Amumu and Kindred Theory

infernaldevice·11/15/2019, 2:36:00 PM·4 votes·4,927 views

Hi, I was watching the Amumu video and came up with a possible crossed storyline with Kindred. It started when I noticed that Amumu's curse takes the form of a wolf at the start (Kindred) and how there is a lot of scattered arrows that seem to catch your attention in it (Kindred). Now in his lore, Amumu has three tales that is not confirmed to be true or not. But I found that I lean more towards the first one with this theory. Amumu was the boy of a wealthy family, and upon exploring he came across Kindred. Since he is a young boy, his curiosity got the better of him and he approached them. Kindred asked him his signature question "would he prefer his arrow or the wolf?" And not knowing what was the meaning behind this, he stated wolf because he thought he was cooler. Now, the wolf loves the hunt and to torment his victims. So I believe the flesh-eating disease could have been inflicted by the Wolf (possibly by a bite?). Eventually, Amumu's family start to die one by one, leaving Amumu left (torment). Now, when the servant girl comes to hug Amumu after the death of his final brother, she too gets it and dies. Her grandmother, clearly not happy, then curses Amumu to live alone forever. So when Kindred finally comes to end his hunt, he thinks Amumu is "dead". Hence the coffin and chains at the start (represents royalty and perhaps the chains were done by the people in belief it would contain the disease). Now that Kindred realises he is not dead, his hunt begins again. Thus, taking the form of Amumu's curse in the video and "tormenting" him as the Wolf of Kindred desires. I do realise that the Amumu video does predate the release of Kindred but I think it could be foreshadowing them. Especially at the end scene when the curse seems to be smoke of black and white, Kindred's colours.

7 Comments

Terozu11/15/2019, 4:35:36 PM2 votes

Another thing is the black and white is a spiral.

It's possible this video had some influence on the kindreds design.

Another thing to note is that the Kindred tell Amumu to stay away from them.

Mcmxcix11/15/2019, 7:37:38 PM2 votes

As much as i loved reading your post, Kindred can sense and KNOWS when someone isn't dead, undead and resurrected, "THEY" are the God of Death, Aspect of Death, Death itself and it's in "Their" power to know whom's alive and who isn't. But if Kindred doesn't hunt some one, that means that SOME ONE's time didn't come to an end ... yet.

Thefrostyviking11/16/2019, 12:04:41 AM2 votes

Kindred has a quote towards Amumu.

Taunting an Enemy Amumu: Lamb: "We understand your loneliness, but... " Wolf: "...stay away!"

Now Kindred as a whole is a god of death, they know when someone is supposed to die and what a undead is and they are very vocal about their dislike for them.

The fact that they so outright refuse to do anything with Amumu is just all manners of weird, i cant even begin to guess what the deal is.

Might be a cursed Yordle (timeless thus supposed to be alive and not killed by kindred) but the curse is basically making him be like an undead for all intents and purposes.

A very weird kind of undead.

Xxerox11/16/2019, 1:46:25 AM2 votes

Maybe Amumu was Kindred's only friend and just as the opposite. But Kindred refused their friendship at some point because they knew Amumu will die and they have to take him. So they never killed him.

They understand he is lonely but if they are together Kindred has to kill him and Kindred does not want to.