#cult of the lamb

No time to sketch something and I’m in a Ides of March mood, so I’ll respond in text

I’d assume the Ides of March would take the form of a cult leader / god being assassinated by their followers / closest friends and advisors, and by their own heir or something (et tu Brutus)

Thus, during the bishops’ reign, such an event, no matter how far back it happened, would probably be treated as taboo. Mentioning it with the faintest fondness could probably earn you to being ratted out and promptly dealt with.

I would imagine however that the lamb, before starting their cult and while hunting down the bishops, would actively celebrate the anniversary and use it as a tale to inspire hope in the hearts of their followers.

But as they themselves grow more powerful, as their cult grows large and mighty, as the last of the five original bishops fall…the Lamb would probably gradually stop celebrating the holiday and grow cold and stern even at the mention of it.

*Yngya laughs as she’s tackled into the snow, and she hugs her assailant happily.* Hello my child.

//Yes, that is what I named my cult back when I got the game :3. I have 725 days and currently 25 followers (7 are the Crew from @sins-of-the-sea, the others are special NPCs like Narinder, Leshy, etc., plus fillers for rituals if needed).

This game file predates this blog, actually, lmao. Just to show you how long I’ve had the Lament around as a thing.

Cult review!!

Delightfully decorated entrance, welcoming, showing the visitors exactly what they’re in for!! If you look to the left, you can see the Love Corner, brimming with life and already producing all sorts of life waste matter. If you look to the right, – Missionary Preparation Nook, nestled cozily into bits of rock debris from the previous cult owner. Adapt, improvise, overcome! Just the spot for us to plan the expansion of our rule.

Right of the Indoctrination Circle is our lovely whimsical Temple! Decorated with crowns of gods I’ve killed with my bare hands, to show everyone who they’re dealing with. Complete with a wistful pond for relaxation after the Daily Sermon and Funeral Ritual <3

And just bottom of that, the newest addition to the grounds and absolute joy for all cult members –

THE DEMONIC RITUALS ZONE.

And bottom of that lovely little spot we have an expansive corner for all things Death – because that’s what we do in the Death Cult! Once you enter, you only leave one way. The Cult Cemetery is the final home for all the lucky souls who have already left for the better place, overlooked with care by The One Who Waits; it’s also home to Festor, the Cult Undertaker! Assigned role for reasons of ‘snores too loudly and has to sleep somewhere, where he won’t bother a living soul’.

Just across the road from there are the Secluded Luxury Living Quarters for the extensive amount of gods in this homey cult. And also Brucia, by now reaching the same levels of power. Surrounded by nature and fresh air. You can have this too! For the low price of being born a Brucia or a god.

Northwards of that lovely place we have the Games, Drinks and Other Gatherings area, for all the joyful moments you can possibly imagine. Rated 10/10 by a trusted cult member (Brucia). Featuring the secluded calm spot for River Boy, the famous musician.

Down of the most active part of the Cult Grounds is the second most recent addition. Thoroughly thought through treadings to absolutely everything a cult could ever want or need – The Work Area!

On the left featuring the Lovely Cottage Village for all of the polite, non-snoring members, just like you! Yes, YOU! You could be the one living here. Just imagine all the fun times with your 30+ new neighbors. I did say you had to be Brucia to end up in the Luxury Quarters.

And just South of the Village are the Necessities & History Square! Complete with a clean, cozy Medbay area that is always full of medicine and ready to take care of any problems, be it exhaustion, possession, or simple cold. A Job Board, which I’m now realizing I stuck way too far away into the corner and will have to redo later, but whatever. A Tailor Shop for all the fashion needs! And multiple statues artisanally crafted by your fellow cult members.

To the right of that is everything that a respectable self-sustaining cult needs. Farm plots producing fresh juicy veggies 24/7 365 days a year – all thanks to the stability of fertilizer production. The ranches with the cutest little animals! Don’t worry about the cult members also being animals. Also don’t worry about the size of their pens. They fit 5 animals each. It’s okay. They even have water. Don’t worry about it. I’m literally nice.

And of course, THE MINES. This is where everyone spends most of their time and where you will be working <3 yeah no sorry if you come this far it’s either sacrifice or mines yeah. Sorry. You can play knucklebones whenever you want tho. The food’s pretty decent, there are heaters and lightning rods absolutely everywhere and the whole cult is FULL of toilets. Please don’t shit on the floor. Drop the rotburn into the furnace when you’re done. Bye. I gotta go kiss my spouse. Who? Brucia, of course.

*Yngya opens her arms with a warm smile.* Absolutely,my child. Mother’s here.

I’m not much of a meat eater myself unless it’s dire, but thank you my child

more cult of the lamb (woolhaven)!! i hope i dont see that awful guy i hate <- guy who is gonna see the awful guy they hate

Goat

Sighhhh…

YIPPEE!!! :3

CotL Pokemon au where The Family are legendary/mythical pokemon + their tiny follower forms are pretty much them being bound like Hoopa

That’s it send post

Tbos AU lore/worldbuilding concept: Hearts of the Gods (and some regen/resurrection stuff)

Back at it again with the second half of that post. And this one + the next are shorter! This time we’re talking lore based off the Heart of a Heretic item in-game because I have many thoughts about it. Yap below

CW: discussion of cannibalism + organs/gore/body horror (???)

