Sun and Storm Kingdom war

***Spoiler Warning:** Plot and/or ending details follow.*

> *"Lite started a war between the Sun and the Storm Kingdoms, accusing Karabi of kidnapping his bride and demanding retribution. It resulted in carnage on a scale never seen before or since."* —Rain on the Sun and Storm Kingdom war in Episode 8: Rain.
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## General Information

### Outcome

* All ancient kingdoms fallen
* 15 (known) lions dead
* Karabi dies, Kyoga goes missing
* Prides are founded and Pride Law is created

## Combatants

* Storm Kingdom
* Sun Kingdom

## Deaths and Losses

### Deaths

* 15 (known) lions
* Karabi

### Losses

* Storm Kingdom
* Sun Kingdom
* Moon Kingdom
* Kyoga

## Chronology

### Followed by

Fires in the Emerald Valley

**The Sun and Storm Kingdom war** was a war lead by the Sun Kingdom's chosen leader, Lite, when he demanded retribution from Karabi, accusing her of kidnapping Kyoga.

## Summary

### Premise

Kyoga has joined with Karabi rather than Lite, and, as a result, Lite is lovesick and outraged, accusing Karabi of kidnapping his bride, demanding retribution, and starting a war between the Sun and Storm Kingdom.
### Overview

Kyoga chooses to join with Karabi rather than Lite, and runs away the day before the Joining Ceremony. On the day of the ceremony, the Kingdoms announce Kyoga's disappearance, and lions across the Emerald Valley join together to find the Moon Kingdom's leader. Seemingly in vain at first, Lite panics and vocally expresses his fears that Kyoga is harmed, until finally Precisecharge has news, being that Kyoga has joined with Karabi. Lite angrily accuses Precisecharge of lying, insisting that she was kidnapped by Karabi.
Lite accuses Karabi of kidnapping his bride and demands retribution, starting a war that resulted on a carnage the likes of which has never been seen before or since. In the end, Lite convinces Kyoga and Karabi to meet him on the highest place of the Emerald Valley, where he tries to get Kyoga back. Karabi attacks him with the intention of killing him for terrorizing them, but backs off for the sake of Kyoga. She is instead, however, attacked by Lite, who slits her throat and kills her. Asra, in her spite, possesses her chosen and curses Lite's soul to an eternity of suffering, in a cycle where Kyoga's reincarnations will kill his. In his hate and fear, Lite creates Pride Law, and fabriates the story to make himself look like a hero.
## Description

### Kyoga joins with Karabi

After Karabi encourages Kyoga to go after what she wants, they both elope to be together and run away. The next day, the Kingdoms desperately search for Kyoga but cannot locate her, with Lite especially fearing that she is hurt or killed. Precisecharge eventually comes running, bringing news of Kyoga's whereabouts.

She explains to Lite that she and Karabi have joined and run away. Lite accuses the lioness of lying, instead choosing to believe that Karabi kidnapped Kyoga. Precisecharge tries to tell him that she was very clear, but Lite snaps at her, screaming that he's the leader of the Sun Kingdom, therefore giving him the right to decide the truth. It is after this that Lite accuses the Storm Kingdom of harboring Karabi and keeping Kyoga hostage, and the war begins.
### The war begins

In his rage, Lite insists on his accusations towards Karabi, starting a war between the Sun and Storm Kingdom, with the brutal fighting resulting in a carnage on a scale never seen before or since, with countless dead spread out across the Emerald Valley.
### Lite meets with Kyoga and Karabi

Unable to stand the violence any longer, Karabi and Kyoga agree to meet Lite at the highest point of the Emerald Valley to talk things through. Lite demands that Karabi return Kyoga, but Kyoga desperately tells him that she can't give him what he wants; that she never loved him romantically, and that she never could. Kyoga assures him that she loved him dearly as a friend, but that she did what she had to do to be happy, begging him to let her and Karabi live in peace.
Lite still remains in denial however, and tries approaching Kyoga in a desperate attempt to prove that she loves him, only to be stopped by Karabi pinning him down, pressing down hard with her paws on his throat to kill him. Kyoga begs Karabi to let him go. Karabi argues that he'll only hurt more people and never stop hunting them down. Kyoga pleads more, that Lite was her friend and that she cannot bear to watch him be killed. Karabi reluctantly agrees and lets him go for Karabi's sake, going back to Kyoga's side.

As they embrace, Lite becomes enraged and slashes at Karabi, slitting her throat. She collapses immediately, fatally wounded as she struggles to stay alive. Kyoga rushes to her side, apologizing for everything. Lite yells out excuses for his actions, claiming that he had to kill her or she would kill him, even though Karabi had already let him go. Kyoga stands, and the night begins to shift. The moon disappears and Kyoga becomes possessed by Asra. Asra, speaking through Kyoga, bestows a curse upon Lite, that he should reincarnate and suffer in every lifetime, and be punished and killed by Kyoga's reincarnation. After this, Asra takes Kyoga and Karabi with her, leaving only Lite behind to tell the story, or rather, his version of the story.
### Sunce sets the Emerald Valley ablaze

*Main article: Fires in the Emerald Valley*

"*When Sunce rose in the morning to discover Asra had interfered with the lives of the mortals, her fury was so hot and fierce that the whole of the Emerald Valley was set ablaze. I did my best to put out the flames, but... it wasn't enough.*"
—Rain to Nothing about the fires in the Emerald Valley *Episode 8: Rain*

Asra goes missing after her interference, and Sunce, enraged at Asra's involvement with the lives of the mortals and subsequent disappearance, sets the Emerald Valley ablaze. Cansu urgently makes an effort to put out the flames with her heavy rain, but by the time she was able to quell them, the Emerald Valley was nothing but charcoal and ashes, permanently ridding the Great Kingdoms of their home. The Prideless Stretch is the remains of what it once was, now nothing but sand and rock in its place.
### Pride Law is created

*Main article: Pride Law*

Those that survived the war and the fires fell under the rule of Lite. Being the only one left to tell the story of Kyoga, Karabi, and him, he fabricated the story to make himself the hero, telling the remaining lions that Karabi had kidnapped Kyoga and killed her, but that he avenged her by killing the Storm Kingdom's leader.
The Kingdoms were practically gone, and so, Lite installed a new rule under him out of his hate and fear: Pride Law. The current known laws include:
* Huntresses belong to their Mane. They cannot have a romantic relationship with another huntress under the penalty of death.
* Female cubs are nameless until they prove their worth to the Pride through a huntress assessment.
* Male cubs are exiled to become No-Manes when they become young adults.
* A challenging No-Mane must kill the offspring of the previous Mane in order to become the new Mane.
* A challenge must be an honorable fight, otherwise the challenger has no claim to the Pride.

## Deaths and Participants

### Deaths

#### Characters of unknown kingdoms

* Light-colored lioness
* Orange-and-white lioness
* Tan and brown lion
* Pale gray lion
* Unknown lion
* Cream lioness
* Gray lion
* Beige and brown-maned lioness

### Participants

#### Characters of unknown kingdoms

* Light-colored lioness
* Orange-and-white lioness
* Tan and brown lion
* Pale gray lion
* Unknown lion
* Cream lioness
* Gray lion
* Beige and brown-maned lioness

*End of Spoiler Warning*
## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 1.39 1.40 1.41 Revealed in Episode 8: Rain
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Revealed in Episode 1: No-Mane
3. ↑ Revealed in Episode 7: Hover
4. ↑ Revealed in Episode 4: Outsider