ThunderClan Lake Camp [TB AU] (Patreon)

ThunderClan's camp by the lake!

I decided to keep it pretty close to canon, though I put the fallen tree in there from the start - I imagine that a lot of trees probably fell into this old quarry and decayed over time, but this is one that the cats can't move, so they built around it.

Plus the stories never really mention the fallen tree again after OotS? They forget there's an entire tree just in the middle of the ThunderClan camp??

I also wanted to lean into the quarry aspect of the camp - the secret exit is a failed extension, and the medicine cat's den is actually a very small mineshaft, which likely contained whatever the Twolegs were digging for to begin with. There are a lot of little crevices and caves, too.

It also feeds into my changes to ThunderClan's territory type overall - their lands are a lot steeper now, with sharp inclines and cliffs. It's not quite what ThunderClan is used to (in fact it could be argued to be more fitting for SkyClan - but if SkyClan were to join the Clans in this AU, their home is in the Deep Woods behind ShadowClan territory) but it's theirs.

I just wanted to write more varied landscapes, honestly!