Until the year 1898 there where no organized shifter groups in Tsavo. the lions where the stongest and most numerous and each ruled their own section. some banded together but that was rare.

The shifters that lived closest to the villages had agreements with the humans about territoral boundaries. Then the Bristish came.

They started construction on a bridge over the Tsavo River in 1898. The shifters had a meeting the same month. A historic event.

The first and last such meeting in Tsavo. It was decided that the Lions would handle the builders in Tsavo. In return for the unrivalled right to form a Pride. A right the other shifters would forfeit.

The Pride's first Rex Chose the two strongest lions Ajani and Chuioke to make their point. Over the next 9-months they Killed and ate 135 of the workers who'd betrayed their agreement. The workers named the duo The Ghost and The Darkness.

They said they where the spirits of angered Medicine Men but they knew the truth. Fire didn't scare them, Boma fences didn't keep them out, Traps and ambushes didn't work. Even being shot didn't slow them down. The workers fled and construction halted. On December 1st The Rex met with Lt, Col. John Patterson. What happened during this meeting has remained a secret known only by the Rexs.

9 days later Paterson was provived with the body of a large male lion who died of natural causes. He claimed it was one of the the 'murderous animals.'

3-weeks later the action was repeated. the construction crew returned and the bridge was completed in Febuary 1899.There have been no more major constuction projects in Tsavo since that time. Tsavo East and West are now considered nature preserves.

The Ghost and The darkness where traditional posts in The Tsavo Pride. Held by two lions charged with protecting the Pride and their territory by whatever means they and their Rex deem nessacary. The titles and positions where declared obsolete by Elijah Reins who became Rex in 1983.

-Following the death Of Elijah Reins
in 2007 the new Regina Jazleigh
revived both positions.