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Name: Ecaterina [Romanian // Blessed, Pure, Holy]
Stage: Adult
Gender: Female
Species: Lion
Parents: ? x ?
Offspring: Ili'ella
Description: Old rogue lines, following the reference image, with colourist freedom to add/simplify markings if needed.
Reference Image(s), if applicable: [Reference]
Tell me about this SoA!:
Mother of several cubs who have flown the nest/left on their own journeys, Ecaterina is the mother of Ili'ella, who has recently birthed a litter of cubs, but is without a mate to help take care of them all and is still trying to live up to the life her mother had always encouraged (being a gypsy and never settling down in one fixed place)

Ecaterina is the epitome of a gypsy and has taught her children that there is happiness in never stopping, never settling, and walking until the great spirits take you back into the arms of mother earth, but now she is growing older. She lost her mate years ago to a pack of Hyena's who had noticed the weakening male, and had been desperate for food.

She was once a vibrant woman, but now she has grown bitter and craves to find some normality. Her reappearance in Ili'ella's life will spur her daughter to settle down, not wanting to become her mother, old and alone, still without a home or a close family.

Low luck?: No.

Name: Ema (beautiful in swahili)
Stage: Adult
Gender: Female
Species: Lion, old lines (Aka'mleli pride)
Parents:
Offspring: Uchomozi, Upekuzi
Description: Older sister of Elea's. Similar colours, and patterns, but maybe a touch of pink for variance. Up to colourist.
Reference Image(s), if applicable:
Elea: http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr123/akamleli/uncerted/adults/eleaadult.png
Tell me about this SoA!: She disappeared when the earthquake occurred, along with many members of the pride. Seperated from her mate Ukali, brother to Umoja, and her young daughter Upekuzi, Ema raised Uchomozi as best she could alone, waiting for a time when they could return to the pride.

Now that they've returned, a string of the royal family, how will the pride take it that more sustaining members are still alive, and trying to make it home?

Namely, it would be quite an event returning home to find that her baby sister Elea has had a litter with Umoja's son, Ufunuo. Complicated family matters, after the half living in the lands presumed them dead!

Low luck?: Nah.

Name:Atlanticus
Stage: Adult
Gender: Male
Species: Lion
Parents: -x-
Offspring: None
Description: Light blue with dark blue markings, based off of a Sea Slug. Markings may be rendered however you wish.
Reference Image(s), if applicable: Sea Sluggggg!
Tell me about this SoA!: Atlanticus is a member of an extensive family tree which is mostly centered around his sister, Leboya. However, traces of his uncledom in the tree have been shown in Leboya's grandson, but outside of that, his presence hasn't been all to common. However, I have been planning for him to make an appearance in his sister's life somewhere in the future.
Low luck?: No.

Added Isefet 4/29!

Name: Tango
Stage: Adult
Gender: Male
Species: Cheetah
Parents: N/A
Offspring: N/A
Description: There is a red fade. It's not a solid pink.
Reference Image(s), if applicable: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/Mor_Ros/Tango.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/Mor_Ros/TangoDragon.gif
Tell me about this SoA!:
It had become apparent to Tango that he was doing nothing with his life past lazing about. After the brutal murder of his mother and siblings; and the disappearance of his father- he’d become somewhat of a recluse, or partially insane- take your pick. But by far the poor Cheetah wasn’t going any where with his life. About the only thing he could do was hunt to keep himself alive. But next to that he was little more then a rock that trafficked the ground below everyone’s paws.

He was tired of it though. He wanted to be more then just a mouth to feed to the growing Savannah. He wanted to do something with his life despite the dwindling energy that befell him. He was pretty- maybe he could get a girlfriend or join a pride or something, did cheetahs even join prides? He wasn’t so keen on joining anything with lions since they had been what killed his family. And for no reason either. He just saw them as competition and laid them all off for that reason. If he hadn’t been off playing by himself he would have gotten killed too.

But his main goal was to really meet up with his father. He assumed that he was still alive. Having bred and ran. Would serve him right if the b*****d got eaten. Though with his mothers young death he didn’t understand it was a cheetah males way of life…to how do you say it- make cubs and run?

It’s his goal to meet his father (whom I’ll custom one day and learn the ways of a cheetah- even though he’ll denounce most of them).

-Eventually I will custom his father. They will both be joining the Dawnwalkers.
Low luck?: Yup been trying for what 3 or 4 months now O_o()

Name: Isefet
Stage: Adult
Gender: Male
Species: Wild Dog
Parents: Siena and Nesoo
Offspring: N/A
Description: You can take off the items. I'd be pleased as punch just to have Isefet by himself. Other notes - he's scraggly and insane. So have fun.
Reference Image(s), if applicable: http://www.gaiaonline.com/j/?mode=view&post_id=8716620&u=541330
Tell me about this SoA!: Well first things first his father was born as a slave to an evil god and his mother was a servant to a king. The god had full power over his father Nesoo but was yearning for more.

