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Before Being Indoctrinated:

🦑 • Kallamar knows how to expertly wield all weapons. It’s concerning how many he owns at his temple

🦑 • Tends to throw his followers and the other Bishops under the bus and judges every one of their actions

🦑 • His temple is extremely tidy, crystals lined up everywhere and very decorative

🦑 • Kallamar rewards his loyal followers more than just the promise of long and healthy lives, he actually listens to their input during sermons and takes their advice, having more respect for them

🦑 • In the presence of his other siblings he is less inclined to speak, afraid of causing his siblings distress

🦑 • He’s a hoarder and loves shiny things, wanting his cultists to offer him crystals, coins, pearls and anything glimmering at his temple

🦑 • When facing mortals he has extreme confidence but anyone that’s stronger and more powerful than him besides the Bishops this god complex shatters

🦑 • If Kallamar is in Fight or Flight mode god forbid he realizes flight won’t work. If he has no other options he has a sword, a staff and a holy grenade at his disposal to use against the threat

🦑 • Kallamar can find fault in anyone. Not taking the blame for anything he’s done

🦑 • Being the Ex-Bishop of Anchordeep his society is responsible for the production and harvest of the crystals and coins that The Old Faith uses for currency

After Being Indoctrinated:

🦑 • He is the most cautious and considerate Ex-Bishop. He care about everyone’s feelings much more than his fellow siblings

🦑 • At first The Lamb couldn’t even talk to him without Kallamar bursting into tears. Eventually he became less and less panicky and learned to get used to the cult

🦑 • With Kallamar’s ears gone he has a difficult time hearing and understanding sounds and other member’s voices. So if someone quietly comes up behind him he will shriek and freak out, thinking he’s being attacked: usually with a panic attack following afterwards

🦑 • Kallamar has exceptionally good lip reading skills being deaf. He also uses sign language and taught The Lamb and other cult members to use it if he’s having trouble lip reading

🦑 • He is a pescatarian and prefer’s to eat fish mostly. He will even accompany The Lamb when visiting Pilgrim’s Passage so he may fish for more salmon, being his favorite type of seafood

🦑 • Kallamar is the shortest Ex-Bishop being 5’4 ft tall. He suffered a huge stunt in growth due to the constant diseases he suffered from before

🦑 • He is very lithe and underweight. His tentacles making him seem heavier then he is

🦑 • His voice is either extremely loud or soft, having no volume control due to not being able to hear his own or others tone

🦑 • Kallamar has always been shy and uncomfortable with the spotlight. Even so, he can be a major drama queen

🦑 • Kallamar swears to never dissent against The Lamb as he is still extremely afraid of The Red Crown

🦑 • Kallamar is a perfectionist at everything. Since he is the cult architect he makes sure that the place looks clean and pretty. He’s extremely strict with decorating and placement of new buildings

🦑 • Whenever someone gets sick, he panics and immediately apologizes thinking he caused them to attract a disease

🦑 • Very timid around anyone except his fellow siblings, having a very meek nature

🦑 • His hobbies include jewelry making and weapon smithing, using his 2 pairs of arms to efficiently craft it

🦑 • With being indoctrinated his immune system has weakened severely as the blue crown helped strengthen his system. Now he frequently gets sick over the littlest of things

🦑 • He is very wary around Narinder and The Lamb, still having fear over The Red Crown

Before Being Indoctrinated:

🌿 • Leshy is the youngest of the Bishops and so he gets babied and has more freedom on how he acts and portrays himself to his followers and the other bishops

🌿 • He sees mortals as playthings or toys so he plays pranks on them often and doesn’t really care for their personal emotions. Narinder always plays along being a huge prankster as well

🌿 • He definitely has some sort of ADHD. He constantly changes plans or activities on a whim with little to no thought

🌿 • Along with his schedule being unpredictable so is his mood. He can be playful one moment and sadistic the next

🌿 • If his followers think to even cross him he will devour them without a second thought. Even if a follower does nothing wrong and follows his every whim he will sometimes decide to eat them anyway

🌿 • As the Bishop of Darkwood his society is responsible for the steady wood supply throughout The Old Faith

After Being Indoctrinated:

🌿 • He is the most defensive and verbally hostile Bishop in the cult. He hisses out insults any chance he gets. Usually Shamura has to calm him down

🌿 • Leshy is completely blind so his hearing and smell is heightened. He can distinguish individuals on scent alone

🌿 • Because of this he suffers from sensory overload quite often. A method of grounding himself is to gently stroke and sniff the Camelia flower he has hidden

🌿 • Still has the ability to burrow underground. Usually only does it when he is under some sort of stress or extreme emotion

🌿 • Enjoys gardening even if he can’t see. The calm environment with the earthy smells remind him of Darkwood, giving him a sense of comfort

