These lands are where lions come to be free from the tyranny of man. Their familes are being hunted and killed for their skins, their claws, and for trophies. In the direct center of Africa, lies the Onyejekwe Wildlife Reserve. Poachers and Hunters are not allowed to hunt in these parts. Wild lions find sanctuary, raise up their prides, control land, and fight for territory expansion.
From the start of Onyejekwe Reserve, only one lion pride was formed. Dakarai was formed by King Akuma. Will you choose the life of a family, or will you reside all alone and wander the savannah?
< must read this, folks >
updates
< 29 DEC '16 > Welcome to the GRAND OPENING! OTP is now open and accepting joining applications. There are some threads that are not yet completed, but please be patient with us! We are seeking members to have high ranks, and work their way up to control a pride of their very own. - RUE
< TBD > Enjoy the first update ^^
[attr="class","digibody"]Eye Color: yellow[break] Height: 3.2 feet[break] Weight: 247[break] Dignifying Marks: scars on the bridge of her nose and a large scar on the outside of her hind left leg[break] Likes: Unity within the pride and hunting parties, the thrill of the hunt excites her. Her favorite time of the day is at dusk when things are starting to settle from the day. Despite enjoying being part of a pride, she loves alone time as well, laying on a comfy rock and just watching things around her.[break] Dislikes: Bull headiness within a pride, she doesn't see much point in having trouble within a pride. Liars greatly annoy her and once you have crossed the line with her, she doesn't allow you back into her trust. While she loves to hunt, hunting alone is something she does not enjoy because typically she never gets a meal that way or if she does, it isn't much of a meal. The dry season makes it harder to find food since the prey have to roam farther than normal to find enough food for themselves.[break] Strengths: Not typically willing to back down from a hunt or fight. Willing to do as she is asked of her higher ups within a pride.[break] Weaknesses: Compassion for the young and weak, it tends to get her into trouble. She also tends to think to much about the male lions and that will sometimes cloud her judgement. If she spends a lot of time on the move and not enough time resting, her hind leg will bother her and she will move with a small limp.[break] Life Goals: She would love to be a valued member of a pride until her final days and maybe raise some cubs, but not terribly wanting them. The one other thing she would like in life is to find out if her sister is still alive or she was killed.[break][break]
Most of her pelt is a light tan, a darker stripe runs down the middle of her face, stopping a little lower than her eyes and up by her ears. Her cheek fur is also tinted a little bit darker, coming up between the eyes in short lines, and with lighter fur surrounding her eyes. The bridge of her nose is scarred up from fights she has had in her lifetime. Her rounded ears are the same slightly darker tint of her muzzle until they come up to a dark strip across them about halfway up with lighter fur rounding out the top of her ears. Her body is a mostly light tan with some slightly darker dapples on her hind legs and belly. A dark tipped tail rounds out the lioness' main color. A large scar is on her hind left leg, it is old, but has discolored the leg hair where it runs from the hock joint down to her paw. When she was younger her shoulders rose above her back just a little, but as she has aged her back has dipped own some, by the time she will reach ten years, she will be pretty swaybacked. While it does weaken her spine some, it doesn't case her discomfort or affect in any other way. Not a terribly big lioness in size or weight, but she holds her own with being more stout built and the hunting helps keep her muscles strong. Yellow eyes complete the female's look.
[attr="class","digibody"]Father: Tybalt // not living[break] Mother: Cathrine // not living[break] Siblings: Veronica // not living[break] Vivian // unknown to her, but is alive[break] Mate: none // n/a[break] Offspring: none // n/a[break] [break][break] Tybalt and Cathrine had two female cubs, Vicky and Veronica. However he did have two other cubs with another lioness. One was a stillborn male, the other Vivian. For some reason Tybalt really wanted them to all start their names with V. Those three grew up together, the lived in a small pride of five adults, three of them being their parents of course and the others were older lionesses. Most of the first year was the typical just playing around and learning. By the time Vicky reached two, she loved the hunts, asking to go overtime no matter what the prey was. Veronica was happy to stay home and let her sister go. Vivian spent most of her time by herself. Vicky really didn't know what to think of her half sister, but they got along better with her than her full sister most days. Around the time they reached four years old and were full grown, things had changed some. The herds they typically hunted had moved on and the dry season was taking the pride down hard. Cathrine had passed away, Vivian's mother was close to death. All three of the young lioness were underweight and life was bleak.
