#given you can date the lamb from COTL

[inky-the-artist]

the Princess joins the roadtrip!👑

what do you think her hitchhiker effect would be?

[cloudcryptid]

Long cotl thought rant

so, my idea of the lamb and narinder's relationship is that, in general, whether you choose to spare or kill him at the end, the lamb loves narinder

not in a romantic partner way, just in that weird kinda devotional love way

cause i mean, this god, that resurrected you, gave you a 2nd chance and real agency and freedom for the first time in your fear-riddled life (more on that later), of course you're gonna love him in some form

it's messy as fuck, but it's there

but diverging from that, narinder has been imprisoned for eons (this is something we can infer) and the slaughter of lambs began after that happened

also, given how long things like mass genocide actually take, we can safely say that the lamb is possibly not even born till eons after

however, sheep are not new, they weren't something that just popped up after narinder's imprisonment cause of the prophecy

meaning that sheep have been just as wide spread and integrated into the old faith as much as any other species

what that leads to, is essentially, years and years of culture and tradition that exist within sheep from the old faith and bishops that get passed down to the lamb

that thing where you have all these little rituals and habits you do throughout life that you don't even know where it actually comes from or why you do it

lost culture or at least the loss of why, the importance

all this to say that the lamb inevitably comes from one of the bishop's faith, not directly, but passed down through generations

so like, what is the lamb like depending on the bishop? what habits do they have that tie back into their "original" bishop? just a little too chaotic and not quite as efficient from leshy? cannibalism and violence from heket? what would they inevitably lean into because of how they were raised

(and obviously, being at the exact end of a genocide, you might not have much culture you were taught other than fear, but ya know

people are hopeful and try to preserve and pass down as much as they can always)

there's rituals and doctrines that can be attributed to all 4 of them

and narinder, being the domain of death, reaches into each of their domains regardless so it's not like it'd be weird or out of narinder's realm (obviously he has his preferences on how you should run the cult, but ultimately let's you handle things as long as you accomplish your goal, tho that might just be for a more gameplay standpoint than anything)

and the way you get raised will inevitably effect how you'd rule/raise other people, and the lamb just wouldn't be fully aware of why they lean towards these specific tendencies

however, on the flip side, if lamb does know what bishop they technically came from, it technically leads to a, much messier, version of what's going on with narinder

the bishops' faith is already run on fear, the threat of death is not at all uncommon, so it's quite possible for the lamb to come out with some form of devotional love on that end too

but it's fucked

cause they kill you, you're resurrected, you're sent to go kill them

and then the most fucked up part, you do

you kill your former god

you kill what demolished everything you ever knew and loved

and that fucks you up

you hate them, you love them, you killed them, it's cathartic, it's painful, it's infuriating, you're in agony

they were killable this whole time

that'll do things to your brain

and then it gets worse, regardless of what you do with narinder in the end, cause then there's post game

where you go through purgatory

you face this bishop again

you kill them

again

but it's different this time

now they're in your cult

they're mortal

regardless of how the lamb handles it, that's fucked

the lamb is not an ok person at the end of all this

so anyway, lamb dating the bishops, possibly poly relationship, thoughts?

and beneath everything that has happened

there is still that devotional love