Brokenstar/Main article

Brokenstar is a massive, matted, dark brown tabby tom with a broad, flat face, his tail bent in the middle, and orange eyes.

He is born as Brokenkit to Yellowfang and Raggedstar, and was named after the bend in his tail, as well as the feeling Yellowfang felt in her heart at the time of his birth. He is the only surviving kit of his litter and is surrendered by his biological mother and fostered by the only queen in the nursery, Lizardstripe. The young kit suffers emotional neglect from Lizardstripe, and is constantly bullied by his foster siblings, Tanglekit, Deerkit, and Runningkit, but the latter stops when Yellowfang reprimands the three siblings for doing so. He is also spoiled by his father, Raggedstar. He becomes an apprentice named Brokenpaw and is under the mentorship of Nightpelt, but often refuses to listen to his mentor, who is frail and sickly, and instigates fights with other cats, including those of his own Clan. He is promoted to a warrior, Brokentail early and becomes the Clan deputy after Cloudpelt dies in battle, despite his young age. He is given his own apprentice, Stumpypaw. Brokentail proceeds to murder his own father to become the leader of ShadowClan, taking the name Brokenstar.

Brokenstar apprentices kits before the age of six moons and forces them to train for battle, and excludes elders from the "safety" of the camp. He exiles his biological mother, Yellowfang, after accusing her of killing Marigoldkit and Mintkit, most likely because he saw her as a threat to his reign as well. After the death of Badgerfang, a tiny apprentice who was killed unnecessarily in battle, various ShadowClan cats begin questioning Brokenstar's leadership.

Yellowfang joins ThunderClan and recruits ShadowClan elders who were ousted by their leader, eventually attacking and driving Brokenstar out of the Clan. The exiled rogue and his followers launch an attack on ThunderClan in revenge, but they are defeated and Brokenstar is blinded by Yellowfang and kept prisoner in ThunderClan, demoted to Brokentail. Even as a blind and injured prisoner, he plots with Tigerclaw and takes part in a battle when Tigerclaw leads Brokentail's rogues to attack ThunderClan's camp in an attempt to kill Bluestar. Eventually, Brokentail is tricked into eating deathberries by his biological mother, who reveals her identity to him at last. He doesn't believe her, but loses his last life regardless.

He becomes one of the unofficial leaders of the Dark Forest, organizing The Great Battle. He assists Breezepelt in attempting to kill Poppyfrost and Jayfeather, but are driven back by Honeyfern. During this time, he mentors Tigerheart within the Place of No Stars, and eventually mentors Blossomfall as well. During the great battle, he murders Ferncloud while raiding the nursery. Afterwards, Yellowfang kills him a second time and wipes out his existence. After Brokenstar's second death, the Dark Forest cats flee, giving the Clans the victory.

Super Editions

 * In Yellowfang's Secret,

Detailed description

 * Brokenstar is a lean, massive, scarred, dark brown tabby tom with orange eyes. He has unusually long, thick, patchy, matted, ragged fur, a long spine, broad shoulders, a scarred, broad, flat face, and torn ears. His tail is bent in the middle like a broken branch.