Tybalt couldn't keep his family together, he ran off his daughters, hoping they would find a better place to live and so the ones left in the pride would have a more food to go around of what there was. Vivian and Vicky were hurt to be run off, but thought the adventure would be fun. Veronica was not happy at all. One evening she left her sisters, telling them she was heading out to find some fresh water. By morning she had not returned and the two remaining lionesses moved out, unsure what had happened, but also unable to track her down. About two months following the kick out, they ran into trouble. They had both been starving for awhile and finally had found some human's livestock. People were not something they knew much about, but the animals were easy to kill and so they hung around in the area. Of course the people quickly caught on that they had two lions picking off their animals and they set traps. Mostly it was pits covered in dead limbs and leaves. While going in for another hunt, Vicky fell into a pit, the person who had set it up had done a poor job or gotten tired so it wasn't done in a way that would kill her. Instead one of the spikes ripped her pelt open from the bottom of her paw all the way up to her hock. The hole wasn't dug deep so she was able to struggle out.
The livestock though had been going crazy with all this going on and people came running out, guns ready. Both lionesses took off, Vivian was shot once at least with Vicky hiding quickly due to her injured leg. The two sisters haven't seen each other since then. It has been three years and Vicky still wonders if her sister ever made it out alive or not. Since that night Vicky has been a rogue, searching for a pride to live in while trying to protect herself. On the constant lookout for man, she has come across a wildlife reserve. She has found Onyejekwe Reserve and after searching for a way in, has entered into this sheltered home where the threat of man will allow her to finally seek out a pride and hope to be a help in anyway she can.
[attr="class","digifc"]Viuda and Vicky and you can contact me by *pm*
[attr="class","digibody"]Eye Color: gold[break] Height: 3.5 feet[break] Weight: 365 pounds[break] Dignifying Marks: missing left eye and lower left canine tooth[break] Likes: a) Fun, believe it or not, he would rather have fun than fight. b) Cubs, he loves the energy, craziness, everything about cubs. c) He loves water and it doesn't matter if it is pouring rain or he is in a river up his eyeballs in water, typically he loves it. d) The mornings, he loves dawn and that is when he is most active, trying to stir up trouble or play.[break] Dislikes: a) Fights, although he has been in his fair share of fights until this point, he would love not to anymore. b) Liars, cheats, and bandits. If you are dishonest, you will not be liked. c) Hyenas, they tore apart his life, nothing makes him madder than those filthy animals. d) Having to much attention brought to the scars or the fact that he is half blind from the missing eye. e) Moonless nights, he doesn't like pitch black all around him, it makes him nervous and gives him worried thoughts.[break] Strengths: a) When he decides to do something, he makes sure to see it through the end. Even if his hunts end only with a small field mouse, he will see them through however many days it takes. b) With his vision below par, he tends to keep more alert, watching more than he did before when he had sight in both eyes.[break] Weaknesses: a) He can be slow to react to a fight, giving more chances to other lions than he really should. b) Half blind from a sparring accident with his brother. c) Blames himself for the death of his first mate before they were even able to have cubs.[break] Life Goals: a) Prove he can provide for a family again and maybe have cubs. b) Kill hyenas[break][break]
Scars are all over this young lion. He has them all over the bridge of his nose, some larger visible ones above his right eye as well as smaller scars on his shoulders and back. He is not heavy on the mane, his ears always can stand out and be noticed. The biggest thing that would make another lion pause is the fact that he is unable to see out of his left eye, because it is not there. It shriveled up and watered for most of the previous year, but is now just a dry socket. His one remaining eye is gold. His mane has a black stripe on the top of his head, circling his neck and down to his underbelly. A thin almost complete circle of reddish tan mane sits on the front of his mane surrounding his face. His muzzle has some white hair below his nose and down his chin a little ways. The typical fold of skin hangs below his belly and his tail is tipped in black. Most of his pelt color is a dusty tan with just hints of a more golden color above his eyes and on his muzzle. [break][break]Picture 1 and Picture 2
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[attr="class","digibody"]Father: Loki Primos // not living[break] Mother: Zada Primos // not living[break] Siblings: Axel Primos // not living[break] Mate: Chiquita Deku // not living[break] Offspring: none // n/a[break] [break][break] Orrin and Axel were the first cubs born to Loki and Zada. They were very proud of their boys after they were able to grow up some. Loki did try and kill them when they were only days old, he didn't really want that many males around, but Zada managed to keep him at bay. Both cubs grew quickly and loved to play fight. They lived within a few miles of the reserve. When they reached two years old Loki was killed by man. Zada tried her best to keep up with keeping her sons in order, but their fighting was much more intense now that a young lioness had joined their small pride. Chiquita was more fond of Orrin than his brother, but that didn't stop him from aggressively trying to pursue her. The day finally came when Orrin could stand it no longer, the fight was horrible. It left him badly scarred, his eye cut open and weeping, and his lower canine tooth snapped in half. Axel was pretty rough as well and had a large gash on his flank that in the end would never heal and get infected.
