TigerClan (modern)

The modern TigerClan appears only in The Darkest Hour. It began as an alliance between RiverClan and ShadowClan, which Tigerstar created in his attempts to take over the forest once and for all.

The Darkest Hour

 * An alliance formed between ShadowClan and RiverClan because of the leader Leopardstar's affection towards Tigerstar, and the two joined at Tigerstar's instigation to form TigerClan. However, it was Tigerstar's Clan, ShadowClan, that held most of the power; a few ShadowClan warriors were left at the RiverClan camp permanently, where they did little work for Leopardstar's Clan, instead keeping an eye on them. There, Tigerstar built a mound of bones known as the Bonehill where he addressed the joint Clan, in an imitation of the Highrock of his former Clan, ThunderClan.


 * Tigerstar soon began a purge of half-Clan cats; he pitted the underfed Stonefur, former deputy of RiverClan, against Darkstripe, a traitor to ThunderClan who left it to follow Tigerstar to ShadowClan. Despite being better-fed and more rested, Darkstripe was nearly defeated by Stonefur when Tigerstar's deputy Blackfoot intervened, killing Stonefur. Though they planned to do the same to Stonefur's sister Mistyfoot, and the kits of Graystripe and Silverstream, Stormpaw and Featherpaw, a trio party from ThunderClan consisting of its leader, Firestar, Graystripe, and the loner Ravenpaw rescued the cats before TigerClan could do so, narrowly escaping a group of the merged Clan's cats on their way back to ThunderClan territory. Tigerstar was undaunted, though, and allied with BloodClan, a group of cats who lived in Twolegplace in hopes of forcing his enemies out of the forest or into TigerClan.


 * Tigerstar didn't count on BloodClan's leader, Scourge, though. Scourge killed Tigerstar when he attacked him, attempting to make him obey his order to attack the Clans. With the loss of their leader, TigerClan was finished. Firestar persuaded Leopardstar, the Clan's new leader, to join her forces with his newly-formed LionClan to battle BloodClan, now attempting to drive all the cats from the forest and take it for themselves. With the death of Scourge at the claws of Firestar and the rout of BloodClan, LionClan disbanded, and the state of the four Clans returned to normal.