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=History=

Long before human history began, this place was known to Leviathans. Fragments of lore attest to it, calling the area "the Mouth of Gold". Artefacts are sometimes found by excavating archaeologists or construction workers, and if you know just where to dive, you can find a straight path of stone submerged under water just out of sight from the Mexican coast. In truth, the Mouth of Gold is a beacon to Leviathans, who are unconsciously attracted by some kind of gigantic (and therefore, practically unnoticeable) Wake in the area.

==The Arcadio Legacy==
Recent history of the area (read: since colonial times) has, for Leviathans, been dominated by the actions of Miguel Angel Arcadio. He was a Spanish nobleman in the late 18th century, and an exceptionally powerful Tanninim. Having exhausted his options for power in the motherland, he arrived in 1750 in what was then New Spain. In Havana, he met and allied with Fray Agusto Buendias, a half-indian Jesuit scholar with a reputation for oratory skills, and an experienced Dagonite.

Together, they were part of the 1769 expedition that founded the Mission San Diego de Alcalà, the first European settlement in the region. At first, Arcadio and Buendias worked together to carve their little empire in the region. Then, suddenly, the friendship turned sour. Oral history has it that a local Kumeyaay woman came to see them one night, bringing with her "something from the mountains". After that night, Arcadio took to searching the area regularly, while Fray Buendias sent bands of indians he had subjugated to do similar work for him.

It was inevitable that they clashed, and after a while it became open war. Finally, one night, Fray Buendias was found decapitated. There was little justice in the land to be visited upon Arcadio, even though local history always held that he had done the deed himself. Arcadio became secluded in his ranch in the mountains, but soon he had a son, who took over the exploitation and the regular expeditions to search the mountains for something that we never quite explicited.

For centuries, the Arcadio family line dominated the region. Its influence was little to the mundane world, but they held tight control over any occult manifestations. They did fairly well when Mexico became independent. "El Señor Arcadio", at the time José Maria Arcadio, was one of the innumerable warlords who ruled the little province with an iron fist during the war of independence.

==The Refuge Church==
The mission at San Diego remained a centre of religious fervor and population growth throughout the Spanish and Mexican eras. It attracted many Leviathans, who thought they could carve themselves a niche in the relative isolation of the region, among people who had already been prepared for religious indoctrination.

They were soon enough brought to heel by the Señor Arcadio of the time. They nonetheless had an impact, as San Diego de Alcalà soon developed a reputation as the most fractious and heresy-prone mission in the region. Underground wars between factions sometimes broke out in outright violence, as the frenzy of rival Cults were brought to bear. Within Leviathan community, the region also developed a reputation as a center of learning and discussion for the School of the Sun, which long dominated the region.

==Original Sin: the separation==
The American conquest spelled the doom of the domination of the Arcadio family. Retreating more and more in the countryside, they were totally blindsided by the urban expansion of San Diego (later Tijuana), which made them and their exploited Indian workforce obsolete.

It was a time of freedom for Leviathans, who flocked more than ever to the region, but it was also the beginning of dominance for the Marduk Society.  Many say that the first sons of Marduk to arrive in the region came with the Mormon battalion, settling by force of arms the conflicts within the Wicked Tribe. For sure, for a couple of decades there are no records of any Leviathans in town, apart from the few descendents of Miguel Arcadio still roaming the hills from their estate. San Diego was deathly quiet on the Leviathan front.

This is simply because many of the Tribe had fled south, along with the Mexicans who refused American rule. They laid low, and mingled with the refugee population who would soon found Tijuana on the other side of the border. It was also the beginning of the end for the domination of the School of the Sun. For a while, it looked like those of the Clay would succeed the priests in their utter dominance. With the help of some Leviathans who wanted to break the Arcadio stranglehold, the system of ranchos started to break down, soon replaced by farming and livestock grazing by small independent owners. An alliance of local pioneers and bourgeoisie, themselves suspiciously reminiscent of Arcadio and Fray Buendias, entered into a compact to formall found the town of Tijuana. The heart's blood of the region was now flowing in two separate streams.

==Dark Days and Illuminated Nights==
Tijuana's expansion was, on the surface, a wild, anarchic thing, fueled by tourism, gambling, nightlife and a cheap theme-park version of Mexican culture for foreign consumption. In reality, it was carefully harnessed for maximum profit by various interests: local crime lords, Mafia families, and of course, underneath those, many Leviathans. Federal troops and militia sent the few local revolutionaries packing during the Civil War, because nothing could be allowed to endanger the profits. Free from Marduk's gaze, free from the crime-busting efforts that would culminate in the Prohibition north of the border, Tijuana grew and so did the Wicked Tribe. Unavoidably, this constant proximity along with the temptation of greater power and masses brought heavy conflict. The Hatfield rainmaker flood, a collateral effect of a conflict between two prominent Cults, destroyed a large swath of the city, and was only the most visible sign of the seething underground war. Ultimately, the city crashed when the leader of the local School of Fog, Tomaso Montés, convinced the federal government to ban gambling in the state in order to impose some calm.

Many Leviathans crossed north again just in time to benefit from the boom in activity that World War II created in San Diego. A heavy influx in population came to work in the shipyards, and some of them brought their family gods with them. A new equilibrium of power finally settled in, one that continues to this day. The old families have lost much of their power, but they are still listened to enough that conflict does not break out too visibly, too often. From time to time, however, tensions flare up for territory or family, and atrocities are committed that are either buried by the cities' good citizens or swept under the rug - namely, thrown out to the other side of the border. Occasionnally a more direct approach is need and a natural disaster will come along to sweep clean the slate. But sooner or later, the vacuum in power calls for another godling-king who will test his mettler against the iron border.