Rough Timeline
- Older brother Kituko is born to parents Matuko and Saranya.
- Kituko killed in an accident.
- Matuko appears to recover from his loss, and Akili is born.
- Matuko becomes strangely aggressive towards his new son, for reasons unclear to everyone else.
- Akili taken away from his home to save him from his father by his mother, Saranya.
- Saranya dies shortly upon her arrival at Pride Rock. Gesten, drawn by her final roar, investigates, discovering and adopting Akili, and bringing him home to Life Valley, where he meets his new surrogate mother, Jiona.
- Akili's brother Mtesa and sisters Dafina and Mvunja are born to Gesten and Jiona, Akili's new parents.
- Shiido joins Gesten's pride.
- Dafina dies to the sleeping sickness; Mvunja killed in a rainstorm.
- Akili begins to remember bits his past before his time with Gesten - his mother's name, and his fear of Matuko.
- Akili meets Atayah, and changes his life forever.
- During play, Akili unintentionally injures Shiido, while she is pregnant.
- Mikini born to Shiido and Gesten. Her other cubs are stillborn.
- Akili falls in love with Siara, and attempts to start a family of his own.
- Siara dies, along with their unborn cubs.
- In the midst of his mourning, Siana appears with Xhu and Arianna, with the tale of Togun and his cohorts.
- Over a year past Siara's death, and some time after Siana's departure, Akili meets Nafse.
- Akili and Nafse have their family - Azizi and Kituko.
- Akili dies of old age.
- Nafse tells her own story to her now-grown cubs, and soon joins Akili in a reflection of the world he lived in.
- More to come....