Tales from the Wild

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A young Thornclan tabby rises on two legs, thorn-spear leveled, facing the huge scarred rogue cat Blackbriar across a moonlit bramble hedge

Clawsong

Tales of Thornclan

You are a young cat of Thornclan. A fox has stolen a kit from the very nursery — and foxes do not raid a clan so boldly on their own. Behind the theft waits a patient shadow with a stolen name: Blackbriar. Eighteen quests carry you from your first patrol to the last battle for the Gathering Hollow, with talking, tracking, and kindness rewarded as often as courage.

18 quests · ages 8 and up · plays in your browser · free

Enter the Hollow →
A human mage, staff blazing, faces a massive minotaur in a torchlit stone labyrinth

A second world

being charted…

Somewhere past the edge of the map: older heroes, deeper dungeons, and dice with more sides. A classic sword-and-sorcery world for adventurers twelve and up.

coming… eventually

How you play

No menus, no joystick. The story tells you where you stand; you type what you want to do, and the story answers. LOOK at everything. TALK to everyone. Be brave.

> LOOK
Thornwood Edge Behind you rises the great bramble wall of the Gathering Hollow, thick as three cats and humming with home. Ahead, the trees crowd close, and the morning smells wrong: crushed fern and fox-musk, sharp as a warning. Caught on a blackthorn at the trail's first bend, small and soft and terrible, hangs a single wisp of grey kitten-fluff.
> TAKE THE THORN-SPEAR
You take a thorn-spear. Light in the paw, quick to turn, and it swings true.
> GO NORTH
Fern Gully A green dip in the wood where the ferns grow taller than your ears, so that you swim through them more than walk…

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