Name: What Are the Powers of Three? – Sunny's Spiel | Warriors Analysis
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While cats with superpowers isn't an element exclusive to the Power of Three and Omen of

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the Stars arcs, those arcs certainly focused most heavily on them.

Unfortunately, that was less out of a desire to tell a specific story involving superpowered

cats, and more out of a need to fill space while waiting for the Ashfur and family drama

By the time of Omen of the Stars, they had already made several missteps in the formation

of the powers, and didn't manage to correct those by the time of the final battle, leading

to even the clans' victory over the Dark Forest having nothing to do with the powers

that were supposedly made to use in that very fight.

One of the most tangled aspects of the powers plot is actually in what the powers themselves

From fairly early into the process of writing The Sight, the Erins already knew that Jaypaw,

Lionpaw, and Hollypaw, would have superpowers, and Jaypaw is using his throughout the first

book, including a moment where he uses it to see, in Firestar's memories, the exact

prophecy that his powers are based around: “There will be three, kin of your kin, who

hold the power of the stars in their paws.”

This prophecy, like many in the series, is quite vague.

It says that three members of Firestar's family will have powers, but it doesn't

say who those cats are, what any of their powers are, when they will use their powers,

Strictly speaking, this prophecy doesn't even say that they'll be born with powers.

They could all be given power for a single special battle or other climatic moment and

The reason for all of this vagueness is simple: at the time the Erins were writing this and

most other prophecies, they didn't yet know how it would play out.

Warriors books are written three books in advance, so Outcast was being drafted as they

They don't know while writing The Sight what will happen in Sunrise, let alone The

And in case you were wondering, the first time that Lionpaw and Hollypaw are even told

about the prophecy's existence is in the space between Outcast and Eclipse.

Hollyleaf herself was originally intended to be one of the three like her brothers,

and her eventual confirmation of lacking power was a last minute decision made in the latter

half of the arc, in large part because Victoria Holmes had found no luck in thinking of a

Now, knowing how tremendously popular Hollyleaf has become as a result of that choice, and

as a massive Hollyleaf fan myself, I do believe that particular choice did more good than

However, it also resulted in Hollyleaf having a fairly inconsistent characterization and

storyline, one that continued to bounce and sway even through to her…less-than-perfect

death, which I'm sure I'll have more to say on in a different video.

Here, though, I'd like to stick to the topic.

Even once her lack of power had been chosen, it didn't affect her story much.

Through Long Shadows and Sunrise, Hollyleaf's main priority is still about her parentage

and the possibility of not being clan-born, or later, being half-clan.

In other words, she was concerned with what the plot of the arc was originally conceived

There doesn't even exist a single scene where Hollyleaf realizes that she doesn't

have a power, instead thinking that none of the siblings are part of the three since,

without Squirrelflight as a biological mother, they might not be related to Firestar at all.

The first time she has to confront her separation from the prophecy is when she comes back and

meets Dovewing in The Forgotten Warrior, but even then we don't get any of her thoughts

without her point-of-view, and most of what we do see is her trying to make up for the

murder she committed rather than anything to do with her power or place in the prophecy.

Lionblaze's power, meanwhile, definitely existed, and if you've read or know the

story of Power of Three, you probably have at least a general conception of what that

However, the exact description of what his power is would change depending on who you

asked, from not being hurt to instantly winning any battle to general strength or just anger.

This is because his power was only really invented in late Outcast, in a…ahem, distasteful

event in the Tribe, which led to many mistakes in it both before and after its implementation.

He definitely doesn't instantly win any battles he is involved in, either on his own

There are only seven battles involving him before the end of Omen of the Stars: a border

skirmish with Shadowclan in The Sight, fighting the Tribe invaders in Outcast, fighting Windclan

and Riverclan in Eclipse, the battle with the beavers in The Fourth Apprentice before

they realized they needed to destroy the dam, a second battle with Shadowclan in Fading

Echoes, a second battle with Windclan and Sol in the tunnels in The Forgotten Warrior,

and the big Dark Forest battle in The Last Hope.

Now, seven is a very small number to make any judgement off of, but importantly here,

even one of those battles was flat out lost.

When the traveling group fought the beavers, Rippletail died, all of them were overwhelmed,

and they had to retreat, with Lionblaze himself making the call.

And when they went back the second time, Lionblaze and Dovewing worked to tear the dam apart

while the others distracted the beavers directly, so he wasn't even a part of that battle.

Along with that, the battle in Fading Echoes was only declared to be won by Thornclaw,

but both Thunderclan and Shadowclan lost a high ranking life that day, so whether Lionblaze

won them the battle or not is questionable.

Even beyond that though, winning the majority of battles you are involved in is a trait

shared by a great majority of Warriors protagonists, especially those in the main series.

It doesn't seem all that special for Lionblaze specifically, and he has been beaten even

in single combat, with Berrynose nonetheless, so being undefeatable doesn't seem like

The second most prominent idea is that he can't be hurt, but this is proven false

Lionpaw is regularly scratched by the environment or by other cats, and even if his power was

meant to be used exclusively against the Dark Forest, it wouldn't work, because Tigerstar

himself, effectively if not literally the leader of the Dark Forest, was easily able

Suffice to say, he is in no way indestructible, no matter how many times he comes out of a

The only remaining possibility seems to be that, as lines like this imply, his power

is a form of adrenaline that allows him to have more energy, anger, passion, or focus

If this is his power, it overlaps greatly with his anger issues that exist outside of

battle and it is hard to determine the line between the two, but it also doesn't seem

If the adrenaline can't guarantee him a win, he'll still be just as hurt by any

attacks, and the anger he has can make him kill cats he didn't mean to, what benefit

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