Akime Hoyama was a normal Japanese lady when she boarded a ship to go to America to start a new life. However, she was possessed by a demon aboard the vessel and when she went to America, she converted the entire village of Maryland. Akime died when Lily Warren and Joe Marks pushed her off the cliff of a volcano. However, the cult still flourished. In the 1950s, Edith Radisson's mother ran away from her husband because he joined the cult. It was only in 2009 when the majority of the cult was killed off by Nathan Cramer.