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theskeleton117 · 5 months ago

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HELLO THERE

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TELL ME THE PLOT AND CHARACTERS RELATIONSHIPS ABOUT YOUR AU

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-alz, i am expanding

Ok so this'll be one long post lmao. I'll be combining every post and Discord message about the main storyline of the fic I've already sent into one for this

Ok so let's start with some important info about the fic. So first of all, I'm gonna explain how Lamb regeneration works, since it's an important piece of worlbuilding that comes up many times

Basically, when a lamb is dying, they begin to go through this process that allowes them to cheat death, but their body and personality change, though leaving their memories intact. If you've ever watched Doctor Who, it's almost the same thing as the regeneration in that. There are ways to kill lambs without having them regenerate, but I haven't written exactly how just yet, so just note whenever lambs are killed during the mass execution, they're doing something specific to kill them

Also, one last thing about the lambs, when they actually do die, they typically don't get afterlives. What I mean by this is their soul lingers outside their body for a sec as it slowly fades away. This causes some issues with the actual Lamb's revival

And now here's how demigods work. Demigods usually are formed when someone without a crown experiences extreme emotion. Usually this only works with people who have been around gods incredibly often

Now, on with the characters that I need to mention

So the fic actually starts off in the pre-game. Let's start by establishing the relationship between the 2 most important bishops in this fic. I would put the other bishops, but this post needs something to shorten it lmao

Narinder and Shamura are kinda like the main two we follow in the pre-game. Despite how often Narinder recklessly goes against Shamura’s orders when he doesn't agree with them, Narinder seems to be basically Shamura’s favorite, though they'd never tell the other bishops that. Narinder was the first bishop other than Shamura, so it does make some sense that Shamura favors Narinder

Now, onto the plot. We actually start off by seeing Shamura finding the other bishops. One of their parents had been the former god of war, and since both their parents died, they inherited the crown for theirself. After some...issues with the old gods I'd rather save for another post, Shamura decided they need to seek out new gods to replace some of the dead ones, and they especially needed to find a god of death fast, since the world practically falls the hell apart without one. Luckily, they find one fast. Narinder had been abandoned by his parents at a young age because of his possession of the red crown, which they were basically sworn enemies of, and they thought Narinder having it for just a second made him basically Satan in their eyes. So anyways, this how Shamura found him, and now they decided that since he does have the crown, and it's incredibly difficult to pry away the crown from someone it's already bonded to, as well as not wanted to just leave an abandoned kid outside, they decided to let him stay there at their temple and train him. Years later, when they're both a bit older and more experienced, they got a letter from some wealthy family down in Anchordeep. The letter was about how the parents in this family recently discovered that their son, Kallamar, had found the Blue Crown, and how they were willing to pay to let him be trained by Shamura in how to use it, and to meet them in Anchordeep if they're interested in the offer. Of course, Shamura and Narinder both head off to Anchordeep, where they met with the family, negotiated on the price, which consisted of Shamura trying to highball them as hard as possible because at this point despite also being born into wealth, running their cult was still a bit pricy. They settled on a price eventually and Shamura, Narinder, and Kallamar head back to the temple and Shamura begins to train Kallamar, Narinder occasionally helping with it too since he learned a lot of the stuff. Once again time jump a few years (btw all these time jumps would be a little less jarring in the actual fic likely lmao) and Shamura, Narinder, and Kallamar where on a crusade in Anura. Kallamar decided to take a bit too close of a look at some of the mushrooms, even taking samples for later study, and because of this, he was suddenly suddenly attacked by someone. It was clear whoever it was happened to be an amazing fighter, likely one of the frogs due to the fact that this was frog territory, but Kallamar wasn't really paying attention to his attacker, instead panicking to have them not kill him. Shamura and Narinder hear the commotion and check to see what's happening. Turns out Kallamar was being beat the hell up by a young frog girl (The frogs in this fic are trained in combat from an incredibly young age, including the women, as the frogs are practically bred for combat, having only other species do the other jobs for them)

Narinder couldn't help but laugh at Kallamar for getting beat up by a child, right up until said child tried to beat him up, doing a decent enough job of it. After watching all this, Shamura noticed that said child was wearing the yellow crown. Shamura decided to challenge the child to fight them next, and despite having wrecked the other two, halfly because of their lack of expectation, she lost to Shamura, who then asked about her crown. They talked for a moment and she told Shamura that her name was Heket, and Shamura offered to train her to use the crown better, as well as better combat training since she mostly was banking off of nobody expecting her to be this good. She went off to ask her parents first st the local frog encampment, and since the frogs are really big into combat, they said agreed to someone as skilled as Shamura training Heket in a heartbeat. This time there's less of a time gap here, but jump maybe a few months and one day Shamura just finds this bagworm kid with the green crown, just kinda there at the cult. They attempted to find any sort of parent, but after a search, they just decided to take this kid in without asking anyone since there was nobody to ask. The kid didn't actually know his own name, so he was just given the name Leshy by Shamura and it stuck

