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Ashfur is a pale gray tom with darker flecks and dark blue eyes. He has short, thick fur, and a torn ear.

He is born to Brindleface along with his sister, Ferncloud. When Cloudkit comes into ThunderClan, he and Ferncloud has a foster brother once Brindleface took him in. He becomes an apprentice with the name of Ashpaw. When Bluestar asks Fireheart to choose Ashpaw's mentor, he chooses Dustpelt in hopes that the warrior would become more patient and kind with an apprentice. When Brindleface is killed by Tigerstar, Ashpaw and Fernpaw fight the dogs in honor of her.

He earns his warrior name, Ashfur, along with his sister Ferncloud. As a young warrior, he takes a liking to Firestar's daughter, Squirrelpaw. He mentors Birchpaw, Dustpelt and Ferncloud's only surviving kit. Although he and Brambleclaw were previously friends, Ashfur becomes jealous of his relationship with Squirrelflight and grows to dislike the tabby warrior. When Squirrelflight has a major fight with Brambleclaw, she becomes close to Ashfur and spends the majority of her time with him. Ashfur, having thought he had won Squirrelflight's love, is devastated and broken-hearted when she rekindles her relationship with Brambleclaw and the two become mates. He then becomes cold and callous towards Squirrelflight.

Ashfur receives Lionpaw as an apprentice and they begin a rather hostile and uneasy relationship, due to the fact that Lionpaw is Squirrelflight's son. He is often strict with his apprentice and is quick to criticize him. Even after Lionblaze is made a warrior, Ashfur and him fight with their claws unsheathed.

When a fire breaks out the ThunderClan camp, Squirrelflight takes all three of her kits and try to flee the area. Ashfur goes with them and when a burning branch falls, he blocks the only escape route. Ashfur tells Squirrelflight that he is still furious and heartbroken that she chose Brambleclaw instead of him, and wants to make her suffer like he did. He reveals that he helped Hawkfrost trick Firestar into the fox trap, and since that was unsuccessful, he will kill her kits instead. He is completely taken aback when Squirrelflight reveals that Hollyleaf, Lionblaze, and Jayfeather are not her kits. He lets them leave unharmed but threatens to reveal the truth at the Gathering.

The night of the Gathering, Ashfur goes missing. His body is later found in the stream and many of his Clanmates think he drowned. However, Leafpool finds a tuft of Hollyleaf's fur between his claws and knew that Hollyleaf murdered him. She keeps this secret to herself and is devastated by the truth.

Ashfur is later seen in StarClan, where it was said by Yellowfang that his only fault was to love too much.

Author statements

 * Kate thinks that Ashfur forgave Hollyleaf for killing him once she joined StarClan. This is contradicted by Vicky, who says they probably never forgave each other and avoid each other in StarClan.
 * When asked about Ashfur's residence on her Facebook page, Vicky said the following: "[He] went to StarClan because he was essentially a loyal and well-meaning warrior. He was just driven a bit crazy from unrequited love!", and also replied that she'd been thinking for a long while about where to send him, and considered the Dark Forest.
 * Vicky believes that Ashfur won't turn up in the future.
 * Vicky believes that Ashfur wasn't chosen as the cat who loved Squirrelflight for any specific reason.

Interesting facts

 * In the family tree on the official Warriors site, it states that Whitestorm is the mate to Brindleface, and father to Ashfur and Ferncloud. This tree was however confirmed not to be canon, and therefore it's unconfirmed whether he truly has any relation to them. Later, on the new Warriors family tree, this is confirmed to be true.

Mistakes

 * Either he or his sister, Ferncloud, were called tawny.
 * He was mistakenly said to have a dark pelt.
 * His icon on the Warriors family tree mistakenly depicts him as gray-and-white.