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6 and 20 if you’re doing lamb asks!

6. Who raised your lamb?

My lamb was raised with their siblings with by their parents till they were about 6-7 after that they mostly traveled, staying with other groups and in villages for as long as they could without being caught/reallying on the kindness of strangers till they were teenagers. After that it was just them and their siblings. My lamb doesn't really remember their parents.

20. What do their horns look like?

So wendsydale sheep are naturally pulled. So until they were about vessel they didn't have horns at all. Once they gain the red crown they gained a short set of horns that after ascending their horns started growing more. Eventually they may end up with a large set of curled horns or even multiple but they don't like to think about that.

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1-3 for Nari asks!

1. When did your Narinder aquire the Red Crown? Was he born into the role or did the crown choose him for a particular reason?

Narinder ascended in a Holy War his family launched against the gods. He ascended third, after Shamura and Kallamar. His siblings helped him kill the previous Red Crown Bearer, Ala. At the time in he was in his early twenties, which is where his aging stalled.

When he died, Ala was a God of War and Tempests. The Red Crown had previously lost the power of Death. It was assumed Narinder would ascend as a God of War. He did, briefly. But the Red Crown seized the power of Death as Narinder’s primary domain. He willingly passed the power/domain of War to Shamura after being crowned.

Oddly, the domain of Tempests was lost in his ascension.

2. Why does the red crown find him worthy as a bearer?

{Spoilers redacted} It’s difficult to tell what the Red Crown thinks/feels, or if it does that at all. But it did reclaim the domain of Death thanks to Narinder. He also cheated death several times throughout his young life, often surviving situations that others did not. Perhaps it accepted him for those reasons. Perhaps killing Ala was all it took to become worthy; it’s not clear.

3. What did his childhood look like? Did he live with the other crown bearers?

Narinder’s early childhood was spent with his mother, Rajani, in a cat village. Rajani was a young unwed mother who was just barely able to support herself and her son. She loved him very much, though he was a quiet, strange child.

After a plague killed everyone but Narinder, Shamura and Kallamar came through and took Narinder with them when they left. His childhood was spent roaming from place to place with his adoptive siblings, often having to fight off bandits, cultists, slavers, etc. The family lived in near-constant fear. Hunger, illness, injury, and worse were frequent threats.

Eventually, Shamura came up with a plan. All they had to do was kill a god.

If you want to read a bit about Narinder’s childhood, I wrote about the Bishops’ mortal life in Sins of the Bishops.

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7. Where was your lamb raised? A village? A prison? Constantly on the run?

((While the Emperor can't recall where they came from, since that was Nariender's doing to erase most of their memories? I can give some hints on their village used to be nomadic of sorts, wandering from place to place. Their village never stuck in one place for too long, often going into hiding since Empy was born when the rise of their species's culling was just starting to pick up.

Their people did not believe into the Old Faith's practices, being a flock that worshipped an old dead god that had control over the growth of nature. So even then, their people were hunted and were on the run regardless.))

19. Do they bear traits of forced domestication? Is their tail docked? Was their ear tagged? Do they have scars from being shorn (and nicked) against their will? Were they painted with or assigned a number rather than a name?

((Mostly, no. The most scared Empy still bears is their dismembered neck scars they keep hidden underneath their yellow crown and a number branding in their back when some of Leshy's followers had burned them with a hot iron into their skin and wool. Number 59 they were, they were the last in a grouped together flock of sheep that had been tossed into a wagon, treated more like livestock than people when they were nearly starved upon the long roadtrip to their execution.

Most of their wool had grown over the flesh wound, but if you shear or part their fur you will see the number brand still burned into their hides to this day.))

50. Freebie! Tell us any headcanon you want!

((The Emperor has a tiny immortal Golden Poison Frog named Sal who serves as an advisor to the Yellow Crown. He is a silent lil guy who often whispers in the Lamb's ear whenever he travels sitting on their shoulder, and he's often with them at all times since his immortality is tied to the Yellow Crown as long it exists.

He used to work under Heket before the Lamb had found him during a crusade. He wasn't a witness or a demi god, but they are immortal and they held their rank higher over those guys since he was favored for his knowledge and having a touch that could kill a mortal. He offered his services up to them since his loyalty remained with towards the yellow crown. And the Lamb had to take him in since Heket's old domain is now their domain; and thus they have to take care of those that pledge their loyalty towards them anyway.

He rarely talks much in front of mortals, and when he does he often whispers so quietly you can barely hear him. But he is very polite and is more often than not willing to answer a young follower's questions with a nod or shake of his head if he is prompted to.

And for a photo reference, he looks like this!

He is just a tiny guy, your honor. He has also seen the rise and fall of a lot of Dead Gods and he doesn't like to talk about it since he took an Oath of Silence on Heket's behalf.))

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1 and 23

1. Does your lamb go by any name other than The Lamb? If so, what?

Publicly, they only go by "The Lamb." They will also accept: glorious leader, Your Worship, Your Holiness, Your Holy Eminence, etc. etc. In private, amongst their closest family/friends, they will go by their name, Hamal.

23. Are they capable of having children and would they want to have children?

Would they want to? Yes! Hamal loves children, and tends to dote on the cult's youngsters.

Are they able to? Through natural means, no. Hamal is infertile.

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3 and 22! Meow!

3. What did his childhood look like? Did he live with the other crown bearers? It was complicated. Narinder had a relatively humble life in the beginning, just his mom, aunt and little siblings. however at a young age around 7? he was marked as a potential crown bearer/priest and was taken into the temple's fold. He still had contact with his aunt since she was a lower level disciple of current god of the red crown but not the rest of his family and he doesn't really remember them much. He met kallamar a year later who was in a similar situation and a bit older and kinda latched onto him. He met Shamura some time after but they are significantly older than all the others so they kinda stepped more in as a mentor/guardian type position vs kallamar who was still a teen. eventually heket came into the picture when narinder was hitting preteen time and leshy is the family baby and came to the temple right before everything started kicking off as a literal infant (aka a war between gods, that eventually led to there only being them left)

22. How does he pass the time in exile? Time moves very oddly in the veil and depending on many things can either seem longer or shorter. Narinder honestly spent most of them time fluctuating between sleeping, daydreaming doing his duties and dissociating. a part of him was still free "metaphorically" to help guide the dead to the afterlife which would involve walking them through their memories and sometimes he would take longer than necessary with that just to escape for a bit.

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16. Do you base your lamb on any specific species of sheep? If so, which?

//It isn’t obvious because of the way my Lamb stylizes their wool in the current part of their story. But, they and their mom are closely based on the Chokla sheep from India! Another breed that grows wool, specifically long and thin as seen here:

32. Is your lamb merciful? Did they ever refuse to spare someone? If do, why?

//They are surprisingly merciful to all. Except towards one follower. No one in the cult talks about it, but to this day they still sacrifice and revive the same opossum over and over.

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[ About Lamb Questions | Accepting ]

4. Did your lamb kill anyone prior to their first death? If so, who?

//That he did! I don’t have a name or the type of animals for them, although I’d said it was mostly bug people. Lamb was a disciple of Shamura and would frequent the fight pits prior to the slaughtering of sheep and goats. Most of the time they didn’t kill an opponent, but, sometimes, he had to.

//Hard not to when you already know they’re destined to die at that time

26. Does your lamb wear jewelry or makeup?

//No makeup (so far, this may change at some point), but Lamb does where jewelry! The upside down cross earring is the first one, and it’s from when they were a follower of Shamura. It now represents their first death. They’ve added another piercing for each Bishop slain, even Leshy, who he doesn’t even remember fighting.