The War

Alternatively referred to as "The God War," The War is possibly one of the most historical things that happened in the past of Shades of Light. It is known as the time when eight spirits, three from the side that wished for a more peaceful forest, and four from a side that believed strongly in survival of the fittest. These spirits were known as the Spirits of Before.

The God War is when, according to the older cats in the Group, these eight spirits fought tooth and claw, and all for the Forest. In the end, some say that the spirits for peace killed the others, and other stories say that the spirits of peace convinced the others to join their cause.

Neither of these are true.

* SPOILER ALERT* When The War ended, it was actually stopped by them all together, when the Forest itself turned on them, told them to halt their fights, and to stop watering saplings with the blood of their opposition. After Vision told his current captors, the group of four that was more brutal, that this was true, then War lead to meet the opposing group. They made the decision to help any mortal cats they'd left alive by giving them a Group to rely on. Afterwards, ancestors to look to in times of help. To keep the Orb the spirits were contained in, they had Vision, who had changed his name to Khlre'Grun, bind them to the Orb.

Each half century, for three years, they are free again, and able to roam the Forest, as is the spirits of time that are Embodiments of the Forest. *END OF SPOILER*