Does Amumu fall in line with Demons?

Beached Manatee·8/22/2018, 10:58:34 AM·9 votes·5,994 views

According to Evelynn's lore, Demons are originally nameless and formless spirits, wandering Runeterra in search of something. For Eve, it was suffering, and for Tahm Kench, it was greed. It never states that this desire has to be something negative nor that the spirit has to be malicious. Perhaps Amumu wanted companionship and some sort of major screw up lead to him wrapping his form with bandages and his guilt and regret manifested into the curse which he spreads.

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Warlord Rhinark8/22/2018, 1:26:06 PM5 votes

His current lore seems to suggest he was once an Emperor of Shurima, but if he ever gets a rework, who knows?

But as it is right now, he's definitely not a demon.

Gold Light8/22/2018, 4:07:38 PM4 votes

Actually, the way I interpret it is: all demons feed on suffering, and all of them have different ways of going about it. Evelynn takes the most direct route by seducing people and then killing them as slowly as possible. Nocturne tortures people by giving them prolonged nightmares that most of them never wake from. Tahm Kench doesn't even really feed off of 'greed,' so much as the anguish it can bring. He gives people what they want, only to watch as they lose all of it. The guy in his reveal trailer got a whole new life in a foreign land and even married a princess, but had to watch as Tahm took it all away. The guy in that audio drama got so addicted to gambling that he repeatedly threw away all of his money because Tahm planted the idea of "going for even bigger wins" into his head.

Demons in League don't inherently feed on emotions, but rather, the suffering that emotions can bring: lust, fear, greed... All of them are tools that the Evelynn, Nocturne, and Tahm Kench use to exploit humans and put them through as much agony as they can.

Chromatic Eagle8/22/2018, 2:53:00 PM2 votes

Amumu is whatever you want him to be but also nothing you expect him to be.

ACriticalThinker8/22/2018, 11:18:47 AM1 votes

Interesting...

Flamu8/26/2018, 12:42:29 PM1 votes

Wait, amumu being an ascended yordle wasn't canon?