Most attribute the Andens’ origins to the Vital God of Earth; Qundan, in their tongue. While he is undoubtedly venerated by the Anden, most of their folklore shows trends toward the origin of stones falling from mountainsides. Indeed, many early tools for most of the Kalmenids were split from such falls, acting as early hand axes. The Anden view themselves as being shaped by similar forces, if only in myth.

The Anden split from the main Kalmet branch roughly 280 kya ago. Likely of similar stock to the early Kalmenids who braved the seas to the Sarnevalian Archipelago, material evidence found on the relatively large island of Vedua on the Westernmost end of the island chain, dated to around 325 kya, shows around 30,000 years spent on and around the island.

Vedua, notable for its high levels of volcanic activity, appears to have begun pushing the Anden to favor subterranean abodes. Similarly, with the intense subtropical storms that dominate the region, high ground in the highlands is the most favorable terrain on the island. These factors, among others, pushed these proto-Anden into living in caverns in the more dormant highlands of the island's south end. But methods of divining activity within the volcanoes of the island through Cyan and Elemental magic has seen the more dangerous but exceedingly more fruitful North more heavily populated.