Alright, so that's the bishop's origins, now for some extra info before we move on from this abridged description of the pre-game. At some point, Shamura gave Narinder an apprentice in the hopes that it would make Narinder choose the less reckless options in most situations due to having someone less experienced there. What actually ended up happening is Narinder made them reckless too. This apprentice was a lamb named Osiris, usually referred to as Si by Narinder and others. They would later go on to be the Lamb we see in the main game. By this point, Narinder also had a small group formed of himself, Ratau, and Forneus. Lamb wasn't immediately welcomed into the group by Narinder, but Narinder quickly warmed up to them, later developing into some romantic feelings towards them. Ratau and Forneus, however, were immediately welcoming, as opposed to Narinder who took time for that

Now, eventually, Narinder decided to experiment with resurrection, which was a big mistake. Shamura had experience with what revival could do, and warned Narinder that what he was doing was wrong, but Narinder wanted to continue experimenting with it. Eventually things heated up in such a way where Narinder made an entire undead army and splitting off from the bishops. Narinder, however, figured out why Shamura warned him, but deemed it too far now to go back, though in reality, Shamura would've likely forgiven him. See, when someone is revived over and over again in such a way that they fully and completely die (A way around this is found for the Lamb later, but in this I mean complete death and revival) parts of their soul start to chip off, and they eventually become mindless murder machines who just do what they're told and have no personality, and at some point, don't even have a soul of their own, usually having to be soulbound to someone else to stay alive (soulbinding basically keeps them alive until the person they're bound to dies), eventually, Narinder is chained up in his realm, and the bishops put in the command to execute the lambs as there had been a prophecy that they would free Narinder. Now, the lambs in my foc aren't just gonna die off without a fight. The only problem is a good portion of them died rather quickly as not a moment before, they had all trusted the Old Faith. For a good amount of time, they had fended off the Old Faith, but then the witnesses came in. The witnesses were a set of 4 soldiers, one soulbound to each bishop, that had originally been people that Narinder revived over and over again, but had now been taken by the bishops. These witnesses ruthlessly executed a majority of the lambs right there. Osiris didn't take this all too well. They had been present to fight the entire time and couldn't bear to watch this happen. Once a majority of the lambs were dead, they couldn't keep their anger in. There's a pretty good reason I described what a demigod was at the start of this, and that's because Osiris did in fact form demigod powers in this moment, powerful enough to basically throw the witnesses out of the lamb kingdom. Sadly, by this time, it was already too late and there were only a small few lambs left. Over time, every lamb in hiding had been caught eventually, Osiris even having brought the fight to the Old Faith when getting caught

Now, the Red Crown had been passed through a few vessels at this point, Forneus being the first, then Ratau, but now it was Osiris' turn...sorta. Their revival had been a little messy, causing most of their memories to be a blur and they don't remember much, not even Narinder, and not even their own name, which leads them to now go by just Lamb. They also act completely differently, since they also kinda regenerated in a way, now not having their memories to base how they act on. Narinder knew this, leading to him never trying to reference their previous encounters unless they ask, leading to the first death of NariLamb in my fic

Skipping through a lot of the main game here since I'd like to save the details for the actual fic on this since y'all already know the plot here, Lamb at some point goes to this Old Faith town in disguise, with like a mask and hood and shit, which sounds odd but I guess is normal there, since they needed to get resources that they couldn't find anywhere else. While they were there, there was this festival going on, and they stopped by it to grab a drink because they totally needed a drink after dealing with their followers, since they hadn't been used to that yet, and he basically ended up talking to and making friends with this cat named Ruri (The one from the Mashed short lmao) and every time he stopped by that town, they met with Ruri and eventually he started to develop feelings for her. Eventually, he ends up having a masked assassin trying to kill him, and eventually he knocks of their mask, and realizes that it was Ruri, however Ruri didn't know this was Lamb she'd been talking to all this time. After some talk, Ruri switched sides and joined Lamb's cult, later on becoming his spouse. Again skipping a bit because I wanna spoil as little of the main game and post game as possible, but after Lamb defeated the Bishops and took them into his cult, he also ended up with kinda a slow burn with Heket (Lamb and Ruri are polu btw). And then after the slow burn, Ruri and Heket met since Lamb was introducing Heket to her since y'know, Heket should know his other spouse and vice versa, and Heket and Ruri were a lot less slow of a burn with each other, the burn happened significantly faster

Anyways, that's all for now, I might explain more at some point, but these are the basics so far

#cotl #cult of the lamb #narinder #cotl lamb #bishop narinder #bishop shamura #bishop heket #bishop leshy #bishop kallamar #my au #Red Moon AU

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