Nobody in the family had ever set foot outside the village

So, in such a circumstance as this- the rarest type of recurrence, when the unfortunate condition of being hopelessly lost brings straying outsiders into the village- the Illikindro family stands on vigilant guard to maintain watch on those who are trespassing here from whichever faraway, alien land. In fact, it is for occasions precisely such as these that the Illikandros have carefully sculpted their now-infamous familial traditions in the virtues of patience, observation, and a complex, tribal form of intellectual game theory that they foster from an extremely young age with intense, days-long engagements of simulated military siege. Hearsay of frighteningly brutal and unrepeatable details from those private events color (with suspicion and foreboding) the lingering impression of the family that the rest of the village has, but since they operate to the advantage of the community, and significantly so, in their opinion, there’s no reason to mount an opposition to whatever the Illikandro family does to itself behind closed doors.