ADOPTED FROM MIZAN

Name: Sumai (meaning 'high')

Parents: Dulani and Kifaa

Siblings: None

Mate: Betrothed to Mkali

Cubs: None

Pride of Origin: Nyasi

Personality: Sumai is a lot like his mother, he is inquistive to a fault and indignant at the injustices that generations of tradition has thrust on his birth pride. He is headstrong and idealistic almost to a fault, believing in justice and freedom and one day he hopes to give these gifts to his mother's pride.

History: Sumai was born in the Nyasi Pride to the then Crown Princess Kifaa and future King Dulani. His birth was a celebration and gave his grandfather, Makwetu, hope that his line was secured for the future. However, soon after his birth, news of a civil war in the Pridelands arrived and his mother was chosen as an amassedor to send to the Pridelands and since Sumai was so young, he was taken to the Pridelands with her.

After the civil war was settled, Kifaa stayed in the Pridelands and so it was there that Sumai was raised. Sumai was therefore raised with Pridelander ideals rather than with the strict traditions of the Nyasi Pride. It was Kifaa's belief that if he could see other ways of living outside of the set way of life that she had to suffer growing up, he may decide to abandon certain traditions when he assumed the throne.

When war broke out again, this time with the Jabali Pride, Kifaa considered sending her son back to the safety of the Nyasi Pride but in the end kept him with her in the Pridelands when it became clear that there was no way to guarentee her son's safety on the way back to her former pride. 

When Kiara fell pregnant, an agreement was made between her and Kifaa that if the princess had any female cubs who were not in line for the throne, then one of them would be betrothed to Sumai. So, when Mkali was born, she was promised to Sumai and would become Queen of the Nyasi Pride when Kifaa and Sumai eventually returned.

Relation to TLK: Betrothed to the daughter of Kovu and Kiara

Head image (c) Mizan