| "He couldn't wait to start learning how to hunt and fight so he could be a great warrior like his father, Rooktail." |
| — Goosekit thinking about Rooktail in Goosefeather's Curse, chapter 2 |
Rooktail is a black tom with blue eyes.[2]
History[]
In the Novellas[]
Pinestar's Choice[]
- When Oakstar decides to send a raid on the Twolegplace to scare the kittypets into not trespassing, selects Rooktail as part of the patrol. Flashpaw gets to go but without her mentor, Nettlebreeze. Rooktail offers to him to keep an eye on his apprentice and Nettlebreeze nods his thanks. During the raid, A kittypet is soon spotted and Doefeather orders Harepounce, Rooktail, and Flashpaw to go get them. The cats race over a Thunderpath to chase after the kittypet, who tries to escape. Rooktail gives a yowl and his patrol speeds up, hurtling around a corner with the kittypet just ahead of them.
Goosefeather's Curse[]
- Stormpaw: "Look, Rooktail! Your son doesn't melt in the sunlight!"
- Rooktail: "That's enough, Stormpaw. Go see if the elders want anything to eat."
- Goosefeather's Curse, chapter 2
- After Moonkit demonstrates a battle move to Stormpaw that he had taught her, Stormpaw asks if she wants to help him give the elders prey. Rooktail narrows his eyes at Stormpaw, reminding him that he was the apprentice and he didn't need kits doing his duties for him.
- While Goosekit is debating on his mentor, he realizes that he doesn't want a cat like Stormpaw but he wants a great warrior, like Doestar or Rooktail. When Swiftpaw disappears, Rooktail announces that he'll go out to look for her, with the rest of the cats in his patrol. Rooktail comes back with Flashnose, but without Swiftpaw, saying that they searched all the way to Snakerocks and back, but saw no sign of her. Soon after, Swiftpaw is found, thanks to the help of Goosekit who had told them that she was near Sunningrocks, and Goosekit explains that a dark brown tom told him where Swiftpaw was. He asks Goosekit if it was Squirrelwhisker, and Goosekit denies it, saying that he knew the difference between a tom and she-cat. Rooktail is confused, along with Pineheart, noting that the only dark brown cat in ThunderClan was Squirrelwhisker, and she was a she-cat.
- Cloudberry asks Goosekit to be her apprentice, and Goosekit swallows. He hadn't planned to become a medicine cat, but he wanted to be a great warrior, like his father, Rooktail. During leaf-bare, when prey was scarcer than it had ever been, Rooktail is clawing at where the fresh-kill pile used to be, with Squirrelwhisker. The fresh-kill pile is composed of only scraps of fur and some bones. During another of Goosefeather's visions, he sees Daisytoe leaning on Rooktail's shoulder. Daisytoe tells Rooktail that he said he had gone out to hunt, and Rooktail growls that he did, but there was no prey in the snow. When rain invades ThunderClan's camp, and the prey that the cats had dug into the anticipated frozen ground floods, Pineheart announces that they'll have to move it to higher ground, and says that he will assign Rooktail and Mumblefoot to do so after they return from the dawn patrol.
