Swiftstar (WC)

Swiftstar is a old, dark gray-black tom with green eyes and a long tail.

Firestar's Quest

 * Swiftstar is an ancient WindClan leader.


 * Swiftstar is complaining about wasting time, saying that the Gathering should start. He snorts that WindClan has better things to do than sit around waiting for cats who can't be bothered to come at the proper time. When he asks Cloudstar why SkyClan is late, Cloudstar doesn't reply. Swiftstar then remarks that it looks like Cloudstar brought his whole Clan, and is puzzled why. Cloudstar replies that it is true. After Cloudstar asks for territory, Swiftstar tells him that he can't just walk in and ask for territory, since they can barely feed their own Clans as it is.


 * After other leaders make remarks of their own, Swiftstar adds that only WindClan knows how to catch rabbits, and that there was nowhere on WindClan territory where SkyClan could make a camp. Swiftstar supports Redstar's suggestion that SkyClan should leave, somewhere far away so SkyClan can't steal another Clan's prey. Swiftstar argues with Larkwing, his medicine cat, about whether or not SkyClan's leaving is the will of StarClan.


 * Much later, Swiftstar appears with the other leaders: Redstar, Birchstar, and Dawnstar, the Clan leaders at the time of SkyClan's departure, during Leafstar's leadership ceremony. He tells Cloudstar that when he walked the forest he never told any cat he was sorry, but Swiftstar says it now; what the leaders did was wrong. Swiftstar hardly gives Leafdapple time to receive Birchstar's life before he gave Leafdapple a life for selflessness, to use well in the service of her Clan. Swiftstar tells Firestar that the leaders paid for their wrong doing. None of the leaders could rest easily after SkyClan was gone, and guilt clawed at them for the rest of their lives.