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Name: Aranum (moonsong)
Symbol: sunpride mark on right shoulder,chion curse red crescent-with-spot on left flank
Sex: Female
Rank: Bishop / Hunter / Protection / Tracker
Mate: Zer0
Cubs: Kamaria and Levon
Unique Traits: Her life span is altered and slowed by the chion curse, it also gives her a cheetah like mane.
Reference pic:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/27761494/Aranum was born to the sun-pride, a large family of lions easily recognisable to their own kin by the white sun birthmark that was on the shoulder, flank or forehead at birth. The pride was friendly with the local cheetah family, and even in rare times of scarce food the two families did not fight.
However, a rouge came into the territory one day. He tried to steal the kill of a young member of the sun-pride, but he was driven off. That afternoon as the sun set red, he murdered the entire cheetah family in cold blood, purely out of spite for there was no meat to steal.
It so happened that it was the night of all spirits, and a full moon, and this combination caused such a phenomenon that the cheetah spirits, angered by their terrible death, were dissorientated by their being torn so suddenly from life, and they came upon the sun-pride and killed them all. When the moon rose, their spirits were cool and they saw what they had done. They found only one survivor...a young cub, nearing adolescence, had been bitten by their king, but had not died. The spirits took her to a huge tree, where a white leopard lived. The leopard was something of a mage, and he did the cheetah spirits last bidding by taking in the young cub. He nursed her back to health, and he learned of her name.
Aranum grew very slowly,due to her curse, and at first it frustrated her, but her protecter let her roam far, and taught her how to track and hunt by stealth and how to hide so well she seemed to dissapear.
When Aranum finally neared the end of adolescence, the leopard was quite old, and one full moon he died.
Aranum was overcome with grief, and hse left that place, never to return. she roamed further than ever, and by chance she came across a few lions. to her horror, she attacked them without restraint. Before she knew what had happened, she had killed two, and the other had run away. She realised then fully what her curse meant for her. She could never join a pride, for every full moon she became a danger, she would attack without being able to control herself.
She noticed suddenly a strangely familiar smell on the air...
visions of memory flashed before her unseeing eyes and she recognised it...
The realisation hit her. HE was responsible. That rouge liger her leopard guardian had told her about....
That night she swore under the full moon over the bodies of her victims that she would not rest until she had repaid that rouge liger.
But she never counted on anything distracting her from her task. She hadnt believed she would find any rest from chasing her quarry...
She certainly had not expected anything as good as the misfit pride to come into her life.
But she has not forgotten that oath, nor that Liger....
*she was actually born about the same time as Mufasa Because of the curse she was an adolescent when simba was a kid and then full grown when kovu and Kiara were, so that gives you an idea of how lengthened her life is *