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Cult of the lamb Doodles part 3

I wasn’t really happy with my designs, especially with heket, I wanted her to be muscular but chubby enough that you would know that she was a couch potato (Or I guess in her case; cannibal potato) and also look badass. But I didn’t know how until I found @awful-little-goose for their little notes on drawing their heket, I tried to not copy it too closely, but also follow their advice on drawing her because it is almost exactly how I envision heket so I tried my hand at drawing her in their style to get a feel for it. Please go check out @awful-little-goose

Cult of the Lamb doodles Part 2

Some Cotl doodles ✧

I promise I'm done with the baby Nari drawings lol

Narinder tasted the power of scaring Kallamar.

Prev :'3

“…You ruined us all…”

I’m tiered and sad TwT

Shamura. The god of war.

This is the guy that trespassed into Kallamar’s ocean!

…

Hear me out—

(I don’t know why I just ship it now XD)

(I checked and there is Cthulhu follower form in the game >:) )

Raising four kids alone was a tough decision

Did they regretted it?

No :)

God of pestilence in his youth!

(One without the robes)

Someone unwelcome has entered his ocean.

(Yes. I did give him a trident. Because I can.)

What a loving family

I’m sure nothing bad will ever happen to them at all :D

…

I just want them to be happy man

Hii! I bring bishop content! I’m going to try and post more but I make no promises.

Have a nice night!

The awaited backstory of my Narinder, this is going up to adulthood, though it is also simplified and will be expanded on in the future.

Narinder was born with a few defects which were his third eye and Melanistic fur. Due to the time period being when Shamura was a younger bishop of war Narinder’s parents presented him as a sacrifice, though Shamura’s heart couldn’t go through with it, which lead to them raising Narinder as their own.

Narinder grew very attached to Shamura, but this came with its own consequences as Shamura didn’t know what they were doing. Shamura has only dealt with Kallamar so far and he was really different personally wise.

Shamura also gave Narinder his crown from a young age (since Shamura and Kallamar received theirs when they were young), but Shamura didn’t know that Narinder was going to receive the crown of death.

This frightened Shamura a bit as they didn’t know how to help him control such a power, and it didn’t help that Narinder played with it like a toy. His toy mentally only grew as he began to experiment when he got older, he found joy in breaking followers and bringing them back from the dead over and over again.

Shamura began to withdraw from Narinder as they were focused on their own tasks and taking care of their younger siblings. Narinder also excluded himself from the group, though he still wanted Shamura’s approval which lead to him thinking that power was the answer.

Narinder focused on his followers more and promised them the ability to overcome death. Shamura and the other bishops were upset by this as it went against the natural order and his follower’s devotion made Narinder even more powerful.

This lead into the bishop’s discovering and planning on trapping Narinder.

I’m going to explain the plan and the confrontation between the bishops and Narinder in the future!

Notes; Narinder used to have a Lamb doll that looks similar to Lamb/Caedes (I will expand upon my version of Lamb later!)

I have a lot more planned for my little death lion, and of course if you have any questions let me know!

Have a good day!!

SHAMURA BEING NATIVE FOR THE WINN

op those human designs are magnificent frr ( and your backgrounds are always breathtaking omgg🥺🥺🥺)

Heket,,,so pre..t..ty,,awh

Am seeing a lot of human bishop designs come across my dash and I am reminded I gave human designs an attempt last november, but never ended up finishing it. I got far enough along that I can probably just post it as-is, so HERE THEY ARE. Will probably never do anything with these designs again cause I don't really like drawing humans, but I felt like it was worth it to post them to add more variety to the already existing pool of designs

Tried to make their designs kinda match up with the cultures their names are from while trying to keep most of their canon traits intact in some capacity, but I definitely took some liberties cause my art style is wacky and all that. It *is* a fantasy setting after all. Also Shamura's name isn't Lakota, but you'll have to wrestle my year-old "shamura is native" headcanon from my COLD DEAD INDIGENOUS HANDS.

I have a few random doodles of the human bishops but this is the only semi presentable one (possibly the most detached from canon thing I've ever made but I HAD to do it):

Parvena: Bishop of Peace🦋🧡

Interesting facts:

- Parvena is the opposite of Shamura.

- Parvana is a "monarch butterfly".

- Parvena is the second most senior bishop (she is older than the Bishop of Fertility, but younger than the Bishop of Order).

- The cult of Parvena is located on the treetops in the "Red Forest", because the followers of her cult think there are a lot of dangers and enemies on earth, so the cult is located in trees and hidden by dense foliage.

- Parvena, despite her status as an "Elder Sister" and "Second Bishop," is the calmest and most balanced of all, she always tries to avoid conflicts and quarrels in her cult and between her brothers and sisters, trying to get rid of them through words or compromises. Because of this, Parvena's brothers and sisters treat her with kindness and affection.

