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Redesigning my COTL cast pt.1

HAHA I'm finally done! I only made busts tho bc Im lazy and Im not putting myself through drawing a size chart... YET.

It WILL come, just so I can show pretty outfits and show how ridiculous Leshy's hight is LOL

If you see any spelling mistakes, please ignore them <3

(more info and rambling under cut)

Here I'll write some more things relating to each character;

Lamb

Born in Darkwood to a single mother, their mom had named them Mellia after the flowers that grow there, since they had aided in striving off an illness she had during the pregnancy.

The Lamb grew up pretty happily despite being on the run. Their mother was eventually caught whilst they made an escape. During their years of hiding, they broke their leg during one particularly risky escape and were caught not long after.

Their number is 1.600.666 because I keep making a connection between Darkwood and Germany's Schwartzwald - there are 1.6 million sheep in Germany - so I decided to have that be the approximate number. 666 was just added for fun.

Their ear was tagged to keep track of how many sheep were caught in which realm. They just so happened to be the last to be executed. By mere coincidence.

They were born without horns and kinda made the crown shape into a set. It has the benefit that they can rip em off and use them as impromptu weapons.

Due to centuries of being treated as a tool for a prophecy and merely a vessel, their self esteem is downright horrid. Whilst they don't condone followers speaking ill of them, they pretty much let Narinder trample on their feelings up until they had snapped one day. In the end it did help them both, but it wasn't great it had to be taken to that point.

Extra: I added the vitiligo because when I imagine a human version, I couldn't help but see them as having Vitiligo. Their leg limp was made after I thought it would make them look more imposing seeing someone "weak" suddenly pull out a giant hammer.

Narinder

Found within a burning village under rubble, clutching a crown as war raged around them. He was found by Shamura and taken in.

He was the first to create resurrection and back then it was an EXTREMELY taxing ritual. It would require his own godly flesh to beckon people back to life - thus it would literally cause his skin and flesh to melt off his bones. Now that's not needed anymore but his body is still weak to it, meaning during certain stress factors, he can still become skeletal. He doesn't have scarring from it, but gained some cool markings.

He was bound by his arms, torso and neck - all of which are scarred. In the afterlife he was perpetually sitting, causing him to be paralyzed from the waist down. Once he was usurped he had to regain his ability to walk and was taken care of by the Lamb.

He was in a catatonic state for many years and it only got better gradually with many setbacks. For years he never left the bed and by the time his Siblings had been rescued, he had barely started going outside. He was also suffering from chronic pains which wasn't really helpful.

He's also very... Temperamental. It took him just as long to say anything nice to the Lamb and it took him extra long to see them as more than his vessel.

Extra: I changed his markings to be more like I had imagined them. The catatonic trait and chronic pain was added after the update and I remember how horrible it was having tendonitis and I wanted to channel my distaste into Narinder.

Shamura

Found and raised by the last gods, they weren't the greatest sibling. They may have taken in the others but it took them a long time to be anything other than cold. With Kallamar, Shamura was distant and strict - then with Narinder they attempted to be less harsh after the kid started crying himself to sleep. With Heket and Leshy they got less and less cold. They tried their best, they'd argue.

They got carried away by their feelings as they had feared at the start and that's when the first prophecy came to them. They had kept it hidden for way too long until the balance of the crown's powers were ripping at the seams due to Narinder's pursuit in power - and they made a decision. They had told Kallamar first. Then Heket and Leshy were brought in.

Stuff happened. Now they are barely coherent and at most have an hour or two at a time where they seem to make sense. Leshy stays with them the most. Kallamar takes care of them. Heket takes care of the rest. Their skull is caved in, they lost an eye and limbs - some of the damages can't be hidden by bandages.

There's also this thing that their crown keeps getting out of control whilst trying to keep their mind stable - sometimes they'll get startled - attempt to form a weapon and instead end up with their arm speared through. They have scarring all over their body from it.

Upon recruitment they are pretty overwhelmed. Their crown can't stop them from breaking anymore and they have gotten so used to godhood that mortality now feels like they are literally rotting alive. They can feel their body wasting away.

Only after getting their relic back do they start becoming more independent and stable. They nowadays go through some sort of rehab to try and regain their sense of self.

