Baridi

also known as is a major character and an antagonist who appears in the fan-made comic, The Relatives of the King by. She is a power-hungry and psychopathic Coldlander lioness, 's former mate, and 's mother. She is also the Queen of the North.

Baridi serves as the main antagonist in The Relatives Of The King Part 4: The Heirs and The Relatives Of The King Part 5: Outcast. She also appeared as a posthumous antagonist in short stories.

Appearance
Baridi is a coldlander lioness, a group of lions who lived in the north. According to, she is not an albino, but she is much lighter than the other lions. She can hide between snow and grey rocks and her long fur at her cheeks protect her from the cold in the mountains. She has light gray pelt and cyan-blue pupils.

Personality
Baridi is considered the darkest and most evil character in comics. She is psychopathic, narcissistic, power-hungry, evil, manipulative, violent, untrustworthy, sadistic, intelligent, twisted, ruthless, dangerous, powerful, murderous, heartless, cunning, and envious, even more so then Scar and Zira. Even as a cub, she was rude and spoiled.

It is confirmed by, that Baridi suffers from , most likely Psychopathy. Baridi's parents theorized that she was born with an evil spirit, which explains her villainous nature even from an early age.

Outcast
Baridi was the daughter of Dara and Latif, the king and queen of the North at the time. As a cub, she was already developing an evil personality when she insults other lions and even insults her own parents as well. When she got older, she becomes more violent and power-hungry, as she plots to overthrow her parents when she learns that they were going to banish her from the north because of her behavior. After killing her own parents, she usurps the throne as the new Queen of the North. When two lions entered her lands, Kosa and Zira, they convinced her to join them in a war against a Pridelanders and to take over the Green Valleys around her land. Baridi decided to help Kosa kill Jalia's parents in order to take the lands and was impressed by Kosa following her orders. After Kosa becomes Baridi's new mate, Zira convinces Baridi to take the lions cubs around the valley, which will prevent the lions from standing up to her.

She accepted Zira's terms and has her followers go after the cubs around the Valley. However, when her followers captured the descendants of Hasira, Hila, and Faida, they were curious about a dark lion next to the evil queen. At first, Baridi convinces Kosa to make them leave, but Kosa refuses and he reunites with his mother Azra, who was among them. Baridi allowed Kosa's family to stay but ordered them to follow her own rules. Baridi and Kosa have born their own cub named Giza. However, Baridi was annoyed by her own infant because she never planned to become a mother herself.

The Heirs
Baridi came to the Pridelands to act as one of the mothers who has lost her son so she can gain the Pridelanders trust. However she revealed her true colors after the Pridelanders confronted Zira and her family and alongside Azra, she killed the elderly Sarabi who was watching over Kesar and Nuru, the sons of Kiara and Kovu. After they captured Kesar and Nuru by pretending to be nice lions, Baridi and Zira's family returned to the North and once again she manipulates the cubs to follow her and lied to them that their parents abandoned them. She grows a hatred towards Vitani because she adopted Adia, who was one of the captured cubs because she thought that she will steal one of her cubs away. When she learns that Nuru and one of the cubs found out about Baridi's plans, she banished them to the mountains and sends Kosa and Azra to kill them. She also noticed that the Pridelanders are regaining the trust in the cub's parents to stand up against Baridi, so she goes by even further to kill the cubs in order to make them weak and follow her again. To do this, she sends Kosa to take them to the mountains so her followers can start an avalanche to bury them alive. When she pleads for Kosa to roar, she noticed that the parents are actually going to attack Baridi and Kosa for murdering their cubs. When Kosa convinces Baridi to leave with their daughter, Baridi betrays Kosa by pushing him off the mountains so the parents could kill him, revealing her true sociopath nature. She wanted to take every lion kingdom in the world she can become the one true queen. She even betrays her own cub, Giza, as she left her. However it was revealed that Kosa already known about Baridi's plan against his family and he saved the cubs and Vitani's life by convincing them to leave. After she confronts Vitani, she noticed that Adia witness this battle and defeated Vitani by throwing her cub off the mountains so she can rescue her, thinking the fall will kill Vitani (but survived at the end).



Soon Kosa confronts Baridi but was almost losing. Baridi was about to kill Kosa before he was rescued by Azra as she pushed Baridi off the cliff. But before she would fall off the cliff, she grabbed Kosa's mane to have him fall with her. Not giving into Baridi's lies any longer, Kosa pushed Baridi off the cliff. But she survived when the cliff stopped her fall, but she was confronted by Faida, Hasira, and Hila, who's overheard Baridi admitting that Zira's family were freaks. Loki, Aris, and Bellona roared and started an avalanche that buried Baridi alive over a bunch of snow. It was revealed that the avalanche killed her in one of the short comics that Savu has made and has now become one of the dark spirits.

