Warrior Cat Generator

The Warrior Cat Generator picks one to ten cats at random from Erin Hunter's Warriors novels and shows each one as a card with the character's name, an illustration and a short line written in that cat's voice. It is built for readers of the series: people who want a character to draw, write about, role-play or quiz a friend on, without scrolling through a wiki to find one.

To be clear about what it is not: this page does not invent new warrior names or assign a made-up cat to a Clan. Every result is an existing character from the books.

How the generator works

There is one setting. Type a number from 1 to 10 into the box, press the button, and the tool shuffles the character list and takes that many cats off the top. Because it shuffles rather than draws with replacement, you never get the same cat twice in one batch. Press again for a fresh shuffle.

The list behind the tool holds 38 characters. That is small enough to run through in a few clicks, so treat it as a quick picker rather than an encyclopedia.

What each card shows

• Name, in the two-part form the books use, such as Squirrelflight, Jayfeather or Tawnypelt, plus a few one-part names like Daisy and Tree.
• Illustration, a 250 by 250 pixel picture of the cat drawn for this site.
• A line in the cat's voice, a sentence or two of first-person text that sums up how that character sees themselves. Lionblaze's card, for example, reads "Our destinies guide our paws, but they don't shape every step. That's up to us."

Who is in the list

The 38 cats skew toward the later arcs of the series, roughly Omen of the Stars through A Starless Clan, with a few older favorites mixed in. You will find ThunderClan regulars like Brightheart, Cloudtail, Ivypool, Dovewing and Alderheart; the SkyClan generation of Leafstar, Hawkwing, Violetshine, Twigbranch and Rootspring; WindClan's Crowfeather, Nightcloud, Breezepelt and Heathertail; ShadowClan's Tigerpaw and Shadowsight; and newer names such as Nightheart, Sunbeam, Fringewhisker and Frostpaw. Cinderheart, Mistyfoot and Lionblaze cover the earlier books. A handful appear under their apprentice names (Bramblepaw, Berrypaw, Blazepaw, Stormpaw), which is a nice prompt in itself: which warrior did that apprentice become?

Ways to use it

• Art prompts. Generate one cat and draw it from the description and your memory of the books rather than copying the illustration.
• Fan fiction. Pull three cats and write a scene in which they end up on the same patrol. The quotes on the cards give you each character's outlook, which makes dialogue easier.
• Guess the cat. Cover the name, read the quote aloud, and see who can identify the character first. Fans who know the later arcs will find it harder than it sounds.
• Role-play casting. Warriors role-play groups can use it to assign canon characters fairly instead of everyone fighting over Jayfeather.

If you want other fictional casts to mix in, the Random Movie Character Generator and Random Video Game Character Generator work the same way, and the Random FNAF Character Generator covers another fandom with a devoted following. The full set of pickers lives under all people & character generators.

A quick note on warrior names

Because the queries that bring people here often ask for a "warrior cat name generator," here is how the books build names, so you can invent your own. Every cat gets a prefix at birth that stays for life, usually drawn from nature: Squirrel, Bramble, Jay, Dove, Frost, Night. The suffix changes with rank. Kits are -kit, apprentices are -paw, and a warrior earns a new suffix at their naming ceremony, such as -flight, -claw, -feather, -wing, -pelt, -heart or -leap. Leaders drop their suffix for -star. Cats born outside the Clans keep ordinary names, which is why Daisy and Tree stand out in the list. Pair any nature prefix with a rank suffix and you have a name that fits the world. The Random Greek God Generator and Dragon Ball Character Generator are good if you would rather pull an existing figure from a different mythology or series.