- Parvena loves her older brother like a Ptah, because he is always ready to protect his older sister and worries about her life.

im,,,,ilooking respecctfully 👁️👁️

Human bishops!

And I said "oh, let's do some sketches and that's it…" what a liar

Working on other characters… eventually

HELLOOO SAILORRR

Woe Bishops of the Old Faith be upon ye! 🐛🐸🐈‍⬛🦑🕷️

bro you cooked a whole buffet with this one , more cotl lore theories/analysis FTW

I was talking to my bestie @cultoftheswag on vc and the neurons started firing after watching the sin cutscene, so, theories on secondary aspects of each crown (long post) (maybe insane sounding and barely readable):

This all started off as theorizing that the sin snake is actually the being inside the crown (not a god but more like the crown is sentient) that has finally woken due to lamb's accumulated power. Expanding on that theorizes all crowns have a sentience, but based on this line, not all of the crown bearers awakened their crowns:

Bestie (Swag) pointed out that the only other crown with 2 aspects was the purple crown, Shamura, who has both war and knowledge. With the previous theory, it means that Shamura awakened their crown and brought forth the secondary domain; knowledge.

Which leads me to the brain worm thought of "what are the other crown's secondary aspects?" Well.

Lock the fuck in cuz I did

Each crown has 2 aspects that follow the same pattern:

The primary aspects of green, yellow, blue and purple are all sub categories of the red crown (chaos, famine, disease and war all bring death) and the same can be said for the mirrored aspect (order, abundance, health and peace all bring life)

There is also a pattern in the primary aspects of 4 being solid events (famine, disease, war, death AND order, abundance, health, life) and one conceptual (chaos and peace)

With this in mind, all secondary aspects might be sub categories of the red crown's secondary aspect, sin. Except, knowledge isn't a sin, so like what the fuck, right? Ok but what if I told you that knowledge isn't the sinful aspect of the purple crown, but the opposite of it.

The sin snake mentions being able to control and use the sins of your followers and that you alone, as their god, is capable of forgiving them or letting them be taken over by sin. This would mean that the mirror aspect of sin would be absolution. If the purple crown's aspect of knowledge isn't the sin, then knowledge is the path of absolution of a sin. A sin like deceit and deception.

This still doesn't bring me any closer to figuring out the other crowns but I will not be defeated. Upon a little bit of shallow research, there appears to be the concept of mortal sins in Christianity/Christo aligned faith. Excluding the seven deadly sins from the list of mortal sins and anything faith related (because it would be pointless if a crown's sin power was to make you not believe in your god. Like, that would suck. It would kill the crown's own cult which which bishop derives their power from.)

That leaves the following aspects: murder, adultery and theft. Since Shamura's secondary aspect is confirmed to be knowledge, the mirror aspect has to be deceit even though it is not a named mortal sin. Though, I'm fairly certain lying and being untruthful would generally be considered a sin in most religious settings.

All three fall into the same pattern as the primary aspects:

Murder, adultery, theft, deceit are all forms of sin, while the opposite aspects, repentance, loyalty, charity and knowledge are all ways to absolve or correct those sins. The red crown still holds dominion over the others.

Murder, adultery, theft and deceit/ repentance, charity, knowledge and absolution are solid events where sin and loyalty are conceptual aspects.

So now onto who has what, which secondary aspects belong to which crown. This is just my working theory but after thinking about it for a while, I think I have it.

Leshy/ the green crown has the primary aspect of chaos/order and secondary aspect of murder and repentance. Though Leshy may not have awakened his crown to learn this, it would makes sense if Darkwood cultists remembered that murder is favored by the green crown. Hence why Darkwood is so incredibly full of bodies plastered ritualistically on trees.

Heket/ the yellow crown has the primary aspect of famine/abundance and the secondary aspect of adultery and loyalty. Idk how to describe it, but something about abundance feels like it would fit well with adultery, like the overconsumption and joy of prosperity leading to immorality, resulting in a punishing famine that forces loyalty upon Anura's denizens.

Kallamar/ the blue crown has the primary aspect of disease/health and the secondary aspect of theft and charity. We all KNOW Kallamar was not charitable ok. Anchordeep's temple was said to be beautiful and covered in opulent crystals and gold. He may have acted charitable to his devoted followers but in a "ooooh I'll give your struggling village a beautiful crystal statue of me to pray to, isn't that nice?" kind of way.

Though, neither Leshy, Heket or Kallamar successfully awakened their crowns, I feel like the aspects would still be a part of their domains and personalities. Even Narinder may not have been able to awaken his crown, but due to the fact that he was imprisoned and weakened through lack of faith powering the crown (credit to Swag who said this as I'm typing this whole post live on discord) (Swag says hi!!!!!)

