Early Histoy:

-- The demon pride existed back at this time but was fairly small with each god only having a few followers
-- When Eva is around young adol, she meets Sparda and they fall in love
-- They have two cubs, Verge'lian (Verge) and Telémakhos (Te)
-- While the two are still cubs, Morifaer comes onto the scene and attacks the family with all of the demon-lions under his command
-- During the battle, Sparda and his followers fight off and kills a large number of the demon lions sworn to Morifaer. Almost all of the demon-lions on BOTH sides are killed in this fight. Spada is also badly hurt in the process
-- By the time Morifaer himself shows up, Sparda knows that he's too weak to fight off the other god - so he offers himself as prisoner to Morifaer if Mori will let his family go
-- Morifaer agrees to this - but once he has Sparda pinned down, he calls to the remnants of his followers and sends them after Eva and the cubs, while Sparda is helpless. The rest of Sparda's followers go after them to try to protect the family. All but one or two lions are killed during this and the pride is broken
-- Iar likely is the descendant of one of these survivors - though that can't be said for sure
-- In the chaos, Eva and both cubs run and are scattered, but all manage to survive - thinking the others dead at this point
-- Morifaer, however, tells Sparda that they were all killed
-- After some time passes with no sign of his family, Sparda believes the lie
-- Morifaer, meanwhile, watches over the few remaining lions and plans for the future

Verge and Te's story:

-- Though they are separated as cubs, Verge and Te meet up again a bit later - probably in Juve stage, but possibly not until early Adol
-- By this point, Verge has grown cold and distant
-- Mori has found Verge by this point and is working on his mind to try and mess with him - and Mori likely has ideas of re-building the pride around Verge
-- For a while, Verge and Te are all right together, but then sometime around Adol-Adult, Mori actually manages to blood-bind Verge and sends him after Te - mostly because Te has vastly different ideas about how the pride should run and etc (Sparda's ideals)
-- Verge hunts down his brother they fight and Verge thinks that he has killed Te. At this point, Verge fights off Mori's control and goes his own way - only to show up later when Iar starts to re-form the pride and bring Sparda's ideals back in
-- However, Te survives and is taken in by the healer-pride for a little while
-- After that, he wanders alone

-- insert whatever you're thinking with your Grief goddess here? You didn't tell me much about that...

Present time:

-- After having been imprisoned for so long, Sparda finally overcomes his own grief at his family's death and starts to actively work on escaping
-- Once he's out, he rather quickly discovers the demon pride that has re-formed in his absence and finds that one son, at least, is still alive
-- It's POSSIBLE at this point that he finds a couple of females and has cubs with them, though it's not necessary
-- Sometime after this, Eva finds the pride and Sparda and they renew their lifemating
-- Te also shows up around this time