My problem with the pale man being Death

Rito Staff·9/14/2015, 7:14:27 PM·3 votes·2,262 views

1st - Death splits itself into 2 and Life comes out? Because when you have an apple and you cut it into 2 you get a watermellon. ok.

2nd - If the Wolf is Death, why does the Wolf asks why Death was lonely? It should know.

I see it more like there was the Purple color who was lonely and split itself into Red and Blue.

"White is an achromatic color, literally a "color without color", composed of a mixture of all frequencies of the light of the visible spectrum."

The pale man is white. Shunned by all visible frequencies. You can't see white. Your brain sees the no-color which is the oneness of the spectrums.

The oneness is alone, so it splits and contrast is born and then It can experience Itself. Wolf n' Lamb are the same and only pale man.

19 Comments

DartFeld9/14/2015, 8:53:07 PM4 votes

I posted this somewhere else, but here's my take on it (copied and pasted):

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.

GreenLore9/14/2015, 7:42:41 PM3 votes

What if Death didn't divide itself into life&death,but into something different?

They could represent death&afterlife,or violent&peaceful death,etc.

Ebonmaw Dragon9/14/2015, 7:51:55 PM2 votes

Plotwist: the pale man was actually Life and created Lamb (Life) and Wolf (Death) after he "cut" himself. That would explain why Lamb remembers the event but Wolf doesn't.

Shénzhì9/14/2015, 7:16:48 PM2 votes

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1st - Death splits itself into 2 and Life comes out? Because when you have an apple and you cut it into 2 you get a watermellon. ok.

Life includes death. It's natural cycle. Afterlife is something else.

JusticePauldrons9/15/2015, 10:35:57 AM1 votes

I don't think it has anything to do with LIFE & Death, but rather both are aspects of death. Think about their names, the wolf and the lamb. One is a common symbol of savagery and ill intent, while the other is a symbol of peace and innocence. My guess is the wolf represents those who died in violent or savage ways. and the lamb represents those who die peacefully such as old age or without regret. It wouldn't really make sense for death to split himself in two and then have one of his split personalities have power over life.

GreenLore9/18/2015, 9:35:22 AM1 votes

So yeah now the dev blog more or less confirms that they are death.

Kindred was originally supposed to represent life&death,but in the end they both represent different aspects of death(like I said). Wolf doesn't know many things,but feels a lot,which is why he didn't understand that he was once part of the "pale man" and that said pale man is death.

Digielf9/21/2015, 3:14:49 PM1 votes

Amnesia