The Ultimate Guide/Bluestar Speaks

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Chapter Summary
 Bluestar's point of view 
 * Bluestar begins by saying that, like all of the Clans, ThunderClan has been shaped by its home's nature, the dense forest and prey-rich thickets that lie between its boundaries. She says that her warriors are the most skilled predators of the Clans, having the ability to make themselves silent and invisible in order to hunt the tiny furred and feathered creatures among them. They can stalk without making a sound, and pounce with enough strength to bring down an adult rabbit at a standstill. They were descended from cats most adept at hunting underneath the trees, undaunted by branches and the need to fight their enemies at close quarters when escape was impossible. This gave them the courage and confidence to feed and defend themselves, and they knew the forest was the right home for them.


 * Bluestar says that the warrior code let them grow as a Clan and maintain their territory. No other Clan guarded the code as well as ThunderClan. They knew it would protect them from injustice, cruelty, and needless battles. The code told them to always check their boundaries, and prohibits trespassing or hunting on the territory of that of another Clan, and they follow this. She says that the others Clans might call them cowards for avoiding border skirmishes, but that they would defend their territory as fiercely as any of the other Clans - just not when peace can be found by following the code they shared.


 * Bluestar mentions how, back in the forest near the Twolegplace, their greatest quarrel was with RiverClan over Sunningrocks. When cats first arrived, the rocks were in the middle of the river, accessible only to those cats willing to swim to it. But the course of the river changed, and the rocks were attached to land near ThunderClan territory. The only logical conclusion was that they belonged to ThunderClan. RiverClan insisted this was unfair and attempted to reclaim Sunningrocks. ThunderClan won more of those battles than they lost, which spoke for itself. Bluestar says that when her warriors knew they were right, they fought like lions.


 * Bluestar says that they also knew what it was like to be without a Clan's boundaries. Because ThunderClan lived so close to Twolegplace, they met more kittypets then the other Clans, and had more rogues passing through. Bluestar tried to teach her Clan to treat the strangers as cats like them before judging them based on their birthplace. Compared to some of the dark-hearted warriors threatening ThunderClan's borders, better cats existed that did not believe in StarClan. Bluestar concludes, saying that cats could learn to obey the warrior code, but cannot always learn to obtain compassion or courage from faith.

Mentioned

 * ThunderClan
 * RiverClan
 * The Early Settlers