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I am life.
I am death.
I give everything.
But I take all.
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I am the Savage Kingdom.
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Satau knows the dangers of buffalo.
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Her six young sons and daughter do not.
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But this is the moment they have been training for.
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Work together.
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Take this beast down.
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A skillful defense by the old bull.
Satau has yet to teach her young family how to kill in water.
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They will learn...
or they will starve.
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Two mothers run the pride of the north.
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Satau is our noble leader.
Her sister always has her back.
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They shared an unbreakable bond.
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The same cannot be said for their absent kings.
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Sekekama and his brother
deserted Satau's family long ago...
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...drawn away from their northern home
by the great marsh in the south;
seduced by the abundance of prey it holds...
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...and by the cunning queen, Matsumi.
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Satau's nemesis now builds an army with her new lord.
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With or without a king,
the abandoned sisters train their fatherless family
for greatness.
In time, they could become a formidable pride.
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With so many mouths to feed,
Satau skirts the edge of the great marsh.
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This is a dangerous place to trespass, Satau.
The great marsh belongs to Matsumi.
Sekekama and his brother are back.
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Who is he here for?
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He is no longer your king.
No longer a father to your sons.
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And what he disowns, he kills.
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Satau tries to distract her old king.
She is playing with fire to save her sons.
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But Sekekama is not taken in.
Any males are a threat to his throne.
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The princes have a choice.
Exile or execution...
...at the jaws of their brutal father.
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Satau and her sister will never see their sons again.
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Bloodlines run deep.
But power is the king's master.
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Sekekama leaves a shattered family in his wake.
Satau needed her sons to build her pride.
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Once they were nine, and now they are three.
They wander alone...
in a dangerous place where numbers matter.
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Satau, you are now vulnerable.
You need all your strength just to survive.
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Your last remaining cub is unaware of the dangers.
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North of the great marsh,
the rains have kept the forest lush.
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Between the hills and along the river channel,
there are still good places to hide and regroup.
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With so few of you left, Satau, you'd do well to lie low.
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Hard times lie ahead.
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You need to kill.
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With fewer claws and jaws,
it is more miss than hit.
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Prey is plentiful.
But without a full pride, Satau needs a new strategy.
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The smell of death lingers around Leopard Rock.
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Another's kill will have to do.
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Nothing is beyond your dignity now.
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If stealing from another cat
allows you to cling onto life in this kingdom,
so be it.
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Everyone knows...
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hunters that cannot hunt...
...their days are numbered.
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A marauding pack of 20 wild dogs invades Satau's river.
Their strategy--
to drive and corner their victims against the bank...
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...then eat 'em alive.
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Another opportunity for an ever-hungry Satau to pull rank.
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A chance to steal.
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Satau knows that lions always trump dogs...
...regardless of numbers.
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Our noble queen is now a full-time thief.
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Living on leftovers from one day to the next.
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Big prides don't rely on scavenging.
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Matsumi certainly does not.
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On the great marsh, her army grows strong.
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Soon, they'll be ready for war.
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Satau must steal when and where she can.
Starvation is only a meal away.
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A new enemy breaches the north.
Something wicked this way comes.
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Take it while you can.
You never know when you'll get the chance again.
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The northern sisters do well off the backs of others.
But how long can it last?
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Without a king, they are exposed.
Hyenas smell weakness.
They lose their fear and push closer than ever before.
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They know you have no kings.
Watch your back.
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Scavenging is the pride of the north's new normal.
But now even this risks being taken.
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Her tormentors are already here.
Hyenas' confidence feeds on her uncertainty and fear.
Satau now sits at her enemy's table.
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From queen to scavenger to nothing.
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If they keep losing to hyenas...
...they will starve.
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The great marsh dries.
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The herds move north.
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In their dusty tracks, Matsumi's army follows.
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Fearless Sekekama makes it look easy,
killing and gorging along the way.
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Matsumi's marsh pride seems invincible.
They edge ever closer to Satau's domain,
without a fear or a care in the world.
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The Savage Kingdom grants nobody any favors.
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Every living thing must pay.
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The herds flooding north offer Satau one last chance.
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You can do this.
You need to do this.
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Finally.
A moment of relief.
Not a day too soon.
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While there's food, there's hope.
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Now you face the toughest challenge
to your existence, Satau.
The great thirst is coming.
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Water is disappearing.
The drought has begun.
All now jostle for what remains.
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Satau's place of hiding is crowded,
and this attracts unwelcome company.
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Nomads drift in from the dry margins.
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It is not Sekekama,
nor his murderous brother.
These are outsiders
here to wrestle power from a kingdom in crisis.
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And what aspiring kings want most are queens.
Could this be Satau's salvation?
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They could protect you.
With them, you could build a pride again.
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You must win them over.
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Lion courtship is a dangerous business.
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Done wrong,
it would be deadly.
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Never trust nomads.
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Aspiring kings take what they want.
But just as this is not Sekekama or his brother...
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...nor is this Satau or her sister.
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It's Satau's nemesis, Matsumi.
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And where Matsumi goes,
Sekekama follows.
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Defeated, the nomads are banished.
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Nobody steals from the king.
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Satau is left with nothing.
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No king.
No home.
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Matsumi's pride already hunts the river as if it's their own.
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Satau must flee.
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One long, last look at her kingdom,
as her conquering enemy takes possession,
with Sekekama on its bloody throne.
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You have lost everything.
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There is nowhere else to go.
The badlands are your only choice.
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Sekekama and Matsumi take what's theirs.
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Satau's cursed pride is now homeless
and wanders a harsh and barren wasteland.
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You are still alive.
Trust your instincts.
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Satau has no idea where she is going,
nor when her next meal will come.
Everything is so unfamiliar...
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...frightening, hostile.
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They've escaped one death trap and now head into another.
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It's the exiled nomads...
bruised and belligerent.
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It is the most dangerous situation for any lioness.
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If you surrender, you may just stay alive.
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You have nothing left to lose.
It is now your turn.
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Satau will make kings of these nomads.
They will enable her to grow her pride again
and protect them all.
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A royal alliance to secure the pride of the north's future.
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Fortunes can change overnight.
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A king's protection is everything.
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From life's darkest depths,
Satau rises and starts to build the pride of the north anew.
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One day soon, Satau will grow her pride strong enough
to go and retake her place
as a rightful queen of the Savage Kingdom.
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