Clan guardians
Hi my names jasmyn and I have loved reading the chronicles of ancient darkness. I would like to ask you about clan guardians. Can your clan guardian be an animal that you are deeply connected too? Thanks, Jasmyn
Hello again, Jasmyn, and thanks for this. You’re quite right, your clan guardian can indeed be an animal to whom you feel deeply connected. In my previous answer about clans, I explained what a clan-creature is. Well, the clan guardian is like the special, spirit version of a clan-creature, which watches over members of that clan. You may never actually see it (although that’s not impossible, and you might think you have, if your clan creature does something out of the ordinary) but that won’t stop you asking it for help, or thanking it if good things happen. And you might dream about it, which might make you believe it had visited you in your sleep. The Raven Clan’s clan guardian is of course a raven. But it’s not one of the ravens which hang about camp, or tease wolf cubs; and when Renn sometimes refers to individual ravens as “little guardian”, that’s just a form of speech. She doesn’t mean that they’re actually the clan guardian. But she’s always respectful to ravens, because they are her clan creature. If this all sounds rather vague and mysterious, that’s because it is. Beliefs often are. But I hope it’s helped you understand. And may your guardian hunt, run, swim or fly with you! With best wishes, Michelle
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