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Deadbeat anon, are you still here? I was working on Kindred and came up with some suggestions for their potential relationship with Deadbeats that I’d like to run by you. Perhaps way, way back in the day – like, 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. Closer to the volcano, the god was believed to have more influence while a little further out, it was the goddess, but both deities were equally respected and rituals were observed for them both. But the volcano. Periodic eruptions, at first only once every few centuries but then in shorter and shorter intervals, would almost wipe the settlements near the base off the map. It happened began happening with enough frequency that some people eventually 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. 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.
