Lioden is not only very cruel to an already misunderstood species, but actively perpetuating inaccuracies.

Before anyone says "but we're lions!"
While it's understandable that lions and hyenas are natural enemies, our lions are capable of empathy even when it doesn't make sense.
For example: helping males not native to your pride, not murdering the past king's cubs, taking in loner/abandoned cubs & helping them. We can help dogs, even.
And I'd forgotten- we can even help young and dying prey! That's what a lion would want to eat because it's easy!

Clarification: The examples above show why Lioden does not need to be realistic on hyena-hate, because it isn't meant for realism.

But when it comes to hyenas? Overwhelmingly, Lioden is negative.

In the current cub encounter, we either kill them, or hope they die. That's actually what got me thinking about writing this. Why can't we be nice to any hyena? We just barely tolerate Laharu, at least that's what it seems like.

There is the single encounter with hyena clans, where we can negotiate. And there's cute cub decor. And my pfp. But there are /far/ more instances of hate.

With misconceptions:
Hyenas do not yip and howl, they do not bark, they do not live in packs. (They're also not dogs, or cats while we're at it)
This is my first January with LD, having just seen the Laharu encounter where he gifts us a skull because he can't eat it: striped hyenas (and all hyenas except aardwolves) are fully capable of eating bone. They chomp it down like it's jerky.

It's as if LD sees hyenas as stinky, lazy, worthless versions of dogs, when they are not. There are so few positive portrayals of hyenas, and Lioden can do much better.

Or at the very least, allow nicer options for high-karma, kind/good kings, not just the negotiate encounter. We should be able to do more than murder and avoidance!
As well as fixing all the behavior inaccuracies, as an animal SIM, we shouldn't be seeing hyenas shown like they're from TLK.

EDIT:
If no support, please explain why, I'd like to understand your reasoning