Also as a side note, maybe the other crowns manifest as objects related to their other aspect. Clearly the red crown is a snake cuz, sin, but perhaps Shamura's would a divine book or if we stayed with the animal theme, an owl. (shoutout to me and swag losing our shit over "leshy's is a glock" and "kallamar's are airpods cuz they're overpriced and always get stolen")

This was not part of my original theory, but it came to mind joking about Kallamar's divine blue crown airpods, but what if Narinder's damage to his siblings is what kept the other three from awakening their crowns? Like, it damaged them as vessels of their crowns enough they were no longer seen as worthy to awaken them. That would make Narinder a huge bitch but what else is new tbh.

love love love this analysis of Shamura’s injury

Is Shamura training martial arts after being taken into Lamb's cult? If they enjoyed complexity and bloodshed of war than it'd be probably dissapointing for them if they had to... drop it all

Full under the cut because this turned out really long

Upon joining the cult Shamura was a shell of their former self. They join the cult dissenting, the long term effects of the crown still clawing at the edges of their mind, but after a few days they’re mortal, just themself. Without the crown to hold them together they suffer like their injury was yesterday.

The Lamb has the doctor, Puar, perform their usual tests on them. Shamura is hardly there. They don’t know their own name, can hardly speak, can’t stand or track movement.

There was no wisdom in their slurred words. No power in the way their hands shook.

The outlook is bad.

The Lamb doesn’t really want to help them, after everything, why should they. Shamura who had The Lamb’s entire race and family killed, who killed them aswell and countless of their followers. It would cost them so much, to try and help someone who spent so long just trying to destroy them and everything they had. The time, energy, resources it would cost and they didn’t even know if they could get better.

Deciding it wasn’t worth it was one thing, but getting the other ex bishops to understand was a whole other, even the doctor disagreed with them.

Dr Puar took on being their primary caregiver. They’d been a doctor for the past hundred years and seen concussions and dementia but nothing nearly as severe as this. They wanted to help Shamura but didn’t know how.

It wasn’t until Narinder joined the cult that The Lamb saw any reason to help Shamura. But there was something wrong with him and Shamura knew something, they just had to get to it.

Kallamar was the ex bishop Puar wanted the help from the most. He was scared of the lamb and red crown but he loved Shamura more.

The Lamb took Puar and Kallamar to the ruins of the temples in Anchordeep and Silk Cradle. They spent days digging through the decimated remains of the libraries for something, anything on this type of injury.

It seemed that they where looking down possible years of intense recovery. Needed herbs and medicines that may no longer exist, techniques Puar had never heard of. But they would try.

Puar took careful and detailed notes. Timed Shamura’s responses, wrote down everything they said, tracked eating, drinking, sleeping and every symptom they displayed. Improvements where slow and sometimes nonexistent at first. They took full minutes to respond and only in single words, barley moved, couldn’t feed themselves and suffered constant migraines.

The one thing that seemed to help them the most was their siblings. They didn’t remember them most days but every time one of they came to check in it raised their spirits. One of their faces was the only thing they could focus on sometimes.

Kallamar insisted he wasn’t a doctor but still worked around the infirmary, helping Shamura was the only thing he’d do without complaining. Heket spent hours sitting in silence with them, brought them food and flowers and changed their bandages. Leshy was the only thing that could get them to smile and they where the only person he would ever lower his voice for, he told them stories even though they hardly listened.

Improvements brought new challenges. They got better at speaking full sentences and following conversations but it revealed how fractured their memory was. Forgetting names, places and important events, how often they forgot where they where, they asked the same questions over and over again.

They complained of seeing and hearing things, phantom pains with seemingly no rhyme or reason. The sun hurt their eyes, rain gave them headaches, always sleeping but always tired. They would suddenly backslide constantly. One day could walk with minimal help and the next, couldn’t even hold a pen in their hand. Have a full conversation one day and hardly spit out their name tomorrow.

Until the day Puar looked Shamura in the eye and for once they saw him. Didn’t look past them with their blank stare but looked at them. They would ask to sit outside at night in the fresh air. They seemed to know now who they are, what they where, what they lost. A tinge of grief in their words.

Improvements brought frustration. On days they remembered who they where they were overcome with a mix of anger, guilt and despair. They where a god. They had bore down on armies, killed men with a twitch of a finger, brought other gods to their knees, and now they could hardly bring a cup to their mouth.

Emotionally, their siblings said they’d never seen them like this before. Before Shamura could be frustrated but their temper was cold and quiet. Now they wore a short fuse and suffered constant mood swings. It angered them that they couldn’t read, that their hands were numb, that they couldn’t walk without a cane, couldn’t go out in the sun, couldn’t string a full sentence together, couldn’t recognize their siblings faces, couldn’t feed themselves, couldn’t sleep without drugs, everything they lacked and lost wore them down.

