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cult of the lamb relics of the old faith theory: chemach

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theory 1- Chemach is a reanimated corpse by ??? designed to guide the player into higher power or maybe something else in the story that has not been explained yet. theory 2- Chemach did some spooky magic stuff to try and create their own cult. maybe they stole power from ???, maybe ??? gave Chemach the crown and that ended badly, or maybe another unexplained reason. Either way there is a reason why this blitzed out owl is chained up constantly, either because they are a puppet to ??? or chained because they are nuts.

a few things to note first- Chemach's crown looks very similar to diseased hearts. Diseased hearts also look similar to ??? but with a slightly inverted color scheme. Second- Chemach's dialogue they randomly say is a bit suspect, here is stuff i posted from the wiki. Its a little concerning how Chemach seems to have no real followers but rather corpses they strung together with fabric. I don't see a lot of people talking about this so i thought i should post it!

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.

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.