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The Uktena homeland encompasses a diverse mix of North American climates and terrain. The boundaries blur

between the lands so deciduous forests grow within expan­ sive prairies that also house rocky deserts and snow-capped mountains. The modern Uktena have spread across the earth and intermingled with people of distant lands. The homeland now incorporates every Uktena birth land. The environmental mishmash includes fragments of volcanic Japanese mountains and Mongolian steppes, rainforests of South America and savannah plains of Africa.

The Uktena use their homeland as an extension of their role as collectors of secrets. The homeland contains spirits of extinct creatures, embodiments of forgotten myths and secrets of lost cultures. The Uktena gathered the remnant emanations of lost Native American tribes that scattered before European expansion. Now the last ancestor spirits of these tribes dwell only in the homeland. Unique mythical creatures and heroes of Native American lore also make their homes in the Realm and trade secrets with the Uktena for continued protection. The Uktena remember and nurture these last remnants and save them from the final oblivion of the Abyss.

The Uktena fight the Abyss, and their homeland is the beachhead in this war. The homeland has a passageway to the Abyss buried deep in a great canyon. The Uktena use it to quest for lost scraps of memory before they disappear forever. Every piece of lore they recover is a victory against oblivion. These raiding parties use secret rituals to keep the path open so they can escape with their stolen treasures. The Abyss does not give up its secrets easily and these ritu­ als sometimes fail, leaving the packs to find other ways to escape the Wyrm-ridden Realm.

The Uktena were one of the tribes most open to the other Changing Breeds, and still welcome Fera travelers who come with secrets to share or barter. They occasionally invite representatives of the Bastet, Corax and Nuwisha to sit in great councils to discuss lore and the ways of the spirit and have been known to summon ghosts from the Dark Umbra for their secrets.