Regardless, they where unusually steadfast. They would always pick back up. If they got frustrated they would try again in a few days. They tried anything Puar asked of them, anything for the smallest iota of improvement.

The outlook was better.

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This got out of control and took me like three days between the art and write up. I got really excited when I saw this ask cause the answer is so devastating. If I was taking Narinder’s trauma seriously I’m not gonna just ignore Shamura’s traumatic brain injury.

As a side note, I’m very unsure how to write the medical stuff, my guess is that cotl is based around 1300’s-1700’s but that’s a wide net to cast. My excuse for the stronger understanding of medicine and trauma is magic.

man i need to draw a piece to thissss

Have you ever seen a shooting star?

Have you ever seen a shooting star?

So bright its kin could not abide

And so let fly,

this wondrous being, their potential made farce,

Straight into the dark of the night?

Have you ever seen a shooting star?

So graceful in its fall and beautiful in betrayal.

Yet beyond it all, despite the screams of its' flight,

No choice for it shall avail,

It's pained existence made harsh.

Have you ever seen a star once shot,

Now left bleeding on its own?

To have once been so bright

But now cast aside, left alone

Burnt hot,

By those from whom they once took delight.

None have ever seen a star once shot,

But one day maybe they might,

When they remove our heads,

And unite us with death,

So goes the last's breath

5 becomes 4,

3,

2,

1.

Shamura human concept draw! (1 of ?)

I really love how they look!!

Kallaumar human concept!!! (2/?)

Based on how he acts as a follower I imagine him to be a drama queen.

Istg I’m late to everything nowadays.

Bishobs

Sketches + extra doodles under the cut

Can you tell who my favorite is…?

I should’ve called shamura Shakira but it didn’t come to mind at the time and I’m too lazy to change it now

Beautiful

I WAS SUPPOSED TO POST THIS YESTERDAY AND GOT SO SIDETRACKED. For that asker that requested a Spare Crumb of Goat Content.....this is the first finished art I made of the goat, from months ago. I actually drew the goat the same night unholy alliance was announced, but that was during a hiatus so I never ended up posting it.

ANYWAY THIS IS THE PERFECT TIME TO TELL A LESHY KNUCKLEBONES STORY THAT HAPPENED AFTER I DREW THIS. I had him make an egg despite my firm belief he's an aroace king, I just wanted one baby from each bishop, and this motherfucker happened to be playing knucklebones when I summoned him to the mating tent. SO INSTEAD OF DOING THE FLIRTY ANIMATION HE WAS JUST THROWING FUCKING DICE AT AMDUSIAS?? AND IT WORKED????

I think I'm in love (with every single one of them)

The Bishops

I NEED THEM

Cult of The Lamb Bishop stickers are available for preorder in my shop now!

You should totally buy these! That’d be so cool and mean the absolute world! (: 👍

Gonna reblog this. Asking many artists if they'd like to add to their design to the project and of course if anyone sees this and would like to join, feel free to send me a message or a shout ^_^

Main rule however, if I do create the discord, it will NOT be shared with anyone else other than those who are participating and adding their Lamb designs to the video. I value everyone's privacy and do not wish to have them bombarded in their personal lives on the matter.

It is not a time sensitive issue to concept and of course I will answer any and all questions fired my way. I will maintain contact with anyone who wishes to join and maintain 100% transparency with everyone involved.

I'd like to make this something of a fandom community effort to show appreciation to all the artists involved. And because I not-so-secretly love too many artistic styles that make me feel as giddy as a school girl watching a romcom. Do not judgement god damnit! lol

I like Lambs~ 😍

Anyone else remember this post? >:3

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I like Lamb Designs

Ya'll remember this video by JoCat? You know, before part of the internet went insane for literally no reason? I kinda want someone who can

Well I put this up just before the holidays and well, @countjulius did contact me a few weeks ago about setting something up. However due to some... family emergencies, I wasn't able to get around to having the time til now. 😔 However if he does want to set something up, understand I'm going to spam every single last Narilamb artist I can think of, to get all their designs into this one little bit! 😁👍Of course whoever wishes to join, more than welcome if you're interested and read this far.

Also, sending out an special shout-out to @melled42 for even liking the post and recommending it to Sir Julius in the first place. As a thanks I was gonna go full on commission but, knowing how her canon lore is set and me needing to keep my ass in check and not wanting to creep her out with my weird ass request, I think I'll offer either a solid donation (Within reason Goddamnit! 😖) or something like that. Dealer's choice 🙂

Hope this pans out well. I think it would be a fun way to involve as much as the fandom as possible as so many people have very unique, fantastic and interesting designs for their interpretations for their self-inserts and I can't think of a better way of appreciating them. 🤩

I LAUGH TERRIBLY

Thanks for the AI jokes @sansimioco

I still haven't recovered mentally from Shamura on the podium