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Thunderstar
 * Thunderstar is a short furred, large, bright fiery-ginger and white tom the color of autumn leaves. He has a broad head, shoulders, and wide white paws. He is the founder and first leader of ThunderClan.
 * Introduced in The Sun Trail, he is the son of Clear Sky and Storm. He is born in an abandoned Twoleg nest, alongside his two unnamed siblings. When the Twoleg nest collapses, his mother and his siblings die, but the kit survives. He is found by Gray Wing, who gives him the name of Thunder. He brings Thunder to his father, Clear Sky, who rejects him. Gray Wing, outraged at Clear Sky's cruelty, declares to Thunder that he will be his father instead.


 * His character becomes more major in the following books. In Thunder Rising, he is shown to grow rapidly, with Gray Wing keeping his promise to be a diligent father to him - more than Clear Sky ever has been. When a fire ravages the woods, Thunder helps lead Clear Sky's group of cats out of the burning forest and into the moor. Clear Sky takes a special interest in his son, and Thunder instantly asks why he drove him away as a kit. Clear Sky tells him that he was testing, much to Gray Wing's disgust and outrage, as he knows it wasn't true. Clear Sky offers Thunder to join him in his group, and Thunder accepts, leaving Gray Wing behind. During Thunder's time there, he notes how cruel Clear Sky is in leading his cats, going as far as leading a fox towards Thunder during his complaints. He drives out Frost, who became lame from an injury received in the fire. Fed up of Clear Sky's savagery, Thunder declares that he is leaving, and goes back to the moor to find Gray Wing, the only true father to him.


 * In The First Battle, Thunder assists Lightning Tail in finding Turtle Tail's kits, who had been taken by a kittypet. They manage to save the kits, but find Turtle Tail dead. As Clear Sky's hostility towards the moor cats and greed for territory increases, the winds of war increase as well to the point in which there must be a discussion with Clear Sky. Thunder, along with Tall Shadow and Gray Wing try to talk to Clear Sky at Fourtrees, to compromise a peace agreement with him. Clear Sky, who had brought his cats, seems to consider it, until Jackdaw's Cry kills a bat to eat it, protesting that he had been starved in Clear Sky's camp since Thunder brought him there. Thunder is shocked, asking Clear Sky why he starved him when he had been letting good prey rot. Clear Sky silences Thunder, telling him he was a traitor to both him and Gray Wing, and he should've never been born. Clear Sky orders his cats to attack, and Thunder rushes to the moor camp to bring reinforcements. He fights alongside Gray Wing and Tall Shadow against Clear Sky, watching as Clear Sky kills Rainswept Flower, and seems glad he did. The battle is broken by spirit cat, who tell them to "unite or die".


 * In The Blazing Star, Thunder replaces Gray Wing as a leader of the moor group. During another visit by the spirit cats, they are told to spread like the Blazing Star, in which Thunder is confused. Although Clear Sky's hostilities have died away as a result of the battle, Thunder and his cats are threatened by One Eye, a rogue prowling the forest. A sickness plagues the forest as well, and Thunder thinks it could be the Blazing Star that helps the sickness. He meets Star Flower, and is smitten with her. He tell her about his group's plans to defeat One Eye after he had taken control of Clear Sky's group and had started to wreak havoc on the forest. When it is time to battle with One Eye, Thunder realizes that Star Flower has revealed all of his plans to One Eye, as she is his daughter. Feeling completely betrayed, he battles with One Eye and ends up killing him. He turns his back on Star Flower, unable to forgive her for betraying him. He, along with the moor cats and forest cats, find the Blazing Star and pick it to treat the sick cats.


 * In A Forest Divided, the cats find out they must separate into different groups like the Blazing Star. Thunder starts his own group that live in a different section of the forest, telling Clear Sky that he simply is unwilling to live with him, and cannot as he notes that Clear Sky is deliberately starving his own cats because they cannot "hunt out the forest". He also cannot live with Clear Sky due to finding out that he had fallen in love with Star Flower. He becomes a leader of his own group, and takes along cats who are unwilling to live with Clear Sky, and leads his group with dignity and compassion as he had with the moor cats, a vast difference from how Clear Sky leads his own cats.


 * In Path of Stars, he helps Clear Sky recover Star Flower, who had been kidnapped by a rogue named Slash. His foster father, Gray Wing, becomes sick due to his asthma and slowly nears the end of his life. After Slash attacks the moor cat's camp and takes away one of Gray Wing's kits, Black Ear, he helps Clear Sky rescue him. Clear Sky tells Thunder how grateful he is that Gray Wing had saved him, and that Gray Wing was a better father to him than he could ever be. Thunder witnesses Gray Wing's death as Gray Wing asks for him. As Gray Wing dies, he names Thunder's group of cats ThunderClan.


 * In Moth Flight's Vision, he is the leader of ThunderClan. He is welcoming to Micah and Moth Flight, supporting both of them throughout their struggles. Cloud Spots becomes his medicine cat, and brings him to the Moonstone to receive his nine lives. Thunder then takes on an official leader name, Thunderstar.