Featherstar

Featherstar is a white she-cat with dark patches and blue eyes.

Code of the Clans

 * Featherstar is an ancient WindClan leader.


 * Featherstar has just lost her deputy, Pebblefur, because of a strange lump in his belly, and has appointed Acorntail as his replacement. The young tom is nervous and she has to slightly remind him of his duties; she seems almost apologetic for it. After Acorntail has arranged the patrols, Featherstar and him are talking in her den, and Acorntail realizes how much she still must be greiving for Pebblefur. Featherstar tells Acorntail that he'll do fine, and catch lots of prey.


 * When he comes to her saying he doesn't think he can do it, she asks if he knew how to be a warrior right away, and why he thought he'd immediately know how to act as deputy. She apologizes to Acorntail, saying she should have given him an apprentice before she made him deputy. Acorntail says that if she gives him one, he'll continue to be deputy. Featherstar seems to have faith in the young tom, and promises to give him Cherryfeather's kit, Pricklekit as his first apprentice. After this, she decided to make it become the custom that every warrior must have mentored at least one apprentice in order to be deputy. Acorntail winces at that, and she explains that it would help get cats used to giving orders, and form strong bonds that could with stand the harshest battles. She dismisses Acorntail, and tells him to go visit the nursery and his new apprentice.


 * At the end of the book, Leafpool says that she proposed a new addition to the warrior code that all cats not Clanborn be driven away. There had been an increasingly hard leaf-bare and Featherstar chose to blame it on the members of her Clan who had kittypet relations. Owlstar argued most fiercely against this because it was said he had kittypet roots, but Leafpool says that he didn't; he had just seen how all the Clans would be weakend if they had to get rid of non-forestborn members. She also says that Owlstar knew that loyalty to Clanmates was part of the warrior code, and the law Featherstar was suggesting would make Clanmates turn on each other and claim superiority for something that they couldn't control.