Right, so I had an idea.

Female lionesses will (probably) not get primal, meaning it would pass exclusively from the male line. That makes it VERY limited though since most people don't like male cubs/don't have the space for them and would only end up chasing or sex changing them. Also, submales can't breed and not everyone (me for example) wants a primal King.

Solution: Why don't we have it so that the females CARRY the gene for Primal but rarely, or never express it.

Think of it as a sex-linked thing, like color blindness. Women typically don't get it because it's found on the 'X' gene. If you've got a bad 'X' gene a good 'X' gene will take over and the women's vision will be fine. Two bad X's and yeah-- you'll be colorblind and any sons you have will also be. Your daughters will carry it. However, if you're a guy, you've only got one X so you're only option IS to be colorblind.

So maybe Females can have expressed primal (rare than male primal) with a definite (or higher) pass rate to sons (the rate of male to female cubs is roughly 1/3) and carried primal (commonality: ???) which they can inherit from their fathers and pass on to any sons. How I'm seeing it:

Base Pass Rate (from father)
5% (to sons)
1-2.5% (to daughters - carried)
.5-1% (to daughters - express)
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Base Pass Rate (from mother)
3% (from Carrier mother to son)
2% (from Carrier mother to daughter:carried)
1.5% (from carrier mother to daughter:expressed)
7% (from Expressed Mother to son)
5% (from Carrier mother to son)
4% (from Expressed Mother to daughter:carried)
2% (from Expressed Mother to daughter:expressed)

EDIT 1:
Since most people favor a solo male pass consider the gene being exclusively male BUT females can carry it? This is an idea already in the works and the numbers above (minus expressed lionesses) still apply to the idea.


I don't know, thoughts? Suggestions?