Siena on the other hand was morning the loss of one of her greatest friends that had died in a war. She had been passing dangerously close to the evil gods territory but close enough for Nesoo to see her. He planned for this time to make his escape from the god not knowing where he was going to. But the god had planned this and let him escape. At the prospect of young he'd take his chance to let one of his own go if only for a little while.

So Nesoo met Siena and almost immediately cheered her up. The two struck it off quickly and mated with one another. The evil god waited impatiently till finally the cubs had been born. He smirked looming over Nesoo. "Your cubs for your freedom." Nesoo looked at Siena and quickly agreed. But Siena disagreed though her heart yearned for Nesoo's freedom. She threw her body over the cubs as Nesoo watched horrified. The god quickly put an end to her and scooped up her son, whom he quickly named 'Isefet' - the one who reined over chaos, disorder, and evil in Egyptian.

Nesoo lunged forward to do something but by then the god had gone with his only living pup and he could do nothing more then morn his mates body below him. He vowed from that day forward to avenge his mate and make up for the mistakes that he had caused.

Meanwhile the god had taken his cub Fet and began to raise him like a son. Teaching him the art of thievery and murder. He was a necromancer and needed bodies daily for his dark magic. And from a small age the pup had been taught to take them- weather dead or alive. Though as he was young he preferred to take them dead when the blood lust spurred threw him he found more and more pleasure taking them back alive and grizzled.

It was then he had met his own love. One that took him far from the god that had called him his son. They were inseparable like puppies in play. Eventually she was to give birth to several of his young. But unlike before the god didn't want to loose his prize pupil. So he cornered Isefet in a 'fatherly' tone. And told him to give Calvi- that was his mate. A gift that she wouldn't forget. Beyond the dunes had lay a temple full of riches something worthy of a queen. Something Isefet quickly promised to Calvi. They would take the long journey there together as mates. But only he would make the trip back. Alone, Solom, and angry at the world.

For the god had some how convinced his father to be there at the temple. Waiting for them. He had brainwashed him that Calvi was going to kill his son. And when they reached the temple. The old wild dog sprung onto Calvi ripping into her and killing her as Isefet watched. But he was quick on his feet and sprung onto his father's nape. But not in enough time to keep him from damaging vital parts of his mate. He threw Nesoo to the other end of the cave knocking him unconscious for the meantime. He wanted to spend his last breaths with Calvi. She smiled and nuzzled him telling him he was going to be alright then with a lick she died at his paws. Enraged he went back over to his father but the god had gotten cocky and out of nowhere began laughing. "You fool. You'd kill your own son if he didn't knock you unconscious!" Isefet was listening though and could hear every word.

"Father?" He choked out all this time thinking the god had been his real dad. He bent down to lick the blood off of him but Nesoo's eyes parts a crack. He looked into his sons eye's with his own heart and not the one from the god. "Son. I love you. But I can't live with myself. I'm the reason your mother is dead. I'm the reason your mate is dead...please kill me."

Isefet wanted to pull back to bring his father to his paws and learn about past memories but he could see the sadness in his eyes. And he simply nodded and before Nesoo died he muffled out 'I'm sorry son...' and his eyes faded to black.

With the god no place to be seen the only thing left for Isefet to do was wander and make amends for his life. If only to one day meet the beast that cursed him and kill him with his own fangs.

(The items are signifigant to his life if you do want to include them. The chains around his waist are from after his father died. And he desided from that moment on to carry the sins of the people he had murdered for the rest of his life. The golden armor is really a cast. He arm had been very badly broken and he wore the cast about his arm so he wouldn't damage it again. The bracelet is that from his mother that Siena had given him when he was born. The earning and collar were a 'sign' of his imprisonment to the evil god)

--His is also insane after all the death from his family. He often bashes his head into trees to get the 'voices' of his dead family out.

Low luck?: Yes I have

Completely Edited in a Different Form.

Name: Hakuna'Taja
Stage: Adult
Gender: Male
Species: Lion - New Rogue Lines
Parents: N/A
Offspring: N/A
Description: Design is completely up to the colorist, based off of the lyrics and the concept.
Reference Image(s), if applicable: N/A
Tell me about this SoA!:
Inspired by lyrics from two Tom Petty songs, "Turn This Car Around" and "Don't Come Around Here No More"
Green and gray and auburn
Sliding down the sky
The devil winks an eye
A figure in the doorway
Shouldering the blame
This saint without a name.