Relationship with other Characters
'''[[File:Baridi_and_Zira.png|thumb|left|Zira and Baridi

Art by Savu0211]]Kosa''' - Baridi and Kosa had a strong relationship at first but it later proved to be all for naught in the end. At first, Baridi sees Kosa useful to her plans to take over the Green Valleys around the mountains. However after he lets his family join her pride and that they born a cub, Kosa was starting to bore Baridi and was becoming more unuseful to her plan.

Zira - Baridi has a mixed opinion towards Zira because she is much more intelligent than her. She sees Zira as an old hag but she proves useful to her because Zira was the one responsible for Baridi to come up with the plot to take other lands. Zira was also somewhat wiser than Baridi but Baridi proved to be much more evil and dangerous than Zira.

Scar - Though she never met Scar because he died before she was born, Baridi has heard about him and he proved to be an inspiration to Baridi because he killed his brother to usurp the throne for himself. Baridi admits that she admires Scar and said that he is "very likable". In fact, she shares some personality traits with him: power-hungry, evil, murderous, and cruel. They both killed their own family members to assume their thrones and they both shared similar demises, betraying their own allies and their allies retaliated and killed them both in return. However, in comics, Scar is shown to have much more sympathetic traits than Baridi, as he has some compassion for his family, which included his love for his mother and mourns her loss when she died. He also suffered a tragic past. Baridi's past was not as tragic, as she was cruel and uncaring, even as a cub. Her father confirmed that Baridi was born with an "evil spirit" in her heart. Baridi killed her own parents out of retaliation and becomes the Queen of the Northlands. Unlike Scar, who only took over the Pride Lands, Baridi wants to conquer every lion pride on Earth and rule over them all. Plus, Baridi does not show compassion to anyone, not even her own allies. The only time she has ever shown a bit of compassion is when she praised Kosa for helping her kill the parents of Jalia and take over their lands. Other than that, Baridi has proven to be much more evil and dangerous than Scar ever was, even more evil than Zira herself.

Vitani - At first, Baridi and Vitani are neutral to each other. But they begin to develop a poor relationship once she learned that Vitani took in one of the captured cubs, Adia. In retaliation, she tasked Kosa to take Vitani and the captured cubs so that she can kill them with an avalanche. However, Vitani and the cubs managed to escape thanks to Kosa informing her of Baridi's true colors and plans, and Vitani confronts and fights Baridi. Adia shows up at the wrong moment and Baridi grabs Adia and throws her off the cliff, forcing Vitani to jump after her and save her. Vitani was almost killed, but she managed to survive and Baridi was later killed by an avalanche.

Nuka - Though Baridi has never met Nuka due to the fact that he died, she has heard of him and she mentioned him to Zira at one point.

Azra - Initially, Azra became a loyal follower to Baridi and they have a neutral relationship at first. But their relationship was strained when Azra learned of Baridi's true colors and the fact she betrayed her son, Kosa. Azra goes to save Kosa during a fight between them and Baridi falls off the cliff. She survived the fall but was later killed by an avalanche.

Trivia

 * E9E9A776-F999-42D3-8874-46A92E138A.jpgi is considered to be the evilest villain in Savu0211's comics. In fact, she can be considered pure evil.
 * Baridi is more evil than Scar . While Scar is pure evil in The Lion King film, in the comics; he is much more sympathetic and he sometimes does care for his family but he rarely shows it. Even though Zira is more intelligent then Baridi and is responsible for her motivations to capture all the cubs, Zira cares for her family and is very loyal to her mate Scar. Baridi has a mental disorder which is why she lacks empathy and is loyal to no one, not even her own family.
 * Baridi is one of favorite  characters to write alongside
 * Baridi's death was almost similar to Scar's death in The Lion King. They are both overheard that they plan to betray their own followers. So in retaliation, the followers killed their former leader.
 * Despite being a purely evil villain, Baridi is considered a fan-favorite and has gained a huge fanbase and has much fanart from other people who admire comics. Thus, this makes Baridi one of the most popular and memorable original characters that Savu has created. She is also considered the best original villain that has created.
 * Baridi is the only antagonist in comics to serve as the main antagonist in two parts instead of one.
 * Baridi is the final antagonist in comics.