Deciding it was time to go for a safer life within the reserve, he took his mother and mate and headed for what he hoped would be a safe haven. While he was at the watering hole one morning, hyenas decided to gang up on the two lionesses and steal the food they had nearby. They were ambushed and the place they had slept was not a good place to get out of fast. It was steep and rocky, plus it had just rained the night before, none of which was a good thing for the two this day. Chiquita fell off the edge, slipping from the rocks and breaking her neck. Zada tried to reach her after she had fallen, but it was useless. The hyenas took off with the kill and by this time Orrin had come back to the scene, heading back when he heard the hyenas, but not in time to do any good. Not long after he chased away Zada, his grief unable to allow him near other lions. After a few months of wandering outside the reserve he finally entered, deciding it was time for him to try and keep going.
[attr="class","digifc"]Viuda and Orrin and you can contact me by *pm*
[attr="class","digibody"]Eye Color: silver[break] Height: 3.8 feet[break] Weight: 485 pounds[break] Dignifying Marks: broke a spot in his tail, lower part is no longer straight[break] Likes: 1] Cubs, he loves them and also loves to be with them more than adults 2] Basking in the sun and watching the world go round 3] He tends to like odd things to eat, sometimes even chewing on sticks for no real reason 4] He loves to tell stories to cubs, normally they have just a shred of truth in them[break] Dislikes: 1] Being questioned in what he says or does 2] He does not like thieves 3] Hunting zebras 4] Being undervalued[break] Strengths: 1] He is a pretty strong lion, but not very fast 2] Typically very easy going[break] Weaknesses: 1] Family, he sometimes takes their side way to much and allows them to keep from doing what he needs to do 2] He does not tell others when they have done something wrong, he just leaves and waits[break] Life Goals: 1] Start his own family with a loving lioness and cubs 2] Have non lion friends[break][break]
He has a big and broad chest that tightens up to his flank. All around though he is built pretty big boned. His muzzle os a little big for his face, giving a roman nose nine of look in horses. His nose is black and the underside of his muzzle is an off white that also travels halfway up his cheeks and the lower part of his mane below his face. His ears are hidden from view in his thick mane which is mostly a dark grey mixed with a reddish tan just around his face. The mane travels down to just below his shoulders, leaving a strip of short hair on his shoulder flanked by some thick mane on the outside of his shoulder. His mane also drops down to his belly going back just to behind his elbows. All four paws are off white leading up the inside of his legs to his lighter belly. His pelt is a mostly grey with just a tint of reddish tan throughout his barrel area. His legs have a few stripes on them. The thick tail is grey with a black end, he broke a spot a little above the black end as a cub and the lower part of his tail is no longer straight.[break][break] Image
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[attr="class","digibody"]Father: Ramon Villa // Not living[break] Mother: Martina Villa // Not living[break] Siblings: none // none[break] Mate: Ata // left him[break] Offspring: none // none[break] [break][break] Beto was born to a young pair of lions. His mother died having him and thankfully his father managed to get another lioness to take him on. He didn't really know until he was starting to hunt that his real mother was dead, the other cubs he had thought of as siblings no longer wanted to be around him after that. It was during a hunt at age two he got his father killed. Ramon had been loving on another female and Beto got mad. Despite not knowing his mother, he felt bad his father didn't care about her anymore when he blamed the older male for her death. Beto purposely caused the herd of zebras to run into the hunting party instead of just flanking them like he had been commanded. This resulted in getting his father run over and kicked in the head, he died very quickly. However while the herd was freaking out Beto got trapped between two zebras, tried to run out from between them, tripped and got his tail stomped on, breaking it. The following day Beto was run out of the pride. They decided he was no longer needed or a good lion to have around so he was chased out quickly. [break][break] Roaming by himself for a year, the male found himself a mate by the name of Ata. She was young and beautiful. He fell head over heels for her and basically worshiped her. However he was the only one who believed they were mates, she just used him as a watch in the night. For the next two years he tried to convince her to have his cubs, but she always seemed more interested in other males and roaming than anything else. Finally he got sick of it and told her to either have his cubs or leave. She found a new male to call her mate and Beto was left alone again. Heartbroken he roamed for a little while before deciding he was much better without her and grew more confident in who he was. Deciding to leave the world over-run by hunters, he made his way towards the safe haven for lions, a reserve. It took him awhile to find the small way in from the outside, but no longer wanting to worry what day would be his last, he took the opening and went inside.
