Category:Place of No Stars

The Place of No Stars (aka the Dark Forest) is the opposite of StarClan. As being a place where cats that have committed great crimes against their Clans and against the Warrior Code go when they die. Although, cats who had commit crimes but believe they are following the Warrior Code by doing them, they can usually join the ranks of StarClan instead (like Mudclaw or Ashfur).

In the Dark Forest, there is no prey and cats there feel no hunger. Instead of walking the skies with their friends and family, like in StarClan, cats in the Dark Forest are banished to walk through the forest in solitude (although Tigerstar seems to have found a way to overcome this). Like StarClan, cats of the Place of No Stars who are forgotten by all living cats fade away to little more than ghost-like spirits, but they haunt the Dark Forest.

Several cats can walk in the dreams of living cats. Usually in the dream, the cat finds itself in the Dark Forest, with the deceased cat(s) (Additionally: although this is not always the case, since Hawkfrost can visit Ivypaw(pool) in a field she dreamed of). There seems to be no limitations on who the Dark Forest cats can visit, but if a cat consciously decides that they don't want to be visited any more, it seems to prevent it from happening again. Upon waking up from the dream, they will retain all characteristics acquired (like their skills and injuries from the Dark Forest).

StarClan cats are able to pass into the Place of No Stars if they need to, but by doing this, they also risk the chance of becoming lost and never finding their way out of the Dark Forest. From StarClan, there is a barrier of sorts consisting of a great cloud of mist, that eventually leads to the Dark Forest. Living cats are able to visit the Dark Forest when being guided by a StarClan cat (although on one occasion Leafpool was able to see it without any StarClan cat with her).