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Fearless as a cub.Trivia. Fearless is a year younger than, as stated by. He is chronologically the youngest protagonist among the three. Along with, Fearless has lost both of his parents. He lost three parents if you include.

He is the only cub of his litter.Kin MembersFather:: DeceasedMother:: DeceasedHalf-sister:: Alive (as of )Foster father:: DeceasedBrother In-law: Alive (as of )Unnamed Half-Niece(s)/Nephew(s)Unnamed Valorcub(s): Living (Born sometime before In )Tree.

Contents Physical AppearanceThorn is a lithe who was about the size of when he was a cub. He has gray fur on his face, and he possesses a round face, as well as a long tail.

As is usual for baboons, the rest of his fur is a rich tawny-brown, with bright amber eyes. He has the characteristically rounded ears and dexterous, human-like hands of his species, as well as long legs and a lean build.Personality and TraitsThorn is shown to be very determined and confident in himself, as he attempts the with almost no hesitation. One of the reasons he attempts the Three Feats is so that he could be with his love interest.

He tends to keep unkind words to himself and would rather help others than be blunt with them. He despises bullies such as and prefers to charge into conflict head-on rather than avoid it. In, Thorn is shown to have unsure side as he's reluctant to become a and even more unwilling to be the as they're both a lot of work and Thorn isn't sure that he's fit for the job. However after Tendril plans an attack on Dawntrees Troop, Thorn overcomes his insucirties becoming the Great-Parent Bravelands needs.In The Spirit-Eaters, Thorn takes his role as Great-Parent quite seriously.

Even showing an impoverished Tendril mercy for the sake of her son who was born sometime during her exile and agreeing to spare Tendril's life as well if she agrees to never bother Dawntrees ever again and spends the rest of her life on the Mountain which Tendril agreed vowing to never leave the mountain as long as she lived. After Berry's death under the jaws of Bloodheart Pack, Thorn becomes distracted with grive swearing vengeance on the pack and Titan (Ravage's successor) for what they did to Berry. However, he restrains the impulse to let his lust for vengeance prompt him to act rashly with some convincing from.BiographyOne year after joined the, Thorn and his friend are participating in the first part of the.

This feat involves stealing an egg from a bird of prey. As they wait for a buzzard to leave her nest, Mud tugs Thorn's fur and tells him that, another from the troop has arrived and is climbing the tree to get at the eggs.Thorn silently bares his teeth at Pebble. He reassures Mud that Pebble has no chance of snatching their eggs due to his impatience. Thorn recalls who had died several seasons ago and how they were happy to remain, the lowest ranking baboons of all. Thorn loved his parents but he had no wish to remain a Deeproot for the rest of his life just because his parents were.Thorn is determined to complete all the feats so he can be promoted to so he could join with the senior baboons in fighting to defend his troop and be with his love. According to troop law, Thorn could not be mates with Berry unless they were in the same rank.

Hunger interrupts Thorn's thoughts for he and Mud had been watching and waiting at the buzzard's nest for two days and only crawled little by little every time the bird flew off. Pebble, on the other hand, has chosen to immediately climb directly up the tree. The buzzard attacks Pebble and shouts threats in. However, the bird doesn't pursue Pebble for long and returns to its nest and looks suspiciously at the trees below before relaxing. The bird then flies away from the nest heading westward. Suddenly, flings himself from the opposite treetop to get the eggs. Right when Mud and Thorn believe that they lost their chance, the buzzard flies back and claws Nut.

Nut runs away and the buzzard chases him, giving Thorn the opportunity to steal the eggs. Unfortunately, when they get the eggs and are heading back, Nut steals Mud's egg.

Thorn offers to give Mud his egg but Mud refuses. Nut and Thorn become but Mud remains a Deeproot.Thorn eventually finds out that Stinger killed both and to rise to power. Thorn confronts Stinger about his murders, and Stinger threatens to kill him if he stands in his way.At the end of the book, after Thorn attempts to murder, stops him. Thorn is presented in front of the Brightforest Troop, with Stinger saying that he 'used' Berry, who is seen with her eyes dark with disgust. Stinger claims that Thorn killed after presenting the troop with her body. Mud then furiously attacks Thorn, mauling his shoulder. Thorn shrieks that he didn't kill Starleaf.

Stinger orders Mud to stop. Thorn then tries to attack Stinger once more, but Fearless intervenes. Stinger orders the and Fearless to kill Thorn.

Suggests that they kill him in a tree. Thorn tells Fearless that none of this was his fault, and he didn't blame him, he blamed Stinger. Fearless opens his jaws to bite Thorn with a death blow at the end of the chapter, leaving a cliffhanger.During the beginning of the book, arrives and sees the Strongbranches and Fearless surrounding Thorn. Sky cries for them to stop, grabbing all their attention but Fearless's. As soon as Fearless is about to bite Thorn, Sky lurches toward him, scaring the Strongbranches away. She then crashes into Fearless, who is left unconscious while Sky grabs Thorn with her trunk and starts running away. Thorn thanks Sky for saving him and explains that the reason why Fearless hates him is because the former thinks he's a traitor.