Extra: Not much was added. I wanted to give them Glasses but I can't for the life of me draw them with a pair... So Ill just say they have them but not show them LOL

Kallamar

His past is basically forgotten. It sorta slipped away since he hadn't deemed it fit to be remembered. At first he had MANY fights with Shamura, then it ceased after a confrontation turned violent which left him with a bad scar.

He had to take care of his younger siblings whilst coming to terms with godhood - filling in whenever Shamura wasn't physically or mostly emotionally unavailable. For a long time he was the only one that could comfort his ailing siblings. Dealing with that sort of made him pretty easily agitated.

When Shamura proposed the plan, he had been hesitant - but ultimately didn't say anything.

Now he takes care of his siblings medically. He hates himself more than he hates anyone else and as much as he is quick to condemn and betray Shamura - he is also quick to condemn himself. Though maybe not as enthusiastically or openly.

He likes to compensate. Giving gifts to request forgiveness - grand displays of favoritism or mainly decking himself and his multiple spouses out with Jewels. He still keeps his wedding rings around his neck and his earring references his siblings.

Funnily enough, he caused the least troubles to the Lamb. They could argue he even seemed relieved after a short while of staying in the cult.

Extra: Added Jewelry and two tentacles because he looked naked without them.

Heket

Loudmouth frog that when found with her crown, she started trying to fight Shamura - insulting whatever parent they had. She kept threatening to poison them too.

In the lineup of her siblings, she was often the one who took the sidelines. If she was happy, she was left alone. If she was displeased, she'd let herself known. The most uncomplicated of the siblings.

You'd almost miss how every other bishop would seek her out when help was needed. While Shamura helped with godhood and Kallamar with emotional needs - Heket was a good person to pester with anything else. She'd handle it - just let big sis do it. Even if she was the second youngest - it's funny how even Kallamar and Narinder would occasionally use the nickname.

Then when everyone else was dealing with their wounds, she picked up the pace and kept their respective cults from falling apart. She handled Silk cradle until Shamura could - helped with Darkwood and took over Anchordeep when Kallamar was tending to the others. No problem.

She was still loud when entering the cult. Not as much as her brother - but she loved to cause scenes. Her muteness didn't seem to hinder her at all with that. She's not allowed near knives but somehow can handle axes?

Her temper problems don't get better. She just stops being an asshole about it.

She prefers having scarfs covering her neck bandages whilst they're all bloody and disgusting.

Extra: Nothing because Heket is already perfect.

Leshy

Literally a weird insect that kept clinging to the crown until it grew big enough to hold in one hand. It bit anything that got close and by the time Shamura found it - he had started eating small critters.

And god, he kept growing and growing until he wasn't a small worm in Shamura's hand but literally too big to fit through most doors. They suspected he'd grow until the end of time. Or well, now since his crown is gone.

He never listens. He screams for fun and overshares the worst details to the point he manages to break his siblings into just accepting anything he talks about. They can't even scold him or punish him since Leshy always finds a way to make things worse for anyone else but himself.

He also copies everyone. First it was Heket's tone. Then it was Narinder's behavior - now he started growing flowers and vine braids to make fun of Kallamar and his antlers were at first a crude mimic of Shamura's pedipalps and now they grow vines to be similar to the jewels hanging from them. He refuses to acknowledge doing so.

He's very clingy. After locking away Narinder, he stayed with Shamura every day until they were out of bed rest. He follows his siblings around and when he does give them a second to breathe - hes probably laying around in Darkwood instead of doing anything productive. He does tends to plants occasionally, but he prefers "to let chaos do its thing" - as if that means anything.

He makes for a great gardener after he stopped trying to break everything upon recruitment. And once he got over growling at every living thing - he actually became one of the most well liked people living there.

Leshy knows exactly what someone needs and somehow finds a way to achieve that with the littlest of efforts. It's the thought that counts.

Extra: Braid and vines because I thought Leshy would look cute with it.

Special: The 4 bishops all wear old faith themed robes, but Shamura got the elder clothes for comfort and Leshy kept tearing his clothes apart so he is not permanently excluded from having any special outfits as punishment. Narinder wears fancy robes (who happen to be loose and warm while being special - otherwise he'd complain)

The Lamb wears one of the leaked fleeces since I loved the red riding hood aesthetic.

