At one point an Uktena Caern of old that had been abandoned and put to sleep when the Wyrmcomers came, the Caern was rediscovered by Shadow Lord settlers in the late 1930s. Matvei Dobrowski, ~Voice-Like-Thunder’s-Echo~, Adren Galliard, Sergei Viktor Tkachyov, ~Speaker-of-Grandfather's-Word~, Athro Philodox, their packs, and their families were the beginning of the Sept of Broken Prairie after Sergei ~Speaker-of-Grandfather's-Word~ won the right to settle the area and lead the Sept from an Uktena pack that was also looking to settle.