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About The Pride....


Color restrictions and Ideal Members:
The pride has some color restrictions to keep themselves hidden from enemies. Not that it's totally forbidden to have colors not of the preferred pride, but it's very rare. The colors that are sought after are browns to blacks, whites, grays, light blues, to some dark blues. Think ice, snow, mountain type colors.

It's very uncommon to have any other colors, but like stated above it's not impossible, nor is it frowned upon. It's just easier to hide from enemies if you blend into the snow and ice. It's not impossible for couples to end up with non-ideal colors through lineage, and shouldn't be punished for such things, as well as that any lion shouldn't be punished for their color, but it'd be really nice if you'd limit the bright colors/non-pride colors to a bare minimum.

The Ideal member, or most common colors in the pride, are whites, and grays. Light dull blue and icy bright blue are next common, then browns to blacks, then other shades of blue. Lions should be of the fluffier kind ICly, cause sometimes it's hard and expensive to actually get edits, so their image doesn't need fluff. It is very cold, and is not common for lions who have thinner coats to be in this area. Of course, it's not unheard of. Some lions go as far as wearing pelts given to them from the pelt goddess for warmth. They're blessed with thicker fur to keep themselves warm as well.



Companions:
Each pride member must have a hare companion if they are to venture on their own. It's common for avalanches in the area, and if a lion gets buried, the hare is there to go get help. They are small, and tend to be able to ding themselves out of snow. These are the only type of familiars allowed in the pride. Hares and the snow lions have a co-existence.

Hares tend to be assigned to lions at a young age, but can be gotten when the lion is an adult. Normally cubs will get a baby hare, but it's not uncommon for an adult hare to adopt a cub. They tend to make good Nannies.

There will be no mistreatment of hares inside the pride, nor will pride members hunt them outside of the pride.

Religion: These lions believe in gods, more or less the Goddess of Snow, the Goddess of Winter, the God of Ice. All gods that relate to some type of cold winter wonderland. They also respect and worship the goddess of Pelts for introducing them to the idea of hare companions and their uses. They worship them in their own private time, however. It's unheard of for anyone to ever say anything bad about them, if they do, they get exiled from the pride in fear of the Gods getting angry and taking back the snow.

Festivals:
First Snow Fall: Even though the pride has snow all year round, it doesn't snow all year round. The first sign of winter is a joyous thing, and is celebrated the day after the first sight of snow begins to fall. Snow is seen as a good sign. To them, it's the blessing of the Snow Goddess. They celebrate all day with snow games, and huge feasts. It's always the day after the first sighting of snow, so they can prepare for the event. As snow doesn't always fall on the same day, you can't really pre-prepare for it.

Gift Day: About the middle of winter, the pride holds a huge feast and gets caught up on the little things that most don't have time for during normal days in the pride. After a feast, they sit around and exchange gifts between each other. Each lion has another lion to get a gift for, that way no member of the pride is left out. This gifts are small yet meaningful, and well thought out. As well as, the lion that each have to give a gift too is random, and only the one that's doing the gifting will know who they're giving a gift to. This is also to celebrate the blessing that the Goddess of Winter gave to them.

Winter's End: This is the event for the end of winter. Or rather, the end of snow fall. When a certain amount of days go by without snow, it's considered the end of the winter time. It may not be a extremely happy time, but it's still time to celebrate, get together with loved ones, and take a day off from pride duties. No pride members take part in duties on this day. It's the pride holiday.

Mating: Mating is a joyous thing, but it's a private thing. It's between the lions involved, weather they're gay, straight, or they are the type that want several mates. There is no penalty for these sexuality. What's not allowed is being with a non-lion, however. Taking a mate is a private thing, unless the lions involved want it to be among friends.

Breeding: Rogue breeding is allowed, and not frowned upon. Breeding with non-lion felines is frowned upon, however. Hybrids aren't something that are common, and they're a bit of a mystery. As well as, they can't breed (most of the time) so they're seen as a curse. If a lion in the pride ends up with hybrid cubs, they will be allowed to stay until they're adolescents and then kicked out. If it happens more than once, the guilty parties will be kicked out with their children.

Birthing: Birthing is a splendid time, and is celebrated with a small feast to introduce the new cubs into the pride. The actual birthing takes place privately, and when the cubs are old enough, then they are shown to the pride. The feast is to get blessing from the Yeti King on the new snowballs.

Naming: Naming is generally open to anything, but it's not uncommon for them to be ice, snow, winter related in some way or another. There is no name restrictions, however. So, basically have fun with it, as long as it fits the shop rules.

Death: Death is a sad time, and they take it seriously. When a member dies, they give a day of silence. The whole pride takes participation in this day of silence to show their respect to the passing of life. They hold a small ceremony before their day of silence for any members that are close to the deceased, to give a few last words that'll ease the passing into the other side. This includes if a companion has died, as they are just as important as any lion member.

Exile: A few things will get your Lion exiled from the pride. If you mistreat your hare companion, you'll be instantly taken out of the pride. Cubs, however, will only be scorned about hurting a hare in the pride. Cubs are still learning, and don't really understand or know better. If they continue when they're adolescents, they will be forced out of the pride. The hare, however, will be given the choice of staying with the lion, or with the pride. As it's their choice to continue to serve that lion.