Way, way back in the day – far back enough that Moriji’s volcano was still active – Kindred and Deadbeats were one in the same. Two deities were worshipped on the island – a Japanese goddess and a Latin god. To the East of the volcanic mountain chain dividing the island, the god was believed to have more influence while to the West, it was the goddess. But both deities were equally respected and rituals were observed for them both. Because the Eastern lands were smaller, settlements were forced to form closer to the volcanic chain. Periodic eruptions, at first only once every few centuries but then in shorter and shorter intervals, would almost wipe these Eastern settlements off the map. It eventually began happening with enough frequency that some people got sick of it and set sail for greener (or at least less explosive) shores, this being exaggerated into the near-extinction event in Kindred myth. These Kindred ancestors landed on the Western shores of what is modern day /mep/ and lived for a while as nomads, until eventually migrating south and settling in Northern Ninisani. The worship of the less prevalent deity was eventually forgotten by each respective group, but enough remained that we get the weird mixup of a Latin goddess who’s strangely Japanese and a Japanese god who’s strangely Latin.