#he lowkey made the lions for allura just saying

New headcanon:

There is no such thing as a lion on Altea - at least, no such real thing.

There is, however, a creature called a lion (in rough English translation, of course) that is a fearsome yet benevolent animal of fairy tales and children’s stories. Alfor was always fond of these stories (and so was Allura, for that matter), and could think of no better creature after which to model the ships made from the comet’s ore.