Character pixels[]
The pixel artwork is fanart based on the canon description; undefined traits are left to the artist's interpretation.  Warrior Version  StarClan Version |
Official art[]
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Please do not edit this gallery  Rooktail's icon on the Warriors family tree |
Kin[]
Members[]
Mate:
Son:
- Goosefeather:[3] Deceased, verified StarClan member
Daughter:
- Moonflower:[3] Deceased, verified StarClan member
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Granddaughters:
Great-granddaughters:
Great-grandsons:
- Stonefur:[5] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Whitestorm:[6] Deceased, verified StarClan member
Great-great-grandsons:
- Sootfur:[7] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Rainwhisker:[7] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Ashfur:[8] Deceased, no residence
- Elderkit:[8] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Tulipkit:[8] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Reedwhisker:[9] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Perchkit:[10] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Pikepaw:[10] Deceased, verified StarClan member
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Great-great-granddaughters:
- Sorreltail:[7] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Ferncloud:[8] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Primrosepaw:[10] Deceased, verified StarClan member
Great-great-great-grandsons:
- Molepaw:[11] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Spiderleg:[12] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Shrewpaw:[12] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Foxleap:[13] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Birchfall:[14] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
Great-great-great-granddaughters:
- Cinderheart:[11] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Poppyfrost:[11] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Honeyfern:[11] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Lilyheart:[15] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Seedpaw:[15] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Hollykit:[14] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Larchkit:[14] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Icecloud:[13] Deceased, verified StarClan member
Great-great-great-great-grandsons:
- Toadstep:[16] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Molewhisker:[17] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Fernsong:[18] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Snaptooth:[19] Living (As of Graystripe's Vow)
- Larksong:[20] Deceased, verified StarClan member
Great-great-great-great-granddaughters:
- Rosepetal:[16] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Ivypool:[21] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Dovewing:[21] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Cherryfall:[17] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Hollytuft:[18] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Sorrelstripe:[18] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Spotfur:[19] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Flywhisker:[19] Living (As of Graystripe's Vow)
- Leafshade:[20] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Honeyfur:[20] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
Great-great-great-great-great-grandsons:
- Shadowsight:[22] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Birchpaw:[23] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Rowankit:[23] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Flipclaw:[24] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Nightheart:[25] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Flickerkit:[25] Deceased, verified StarClan member
- Bayshine:[26] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Stempaw:[23] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Graypaw:[23] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
Great-great-great-great-great-granddaughters:
- Lightleap:[22] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Pouncestep:[22] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Bristlefrost:[24] Deceased, no residence
- Thriftear:[24] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Finchlight:[25] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Myrtlebloom:[26] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
- Bristlepaw:[23] Living (As of Ivypool's Heart)
Tree[]
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| Rooktail ♂ | Daisytoe ♀ | Flashnose ♀ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stormtail ♂ | Moonflower ♀ | Goosefeather ♂ | Swiftbreeze ♀ | Adderfang ♂ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bluestar ♀ | Snowfur ♀ | Patchpelt ♂ | Redtail ♂ | Leopardfoot ♀ | Spottedleaf ♀ | Willowpelt ♀ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mistystar ♀ | Stonefur ♂ | Mosskit ♀ | Whitestorm ♂ | Swiftpaw ♂ | Lynxkit | Longtail ♂ | Mistkit ♀ | Tigerstar ♂ | Nightkit ♀ | Graystripe ♂ | Darkstripe ♂ | Rainwhisker ♂ | Sorreltail ♀ | Sootfur ♂ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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= Tom
= She-cat
= Gender unknown
Appearances[]
- Pinestar's Choice
- Goosefeather's Curse (First appearance)
Quotes[]
- "You're the apprentice. Don't let the kits do your duties for you!"
- ―Rooktail to Stormpaw Goosefeather's Curse, chapter 2
- «No, Goosekit wanted to learn from ThunderClan's best warriors, like Rooktail or Doestar herself.»
- —Goosekit about Rooktail Goosefeather's Curse, chapter 2
- «This wasn't what he planned. He was going to be a great warrior, like Rooktail!»
- —Goosekit about his father Goosefeather's Curse, chapter 3
- Daisytoe: "You said you would go out hunting."
- Rooktail: "I did. But there's no prey in this snow."
- Goosefeather's Curse, chapter 8
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Revealed on the Warriors website family tree (screenshot)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Revealed in Goosefeather's Curse, allegiances
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Revealed in Goosefeather's Curse, chapter 1
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Revealed in Bluestar's Prophecy, page 8
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Revealed in Bluestar's Prophecy, page 502
- ↑ Revealed in Bluestar's Prophecy, page 18
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Revealed in Rising Storm, page 120
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Revealed on the Warriors website family tree (screenshot)
- ↑ Revealed to be a in Erin Hunter Chat 6, undefined
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Revealed in Mistystar's Omen, chapter 3
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Revealed in Sunset, page 27
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Revealed in Firestar's Quest, page 18
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Revealed in The Sight, page 5
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Revealed in Midnight, page 84
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Revealed in The Forgotten Warrior, page 146
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Revealed in Outcast, allegiances
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Revealed in The Fourth Apprentice, page 299
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Revealed in Bramblestar's Storm, page 478
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Revealed in River of Fire, allegiances
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Revealed in The Apprentice's Quest, allegiances
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Revealed in Sunrise, page 317
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Revealed in Tigerheart's Shadow, page 187
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 Revealed in River, allegiances
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Revealed in River of Fire, page 203
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 Revealed in Squirrelflight's Hope, page 107
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 Revealed in Lost Stars, allegiances
