Oakheart

Oakheart was a bracken-colored tom, and the deputy of RiverClan.

History
Oakheart was the deputy of RiverClan. Before becoming deputy, he fell in love with Bluestar, then known as Bluefur. They had three kits together, and Bluestar would have brought them up loyal to ThunderClan if not for the early retirement of ThunderClan's deputy, Tawnyspots. Bluestar had already received visions from StarClan telling her that she had a special destiny, and finally made a decision. She decided that her Clan needed her, Bluestar carried her kits to the river, where Oakheart took them to RiverClan to be suckled by Graypool. Oakheart proudly watched the kits, with the warrior names of Mistyfoot and Stonefur, grow up and become skilled warriors. But it would not last. At the beginning of Into the Wild, Oakheart and a party of RiverClan warriors defeated ThunderClan, led by Redtail, in a battle for the Sunningrocks. In a second battle for the contested hunting ground, Oakheart died in a rockfall. Tigerclaw, who killed Redtail a few seconds later, framed the dead Oakheart, who could not contest his claims, as the killer of Redtail to shift blame from himself, claiming that he had killed Oakheart in revenge for Redtail's death. Later, the investigations of Fireheart revealed the truth, causing Tigerclaw's banishment from ThunderClan.