Hawthornpaw's Shadow

Hawthornpaw's Shadow is a primitive ZeldaClan Fanfic. Primitive, because few ZeldaClan cats existed at the time it was written, and so not only were important political figures like Quezelstar and Uakarihead not present, but cats from outside cannon ZeldaClan were pulled in to provide enough warriors for the young clan to support itself. Therefore, it is not an accurate record of that time period.

However, without the development of Hawthornpaw's Shadow, Xenophon and the lore surrounding him would have never have entered ZeldaClan's world. Minou came up with Xenophon to add conflict to the tale. Little was known about Xenophon until after Hawthornpaw's Shadow was posted on Minou's podcast. Thank you Luckyvulpi and Esther for your assistance in building up Xenophon's character.

Without Minou's scramble to find a conflict for her Language Arts project, and more importantly, the contributions of the Warriors, the entire ZeldaClan plot would be drastically different. Characters like Xenon, Frigid, Falcon, Marco, and others would never have had the depth of character (or lack of it, in Marco's case) that they do today.

That is why Hawthornpaw's Shadow deserves it's own article, because of the role it played in the development of the story as a whole, and not because of its quality or accuracy.

Plot
The story opens up with Hawthornpaw in the elders den, cleaning out Gooseroar's bedding, while the elder was telling a stupid story about snakes. He thinks about Juniperpaw, getting to go on patrol while he was stuck in camp.

A day later, he was patrolling with Echobush and Juniperpaw, when they come across Xenophon. When Xenophon asks to join ZeldaClan, they bring him to camp to Applestar.

(To be continued)