The lamb - COTL

The Lamb is a small sheep with white wool, dark grey face, limbs, and ears, and tiny red horns. Their large black eyes feature horizontal pupils. On top of their head is the Red Crown, an object of great power that is black in color with two pointed prongs and a crimson eye in the center. Around the lamb's neck is a black collar with a golden bell dangling from it. By default, they wear a red cape known as their "fleece", which can come in other colors such as gold, green, purple, white, blue, and pink/gray after unlocking certain requirements.

Inspired by the use of lambs throughout religion as a symbol of the holy and noble, the player starts the game as an innocent and powerless sacrificial lamb, about to be offered to a dark and violent deity. But after being given the Red Crown, they are brought back from the dead with new powers on the stipulation that they become a cult leader. Once they gain the Red Crown's power, it is up to the player whether to make them a benevolent shepherd to their followers or a malevolent exploiter that only uses their congregation to further their own ends.

The extent of the Lamb's abilities are not fully known before being sacrificed and revived, though they can be presumed to be the same as any other mortal. It is not until after this event that the player sees the full extent of Lamb's abilities. With help from The One Who Waits, the Lamb has increased health and durability, though they can still be defeated. Once defeated, however, the Lamb will be resurrected with only minor penalties to faith and collected resources.

One of the most prominent traits of the Lamb is their melee combat proficiency. They are able to take down large and powerful monsters all alone, regardless of what type of weapon is being used.

Despite the Lamb not having any distinct dialogue (aside from a dedicated button that makes them bleat but has no other function), they seem to have some form of charisma due to the Lamb's ability to recruit countless followers to their cult, coupled with the fact that they can change the minds of dissenters.

Despite this, in the teaser for the Cult of the Lamb: The First Verse, it's shown that the Lamb can talk. But this might only be for the purposes of the comics and might never happen in the real game.[1] There are Tarot Cards the Lamb can discover which grant certain abilities or upgrades of already-existing traits. There are two categories of tarot cards the Lamb can use, and both are discovered when going on dangerous crusades.

When coming across Clauneck on the crusades, Lamb can choose between two cards that remain active for only the duration of the crusade. Other cards can sometimes be found in chests that appear after completing each battle room, in the final room of each level or just sitting on the floor of a room with no enemies. To increase the variety of the pool of Tarot Cards, the player can purchase new ones from merchants around the map or by completing various objectives throughout the game.

Although their true personality is left up to the player, the Lamb does show some distinctive traits while growing and maintaining the cult. The Lamb's actions and nature can range from an anti-villainous visionary to a power-hungry monster. Given how the player manages the cult, both benevolent and evil actions can be performed on, or with the help of, the followers. Although the Lamb does not speak during gameplay, they are still shown to have some form of charisma when interacting with followers. The Lamb also appears to have self preservation.

Because the faith of the followers must be managed carefully, it is necessary to meet their needs. This can include making sure they are well-fed, are given the proper healthcare when they get sick, given blessings to make them happier, or by giving sermons and performing certain rituals that can improve happiness and other needs. The Lamb can also provide better living conditions by building and upgrading sleeping bags and outhouses. More malevolent acts the Lamb can perform include simply denying the needs of the followers, sacrificing a follower during a ritual, putting an innocent follower in prison as opposed to a dissenter, sending others on missions where their chance of survival is dangerously low, forcing someone to eat a bowl of excrement, other cultists, or even straight-up poison that has a high chance of killing them, screeching at them with a scary face to force them to work harder, force them to fight to the death, or even murder them on the spot in view of other cultists.

The doctrines that the player chooses can influence what rituals are available and which actions can provide negative or positive consequences. For example, the cannibal doctrine causes all Cult members to gain the Cannibal Trait. The cannibal trait gives followers +5 Faith when eating Minced Follower Meat and removes the 75% chance of causing illness. Or, alternatively, the Grass Eater Trait, which removes all negatives effects of the Grassy Gruel meal. Selecting one will lock you out of the other, shaping the direction your cult will go in.

If the player chooses, the Lamb can also do side quests for followers, which may include gathering specific resources, rescuing a loved one during a crusade, requesting a specific meal (which for some reason includes a Bowl of Poop), or even asking the lamb to marry them. Successfully performing these side quests will greatly increase a follower's loyalty, but denying the quest altogether will diminish faith. However followers may make more malevolent requests such as asking the lamb to prank, imprison, or even kill other cultists.

Some of the Lamb's personality traits can be inferred through their body language in certain interactions, though this is up to interpretation. One example is that when the lamb is angry: their eyes will turn red and they will suddenly grow fangs and start loudly wailing. This happens when intimidating a follower, fighting the final boss, or simply being a sore loser over a game of Knucklebones. During a game of Knucklebones, the Lamb will also pout and roll their eyes when one of their dice is eliminated.

The Lamb also has a few occasions where they can be seen crying. These instances include the moment before their execution at the start of the game, when they try and fail to save Ratau from the Fox if the player agrees to sacrifice the former to the latter, and when they are deciding whether or not to surrender the red crown to The One Who Waits, knowing that accepting means that they will die.

The Lamb is also capable of being loving towards their followers. The Lamb can show affection to followers by blessing them, inspiring them, petting them (If they're dogs or have the Pettable trait), giving them gifts or money, or even marrying them and giving them kisses. The Lamb can even feed them meals that, although they typically require more resources, are higher quality and tastier than the simpler ones or even throw massive feasts for them. They can build decorations for the followers to admire, as well as high-end houses for them to sleep in. They can also build healing bays where they can nurse their ill followers back to health using Camellia flowers.

There's also a subtle indicator that they dislike when one of their followers pass away. The Lamb usually has a smile on their face and seems happy to be running the cult. However, they frown whenever they are carrying the corpse of a follower. This could be interpreted as a sad frown, or simply a frown of exertion from carrying the heavy body of a follower, as the Lamb is forced to walk slowly and is unable to run or roll when doing so.

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Baraq is an old, grey ghost lamb with a white beard-mustache combo. He carries a wooden crook marked with the asterisk symbol. He has standard, thick horns with sharp points. The tuft of hair visible suggests his hair is a similar grey to his fur.

He wears an off-white and faded-red keffiyeh that's kept in place with his bell. His fleece is faded green with faded yellow trim; an asterisk symbol on either chest flap. He also wears a ref bandanna tied around his neck.

Baraq quotes: "Good game! You've won these pieces fair and square. May they see more victories!"

"...you've a kind heart, youngster."

"You bring a tear to my eye, young one. Very well done!"

Koka is one of the ten Disciples of Yngya, the God of the Lambs. She is among the second set of Disciples freed, along with Aniel. Chazaq is the father of her two children, Keru and Aza.

Description

Koka is a gray lamb with long, fluffy, light gray wool. She has an awkward grin and black tear streaks under each eye. Her horns resemble those of an antelope's and she has four of them. Her ears, horns, and head are all adorned with various jewelry.

She wears a light blue headband with the asterisk symbol in white. Her fleece is shades of teal and light blue; the under layer is dark blue and made to resemble a starry, night sky. She wears a moon charm on her chest.

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