Don't come around here no more
Don't come around here no more
Whatever you're looking for
Don't come around here no more

Hakuna'Taja grew up in a rigidly structured, very superstitious pride. When he was young, a devastating plague hit the small population and killed off about two-thirds of the members. The elders of the pride, in their grief and suspicion, looked for someone to blame. Because Hakuna had been the most recent birth in the pride, they blamed the plague on him and cast him out of their pride. His parents turned their backs on him. They stripped him of his original name and dubbed him Hakuna'Taja, which literally means, "no name" before chasing him out of the pride lands.

Young and vulnerable, Haku struggled to live. He made it, but just barely. Shouldering the blame of his homeland's devastation, he lived in self-hate for a long time, refusing to eat any food and driving his body to exhaustion. In a fevered state, he believes that he had a vision of a God telling him to build a pride based on principles of peace, forgiveness, and meditation. He is currently on a quest to find lands to begin building this pride.

He is a humble lion, keeping the name of disgrace that was given to him. He is patient, kind, but very quiet with a tortured soul. He practices daily meditation to help find feelings of inner peace.
Low luck?: Nope.

Name: Dûlani
Stage: Adult
Gender: Female
Species: Lion (new lines)
Parents: ? x ?
Offspring: N/A
Description: //A female colored like a blazing sunset appeared on a hilltop in front of him. Her coat was varying shades of fire and sun, with gold irises to match, and war paint slicked on various places on her body; a powerful, flaming feast for the eyes.//

(You can nix the war paint and focus on the other stuff ((unless you want to add some separately, which is cool! XD) Artistic creativity is welcome! Though, note, she is not colored like a sunset theme with black silhouettes of trees and such--more that she is just...colored...like a sunset? With all those colors. "Flaming feast for the eyes." (Okay, I fail. orz)
I really struggle with explaining this concept, so I hope you can kind of see her in your mind in your own way, at least. XD Despite my rambling.
Reference Image(s), if applicable: [One] - [Two] - [Three] - [Four] - [Five] - [Line-traced ref I did a while back]
She looks ketchup-n-mustard-y to me in that last ref, but I just tried to get the basic idea across so at least there was a minimal visual of concept. Kind of. You can actually ignore it since it sucks. But if you wanna just look at that pic as inspiration or whatever, feel free to kind of go from there and take artistic liberty to do what you think looks good/what you gather from the description.
The basic idea is blended sunset colors with the darker colors on top and the lighter colors kind of on the underside/bottom kind of thing. The circled color would be her eye color. All the colors in that ref are up for changing, though! As long as she just looks like a blazing kind of sunset lioness. ARTISTIC FREEDOM, definitely. XD

Tell me about this SoA!: The full story with everything I've written about her so far is right here under the "history" section. If you're like most people (including me XD) you won't want to read THAT WHOLE THING, but I really don't feel I could explain it well in a short...way (-fail-) so you can just feel free to skip-read through that entry if you don't want to read it all. (Hopefully this is okay. orz) Obviously if you want to read the whole thing, that would be good, though! XD

Low luck?: (I've been trying for her since I won the contest, but other than that...) Of course it's low-luck! D: Poor Tariq'ra'd is missing his first twu wuv desperately~! He can't wait to FIND her again and have an EPIC BATTLE and CAPTURE HER and TAKE HER with him back home so that EPIC DRAMA can ensue.... >>

But of course...Dûlani never remains captured for long....

Edited in a new form! 4-28-2010


Name: Theluji'lesani
Stage: Adult
Gender: Male
Species: Lion
Parents: n/a
Offspring: -
Description: See reference image for markings...ignore the neck markings.
Base coat is white. Eye, wing, and front leg markings are the middle hue in the palette. Inner ears, bottom muzzle, and back leg markings are the darkest color on the palette. Mane and tail tuft are a gradient of the second darkest to darkest color on the palette. Eyes are the second lightest color on the palette. Nose is pale pink, almost white.
Reference Image(s), if applicable: Markings, Palette
Tell me about this SoA!: Theluji is to be the 'War General' for the Intaba'umbikezeli, or Mountain Seers. They don't actually "see" things as they're not real seers. The women of the pride (those born into it from original members, not new members) suffer from a disease that produces hallucinations and eventually induces schizophrenia depending on the color of your coat. The closer your coat is to white, the higher the chance it is that you will not only have hallucinations, but go completely crazy. The Intaba'umbikezeli are a very religious pride as the founding members Mwitu'nafsi and Bahari'nafsi believed their sight was given to them by God. The god of all the gods.
Theluji himself is HIGHLY loyal to the High Priestesses and their God. He fought hard to attain the rank he holds, and believes it is because God trusted him with the safety of the High Priestesses. It is a trust he refuses to break. To most, he is a very detached, cold-seeming lion...all blunt logic and little tolerance for stupidity. But to Kizuka and Fasihi, he is gentle and soft-spoken. To any who cross the pride...he is unforgiving and fierce, a force to be reckoned with.
Low luck?: Nope!