For ages, people have lived many diferent kinds of lives.

In order to live, one must eat.

Thus we lived, reaping the harvest of the life of the sea. Prosperity came, as we took from the sea only what was necessary. But we are a species weak of heart. And that weakness - which we know as anxiety - led us to take from the sea more than was necessary. Thus the god of the sea was angered. The sea rose up to the shores. And as it did, it claimed the lives of the people of the land. The people trembled in fear, and begged the maidens of the island to save them, to which was replied, "We shall offer ourselves to the god of the sea as his wives. This will calm his anger."

The maidens died in the sea, and became Okuhime.

And so, Okuhime is the embodiment of those maidens, returning from the sea, once a year.