~ A Wedding Day ~

Apperance

Narinder has dark gray, almost black fur, three eyes with red sclera and pupils and black irises, and two tall and pointed ears. His crown has two curved ears and a red eye, but he does not wear this for long as he gives it to The Lamb. The Lamb agrees to be his vessel. His face is covered by a veil made of black thread, similarly to his guardians, Aym and Baal, and the Knucklebones players Flinky, Klunko, and Shrumy.

One Who Waits

As The One Who Waits, he wears a hooded white robe with a red stripe down the center. His torso is wrapped in chains, and he also has shackles around his arms and two chains that seem attached to him in a similar manner. His arms are black and skeletal, with droplets of something hanging off his hands. He has two fangs on his upper jaw.

During the fight against him, the three eyes lose their pupils and irises and the lower two begin to bleed black. His chains are shattered and his robes become torn and ragged. His face covering is torn, similar to Aym and Baal's veils. Black branches stick out from his arms and his hands are held together in a praying position. He has four fangs, two on each jaw with one on each side.

Eldritch Form

When this phase of his fight begins, his eyes all burn orange with flame except the one on his forehead.

His face peels into four slices that pull away, two on each side, all containing extra eyes. These eyes are black with crossed red pupils. The top two slices each have four eyes while the lower two each have five. Including the three he already has, Narinder has 21 total eyes, though the third eye on his forehead remains closed. His two main eyes appear to be dripping white fluid and his pupils have a line through the middle similar to the crosses on his additional eyes. His arms and hands remain skeletal and branched, and black branches extend from the strips of flesh from his face. Black liquid pours from his eyes, his neck, and his mouth. His ears grow much larger and are similarly branched, though remaining dark gray. He has three rows of teeth: the first row has 8 on the top jaw and 6 on the bottom, the second row has 7 on the top jaw and 6 on the bottom, and the third row has 8 on the top and 8 on the bottom.

His main three eyes burst from his face, tearing his eyelids. The two main eyes have black sclera and red crossed pupils like the flesh strip eyes, the third eye remains wounded. Upon the destruction of the first eye used in battle, the black eyes disappear to show the same wounds in his main eyes as in the third eye socket.

Follower Form

After the Lamb defeats him, he shrinks to the same size of the Lamb, though he keeps his head shape and two of his eyes while his third eye remains closed. He wears a grey ragged shirt, the same as the other non-recruited followers. His eyes have white sclera, black irises, and white pupils as followers.

Personality

The One Who Waits acts cordial towards the Lamb, even if a bit imperative. However, this kindness is a mere act as he's actually a violent and power-hungry god who's willing to sacrifice the Lamb for his own freedom, and becomes absolutely furious if the Lamb refuses to return the Red Crown to him. Even if the Lamb obeys at the end, he kills them by sadistically breaking their limbs one by one, showing how little their service really meant to him. Even as the Lamb's follower he tends to belittle them and their leadership decisions, though he often does or says things that are out of character due to still mostly behaving like a regular follower NPC.

He doesn't seem to care much about the vessels that worked under him before the Lamb, even complimenting the player if the latter sacrifices Ratau to the Red Fox because the old rat was "weak". He also doesn't care for his attendants Baal and Aym.

He also clearly despises his siblings, although he does seem to like Leshy's realm. It's also shown that, despite everything, he still holds some genuine care for Shamura, and as a follower he asks the player if his sibling wept when they died and if they knew it was their end, and becomes oddly quiet if the spider silk (which, in his own words, reminds him of Shamura) is given to him, seemingly showing he does at least feel some remorse for what he did to them.

Biography

Sometime in the past, The One Who Waits bargained with the Mystic Seller and became a god.

Back when he was still known as Narinder, The One Who Waits was the fifth Bishop of the Old Faith and ruled alongside his siblings as one of the last remaining gods in the Lands of the Old Faith. However, as centuries went by, he grew ambitious due to growing discontent with his role and beginning to question, as well as having been introduced to the ideas of change by his sibling Shamura. Furthermore, as explained by Shamura once they're healed, Narinder's gifts of immortality would make them popular with the mortals, granting them more followers and strength beyond their siblings' bounds. Because of this, the other Bishops chained him in another realm, though they were all horribly wounded in the process.

In the attempt to obtain revenge against his siblings and be free once more, The One Who Waits sent various vessels against his siblings, all using the power of his Red Crown, and all failing. At some point, Forneus' children, Baal and Aym, were sacrificed to him by Shamura, and he raised them to be his servants.

When the last lamb in the Lands was killed, The One Who Wait made sure that they would reach him in the realm serving as his prison, promising the Lamb to revive them and grant them incredible power in exchange for the latter making a cult in his name. After the Lamb accepted, The One Who Waits gave the Lamb the Red Crown, making them into his new vessel.

Unlike the previous wearers of the Red Crown, the Lamb was successful in the task of killing the Four Bishops. However, when the time to return the Red Crown to The One Who Wait came, the latter kidnapped the player's flock and revealed that he intends to sacrifice the player to reach true freedom, and asks them to return the crown and accept their fate.

If the player does return the Red Crown, The One Who Waits breaks free from himself and brutally kills the players, before presumably doing the same with the rest of the flock. Should the player however refuse, The One Who Waits becomes furious and, after his two servants fail to kill the Lamb and the Goat, he breaks free and attempts to end them himself, even taking a monstrous form as the fight goes on. Once the player defeats him, The One Who Waits loses his divinity, asking whether they will be vengeful or merciful towards them, and pointing out that the Lamb can no longer blame him for their actions.

If the player decides to kill him, The One Who Waits remarks how they are no different from him before finally being killed. If the player instead decides to spare him, The One Who Waits will freak out before being sent back to the cult. From here on, he will serve the Lamb and the Goat as one of their followers, and though no longer a god, he is still immortal.

If previously killed by the player, The One Who Waits will eventually be brought back to life by the Mystic Seller after the latter defeats the Bishops a second time, meaning he inevitably ends up as a follower either way.