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| “ | Heket: Before us stands the last of its kind. All others we have hunted down and put to the blade. Kallamar: With this final sacrifice, the prophecy will be impossible to fulfill. Leshy: The heretic who lies bound below will be condemned to eternal captivity. Shamura: And the Old Faith shall be preserved. |
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| ~ The Bishops at the beginning of the game. |
| “ | Eons agone, these lands were rife with gods and their adherents. What befell this pantheon? Alas. 'Tis the nature of beasts to forget, and of Gods to be forgotten. Mayhap they left. Mayhap they slept. Mayhap they devoured and were devoured in turn. Those few who remained spread roots, spun webs, molded this world to meet them and theirs. 'Twere a land of many Gods once. Hundreds. Now... | „ |
| ~ Haro talking about how the Bishops became the main deities. |
| “ | I seek the newly appointed god, successor of their victims, last of their kind. Confer with me. Fickle beast, do you not feel how the boundary betwixt this world and the next has began to fray? You are artless in your duties, Infant God. You bestow upon the Bishops' death, yet deny them rest. Bearer of the Red Crown, set this right. Forced are they to relive their final agonies; move them on, as is your duty as the new God of Death. | „ |
| ~ The Mystic Seller to the Lamb, telling them that the Bishops are in a state between life and death. |
The Bishops of the Old Faith are the main antagonists of the 2022 roguelike action-adventure game Cult of the Lamb. They are a group of siblings serving as the deities ruling over the Lands of the Old Faith.
Originally there were five of them, but one of them was eventually chained away by the other four when he became a threat to their power.
Biography[]
The Bishops are the last remaining gods in the Lands of the Old Faith after the other gods disappeared for unknown reasons. They became gods after finding each of their crowns and interacting with the Mystic Seller.
Creating the Old Faith, they ruled over the lands as they wished; however, The One Who Waits (who at the time was a Bishop himself and was known as Narinder) grew discontent with his role and was introduced to ideas of change by Shamura, making him power-hungry. Eventually, the other Bishops had to seal him away, though all of them got wounded in the process.
When The One Who Waits sent vessels against them, they killed them one by one (except for Ratau, who was still unsuccessful in his task). To prevent a prophecy foretelling their brother's return, the Bishops slaughtered all the lambs in the lands. However, by sacrificing the last lamb, they allowed the lamb to be reached by The One Who Waits, who gave them his Red Crown alongside the task to kill his siblings.
Despite their efforts to try and stop the Lamb, the Bishops were killed one by one. However, as revealed in the Relics of the Old Faith update, the Bishops haven't been fully killed, reducing them to a state between life and death (purgatory) where they continuously relive their last moments of agony.
After the Lamb defeats them, they turn into mere mortals and join their cult.
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Trivia[]
- The wounds on each Bishop references a certain phrase about evil, with Leshy's wound referring "See No Evil" (as his eyes are gouged out, or otherwise previously wounded), Heket's wounds referring to "Speak No Evil" (as her throat is slit), Kallamar's wounds referring to "Hear No Evil" (as his ears are damaged), and Shamura's wounds referring "Think No Evil" (as they received brain damage).
- To add to this, Narinder's bondage is a reference to the final addition in this group of sayings, "Do No Evil", since his arms are bound in chains.
- Even after being defeated, the Bishops can be fought again if the player destroys one of the statues in their domains and uses the portal emerging from it.
- Despite the bishops being referred to as the last gods in the Lands of the Old Faith, this is not fully true since Midas is shown to worship gods that clearly aren't the Bishops. This contradiction could be explained by most not knowing that those gods exist (since Midas is shown to be their only worshiper) or that they're minor deities that aren't even considered as such by most.
- Alternatively, it's possible that Midas' Cave doesn't count as part of the Lands of the Old Faith.
- Another possibility is that Midas' gods don't exist at all and that they're something he made up to obtain gold.
- Another thing contradicting this is the Mystic Seller, who clearly is a divine being. That being said, they seem to come from a completely different realm, so perhaps they don't count as a deity of the Lands of the Old Faith.
- Alternatively, it's possible that Midas' Cave doesn't count as part of the Lands of the Old Faith.
- While the Bishops are supposed to be killed in a certain order (as in, first Leshy, then Heket, then Kallamar and finally Shamura), they can actually be killed in different orders through some strategies. If this happens, their dialogues (or, at least, those of Leshy and Heket) will change.
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