He then proceeds to tell her that Stinger is the one who broke the and orchestrated the attack on her. The furious Sky says the Stinger should be exiled from for his crimes but Thorn disagrees.

He explains that even though the code states that one should only kill to survive, Stinger broke the code several times by killing for greed and ambition, and should be killed for it. However, Sky still believes that Stinger's punishment should be exile instead of death. After Sky reveals that the resides within her and her mission to find the new Great Parent, Thorn parts ways with Sky and heads for the tree where Nut and the late Starleaf were hiding. When Thorn enters the hollow he finds a battered Nut who explains that he tried to fight off the Strongbranches, but there were too many. They then hear the Strongbranches approaching and depart from the hollow and make a run for it.

While fleeing, Thorn covers himself and Nut with animal poop to mask their scent. When Nut asks where they're going to hide next, Thorn decides that they should head to as it's the last place Stinger will look for them due to the fact that the forest is home to which eat baboons.While hiding out in Leopard Forest, Thorn and Nut are hanging out in the treetops sharing fruit. Their feast is cut short when they a captured by Highleaves of the who bring them before their Crownleaf,.Tendril spares Thorn and Nut's lives on the condition that they'll be permanent members of whether they want it or not in order to prevent them from committing treason. Tendril reveals that the troop wasn't always this cautious with outsiders but let in a into their troop long ago and in return, this baboon committed treason. This baboon is later revealed to be Stinger.

After Thorn and Nut become members of Crookedtree Troop, Crookedtree Troop is attacked. Nut seeing an opportunity tries to convince Thorn to flee with him using the Redwood's attack on Crookedtree Troop as an opportunity to make a break for it. Thorn however, convinces to Nut stay and fight alongside him and it's better if the spent the opportunity to flee Crookedtree Troop and wait for another opportunity for them to flee. After learning that Stinger was the treacherous Baboon who killed Marula Crownleaf and fled kidnapping Berry in the process and that Pear is her distraught mother,He realizes in shock and excitement that he ended up find something he wasn't looking for in Leopard Forest, the evidence to prove that Stinger is a fraud. Thorn then convinces Pear Goodleaf along with a large portion of Crookedtree to follow him as they confront Stinger and expose the monkey for the fraud he is. Thorn arrives at Baboon island with Pear and Nut in-tow to convince Berry that he truly meant it when he told her that he really loved her and not an unrepentant jerk who was taking advantage of her.

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Berry is initially skeptical of Thorn's claims, however she comes around when Thorn reveals that he found her mother whom Stinger lied that she was killed. Pear also confirms that Thorn was telling the truth when he called out Stinger for being at fault for the things the latter accused Thorn of doing.

Berry feels bad for getting mad at Thorn and agrees to leave with him and Pear for Leopard Forest.However, Nut is captured by Brightforest forces. When Fearless returns to Baboon Island to warn Stinger about Sky and Loyal. When he learns that Berry left with Thorn Fearless (Believing That Thorn kidnapped Berry) agrees to track them down and kill Thorn but when Stinger orders Fearless to destroy Crookedtree for housing Thorn Fearless refuses as while he still convinced that Thorn betrayed Brightforest, he knows that Crookedtree would never deliberately house a code-breaker and naively assumes that Thorn 'lied' to Crookedtree Troop that he was good when he was supposedly and evil-individual. He also questions Stinger on his way of treating Nut even after Stinger reveals that he accompanied Thorn do to the fact that they never got along and Fearless doesn't think that they'd be friends even now even if Thorn was supposedly bad.

Realizing that his lies would no longer do him any good, Stinger sees no reason why he should continue to fengin his friendship with Fearless so he confesses that he allied himself with Titan and threatens to send the wicked Lion after Fearlesspride and that he (Stinger) was at fault for Snarl's death. Realizing that Singer is indeed the bad guy, Fearless then impulsively attacks Stinger in revenge for his deceit and to prevent him from sending Titan after Fearlesspride. However the Strongbranches intervene and Stinger reacts with fury by banishing Fearless from Brightforest Troop. Why fleeing, Fearless than thinks about how he was cruel to Loyal and Thorn for no reason and regrets doing so now that he knows that he'd been scapegoating them for Stinger's actions/behavior.

