Name: Riverstar's Home – Sunny's Spiel | Warriors Analysis
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I did not want to be doing this…It's September.

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And I was more than happy to have either a pretty good or mediocre super edition that

didn't need a video to be made on it, at least not right away.

But Riverstar's Home and my thoughts about it have finally made me realize some things

that have been happening with the series for a while, and this video has become unavoidable.

Just know that because I had to squeeze this in and couldn't spend much time on it, there

won't be as much editing as there usually is.

So Riverstar's Home, the newest super edition, came out last Tuesday, September 5th and…I

I can remember back when the poll came out asking us to choose between Mistystar, Ivypool,

and Riverstar, I said: [All of the super editions could be bad, Riverstar's

And I stand by that statement because Riverstar's story functionally could not be told without

adding in new material instead of solely retreading old ground, which was and is the Erin team's

And as I suspected, this book *did* have to add in new material, running out of any Dawn

of the Clans stuff to cover about halfway through the book.

Yet it still turned out to be a disappointment and this is for…well, other reasons.

Let me dispel any ideas immediately that this was a doomed book, or that it was impossible

for it to succeed based on its premise alone.

The two arguments I have heard most often in this camp is that the present-day stories

and characters from A Vision of Shadows, The Broken Code, and A Starless clan will always

have more focus and care than the Dawn of the Clans time period and that Riverstar or

River Ripple himself offers no character, nothing to stand out, and no story to tell.

Both of these are, in my mind, simply not true.

To give you an idea, I'm going to take a look at every piece of supplemental material,

so super editions, mangas, and novellas, that has been written since Victoria Holmes left

Here we have the books that featured a Dawn of the Clans setting.

Here's the ones that featured an A Vision of Shadows or The Broken Code setting, two

arcs instead of one so it makes sense there's more.

And here are the ones that focused on arc 1 and 2 settings, things the new team did

It gets even worse when you look at the focus characters.

Here are the four books that had Dawn of the Clans cats as protagonists.

Here are the four books that had A Vision of Shadows or The Broken Code cats as protagonists.

And here are the *14* books that had arc 1 or 2 cats as the protagonists.

Notably, no arc 3 or 4 cats or settings have even been touched by them, and nothing in

the pre-arc-1 super editions period either in the way that Vicky wrote novellas about

The new team seems to have two clear priorities when choosing cats and settings to focus on:

settings and cats they have personally created or written for, and the arc 1-2 cast that

always has been and always will be the money makers.

Ivypool is an arc 4 cat that they did not write and that is not enough of a popular

character to the hoards of elementary schoolers just reading arc 1 to be instantly worth it.

Mistystar was a character who would be prominent in their new arc for one moment but who wasn't

notable or popular as a character in any arc.

Riverstar, meanwhile is a character they wrote for in a setting and time period they created,

which is one of the things that *can* actually spark their interest based on what we've

He was also a character with a distinctive and unique personality, which I'll get into

On a plot level, he was supposed to become Riverclan's leader, form and set expectations

for a group, and maybe even come up with the idea of or flesh out the idea of the mentor

There was plenty to tell about him, if they wanted to, and it was all information accessible

to them since they were the ones who made his character in the first place.

I'd also just like to nip in the bud any ideas that only a Dawn of the Clans story

could fail in the way this book has because…no.

This book's biggest failings are in pacing and characterization which not only could

happen in other periods with other cats but already has, several times, recently.

It was entirely possible that this book could end up being great.

First of all, I'd like to give a very brief summary for those of you watching this video

Essentially, Ripple was a Cat of the Park, living with a semi-large group of other cats

as they mentored each other, relaxed, and took food either from twolegs or hunting,

Ripple's mentor was named Arc and we already knew this because of a bonus scene, two chapters

long, about this time period from Ripple's point of view at the end of Thunder Rising,

What we didn't know is that Ripple also had a beloved among these cats: his mentor's

sister Flutter who gets precisely one line of dialogue here in a dream made up by Ripple's

Ripple's home was being invaded and he had to run away, ending up separated from everyone

and floating down the river, with great difficulty and threat of death, until he met Night and

Mist, loners who lived by an island in a forest area.

There Ripple, now River Ripple, stayed, bouncing between trying to live with them, or twolegs,

or by himself, until he eventually decided he wanted to make a group there.

He took in several stray loners and kittypets but none of the wild and aggressive new mountain

cats who were arriving in the land next to theirs because they seemed obsessed with marking

specific borders, fighting with each other, and ignoring the peace River Ripple knew was

Through a lot of timeskips and observations, we spend roughly 17 chapters running through

the Dawn of the Clans story from the perspective of a cat not involved in it as he gets increasingly

frustrated with their worldview but forms his own clan of sorts and then joins them

officially when some of their ancestors order him to.

After Gray Wing is dead and Riverstar is made a leader with nine lives, we skip to a period

where Arc appears, heavily wounded and unconscious for two days because Clear Sky attacked him

for crossing his border, and eventually he explains that the Cats of the Park have been

invaded and taken over by Slash and his cronies, the perfunctory final villain from Dawn of

After a lot of hesitation about leaving his clan behind, Riverstar decides to join Arc

in returning to his old home to drive out the band of loners and Drizzle, a young she-cat,

Riverstar “wastes” two lives on the way while saving people and fighting Slash recklessly

but coming back from the dead lets him intimidate the rogues enough to scare them away and also

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