No art yet!! But eventually I might add some? This is kind of patchy rn but I think the main point gets across - Gatheringplace used to be in a cave under the mossclan/flurryclan border. However, twolegs built a road on the site which forced the clans to look for a new place to gather. When there was nowhere that fit their standards, they instead decided to venture deeper into the moonlit caves - There they found a thermal spring, where misty water fills the open cavern, heated by deep invisible fissures in the earth's crust. - The leaders pad through the ankle-deep warmed-water to reach their central platform, which overhangs the main thermal spring. Why I chose these features.... - I remember it being mentioned that mossclan has quite a few caves- underwater hotsprings and river could help explain the formations of theses! - Gatherings are meant to be social, and I feel that sitting in a cold cave is kinda like. the worst way to facilitate conversation. Hot springs? Completely change that ok - I like the idea that the moon lights up the leaders and highranks, because that means when it is hidden behind a cloud the leader and cast into darkness, pretty much starclan saying 'these guys aren't relevant anymore. Don't even look at them' - Shallow water... because we're not all urchinclan swimmers ok.... - In the original books Elders used to go to gatherings quite a lot and I like the idea that they get to chill in warm hotsprings ok. - Hotspings could open up the chance for more people to roleplay in gatheringplace outside of gatherings! Apprentices sneaking in to swim, medics bringing their patients with sore muscles, etc.