Later on Thorn is chatting with Berry when they spot a repentant Fearless who reveals that he didn't come to fight Thorn but to apologize for get mad and trying to kill him earlier now that he knows it wasn't him who betrayed his troop or was behind the horrendous events that followed but Stinger Crownleaf. Thorn also learns from Fearless about Stinger's alliance with Titan and forgives Fearless for his earlier betrayal. Later on, Fearless, Thorn and Sky gather their forces to take down Stinger and Titanpride. Fearless leads his pride and Loyal after Titan and his forces while Thorn, Berry and Sky go after Stinger. Stinger is confronted by Berry for his deception during the former's confrontatio with Thorn and Berry, Stinger flees to the edge of the island where he's confronted by Sky who throws him in the Watering hole in retaliation for his schemes particularly for sending the after (As she was Sky's grandmother) where he is eaten by a float of crocodiles. With Stinger gone, the three protagonists celebrate their victory with their allies at Baboon Island.In the first chapter Thorn's reminiscences the time his father taught him about how mango were the juicy before they decayed.

Recently, the troop had been pushing for him to become Crownleaf, but nothing official has happened yet. In the end Berry is elected the new Crownleaf, and she renames Brightforest Troop to.Later the Crookedtree Troop attacks and during the battle Thorn is knocked to the ground, presumed to be dead. That's when and come, and pick Thorn up. Thorn thinks that he's dead, and that he's being carried to where spirits go. He is surprised when they start bringing him toward the mountains, but he isn't very concerned, still convinced that he is dead.

The Vultures.In the Spirit-Eaters, Thorn reveals to Sky that he's the former's grandmother's successor. Thorn sends the Vultures to spread news that the Great-parent has returned to the Bravelands and is hosting a. As Thorn arrives at the Watering Hole, to deliver his speech, the attendants make way for Thorn.

There, Thorn reveals that he is the new Great-Parent. Thorn also sees the ghosts of some of the former Great-Parent's only visible to him.

After receiving endorsement from his attendants he is tackled by Fearless. When Thorn cites how Fearless tired to murder him the last time a Great Gathering was held, Fearless looks away in embarrassment. When two Leopards arrive with the corpse of their friend, Thorn discovers that their murder is the Gold Wolves doing when he discovers their heart to be missing.

Fearless, Ruthless and Keen volunteer to travel to the Dead Forest in order to hunt them down. Later on, Sky brings Thunder's Herd to make a ClearingIn the forest Dawntrees resides in for Thorn. After the clearing is finished, Thorn and co.

Are interrupted by a float of Crocodiles who demand Thorn to help them with their problem with a Pod of Hippos who accused the crocs for the death of their infant and threaten to wage and all-out war against the Hippos in revenge if Thorn refuses to oblige to their request. Thorn investigates the circumstances of the baby Hippos death with help from Sky.

After Sky reads baby's skeletal remains where they discover that the Gold Wolveswere at fault for the murder, not Muddy River Bask. Thorn and Sky then report their findings to Plunge (Leader of the vengeful pod) who then agrees to call-off his and his pod's feud with the crocs on the condition Muddy River Bask calls of their upcoming attack. Tear agrees to call off his forces allowing both parties to coexist with one another. Back at the Great-Father Clearing, Mango arrives to report that the Crownguardis usurping Berry's authority behind her back. Thorn then agrees to inform Berry on this matter.

Berry however doesn't approve of Thorn's intervention deeming it unnecessary.She tells Thorn that she'll handle the Crownguard and not to expect her to be perfect at her job. When Sky visits Thorn, She announces that Boulder and his Herd Brothers are planning the migrate soo since it's the time of the year where Sky's species begin theirmigration. Sky is initially hesitant since it's her duty to protect Thorn. Thorn reassuresher that she should join her Brother and his fellow Bulls in the migration and that he'll be fine.

Sometime after Sky's departure, Fearless and his small pride turn to him to use his powers to track down Titan. However, Thorn is unable to find him much to Fearless's dismay. Later, a Battered Tendril arrives to seek Thorn's aid.

Thorn notches that she has an infant attached to her which Tendrils revealed to be her son, Seedling. She explains that the reason why she needs his help despite their negative History is because she lost her Troop to forest fire while in exile sometime after she bore Seedling forcing her and her son to live in poverty with no Troop to protect them. She reveals that she was also spotted by Dawntrees Sentires and is not only terrified for herself but for her child as Seedling as nobody but Tendril to protect him who would be no match for several baboons especially in the former's current physical state. Thorn on the draft cover of Code of HonorTrivia. Thorn is one of three protagonists to have lost both of his parents. Thorn and his troop are specifically Olive Baboons. Thorn is named after the thorns on a thorn bush, which are sharp parts of the stems and branches.

Thorn is the only protagonist to be an omnivore. He's not the first baboon to be the because at least one baboon named was the Great Father long ago. There are at least three other (but likely more) non- who also served as.Kin Members:Mate:: DeceasedFather:: DeceasedMother:Deeproot: DeceasedTree.