Hi Lohla,
There is the possibility for kinship to transfer and keep their history and such. The leader transfers first, and the kin is then re-established on the new server. Each member still has to transfer their toons individually to the same server, but they will be automatically added to the kin on the destination server.
I don’t know exactly what you mean about a merger option, but there’s no project of merging different kins. However, we do want to coordinate our move with our allies.
Currently, and as stated above, Arkenstone is our likely destination.