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The in-game item known as “Heart of a Heretic” is actually what every god’s Heart looks like, and it holds some special properties.

The only way to kill a god for good is to destroy their Heart, lest you run the risk of them eventually regenerating their body if they still have a source of Devotion/loyal followers who live on after their death. This is because the Heart is where a majority of a god’s divinity/divine power is stored, emanating from within it before spreading outwards to the rest of their body. Divinity and Devotion in ichor (godly blood) are what oxygen is in mortal blood, and the Heart pumps it through their body to sustain them.

This is also the actual reason why Narinder tells Butcher to take the Bishops’ Hearts after they defeat them.

Failing to destroy her Heart is part of the reason why Yngya’s whole situation played out as it did, as well.

As I’m writing this I’m beginning to think Narinder’s resurrection ritual also functions on some sort of reverse-engineered version of divine regeneration, where the flow of Devotion necessary to regenerate a body is flipped (transferred god-to-mortal rather than mortal-to-god), allowing the follower to regenerate their body with Devotion collected by the god instead.

Alongside harvesting Devotion, It’s also a relatively normal thing for gods to cannibalise other gods as another means to gain power.

If a god eats another god’s Heart—they absorb a part of that god’s power. This provides a boost in strength that would have taken way longer to achieve if it was to be done just by farming Devotion. It also has a similar satiating quality to harvesting/“eating” Devotion, but much stronger. Additionally, due to the high amount of divinity/Devotion the Heart holds—consuming it all at ones gives the god who eats it a momentary high that’s hard to replicate with anything else. Alongside the power it holds, this quality may also be the reason certain gods choose to seek out others’ Hearts.

If a mortal tries cannibalising a god, they are guaranteed to die immediately no matter what (and likely painfully too). Mortal bodies are not built for hosting divinity + the level of Devotion that a god’s body contains, so they will not be able to handle it.

A god’s body however can adapt to handle god-on-god cannibalism over time through physical mutations (mostly internal, but some visible on the outside as well).

The downside of god-on-god cannibalism is that if one overdoes it, their body can develop a dependency not only to Devotion itself (which is normal)—but to the actual flesh that hosts it as well. At that point, if they don’t eat godly flesh for long enough, they’ll begin to starve, and their body will attempt to feed off of its own divinity by eating itself from the inside as a last resort. This becomes a possibility thanks to the mutations/adaptations a god undergoes as their body adapts to god/god cannibalism, and is just as bad to experience as it sounds. It will also kill the god who goes through it if their hunger is not sated quickly.

Hearts are very hard to come by nowadays (most gods have already died and had theirs destroyed), so the only viable substitute to stop your body from attempting to eat itself alive if you find yourself in that situation is to eat Devotion-filled mortal flesh instead, which sates the hunger if consumed consistently.

It can also be satiated by consuming other parts of gods’ bodies, as well as god-tears (the ingame resource), but they, alongside mortal flesh, don’t provide a power boost like Hearts do, because they aren’t as saturated/rich in Devotion/divinity as a godly Heart is. Substitutes also don’t bring the same rush as eating a Heart would for that same reason.

These are my Horrors beyond comprehension I made to put Butcher and The Fox through, I hope you don’t like them at all /j

Btw, do not ask me why killing Marcy gives you a Heart of a Heretic in canon, I have no fucking clue💔 I’m retconning that part out of my AU because I don’t like it lol

The next and final part of this post is about Butcher and will be up same time tomorrow

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78961016/chapters/213616561

Alexander hears Heket’s voice in Purgatory and gets a bit of info from Leshy.
Then, he experiences the happiest day of his life.

Cover art done by the wonderful spiderin space.

This was buried in my files. I drew this when I first got this request from a cat follower. I did not match his freak

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Ngl…I tormented the poor guy a lot during my run.

Also I think my photoshop and drawing skills are getting better with these comics lol

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RIP Heket, you would’ve loved Stewtheus the perpetual stew

I got into it I think three years ago, in January 2023 I think? I coincidentally got into it right as I was preparing for my finals, and that turned out to be a very very bad idea

I think it’s pretty clear from what I draw who my faves are: I really like the bishops especially Heket. I also really like a lot of the merchant npcs like Forneus and Chemach. I’ve already shared a few of my headcanons on the bishops here and there, I think, and one of my main headcanons regarding Forneus is that she and Narinder knew each other even before Marinder became a god

I neever did this I forgooot in sorryy let me answer this now

7. Heket is actually in a relationship with meeee /j /j, in all seriousness i feel that in my head she wouldn’t really be in a relationship for awhile, if not because everyone is too scared to approach her, because she just simply doesn’t feel the need for one for a long while. I’m sure she’s fallen in love before and all that but i think it’s a hot second before she actually gets with someone.

23. Like, THE goat? If Leshy didn’t already take it, I could see my interpretation being some kind of chaos god, if we have to choose something that wasn’t taken though then they’d probably be some kind of god of THE dead, not death itself, like ruling the underworld and all that

60. Yeah, though I feel it’d probably be pretty close because Heket would eat something she shouldn’t and get sick

ARGGGGH I JUST LOST A COMIC I WAS READING ABOUT COTL beats head against wall so.HARD