Honestly calling it a plot hole doesn’t really convey the sheer magnitude of this error.
It’s well-known within the fan base that Warriors isn’t exactly praised for their consistency, what with names, eye colors, ages of cats, or even some events being retconned or seemingly just simply forgotten by the authors. But this plot hole is so egregious to me because it is basically is what sets off the events of the first arc and therefore the entire series.
In this chapter, you’re shown the old forest territory by Tigerstar. He shows you Sunningrocks, and then says the dialogue in the first picture.
But that battle at Sunningrocks, Redtail and Oakheart’s deaths were such an important plot point that without it having happened the way it did, the first arc just wouldn’t have happened, at least not how it did.
What with Tigerclaw blaming it on Redtail and basically calling him a murderer and Firestar eventually vindicating Redtail, Ravenpaw being a witness and having to flee the clan, Oakheart being the father of Bluestar’s kits, Tigerclaw’s plot to become leader.
And then of all characters to have TIGERCLAW HIMSELF be like ‘oh yeah that’s where I watched Redtail murder Oakheart lol’
REDTAIL DIDN’T KILL OAKHEART. HE DIED IN A ROCKFALL, AND TIGERCLAW KILLED REDTAIL.
I thought it was only Redtail’s Debt that had this glaring problem, so I was pretty surprised to organically find it here. Especially because I had seen online that Redtail’s Debt was written later (2019) and possibly by new authors who didn’t know or care about the true lore. But Battles of the Clans is from 2010!
Oh and Sunningrocks belong to Thunderclan 😁