Smokepaw (TNP)

Smokepaw is a dark gray tom.

Midnight

 * His mentor is listed as Oakfur.

Dawn

 * When Twoleg monsters come to tear up ShadowClan's camp, Blackstar helps Smokepaw escape, saying that he wouldn't let him die, before leaving him in the care of Squirrelpaw, a ThunderClan apprentice. Smokepaw is frozen with fear, and doesn't try to move to escape, as he watches his camp being destroyed. Squirrelpaw, in a desperate attempt to help him out of camp, drags him out of the once-peaceful ShadowClan camp, by the scruff of his neck. Afterwards, Smokepaw goes with the rest of his Clan to stay at Sunningrocks with ThunderClan.


 * Smokepaw joins the Clans on the Great Journey. While in the mountains, the Clans are traveling along a very narrow path; part of the cliff breaks and Smokepaw slips, but manages to get a pawhold on one of the ledges. Russetfur lunges for him, but her weight makes more of the cliff crumble. Unable to hold on any longer, Smokepaw falls to his death. Nightwing, Smokepaw's mother, is devastated, and leans over the edge. Stormfur, a RiverClan warrior, pulls her back to safety. Blackstar tells Smokepaw's mother that Smokepaw would not have survived the fall, and they could not reach his body for burial, so they must continue on their journey, but he will be honored, and would never be forgotten.


 * Later, the deceased apprentice is briefly mentioned when Squirrelpaw tells some Talon about the Clans' troubles getting through the mountains.

Trivia

 * There has been much confusion over whether Smokefoot is the same cat as Smokepaw, who was killed in Dawn. Many people suspected that Smokepaw was mistakenly brought back to life and made into a warrior named Smokefoot. When asked, Vicky said it was her fault for the mistake, and explains that she got confused due to the size of the character list. However, in a subsequent Erin Hunter chat, Kate confirmed that Smokepaw and Smokefoot are not the same cat.
 * Smokepaw is mistakenly called a RiverClan apprentice when Leafpaw is thinking about Longtail jumping over the gap that Smokepaw left when he fell to his death in Dawn.
 * Despite dying in Dawn, he is listed in subsequent books in the New Prophecy arc, and Leafpool's Wish.

Members
Mother:
 * Nightwing:

References and Citations
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