Post by Chibiabos on Aug 15, 2010 1:04:42 GMT -7
Badajiva was a member of a group of tigers that simply called itself The Clan. Rallied around a Raja (King/Emperor), they sought to instill supremacy by savagely and brutally forcing all other predators into submission. They slaughtered, tortured, killed pups and young.
Their victims paid a heavy price, but in their shared grief found strength. They united -- lions, wolves, dholes and others -- and matched clever wits against the tigers' raw and massive brute strength. The Clan refused to yield, and met the resistance in a very bloody and brutal war. The resistance managed to weaken the tiger clan gradually by driving away their prey, eventually forcing a final conflict. Both sides paid a heavy price, but the resistance knew with the tigresses being subservient to the Raja, that by focusing an attack on him, once he was slain, the heart of the fight would fall away from The Clan; this proved so, but The Clan tigresses -- including Badajiva -- put up a fierce defense of their Raja. The resistance wound up having to fight through and kill almost all of the tigresses before finally getting in for the kill on Raja himself.
Badajiva was badly injured herself in the fight, and found that the only thing worse than losing her Raja was surviving to see him slain, and the reign of their mighty clan at an end.
I would think a lot of tigers now would think of The Clan as worse than stupid, worse than foolish but outright shameful, something that has given all tigers a bad name, and Badajiva is ridiculed and scorned by younger tigers who have come of age after the fall of The Clan as an ugly throwback to a shameful time.
Their victims paid a heavy price, but in their shared grief found strength. They united -- lions, wolves, dholes and others -- and matched clever wits against the tigers' raw and massive brute strength. The Clan refused to yield, and met the resistance in a very bloody and brutal war. The resistance managed to weaken the tiger clan gradually by driving away their prey, eventually forcing a final conflict. Both sides paid a heavy price, but the resistance knew with the tigresses being subservient to the Raja, that by focusing an attack on him, once he was slain, the heart of the fight would fall away from The Clan; this proved so, but The Clan tigresses -- including Badajiva -- put up a fierce defense of their Raja. The resistance wound up having to fight through and kill almost all of the tigresses before finally getting in for the kill on Raja himself.
Badajiva was badly injured herself in the fight, and found that the only thing worse than losing her Raja was surviving to see him slain, and the reign of their mighty clan at an end.
I would think a lot of tigers now would think of The Clan as worse than stupid, worse than foolish but outright shameful, something that has given all tigers a bad name, and Badajiva is ridiculed and scorned by younger tigers who have come of age after the fall of The Clan as an ugly throwback to a shameful time.