Lambert

Description: The Lamb (also called Lambert) is a small codger with white wool, a dark gray face, limbs, and ears, and small red horns. Its large black eyes feature horizontal pupils. Atop its head is the Red Crown, an object of great power that is black in color with two pointed spikes and a crimson eye in the center. Around the lamb's neck is a black collar with a golden bell hanging from it. By default, they wear a red cape known as a "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 the lamb throughout religion as a symbol of the sacred and noble, the player begins the game as an innocent and powerless sacrificial lamb, about to be offered to a dark and violent deity. But after receiving the Red Crown, they are brought back from the dead with new powers, on the condition that they become the leader of a cult. After gaining the power of the Red Crown, it is up to the player to make them a benevolent shepherd to their followers or a malevolent exploiter who only uses their congregation to further their own ends. Skills The extent of the Lamb's abilities are not fully known before being sacrificed and revived. It is only after this event that the player sees the full extent of the Lamb's abilities. With the help of He Who Waits, the Lamb has increased health and durability, though it can still be defeated. Once defeated, however, the Lamb will be resurrected with only minor penalties to faith and collected resources. One of the Lamb's most prominent traits is their proficiency in melee combat. They are capable of taking down large and powerful monsters single-handedly, regardless of the type of weapon used. Although the Lamb has no distinct dialogue (aside from a dedicated button that makes them bleat, but has no other function)

personality

While their true personality is left up to the player, the Lamb displays some distinctive traits as they grow and maintain the cult. The Lamb's actions and nature can range from an anti-villain 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 followers. While the Lamb does not speak during the game, they still demonstrate some form of charisma when interacting with followers. The Lamb also appears to have a sense of self-preservation. Because the followers' faith must be carefully managed, their needs must be met. This may include ensuring that they are well fed, receiving adequate health care when they become ill, receiving blessings to make them happier or giving sermons, and performing certain rituals that can improve happiness and other needs. The Lamb may also provide better living conditions by building and upgrading sleeping bags and outbuildings. Other malevolent acts the Lamb may perform include simply denying followers their needs, sacrificing a follower during a ritual, putting an innocent follower in prison (although this act is much more justified in the case of a dissident), sending others on missions where their chance of survival is dangerously low, forcing someone to eat a bowl of excrement, other cultists, or even pure poison that has a high chance of killing them, yelling at them with a scary face to force them to work harder, forcing them to fight to the death, or even killing them on the spot (if other followers are awake to see it). The doctrines the player chooses can influence which 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.