Username: DewFromJupiter
Lion name: Efuru
Lion gender: Female
Pride: People of the Painted ValleyPride status: Founder!
Prompt:She is a brilliant teller of myths, stories, and legends. When she tells tales, cubs draw nearer to listen. She wouldn’t say that she’s a writer, per se, as her people carry information by song and oral tradition. One of her favorites is the story of how lions got their colour.
Long ago, when the Old Ones roamed the earth, the whole land was barren and cold. As the animals gathered to talk with the Spirit of the Sky, they wished to create something new, lively, to raise their families in and start their own nations. The Spirit happily accepted this request and gave them seeds and unique skills to create their new home. The strongest of them, the rhinos, dug the rivers and formed the mountains. And the wisest of them, the elephants, planted the seeds, throwing them where they formed rainforests, savannahs, and the deserts. The proud lions decided to leap into the sky and drag the sun a bit closer. And that, she says, is why our pelts are so bright and why our homelands are so warm. The lions desired a warm home, but their decision was not without its own consequences. The Spirit of the Sky, offended and upset that the lions did not ask for something that would have been given freely, would not allow something so precious to be tampered without a cost. Some of the lions gained a mane, a symbol of the glory of the sun’s rays, but they also faced times of great drought.
This has led her to becoming a great source of entertainment and happiness amongst her pride. Her stories are a great booster of morale. Nothing satisfies hungry souls quite like a story that fills the heart and spirit. They’ve bound the pride together throughout the generations.