led to an adventure with fox cubs that nearly took all of them to Starclan prematurely. Jaypaw saw no reason why she couldn't train to be a warrior alongside them, and she was bitter and angry when Sandstar insisted on apprenticing her to Cloudtail, the one-eyed warrior, in the hope that she could help the blind apprentice become a warrior too. After her disastrous first battle and a dream visit from Spottedleaf, Thunderclan's former medicine cat, Jaypaw realized that it was her destiny to become a medicine and was apprenticed to Crowpool. Her memory for herbs and her connection with Starclan made her unusually gifted from the beginning, but Jaypaw still chafed at what she saw as a second-best future, limited to the confines of the territory.

She found freedom by walking in other cats' dreams, which is how she learned about the prophecy Sandstar had received so many moons ago. The discovery that she was expected to have more power than Starclan gave Jaypaw the confidence to challenge her ancestors and also to interfere with the destiny of the Tribe of Rushing Water in the mountains. Jaypaw learned from their ancestors, the Tribe of Endless Hunting, that something dark and terrible loomed for all of the Clans - and that the chance of survival depended on her and her littermates.

In addition to her many moons of influence and care over her Clan as Thunderclan's skilled, if prickly, medicine cat, Jayfeather's destiny became entangled with that of the mountain cats when she walked with the Ancient Clan cats, who had once lived beside the lake, as a long-ago sharpclaw named Jay's Wing. She fell in love with Half Moon and helped guide the cats to the mountains when their home by the lake was threatened. Knowing that she had to return to her own Clan, many seasons and fox-lengths away, Jayfeather made Half Moon the first ever Teller of the Pointed Stones for the mountain cats and gave to him the seeds of a faith in something more than what the cats could see around them - a faith that would be passed on for every generation to come.

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