I don’t know if lioden needs or wants new primal variations BUT I thought this would be kind of fun.
So this primal would be long-bodied and sleek with much shorter canines than a smilus. They also have plantigrade back legs, sort of like a bear. The males might have a hint of their mane color showing on their neck fur like a male leopon, or maybe both males and females would have some mane colored neck fur idk. I’d imagine as a whole they’d look something kind of like this except, you know, actually in the lioden style and not mine haha

The biggest difference between these guys and a normal primal or primal variation is that they could only be bred from either a primal/primal variation and a leopon or an already existing nimravid and any other lion. Breeding using the first technique offers about a 5-10% chance and breeding using the second technique offers a chance of about half of that. This would keep these guys kind of rare but not as rare as a leopon. Also maybe when tigons are released we could get another variation like this, too!
If anyone has any other ideas, critiques, or names for this primal then please comment aaaa

//ediT
I need to add some things I didn’t add before b/c I’m dumb sob.
First of all this would definitely not be an average primal, if I’m breeding a hecking leopoN for any mutation other than a leopon I’m going to want it to be a good one, and a simple change in lineart without any other positive qualities won’t do. This primal would have some sort of boost, but wheather it’s in stats, fighting, hunting, etc. I don’t know. I figured that once I thought of this boost I’d edit it into this post but I should’ve at least mentioned this before because otherwise you’d just be supporting another primal that would take owning a leopon to get—which doesn’t sound like a good deal at aLL. The thing is, I can’t think of a boost that not only would be worth the trouble of breeding one of these but would also not be totally overpowered once the mutation became more common. As much as I’d love an easy to get a lion that gave me a ton of extras it would become pointless once the mutation population normalized, so there has to be a reasonable balance!

If y’all could help me figure this out that’d help a lot :”0 maybe a system where the lion has the potential to get a bunch of boosts you couldn’t get otherwise but it requires extra work with a difficulty curve to receive them?? I dunno man.
And honestly this part doesn’t just have to be for this specific primal suggestion, I’d love to see any mutation (especially a passable one yell heah) that offered reasonable boosts and/or something to make primals a little more useful sometime in the future!