Pride Lands

The Pride Lands is a vast savanna territory located somewhere in Africa. 
== History ==
=== Mufasa's reign ===
==== Simba's presentation ====
Following the birth of his son, Mufasa holds a ceremony in honor of Simba's birth. During the ceremony, Simba is anointed as the next rightful ruler of Pride Rock, and held up for all the Pride Landers to see.
==== Stampede ====
Mufasa's conniving younger brother Scar devises a plan to assassinate the king. Using his hyena cronies, Scar instigates a wildebeest stampede that chases Simba through the Gorge. Drawn by the endangerment of his son, Mufasa rescues the cub and climbs a steep cliff, only to be betrayed and thrown to his death by his brother. Upon hitting the ground, Mufasa dies, and Scar convinces Simba to run away from the Pride Lands.
=== Scar's reign ===
==== Scar's coronation ====
Following Mufasa's death, Scar lies to the pride that Simba is dead and "humbly" accepts the crown from his dead brother. With this new power, he invites the hyenas from their shadowy home in the Elephant Graveyard to the lush world of the Pride Lands and stomps out every law Mufasa has kept so carefully in place.
==== Famine ====
Due to the hyenas' over-hunting the herds, the Pride Lands fall into disrepair. The herds move on, and the water dries up, leaving behind a graveyard of brittle bones and dry dust. Scar is unconcerned with the landscape change, despite much urging from the lionesses to move to a different land. During this time, whilst Sarabi, Mufasa's widow, retains her loyalty to her late mate, several lionesses begin to favor the rule of Scar, such as Zira and her Outsiders.
==== Battle of Pride Rock ====
Scar's sovereignty is challenged by the return of Simba, now a young adult and bent on taking back his rightful title. After forcing Simba to admit that he was the cause of Mufasa's death, Scar corners him at the point of Pride Rock, though he makes a fatal error in revealing the truth behind Mufasa's death. Fueled by rage, Simba leaps into battle, followed by the lionesses, Timon, and Pumbaa, and throws Scar off Pride Rock into the flames below after beating him in a fight.
Though Scar survives his fall from Pride Rock, he is met at the bottom by his hyenas, who feel betrayed by his accusation that Mufasa's death and the decimated condition of the Pride Lands is entirely their fault. Enraged and fueled by hunger, they devour him alive amongst the flames that engulf Pride Rock.
=== Simba's reign ===
==== Simba's coronation ====
Following the Battle of Pride Rock, rain falls on the land, cleansing the fire and chasing away the last of the surviving hyenas. With his uncle defeated, Simba emerges from the flames to greet the lionesses, who have defeated the hyenas. Urged on by his followers as well as Zazu, Rafiki, Timon, and Pumbaa, Simba ascends Pride Rock and roars, claiming his title as king. Under his reign, the Pride Lands are restored to their former glory.
==== Zira's betrayal ====
At some point following Simba's ascension on Pride Rock, Scar's most loyal follower, Zira, rebels against Simba's reign by battling him and is subsequently defeated and exiled with her band of loyal followers, known as the Outsiders.
==== Kiara's presentation ====
Simba and Nala have a daughter named Kiara, who is presented to the Pride Lands atop Pride Rock and anointed as the future queen.
==== Battle for the Pride Lands ====
During the dry season, the ghost of Scar returns to the Pride Lands and plots revenge against Simba by gathering up an army of Outlanders to battle the Lion Guard, which is led by Simba's son Kion. After seasons of conflict between the Outlands and the Pride Lands, the Pride Landers end his threat to the Pride Lands. After the war, Jasiri is elected by Janja to be Scar's successor as the leader of the surviving Outlanders, while Kion and Ono depart on a journey to the Tree of Life to heal from the battle.
==== Kiara's first hunt ====
In order to prove her status as a young adult, Kiara embarks on her first hunt, though she is later caught in a rampaging fire that was started by Zira's cubs, Nuka and Vitani. Kovu, Zira's youngest child, Scar's adoptive son and heir, and the disinherited, exiled prince of Pride Rock, rescues Kiara from the flames under the direction of his mother, Zira. As a result, Simba reluctantly inducts him into the pride.
==== Zira's ambush ====
When Simba leaves the shelter of Pride Rock with Kovu, Zira and her followers surround him and attempt to kill him. Instead, Nuka is killed while trying to pursue Simba up a pile of logs. Enraged over her son's death, Zira scars Kovu, blaming him for not killing Simba when he had the chance, and as a result, betraying his pride and adoptive father, Scar. Kovu runs away, but Zira lets him go and instead directs her pride in waging war against the Pride Landers.
==== Kovu's exile ====
Following Zira's ambush, Simba accuses Kovu of being a traitor and expels him from the Pride Lands. Together, the Pride Landers sing "One of Us" and drive Kovu from their lands while Kiara watches in horror.
==== Pride Lander-Outsider battle ====
Simba forbids Kiara to leave Pride Rock unescorted, but she disobeys him and leaves to find Kovu. Enraged by her son's death, Zira wages war against the Pride Landers, hoping to take advantage of Simba's recent injuries. A bloody battle breaks out between the two prides. The battle is soon stopped by Kovu and Kiara, who convince the prides to end their conflict and unite as one. While Vitani and the other lionesses accept Kiara's reasoning, Zira refuses to give up and makes a final attempt on Simba's life. Kiara gets in the way of Zira's attack at the last second, and the two roll down a steep embankment. Kiara survives the fall, only to watch Zira refuse her help and fall to her death in the river below.
==== Union of the Outsiders and Pride Landers ====
After the Outsiders are inducted into the pride, the Pride Landers holds a marriage ceremony for Kovu and Kiara, where the rulers of Pride Rock reaffirm their power and announce Kovu and Kiara's succession to Pride Rock by roaring over a gathered crowd of animals.
==== Battle of the Lion Guards ====
Sometime after Kovu and Kiara are anointed as Simba's successors, Kion and the Lion Guard return from their healing at the Tree of Life. The Lion Guard arrives in the Pride Lands only to discover that Vitani has formed a Lion Guard consisting of Outsider lionesses in Kion's absence. To settle their dispute, the two groups host different contests to see which Guard is more worthy. Although Kion's Guard nearly wins, Vitani calls for a mashindano, revealing she's fierce enough to lead the Lion Guard without the Roar. Remembering his ancestor Askari's words, Kion gives up the challenge, and hands over his duties to Vitani, who gains the Roar and becomes the Pride Lands' new Lion Guard leader. Sometime later, Kion leaves Pride Rock and marries Queen Rani of the Tree of Life and becomes the new ruler.
== Behind the scenes ==
The Pride Lands was created for the 1994 Walt Disney Classic The Lion King.
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