Before the frontier

Before European settlement, the island already had its own communities, sacred places, burial grounds and supernatural history. The founding of Los Santos would eventually become the beginning of the city’s official story, but it was never the beginning of the island.

Coastal settlements, inland villages, mountain communities and desert routes had different custodians and different obligations. A place later described by outsiders as a caern, a node or a freehold might overlap several older relationships without belonging to any single supernatural society.

Uktena and Wendigo histories preserve accounts of threatened bindings and responsibilities inherited across generations. Other Changing Breeds remember things differently. Gurahl maintain healing obligations, Pumonca watch inland territories, Corax carry news, and Nuwisha interfere with people who become too certain of their authority. Rokea have their own concerns along the coast and beneath the surrounding waters.

Native fae maintain relationships that do not depend on the later courts of Concordia. Their histories are not simply an early chapter in the arrival of European changelings.