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Four "Clans" of cats (ThunderClan, RiverClan, WindClan, ShadowClan). Each Clan has a leader, given nine lives and the suffix "star" after their first name by StarClan. StarClan is a group made up of the Clans' spiritual ancestors and gives guidance and even prophecies to the Clans. The leader appoints a deputy who will later succeed him or her as leader. Every Clan has a medicine cat, who communicates with StarClan and heals injured or sick cats. Most of each Clan is made up of warriors, the cats who fight in battles and patrol the borders, while following the warrior code. Warriors train apprentices to become new warriors. Old or impaired warriors become elders. When a female warrior has kits, she becomes a queen. Kits cannot become apprentices until they are six moons (months) old. The Clans sometimes have a medicine cat apprentice, who is normally trained at six moons old to become a medicine cat. Medicine cats gather every half moon to share dreams with StarClan at the Moonstone (forest home) or Moonpool (lake home). The Clan rivalries do not apply to medicine cats, and they have peace with each other, and usually help each other. Medicine cats can also be warriors who are fatally wounded or decide they want to be trained as medicine cats. This does not often happen, but it does, as in the case with one of ThunderClan's former medicine cats, Cinderpelt, or Jayfeather, because he is blind. Yellowfang, former ShadowClan warrior/medicine cat and former ThunderClan medicine cat, also became a medicine cat while in ShadowClan, but there is no reason to how this came about or why she became the medicine cat. She resumed Spottedleaf's role after she was killed.

The cats in the Clans also have a special naming system. When a kit is given its name, it will end in "kit." When a kit becomes an apprentice, during the ceremony, the leader will change the "kit" to "paw." When an apprentice becomes a Warrior, the leader, with the help of StarClan, chooses a permanent ending of the name (-heart, -stripe, -pelt, -fur, -claw, -foot, -tail, - talon, etc.). When a deputy becomes a leader, StarClan performs a ceremony, in which the new leader must travel to Highstones (forest home) or the Moonpool (lake home) to share dreams with StarClan. During the ceremony, the leader receives nine lives from StarClan and the ending name of "-star". An example of this is when Fireheart becomes Firestar in the first series, or Leafdapple of SkyClan becoming Leafstar in Firestar's Quest. Any cat in the Clan has the right to become a deputy, as long as it is a warrior, is not nursing kits and has had at least one apprentice.

In the forest the cats must live together with the world of humans around them. This allows interaction between the two species. One notable example of this is when humans, called Twolegs by most of the cats, began constructing a new road and new houses, and the four Clans were forced to leave and find a new home. Beyond the Clans' territories lies a mountain range, inhabited by the Tribe of Rushing Water. The Tribe was shown to be similar to the Clans, yet it follows a different set of ancestors, the Tribe of Endless Hunting. In a town near the Clans' old home lived a vicious group of cats called BloodClan, led by a cat called Scourge. Also living in the surrounding area are cats without owners or Clans, known as loners and rogues, and house cats, called kittypets.

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