What is Kindred ?

Angelofchaos16x·9/17/2015, 4:38:07 PM·1 votes·937 views

So I was thinking, if Kindred is made o 2 beings, one being the wolf and the other the lamb, then what is he ? Is Kindred the name of the person that was shunned ? And if so, what kind of person could take a axe and ( literally or figuratively ) split your self in 2 ? If it was literally (doubt it tho), he wasn't human, for obvious enough reasons. But what if the splitting meant something like a ritual that would divide your soul in 2 ? And why must all things meet this man, what the hell was he ?

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Sharjo9/17/2015, 5:20:48 PM3 votes

Right I'll go by each question at once; see if I can discern some decent answers for you:

Kindred specifically is a dual entity comprised of two spirits that were originally one combined one. That's the gist of their existence at any rate.
Kindred likely isn't the name of the original entity and is more likely a name given by humans to describe them, similar to how Bard is not Bard's actual name, but was given to him by the Bards from the Mountain.
The likelyhood is that Kindred was never a "person" so to speak, and more of a deathly entity. The whole "take an axe and split himself in two" is probably more figurative than literal, but this entity was apparently just really lonely from all the shunning he got (if that original thing was actually a he).
The whole way the story is told plays out more like a legend about gods and mythology rather than actual events, so I'd say it's unlikely that Kindred literally split itself in two, but separated parts of itself to create a friend for itself. It's likely that Wolf was that secondary part and Lamb is more of the original being.
All things must meet this man because this man is most likely death itself. Kindred are basically Runterran grim reapers so yeah.

Serevas9/17/2015, 4:40:09 PM1 votes

Kindred represents death, plain and simple.

All of their quotes are about how they are unavoidable, just like how death is entirely unavoidable.