Spottedpaw (ShC)

Spottedpaw is a small brown tom with ginger flecks, bright blue eyes, and fluffy ear tips.

Code of the Clans

 * Spottedpaw is an ancient ShadowClan apprentice.


 * Spottedpaw is never seen living in this book. He dies in the latest of the series of battles with WindClan, along with two WindClan warriors. When Mossheart, the medicine cat, looks at Spottedpaw's dead body, the breeze ruffles his fur, making it look as if he's breathing, but the scent of death still hangs heavily around him.


 * He later appears to Mossheart as a StarClan cat, saying to her that the way of battle is the way warriors live, and that it cannot be avoided. Before Mossheart loses hope, he says that although no cat can stop the fighting, they can stop the dying. He tells Mossheart, with a bit of sadness, that the WindClan warrior who killed him did not need to do so, and that if he had let him go, he'd have run away, as he fades away and the dream ends.


 * Later, after the medicine cats have decided to suggest that warriors need not kill to win battles as part of the warrior code, he thanks Mossheart as he runs beside her, telling her that this law will save many cats' lives.