The lamb told their story. "It all began a long, long time ago, in a far away land called the lands of the old faith. In times long forgotten, hundreds of gods used to roam these lands, but they disappeared. What happened to them? Who knows. All you need to know for now is that there are five gods remaining at the beginning of our tale.
Shamura the god of war and wisdom, Kallamar the god of pestilence, Narinder, the god of death, Heket the goddess of famine and Leshy the god of chaos. They were known as the bishops and ruled over the lands. Everything was good. So obviously, things had to go wrong. It started with Narinder. He was curious about everything and that curiosity and his underlying ambition was encouraged by Shamura. Shamura was the one who implanted ideas of change inside Narinder's head. This was a problem because while Shamura's domains of war and wisdom are constantly evolving, Narinder's domain of death was static. Using the lessons Shamura taught him, Narinder sought to change his domain.
His siblings didn't like the road that Narinder was taking. So they decided to seal him away forever. They lured him in, but before he was chained to the netherworld, he put up a terrific fight. Leaving the bishops injured in some way. For Leshy, it was his eyes, For Heket her throat, for kallamar his ear and for Shamura, their skull was split. But they had done it. they had sealed away Narinder, who was renamed the one who waits. Later, Shamura sent down two kittens to narinder's realm because he didn't want him to be alone. It was cute in a weird sort of way."
Narinder and Shamura glanced at each other, a silent understanding between them.
The Lamb continued. "So everything was hunky-dory right? WRONG! After they sealed Narinder away, Shamura had a prophecy, that said that a lamb would be the one to free narinder. Obviously, the bishops didn't want Narinder to get free, not only because it would be bad, but because the spell that bound narinder was tied to their combined life forces. so in order to free narinder, they would have to DIE.
Clearly the only rational thing to do is hunt down and kill every single lamb in the lands of the old faith. Surely that would stop the prophecy from coming true! unfortunately it doesn't. In fact it ensures that the prophecy will come true because Narinder is the god of death, and the lambs that are sacrificed go straight to him. But he waits until the very last lamb to make his move.
That's where I come in. I was the last lamb, the last of my kind. I was sacrificed and taken before the one who waits. He offered me life again, but at a price: starting a cult in his name. I agreed and returned to the mortal realm. With the help of my mentor Ratau, i started up my cult and got it going. Then i crusaded into the territory of the four bishops, defeating their henchmen until eventually, they fell as well. First it was Leshy, then Heket, then Kallamar and finally Shamura. All the while, my cult grew. I was a pretty good leader, if i do say so myself. Then came time to free Narinder.
Narinder now had no more use for me, so he demanded that i surrender the Red Crown so that he could finally be free. I refused. Immediately Narinder unleashed his two bodyguards Aym and Baal on me. (If you were wondering, they were the same two kittens that shamura sent to him earlier in our tale.) i defeated them. Then it was versus the god of death himself, and after long and ardous battle, I earned a nail-bitingly narrow victory. After the battle, narinder was supplanted, and i became a deity in my own right. I chose to spare narinder and me and my cultists returned to the mortal plane.
Things were peaceful for a while. Then came the mystic seller who informed me that the bishops were in a purgatory like state, where they were reliving their defeat over and over."
At this, the four bishops shuddered.
The lamb continued. "So i crusaded once more, and freed the bishops. When they gained mortal forms like narinder, i took it as a sign to invite them into my cult. After that i revived Aym and Baal, reunited them with their mother Forneus (who's name is on the ship.) and spent time improving the cult. Well, it's basically a town now. So that's the story. Any questions?"