Tembo Mtafuta
Elephant Seekers
Elephant Seekers
This is a WIP still, if you guys think of anything major I'm missing let me know! Also looking for someone to make a symbol and a cert image.
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[b]Desired Rank:[/b]
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[b]Pack/Pride Name:[/b] Tembo Mtafuta
[b]Current IC Owner(s):[/b] (owners with a king/queen member)
[b]Current OOC Owner(s):[/b] SilverLutz
[b]Default ranks:[/b] Kukaa
[b]Current Pride/Pack Members, and Rankings of Each:[/b]
[b]Links to at least five [i]current[/i] RPs: (These RPs must have been done in the last month. At least one must have included the current ruler.)
[b]Brief Description of your Pride/Pack: [/b] Elephants, widely considered to have no natural predators, are what the Tembo Mwuaji are known for hunting. They take pride in the skill of their hunters and pass down their techniques to the next generation. This a pride of history, of tradition, and of power. Only the quick of mind and strong of heart will thrive here. Are you an elephant seeker?
[b]Familiar Rules:[/b] Only birds of prey
[b]Cert Background Large Image:[/b] (Cert colors are now ultimately up to the cert maker, but please try to make it rectangular in shape.)
[b]Pride Symbol for Cert:[/b] Transparent PNG, please, and not already on a cert!circle. Please keep it square-like in shape, not rectangular.
[b]Any Extra Information:[/b] If you want to include a place for alternate names or clans, please say so here - we will not allow you to change the cert afterward.
[b]Pride/Pack History:[/b] [spoiler]Many, many years ago an elephant killed a lion at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Normally this would be considered the fate of the gods and forgotten. However, this wasn't an ordinary lion. This lion was the son of Jelani, king of the Wenye Ujuzi Mwindaji, a pride of lions known across the savanna for their skilled hunters. Jelani was overcome with such grief at the loss of his only son that he vowed vengeance upon the behemoth that took his son's life needlessly. A hunt was arranged to track the elephant to bring it down. Many volunteered to go and the king himself soon led more than half the pride on the trail of the elephant. The sheer number of lions made the hunt a success and the bounty of food that followed fed the pride for a week without one belly going hungry.
For the rest of Jelani's reign elephants were hunted and killed on the anniversary of his son's death, but when the old king finally passed on the tradition was forgotten. It wasn't until a rogue joined a generation later and told the pride of the stories she had heard growing up of the 'elephant seekers', a pride of lions so strong they could take down an elephant without losing one member, that they rekindled the old custom. The new king, Zakia, proclaimed that there would now be two hunts a year rather than the traditional one. The first would take place on the anniversary of the prince's death and the second would take place after the first rain ended the dry season.
It didn't take long for that first rain to come. The hunt was on and destruction followed. Only a handful of lions returned from the hunt, Zakia among them although he was gravely injured. He forbade any hunting of elephants until tactics could be made to make the attack less dangerous. There would certainly be casualties, he knew, but the loss of life that had happened this time couldn't be repeated.
The hunts were put on hold for years. Zakia, grey and limping with age, finally allowed the hunts to resume after the numbers in the pride grew and their hunting style was tailored to bringing down something as large as their target. He died peacefully after the first successful hunt.
Now the pride has been hunting elephants for years. It's still a dangerous task, but they have mastered the ways in bringing elephants down. They pride themselves on their cunning and courage and hold their traditions close to their hearts. After the passing of Zakia they changed their name from Wenye Ujuzi Mwindaji to Tembo Mtafuta after the name the rogue lioness had called them all those generations ago. The Elephant Seekers.[/spoiler]
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[b]Pack/Pride Name:[/b] Tembo Mtafuta
[b]Current IC Owner(s):[/b] (owners with a king/queen member)
[b]Current OOC Owner(s):[/b] SilverLutz
[b]Default ranks:[/b] Kukaa
[b]Current Pride/Pack Members, and Rankings of Each:[/b]
[b]Links to at least five [i]current[/i] RPs: (These RPs must have been done in the last month. At least one must have included the current ruler.)
[b]Brief Description of your Pride/Pack: [/b] Elephants, widely considered to have no natural predators, are what the Tembo Mwuaji are known for hunting. They take pride in the skill of their hunters and pass down their techniques to the next generation. This a pride of history, of tradition, and of power. Only the quick of mind and strong of heart will thrive here. Are you an elephant seeker?
[b]Familiar Rules:[/b] Only birds of prey
[b]Cert Background Large Image:[/b] (Cert colors are now ultimately up to the cert maker, but please try to make it rectangular in shape.)
[b]Pride Symbol for Cert:[/b] Transparent PNG, please, and not already on a cert!circle. Please keep it square-like in shape, not rectangular.
[b]Any Extra Information:[/b] If you want to include a place for alternate names or clans, please say so here - we will not allow you to change the cert afterward.
[b]Pride/Pack History:[/b] [spoiler]Many, many years ago an elephant killed a lion at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Normally this would be considered the fate of the gods and forgotten. However, this wasn't an ordinary lion. This lion was the son of Jelani, king of the Wenye Ujuzi Mwindaji, a pride of lions known across the savanna for their skilled hunters. Jelani was overcome with such grief at the loss of his only son that he vowed vengeance upon the behemoth that took his son's life needlessly. A hunt was arranged to track the elephant to bring it down. Many volunteered to go and the king himself soon led more than half the pride on the trail of the elephant. The sheer number of lions made the hunt a success and the bounty of food that followed fed the pride for a week without one belly going hungry.
For the rest of Jelani's reign elephants were hunted and killed on the anniversary of his son's death, but when the old king finally passed on the tradition was forgotten. It wasn't until a rogue joined a generation later and told the pride of the stories she had heard growing up of the 'elephant seekers', a pride of lions so strong they could take down an elephant without losing one member, that they rekindled the old custom. The new king, Zakia, proclaimed that there would now be two hunts a year rather than the traditional one. The first would take place on the anniversary of the prince's death and the second would take place after the first rain ended the dry season.
It didn't take long for that first rain to come. The hunt was on and destruction followed. Only a handful of lions returned from the hunt, Zakia among them although he was gravely injured. He forbade any hunting of elephants until tactics could be made to make the attack less dangerous. There would certainly be casualties, he knew, but the loss of life that had happened this time couldn't be repeated.
The hunts were put on hold for years. Zakia, grey and limping with age, finally allowed the hunts to resume after the numbers in the pride grew and their hunting style was tailored to bringing down something as large as their target. He died peacefully after the first successful hunt.
Now the pride has been hunting elephants for years. It's still a dangerous task, but they have mastered the ways in bringing elephants down. They pride themselves on their cunning and courage and hold their traditions close to their hearts. After the passing of Zakia they changed their name from Wenye Ujuzi Mwindaji to Tembo Mtafuta after the name the rogue lioness had called them all those generations ago. The Elephant Seekers.[/spoiler]
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