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The Wolf and The Lamb Theory

Sparhten·9/14/2015, 6:18:15 PM·2 votes·3,688 views

(this is a copy of my post from reddit which can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/3kuruy/monday_megathread_ask_questions_and_share/cv1e1v3 )

Ok so this is my first time posting don't put me on the spot or anything just here to share a theory, if anyone can remember a rioter posted on a forum agreeing with the whole "tahm kench is the embodiment of greed thing" ill link it at the end of the post, but basically the new Lamb/Wolf are "someone all things must meet." ("Lamb:All things must meet this man. So, they shunned him. Wolf: Did he chase them all?" (actual quote)) in a sense since they seem to be the two halves of one entity that entity being lonely and wanting a friend cutting itself in half making, in my opinion, the two sides of death with heaven and hell being the things they eventually evolved into representing in society. So overall what im trying to say is that the lamb and wolf seem to be the 'good' and 'bad' sides of death just wanted to share my opinion I could be completely wrong just thought it would be fun to put my two cents into the jar.

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/i2cPoBs4-is-tahm-kench-even-real - tahm kench post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ4K2zJz-4E listen to their tale (champ teaser)

EDIT: so apparently after seeing that the wolf and lamb appear after the death randomly this could mean that i was in the right ball park but a really good theory about the shunning and such can be found here http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/FosEAEGl-the-wolf-and-the-lamb-theory?comment=0000

EDIT THEY HAVE BEEN REVEALED AS KINDRED THE ETERNAL HUNTERS HERE

http://oce.leagueoflegends.com/en/page/champion-reveal-kindred-eternal-hunters

7 Comments

DartFeld9/14/2015, 10:21:31 PM3 votes

I agree with you on some aspects, but my theory differs in that I don't think its directly about death.

My theory (copied and pasted from another thread):

I don't think its about life and death. It appears to be about an entity that was so lonely that he split himself in two. Seeing as they were born of the same entity they will forever have a bond and will never be truly lonely. Now he couldn't just make a copy of himself, he couldn't give half of his happiness, half of his anger, half of any single emotion to each side. So I think the wolf and the lamb are representative of how he split himself up. The lamb being along the lines of calmness, peacefulness, and the like. The wolf containing the anger, ferocity, contempt, and so on. This is evidenced by the remark "did he chase them all?" But my interpretation doesn't end there. In the teaser the wolf seems mentally young and inexperienced.

"Tell me a story" "Why was it lonely"

He doesn't have the memories to know that this isn't just a story, but the way he came to be. Seeing as the wolf may contain all the rage and none of the peacefulness, the entity knew that having those memories would make the wolf uncontrollable and an absolute unchecked terror. So he left those memories and those experiences to the lamb. The one that will remain calm, composed, and peaceful about it's past. It doesn't seem that this was completely successful. The wolf seems to have lingering pieces of memory about being lonely. "Why was it lonely" instead of "why was HE lonely." He asks as if he means "why did it feel lonely before?" But seeing as they are split emotions, he doesn't understand just how being lonely would feel, just that the feeling once existed in his past.

I also think this entity has something to do with death, but not quite the way you're thinking. I feel like this entity is analogous of Charon, the ferryman of the dead in Greek mythology. It is not death itself.

"All things must meet this man, so they shunned him"

In regards to Greek mythology, the souls of all mortals must take take the ferry to the underworld. All souls must meet Charon. That would be one of the loneliest things anyone could ever do, and would definitely be "shunned" by all. take souls from one place to another never to see the same soul twice.

Now in the case of this entity, since the mark appears randomly upon death, it could be related to the force responsible for bringing the champions soul from the battlefield back to the fountain, And playing into the player experience. no one goes "I want to stay in this limbo where I can't do anything." Everyone wants to re spawn. They want to leave this limbo between death and re spawn, eagerly awaiting to reappear in the fountain and leave whatever force (or entity) gets them there. Effectively "shunning" the entity responsible.

Edit: I just thought of a cool ult passive for a champion like in this theory. They can grab the sole of a single dead ally. And if they can get back to the fountain (recalling or walking) without dying, they re spawn their ally instantly. Large cooldown, obviously. this is different from Zileans ult because your allies get to shop while they're dead, and it requires more effort. It also means that you have to leave a fight in progress if you want the effect ASAP. It fits the theme of the theory I've imagined.

Dr Nuka Cola9/14/2015, 11:15:27 PM2 votes

Honestly the whole trailer aside (ABSOLUTELY FREAKING AWESOME) the one thing I found most interesting was when the wolf refers to the man as "It"

Karn Bishop9/15/2015, 6:21:59 AM1 votes

The wolf is the innocent one, he "plays" out the storys that the lamb tells him and lamb benefits from whoever dies in said story.