#cotl purgatory

[balloonspace]

Srry for being gone for like a month:(( but after beating up art block I finally drew something :) but more importantly I have a au! (I might be yapping about it for a bit) Okk so it's more in nari's point of view after the lamb decides to kill him now he's in purgatory (well rather his purgatory since I imagine depending on the individual purgatory will look different but anywayyyysss) so he wakes up in purgatory rotting alive (not in his god form) and a bunch of darkwood worms are eating him alive before trying to drag him away, he survives this (somehow) and leads to the leader of this level of this purge surprise surprise it's a more deranged leshy who claims hes the king of this forest (which it's a far stretch sinces all the worms here basically listens to him) but after some convincing narinder manages to get leshy let him live (which I haven't planned yettt) but now for some reason (I don't know why soooo) they venture deeper to purg to get their siblings and escape this hell scape that's it so far :D (please please please ask more abt this am my ask box is open)

[gamergrrlhannah]

One of my friends wrote a story about my Au and gave me permission to post it here. They did ask to stay anonymous. I think they did a really good job :3

(cw: character death, angst lots and lots of angst, Elise having a mental breakdown)

[cult-bull]

The Fear of Death AU - Purgatory Lore

Since im currently grinding Purgatory some more for them important tears, I wanna write down my thoughts on how it works/what it is for the AU. Hopefully I can explore it more artwise too eventually as I get more and more comfortable doing like, shot comic sketches like im trying to in private.

Anyhow, lets start with it! (under the cut that is)

The timeline Fear AU follows is pretty close to a regular playthrough of the game nowadays with all the updates, meaning the mysterious Merchant (just called The Merchant/The Trader in this AU), appears pretty soon after Lamb fells and replaces Narinder as a death god.

The Merchant tells Lamb about Purgatory and his now given duty to go into it to make unresting souls find piece, be it through putting them out of their misery, or reviving them if they arent dead for too long yet, like the bishops who are partially kept alive through worship.

The purgatory itself thus isnt much of a daily grind but more of a place no one knows how to get into but Lamb and Narinder which calls out to Lamb whenever too many souls have flooded in there.

Time doesnt stop while Lamb is away in it, but it does slow down tremendously. 1 week in purgatory would be around a day back the cult camp most likely.

Its ever shifting, branching in pathways, and the different fleeces in lore are just how Lamb's body slightly changes to adapt to a certain area of purgatory as to actually do his duty there.

Said duty is both fighting the angry, violent souls, as well as making sure any lost ones find their way to the end of the branching path so they can move on.

One of the branching paths and areas is actually Narinder's holding place. He was tied up there, meaning he could still somewhat complete his duties with the help of Aym and Baal, but he wasnt able to return to the living world. It also colors his already very long imprisonment in a worse light I feel like, seeing how his irl time tied up is basically tripled in purgatory.

Another Area is where the corruption is housed which eventually spawns the goat. However that one is not like the game timeline and comes faaaaar later. Soooo since im still in the early stages of the au, poor goat will be benched for a long time I fear XD He's there though, waiting.

Purgatory isnt just home to new souls though. The longer a soul is down there unable to move on but also too old to be revived, it becomes a shade, an inhabitant which can barely be perceived. Like memories forever stuck in a loop of wandering.

Some are the barely animated remains of old gods, though Lamb doesnt recognize them. Others he does recognize is other lambs. Older flocks the Bishops eradicated way before this Lamb's time had come, thus making them too far gone to interact with. Not a violent threat but a dreadful reminder of the past.

And purgatory likes preying on weakness. So whenever lamb is reminded of the old flock he was a part of and lost? Or of bad fights and worse days early on into the cult making? Its not a pleasant duty to be down there.

A small part of him does hope though that he might eventually either find another Lamb thats alive, or a soul of a lamb that he can revive and get out of purgatory. Who knows if that will or even can happen though.

[unpaidchildsupportt]

I LOVE YOU CULT OF THE LAMB BUT OH MY GOD STOP CRASHING LIKE HXJFSGKDLCKHCKYCYLYLY

I WAS MID SHAMURA BOSS FIGHT THE GAME CRASHES, AND IT COMPLETELY RUINED MY ROW IN PURGATORY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

So finished the final row of purgatory (the dungeon gauntlet w/ fleece of fates) to get the last trophy I needed and when I battled TOWW again,,uh...

For some reason Narinder is there too

Idk if it's a glitch but if not then this is extremely funny yet sad if you rly think about it-

Imagine returning to the place you were held captive in for a hundred years (or rather an alternate dimension that resembles it) and being forced to experience the same kind of trauma you put your vessel's loyal followers through. Sucks fr

Oh and here's the gang that carried me through this row

I had the blazing trail tarot too so I was just rolling around damaging everyone in sight

[nufflesdoodles]

Leshy is just naturally a menace to society at large✨

[acoraxia]

Alone in Purgatory designs!

hand broke

[balloonspace]

The art is under the cut :)

tbh I love leshy purgatory design :D (my hands hurt)

[atrxs]

i did it chat,,,

[combiezombine]

my sibling and I finally tried co-op

[lotus-duckies]

nari really out here asking his siblings to be there for this...

kallamar knows whats up

[qhazomb]

so i need another 1k gems for an accent blueprint

[asmodeauxx]

hey lammies do you miss me?♥️

[spiderin-space]

Shaynno on the brain…….

[acoraxia]

wowza

Full Mystic Seller Design: (cloak not included)

[1oddboi1]

I finished one of the rows in purgatory and laughed when I saw narinder in the cage during his own boss fight. I wonder what he thinks about that whole situation