Cult Of The Lamb Headcanons - Tumblr Posts

i know the cotl official art is just silly for jokes but one of my favorite things about it is the implication that narinder chills the fuck out immediately after joining the cult. hes not even snarling or bleeding from the eyes or anything

I've seen a few people talk about this but I love the idea that Goat is from an alternative universe where Shamura is The One Who Waits and in that universe goats were the ones slaughtered and not the Lamps.

This leads me to have two thoughts.

1. Bishop Narinder, with his mini bosses being sheep based. (And maybe 2 being Aym and Baal? Or them as special Npcs in his area.)

2. TOWW Shamura being more unsettling than Bishop Shamura.

I know we love dogifying nari for the goat but I'm honestly not the biggest fan since dogs and cats are opposite but sheep and giats are so similar they're mistaken for the other

So I propose like the sheep and goat being from the bovidae family, the goat's nari is smth from the felidae family, but not the same as his current domestic cat form

So I raise this: nari as a white lion

Not only are lions part of the felidae family, but it fits another parallel: opposing symbolic connotation.

Sheep are positive symbols (purity, innocence) while goats are negative (evil, sin, satan); black cats are negative too (evil, witchcraft), while lions are positive (wisdom, courage, strength)

Additionally this can have different forms like people hc nari to be different cats

Domestic/small cat? ancient Egyptian wildcats (were positive symbols)

Big cat? Lion

Already a lion? White tiger (they have positive symbolism in some aspects)

Also I like the idea of Leshy being a millipede, heket a toad, kallamar a cuddledish, and shamura a scorpion bc they're all a little bit to the left of their original forms

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

What are your characters tells for lying?

Text incase you can't read it:

Kallamar: "You can tell when he (Narinder) is lying because the third eye can't look at you. It's almost like it has a mind of its own- or a more direct connection to his thoughts."

Heket: "You used to be able to tell when Leshy was lying because leaves would sprout along his antlers. But he grew out of it. We can't tell anymore."

Leshy: One of Kallas' ears would always twitch. You could tell if he was confident in the lie or not based on which ear was flicking, but I don't remember which one meant what."

Narinder: "I've studied the Lamb for the longest now, but I don't believe they have a tell for lying."

Shamura: "...."

So I have this headcanon-

Based off his dialogue "Those foolish Bishops thought they could keep you from me in death. But instead they sent you straight to me." in the start of the game, and since there's no other lambs for him to use thus making OUR Lamb the last of their kind; the Bishops were doing something to prevent any lambs from going to him in death, perhaps consuming their souls (in the same way they consume follower's souls when transforming into their Eldritch forms)

Which means our Lamb's arrival was either an accident or intentional, and since Shamura already has shown to have a soft spot for Narinder, including sending him Aym and Baal so he's not lonley, and also the state of their mind at the time...I don't think it's too unlilkey that maybe it's Shamura's fault the Lamb was sent to The One Who Waits.

What was it about Narinder's final demand that upset the Lamb? Would they have been happy to return the crown if he let them live and stay by his side?

Yes they were hoping for their second chance of living to be able to, yknow, live. They wanted to help Narinder for 'saving' them, and were willing to let go of the red crown if it meant both could be free (and possibly together), only to find out that they were a sacrifice in the eyes of the god from the start.

Them <3

Also had a new idea for the introduction to Narinder:

Fun fact: I've been calling the Goat Stanley because of the video I posted. That's gonna be their nickname, even if I find an actual name XD

This is probably where the Kallamar is poly Headcanon came from if you didn't know lol

It's from the official company BUT DONT LET THAT CHANGE YOUR AUs/HEADCANONS IF YOU DONT WANT TO

Narinder and the Lamb are in a strange relationship. It isn't exactly romantic in the traditional sense. Their love language is wrestling (basically trying to kill each other) and then licking each others wounds clean. They don't kiss or get intimate in that sense, but you will find them clutching to each other like the other will suddenly disappear if they let go. Their love is filled with violence, sympathy, misunderstandings, knowing each other like no one else can, grief, and blood. The mutual understanding of knowing what being bound in chains is like, that instinct for freedom.

One of the main reasons the Lamb chose to turn on their god was because they wouldn't be able to see him freed. The Lamb worked so damn hard to free Narinder, so damn long. The Lamb was going to see their Beloved Narinder free, even if it meant betraying his word, and tearing those chains off themselves. They also refuse to kneel to anyone ever again, even his own God that they love so dearly.

I feel hilarious and as a horrible ShamGoat shipper I was brainstorming ideas for a them centric swap AU but like in my flavour and ended up with this

!! UNHOLY ALLIANCE UPDATE SPOILER !!

Okay so I don't know how obvious this is cause I never see it mentioned here 😭 so I'm gonna take any chance to yap

In these two statues of the goat you can see that they seem to have their body ripped open, making me wonder if this implies the goat is dead or some form of undead.

I was like cool yippeee new element to add to my own goat design :D

Then I did a lot more Goat brainrotting cause they're my comfort character (I know. Unfortunate to fixate on the player 2 character out of everything) and my brain went to the au where Shamura is the Narinder and all. Ykwim.

So I was thinking of the swap AU I wanted to make and came up with the thought of the Goat being a scapegoat. Yknow. From the bible. Then I connected that the Lamb is a sacrificial lamb that ended up not technically getting successfully sacrificed and instead started a cult. I wanted to play with that irony. So the Goat, being a scapegoat that is supposed to run away with the sins but failing and getting sacrificed in the process is a fun idea for me.

The AU is barebones concepts right now, but like what if in the swap AU the goat gets sacrificed and insteead of progressing the prophecy like the Lamb did they ended up negatively fucking it up. That's the plot or like lore I came up with.

If I do commit to making this an AU i'll figure out a story one day 😭 but this is what I got. And since the Goat is "dead" and we cant have a plot starring a corpse I imagine they DO get revived For The Plot but not like other followers, I'm talking about revived in the way that is wrong. Revived in the way that they no longer can experience life, that they're watching people live life but they're stuck like that forever.

I also want to connect this with the fact that the goat is the one who provided the cursed relics and tarots somehow. We shall find out maybe idk.

Narinder and the Lamb are in a strange relationship. It isn't exactly romantic in the traditional sense. Their love language is wrestling (basically trying to kill each other) and then licking each others wounds clean. They don't kiss or get intimate in that sense, but you will find them clutching to each other like the other will suddenly disappear if they let go. Their love is filled with violence, sympathy, misunderstandings, knowing each other like no one else can, grief, and blood. The mutual understanding of knowing what being bound in chains is like, that instinct for freedom.

One of the main reasons the Lamb chose to turn on their god was because they wouldn't be able to see him freed. The Lamb worked so damn hard to free Narinder, so damn long. The Lamb was going to see their Beloved Narinder free, even if it meant betraying his word, and tearing those chains off themselves. They also refuse to kneel to anyone ever again, even his own God that they love so dearly.

hi, i love dynamics that r like “we make each other worse” on the surface but when u look deeper it is actually just “we understand each other on a level that no one else does and nudge each other out of our typical comfort zone” which just circles around to “we make each other better”. it’s abt the accidental growth just by being in each other’s lives. idk