Theory: Yordles are Iverse Muses

Solideus·Feb 21, 2016·6 votes·971 views

Muses are mythological spirits that inspire artists and such; my theory is Yordles are like muses, except they are inspired by others rather than just giving inspiration directly.

Illaoi calls them spirits, touches upon their empathy and suggest they should "inspire those that need it"
Yordles seem to obsess and shape themselves after ideals and cultures; Poppy embodies Demacian ideals; Heimerdinger embodies Piltover ideals, for example.

That's about it. What do you think?

18 Comments

FloRaider42Feb 21, 20163 votes

Would actually work for most of them. Interesting... Demacia with her rightousness and honor Piltover with his high intellect and ingenuity Zaun with their questionable use of science and disregard of safety The Glade with her crazy magic Noxus with his lust for power and authority Kumunge Jungle with his Scout-persona and use of poison Freljord with his primal strength and old "age" (even if he only is a Yordle Ancestor) Ionia with his mastery of Energy and channel of Lightning Bandle City with their focus on modernized weaponry and skill

Amumu Shurima with his mysterious and ancient origins (maybe not a Yordle though)

MimaropaFeb 22, 20161 votes

The rest are from Bandle city where millions or perhaps trillions of yordles live. Teemo is from Bandle city.

Velzard of KozFeb 23, 20161 votes

Gnar is not really a Yordle, or is he? More like preyordle or something. Homo Yordle Premordy...

Duke AnaxFeb 23, 20161 votes

The Neanderthal and other old races are considered Human too, not Ape.

It's fair to say Gnar is a Yordle.

Velzard of KozFeb 23, 20161 votes

I wouldn't say we talk about race, more like genre/species. I think calling them all humen might be a bit inaccurate, wouldn't it? What determines whether they display enough shared features with current human to be "human"? Many current kinds of monkeys, since they evolved from our shared ancestor, also have some features like humen do (some people still have domelike area around mouth, some are extremly hairy on places where most people have so limited hair it is not visible from distance etc.). It just sounds too much inexplicit or inexact. But If it's really the way you say it and I am just uninformed I silence myself. :X

Sorry to dig so much into it, when I look at irelevancy of this debate to original post I feel guilty. But in eyes of mine, Gnar is preyordle like I look upon prewolves (dire wolves), precattles (aurochs)...

Duke AnaxFeb 23, 20162 votes

Yeah I used the wrong word up there, what I meant is Neandertal is an old human species among several.

Scientiffically all are called human (homo) and separation is only taken against shimpansees and gorillas, which deviate pretty obviously in body structure.

Also while the auroch is an ancestor of the cattle, the dire wolf was actually sibling species to the common wolf, a more modern one even. So the term prewolf doesn't apply at all.

You could call the wolf a predog though.

Velzard of KozFeb 23, 20161 votes

Well in my language we call it prewolf, it became my custom :x I'll rather start using dire wolf in english, it's even direct translation to the latin name. Thanks for correcting.

I forgot about the "Homo" directly naming Human, you are right there too.

+200 points to GriffinDuke

Duke AnaxFeb 24, 20161 votes

Griffin?

Velzard of KozFeb 24, 20161 votes

Like the quote from Harry Potter "X points to [Griffindor or any other house]" but with your name, too. :D

Duke AnaxFeb 24, 20161 votes

oh yeah (-x

Duke AnaxFeb 24, 20162 votes

I think the term prewolf over there is a missconception of dire wolf fullfilling the clichee of looking more prehistoric.

Velzard of KozFeb 24, 20161 votes

Yes in my language theres whole bunch of animals we call by what we know now just adding pre-. Specifically pra in my language (prehistory is pravek [like preage], direwolf is pravlk [like prewolf]). I suppose we were just lazy with accuracy and just said it like it looked like to us :D .

But I always wondered why If it's wolf in latin it is considered a dog. Now I get it thanks to you.

Duke AnaxFeb 24, 20161 votes

Well I only just now found out that pet dogs are actually just considered races of wolf.

RalanrFeb 23, 20161 votes

Poppy Demacia.

Most others could be piltover.

FloRaider42Feb 23, 20162 votes

OP already said that :I

RalanrFeb 23, 20163 votes

LeeSin : I'm blind.

FloRaider42Feb 23, 20163 votes

Velkoz Eye am not xD

Velzard of KozFeb 21, 20161 votes

Actually very interesting. Might not make sense in all, but at given points it would make them very interesting. Even though I think Poppy and Heim case is determined by them leaving Bundle City, assimilating new cultures. Other Yordles do not seem to be matching this.