As recently as a mere couple centuries ago, the children of Jaguar (War/Native) still roamed between the Central American highlands and as far north as the Los Angeles Basin. He was revered as a god of war, whose followers painted their faces in blood and devoured the hearts of their enemies. Jaguar's feline kin were sadly hunted to extinction, though it wasn't until 1963 that the last female jaguar was hunted and killed in the American Southwest (long after the societies who worshipped him had been destroyed as well). By then, Jaguar had not been seen in the greater Los Angeles area for hundreds of years.
Recently however, Jaguar has been making a comeback. It began in the early 1980s when the famous Uktena Theurge, Isabel Moon, made it her principal mission to rescue as many Uktena cubs and Kinfolk from cartel-plagued Mexico and strife-torn Central America as possible. This had the effect, along with millions of other mortal immigrants (who brought with them more than a few unknowing Balam Kinfolk as well!), of skyrocketing the Uktena's numbers in Los Angeles, going from nearly on the verge of extinction themselves to one of the most numerous and fast growing tribes in the greater Los Angeles area.
Millions of Salvadoran, Honduran and Guatemalan immigrants would eventually settle in Los Angeles, especially the Westlake and Pico District neighborhoods near Downtown LA, which would become known as 'Little Central America'. This included a sizeable contingent in the Byzantine-Latino Quarter, the 'Salvadoran Corridor' and 'Little Belize' in South LA.
In time, a formidable and young war-like pack of Central American Uktena managed to successfully petition Jaguar for his patronage, with Isabel Moon's help. This urban indigenous pack would play a very important role in the sept's defenses throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. It wasn't until a dispute arose over who should succeed Mason King as leader of the sept, the disappearance of Isabel Moon and with the encouragement of Isabel's granddaughter, Morena Moon, that the Uktena pack abandoned the sept. They left Jaguar and Little Central America behind, instead following Morena Moon east into the San Gabriel Valley where a lost Uktena caern was supposed to be hidden.
They never found the caern, yet never returned to the sept either. It is thought that in modern nights, they have carved out a strip of territory between the southern outskirts of the Angeles Forest and the northern urban sprawl of the San Gabriel Valley, where they relentlessly harass the local leeches.
Jaguar now is with Sentinels of Aztlan who do him honor by spilling the blood of the Wyrm.
