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My bet is that if Ximhungwe female dies without leaving female offspring in the pride, the name will officially carry on with the Othawa-blooded lions and I can 100% see why they'd go this way and don't disagree with it necessarily.
I also don't think they should be named the Othawa or Othawa Breakaway pride but although I don't think they'll do it, renaming them to another completely new name would work out for me as well, like with the Msuthu pride.
That way we don't have a Ximhungwe pride without Ximhungwe blood, having to constantly explain it in the future, nor do we have another Othawa pride which also wouldn't make sense, but rather a brand new pride that new followers can see and immediately assimilate "ok, this is the X pride", instead of being like "so this is the Ximhungwe pride but apparently nobody in the pride is Ximhungwe but rather Othawa who brokeway and killed the other Othawa?" or "is this the Othawa Breakaway pride that was the Ximhungwe pride but has no more Ximhungwe lions?".