[attr="class","digifc"]Viuda and Beto and you can contact me by *pm*
[attr="class","digibody"]Eye Color: gold[break] Height: 3 feet[break] Weight: 235 pounds[break] Dignifying Marks: dashed stripes on her legs[break] Likes: 1] having time to relax 2] feeling needed 3] playing in the water 4] the wet season [break] Dislikes: 1] humans 2] being ignored 3] liars and cheaters 4] failing at a hunt [break] Strengths: 1] can work alone 2] doesn't depend on others for much [break] Weaknesses: 1] hard to gain her full trust 2] mentally not very strong [break] Life Goals: 1] find a mate who helps her feel wanted and loved 2] raise a litter of cubs in what she believes to be the right way [break][break]
From a dark burnt brown to white, her pelt is many shades. She has the dark stripes on the backs of her ears, a dark stripe in the middle of her head that travels down her spine and ends behind her haunches. The end of her tail is also dark. The dark stripe has some lines fading out into her tan sides. On her legs are dashes of tan as her legs get lighter towards the paws. White starts below her muzzle on her lower jaw and travels partway up her neck and goes down her chest to her white belly. The inside of her legs are also white. Her tail is lighter on the underside with some tan dashes towards her hindquarters and fades into the dark tip. With an upright shoulder and level back, her ribcage is also not much different from her waist, making her built for speed more than strength. Gold eyes and a black nose finish off her face. [break]Image [break]Image
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[attr="class","digicomp"]HISTORY
[attr="class","digibody"]Father: Aze Martin // Shot and killed[break] Mother: Kesree Martin // Still alive[break] Siblings: Meshi Martin // living[break]Kuro Martin // living[break]Shino Martin // killed[break]Ryoko Martin // living[break] Mate: n/a // none[break] Offspring: n/a // none[break] [break][break] Chiyo was born in a small pride, she ended up being the one picked on all the time. Her brothers were bigger and stronger, her sisters were more in mother's favor. So instead of finding some way to be noticed, she hung back in the shadows and did her own thing. Knowing that hunting would be a needed skill she threw herself into the hunts hard, pushing herself sometimes a little to far and stumbling. When she made those mistakes it was then she would get bullied and picked on by her own family.It just sent her deeper into her own shell. Her pride didn't live far from the reserve, but they were still dealing with people now and again. At the time she was just two years, but she watched her father hunted down and killed. They had been out on a hunt themselves and a jeep came flying up towards them. Some big shot with a big gun went of course for a trophy, the big male. He had been there only to wait for the kill, letting the lionesses do the hunting. [break][break] After watching her father die, Chiyo bolted. She didn't bother going back to her pride. The fear of men now deeply rooted in her heart, her only thought at that point was to hide. For the next year she roamed just outside of the reserve, unable to find a way in that she was willing to take. It was very lonely being by herself, but going back to her old pride was not an option by that point. After trying and failing at hunting one morning she spotted a jeep, it had hunters in it. Deciding she had no choice anymore she headed for the reserve, going in through the quarry. It was tricky and she didn't make it through without cutting herself on a few rocks in the process. Finally reaching the safe haven, she found the watering hole and stuck around there for the next few weeks before deciding it was time to figure out her next move.
[attr="class","digifc"]Viuda and Chiyo and you can contact me by *pm*
RUE: Hey everyone in Dakarai, if you could please post in the thread you are tagged in, that would be great! Akuma is trying to claim a territory!
Feb 25, 2017 14:21:13 GMT -5
astrid: Someone message me XD
Feb 25, 2017 16:24:48 GMT -5
Meeko: Do you need help with something?
Feb 25, 2017 16:27:37 GMT -5
Meeko: I suggest getting started with a quick read through the gudebook/rules
Feb 25, 2017 16:27:49 GMT -5
astrid: Alright thanks
Feb 25, 2017 16:29:59 GMT -5
Meeko: No problem. If theres anything you don't understand just let me know
Feb 25, 2017 16:34:08 GMT -5
Cora: *Waves* Hey everyone!
Feb 26, 2017 11:13:35 GMT -5
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