Runningnose

Runningnose is a small gray-and-white tom with patchy fur, and a constantly running nose.

Firestar's Quest

 * Runningnose retires from a being a medicine cat and becomes an elder. Littlecloud replaces him as the new medicine cat of ShadowClan.

Into the Wild

 * Before Yellowfang was driven from ShadowClan, Runningnose was her apprentice. He was the medicine cat apprentice until Brokenstar threw his mentor out of the Clan. From that point on he is known as a lone medicine cat.


 * He was seen at Firepaw's first Gathering, complaining about Twolegs. He tells a story of how there was once a plant that cured kittencough, but after the Twolegs came and built Twolegplace, the plant vanished and kittens die needlessly in the cold. When Firepaw returns to the ThunderClan camp, he tells Yellowfang about Runningnose's new position. Yellowfang remarked on how she could not believe he became a medicine cat when he couldn't cure his own cold. Many cats in ThunderClan make jokes about him.

Fire and Ice

 * Runningnose receives a message from StarClan that Nightstar was their choice to be ShadowClan's newly appointed leader.


 * Also, when Fireheart saw Graystripe with a runny nose, he almost told him jokingly that he looked like Runningnose, but his anger at Graystripe for being with Silverstream made him snap another thing to say at him.

Forest of Secrets

 * At a Gathering, Fireheart notices Tallstar with his deputy Deadfoot sitting on the highrock, a few feet away Mudfur, the RiverClan medicine cat, and Runningnose are sitting side by side looking at the other cats with eyes that reflected the moon.

Rising Storm

 * Runningnose is with Nightstar when he is sick and interprets the omen of the owl to his sick Clan saying that they will grow strong and rule the forest. However, he does not tell ShadowClan that they will have to pay the highest price possible for their great future. Later at the Gathering, when Fireheart tells Runningnose that Yellowfang is dead. Runningnose is horrified and grief stricken, as she was his mentor.


 * Later, at the end of the book, Runningnose is one of the three cats to arrive before the rest of ShadowClan to announce that ShadowClan's new leader will be there shortly.

A Dangerous Path

 * When Fireheart is walks with Cinderpelt to Fourtrees, Runningnose tells Fireheart that Nightstar never got his nine lives. Runningnose thinks that it was because StarClan thought that Brokentail was still the leader of ShadowClan. When Brokentail died, Nightstar was too weak to receive his nine lives. At a Gathering, Fireheart found out that Tigerstar became the new ShadowClan leader, and Tigerstar says that Runningnose got a message from StarClan that a great leader would come to ShadowClan to help them rebuild their Clan. Fireheart asks if Tigerstar is plotting against ThunderClan, and Runningnose answered that, if he told him the answer to that, then he would be betraying his Clan. However, he then went on to state that there was no plot-that he was aware of, and Fireheart could believe or disbelieve him as he wanted. Fireheart believes that, if any scheme does exists, Runningnose knows nothing of it.


 * Runningnose took Littlecloud as his apprentice, after Littlecloud was inspired by Cinderpelt, who had given Littlecloud the cure to the illness.

The Darkest Hour

 * Runningnose is seen leaving with ShadowClan to help Blackfoot prepare for his journey to the Moonstone. Blackstar takes the lead and Runningnose took the back, glancing at Firestar as he went. Firestar remarks that he wishes him good luck after Nightstar and Tigerstar's failed leaderships.

Midnight

 * Runningnose does not formally appear in Midnight, but is listed in the allegiances. He is listed as an elder.

Dawn

 * He made the Great Journey with the rest of his Clan, rather than staying behind in the old territory with some of the weaker elders who didn't feel up to going such a long way. Before the cats left, Runningnose insisted on saying goodbye to the dying Mudfur, medicine cat of RiverClan, and who had been a close friend of his since he was a medicine cat apprentice.

Starlight

 * Runningnose appeared very briefly in Starlight, arguing for a new Gathering place.

Eclipse

 * He appears very briefly when Littlecloud is at Moonpool in a dream, telling Littlecloud that Blackstar is questioning StarClan, and wondering if the Clans were supposed to go to the lake after all, and Runningnose says to Littlecloud to never give up on Blackstar. Jaypaw comments that even in StarClan, the former ShadowClan medicine cat couldn't cure his own cold.

Long Shadows

 * Runningnose appears with the past ShadowClan leader, Raggedstar in one of Jayfeather's dreams, asking the medicine cat apprentice to restore ShadowClan's faith in StarClan.


 * He and Raggedstar appear before Blackstar and Littlecloud, telling them to regain their faith in StarClan, and to drive Sol out of ShadowClan.

Fading Echoes

 * When Jayfeather ventures into Flametail's dream, he spots Yellowfang, who tells Jayfeather that Runningnose wants to talk to him. Jayfeather wonders what Runningnose has to say to Flametail.

Night Whispers

 * When Flametail goes to the Moonpool, he sees only ShadowClan ancestors, including Runningnose.

Cats of the Clans

 * Rock tells one of the StarClan kits, Blossomkit, that Runningnose tried hard to save Blossomkit's life.


 * Rock also thinks that Runningnose must have regretted the day he asked to become Yellowfang's apprentice. He was forced to interpret omens that would appease his bloodthirsty leader, Brokenstar. After Brokenstar's capture by ThunderClan, Runningnose had to keep one of the largest secrets he would encounter - when StarClan would not grant Nightstar his nine lives. Rock states that his conscience must have weighed more than stone.

Trivia

 * Runningnose's prediction of a glorious future for ShadowClan was fulfilled when Tigerstar became leader.