In the end this turned more into biographies than actual explanations but its 3:30am, Im sleep deprived and I wanted to get my thoughts out because I start having memory problems again YIPPEE

#cult of the lamb #bishopfam

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soulpng · 6 days

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I personally believe about the crown uses the tendrils to help keep its host alive its remind me of this official merch art of the lamb

Crowns - Symbiotic or Parasitic? Thoughts

So like, I think It's pretty much established that its at least partially the crowns who create gods.

It takes worship and favor, we have the lore tablets telling how someone created the first gods and people like clauneck and his siblings. The owl has a crown, since they too are a god. Crowns and gods go hand in hand, forever.

But crowns can also make gods it seems. The Bishops all weren't godly to begin with, they found their crowns or the crowns found them. They might not have even been properly sentient before finding the crown, depending on how the game treats followers and their anthro forms in comparison to the more animalistic enemies, like the spiders in Silk Cradle.

It is possible the original god who made the gods and clauneck made the crowns as well? Either enough for each person created, or like, crowns to give to people who proofed themselves through worship and gaining one of their own?

Possibilities, possibilities. But in the end, one cannot go without the other.

So? Are the crowns good or bad for their godly hosts? Why are they like this? Because the red crown tells us they can speak, and they can push their hosts into a direction of sin specifically.

We can also see crowns digging down into a host god/godly being.

Chemach's Crown digs into her head, and is heavily implied to be a partial cause for her behaviors and obsession with the gods

Most notably because she isnt supposed to have a crown to begin with! Neither she nor her brothers are out right gods, more like, demigods with a purpose. And Clauneck nor Kudaai wear anything resembling a crown, if we dont assume Clauneck hiding one in his tent of a body

Yet in direct contrast we have Shamura and their crown, visibly showing it also dig into their brain.

Now we have two options as to why.

Either The crowns digging into their god host is just part of their nature. However, I dont personally feel like its that likely. Aside from a crown like the red crown being able to move freely and become various things, other crowns on damaged bodies dont even show hints of their tendrils like these two crowns do. See the more damaged forms of Leshy and Kallamar for example were both have flesh showing but the crowns dont appear any more dug in than usual, in Kallamar's case even only partially sitting on top. Seeing how visible Chemachs tendrils are even without any damage to her physically, I do think wed see at least a hint more.

So option 2 is that the crown is digging into Shamura to help keep their brain alive and functioning, similar to how the other bishops had their godly powers help them stay on top of their conditions (See Heket and her speaking) and how they are affected once turned into powerless mortal followers.

This does imply the crowns actively trying to keep their host alive, which does make sense. Without a god, it doesn't seem like the crowns can do much on their own. The bishop's crowns sit on pedestals in the cult and are in a vague maybe dead maybe dormant kind of implied state.

I don't think a crown could actively take over a god though through this. If the host dies, then the crown is out of anyone to let it actually do stuff with, and breaking and taking over a mind is not an easy process if we look at Chemach, since I don't think being chained and hanging up in a self-made temple of sorts is what that crown was going for while digging into her brain. Meanwhile, Shamura's, and through implication, the crowns of the other bishops, try to keep their gods as functioning as possible.

Its a win win if all goes well, you get worshiped as a god, gain power, the crown gains more power (possibly allowing for speech and movement to begin with), and if its of any further importance, the path towards sin, seeing how the red crown can actively shapeshift into a snake like form exactly mimicking the absorbed sin looks like.

So maybe "Sin" itself is what the crowns are made from and they set up a loop that keeps them to continuously receiving it? Or maybe its more of a primordial built in goal of theirs to be a service to the gods by their original creator.

How and what exactly crowns are is an entire mystery of itself for me, but a delightful one! And I do personally not see them as a potential threat to a god itself, unless the crowns have expansive personalities who could choose to just really dislike a fella they're stuck with.

I still have lore areas to explore in the game and pieces to find so who knows, maybe I'm just missing something in game which clears everything up, but until then, ill be happy with what I have.

I do hope we get more about them though. The clear distinction yet hand in hand motives of crowns and gods is just too fascinating.

#cult of the lamb theory

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