🌿 • Tends to cling onto his siblings for reassurance, usually Heket as she makes him feel safe

🌿 • His diet is now strictly vegan as during his Indoctrination he developed the inability to digest any animal by-product. He still misses eating meat and flesh

Before Being Indoctrinated:

🐸 • Heket loved to sing. She wrote lullabies to sing to her child followers, lulling them to sleep. But with her throat slit, she lost the ability to talk and therefore sing

🐸 • Another one of Heket’s passions are cooking. She knows a lot of recipes and would host feasts with her loyal followers

🐸 • Heket loved to torture mortals. Usually afflicting starvation upon them and watching with satisfaction as they slowly die

🐸 • With Heket being the Bishop of Anura her society is responsible for most of the farming and food supply. She casts a harvest spell over her loyal follower’s gardens to prosper their crops

🐸 • Cannibalism is very common in Anura with Heket’s leadership. Unsurprisingly Heket only cares for her loyal followers and is very unforgiving. If your family pisses her off even once you can bet that starvation will soon follow

🐸 • Heket was the biggest cannibal of the Bishops. Her long tongue would scoop offenders/betrayers up and she’d swallow them whole. She enjoyed hearing their painful cries as they slowly digest within

🐸 • Even if Heket’s leadership is run with an iron fist, she has a soft spot for children. Within her temple she made the center of Anura a safe haven for any child as she was infertile and could not bear children herself. She would sing them lullabies and made sure they had enough food to eat

🐸 • She is extremely confident and despises being seen as “weak.” Her Authority and image is very important to her

🐸 • She might appear to be a fat frog, but under that fat is muscle. She is the most fit out of the Bishops and she knows it

🐸 • With Menticide mushrooms growing everywhere Heket has developed an immunity to their hypnotic ability

After Being Indoctrinated:

🐸 • She is the most aggressive one of the Bishops. She will fiercely protect her siblings even though theirs no active threat

🐸 • She has a hard time speaking, usually only gurgling out a few words at a time along with long pauses. So she prefers not to talk as more ichor will start to leak out of the bandages which will frustrate her even more

🐸 • Even though she is the Ex-Bishop of Famine she has a ravenous appetite, quickly starving and demanding food if not fed proper meals throughout the day

🐸 • Surprisingly she has no problem eating, using her long tongue to scoop food down her slit throat. She also prefers meat dishes over veggie or fruit. She isn’t a picky eater either as she will eat almost anything (except for bowls of poop or deadly dishes as she had enough dignity)

🐸 • If the Lamb declares a fast, she is the only one to refuse to follow it, demanding food and threatening to devour other cult members if not given such

🐸 • She is the second tallest cult member being 6’6ft tall

🐸 • Heket won’t actively dissent, but rather sneak away at night to eat the crops, leaving Leshy and the other cult members annoyed

🐸 • Heket appointed herself the Cult’s chef, cooking up everyone’s food, having a talent for making even grassy gruel delicious. Yet if she is mad at someone she will feed them bowls of excrement (if they like eating poop she will cook them a deadly dish instead)

🐸 • If Heket warms up to a specific cult member she will give them little kisses on their forehead and whisper one-worded compliments in private, acting like a Tsudere

🐸 • Her and Narinder constantly get into fights at the cult, disrupting everyone else and causing a scene

Before Being Indoctrinated:

🕸️ • They are the most reserved and levelheaded Bishop. Usually in a very calm state and usually helps their younger siblings with anything they need assistance for

🕸️ • Their wound is the most severe out of the Bishops. Constantly needing to rewrap their brain with the help of Heket or Kallamar since when they get over stressed they ooze blood and ichor out of their open wound

🕸️ • Before getting their brain split in half, they had really good photographic memory

🕸️ • Shamura was the closest with Narinder before he wounded and betrayed Shamura and the other bishops

🕸️ • They forgave Narinder after he betrayed them as well, knowing that it was fate

🕸️ • When the rest of their siblings are killed by the Lamb, Shamura collected their crowns and kept them close, wishing they could’ve done more to save them

🕸️ • Shamura was uncomfortable with the idea of child sacrifices so they banned it outright in Silk Cradle

🕸️ • With Shamura being the Ex-bishop of Silk Cradle their society was responsible for clothing and art. The silk being a strong material for clothing

🕸️ • As the oldest bishop sibling they give advice to their younger siblings when needed, being very wise and calculating

🕸️ • They constantly developed wars for knowledge, craving it above all else

🕸️ • Shamura has a sort of heat thermal vision in their top pair of eyes to seek out prey or enemies

🕸️ • Shamura’s fangs are filled with venom to paralyze their prey also giving a sort of hallucinogenic side effect

After being indoctrinated:

🕸️ • Shamura’ robe consists of a priest-like outfit, having a chest over flap and long, black sleeves

🕸️ • With Their Skull missing and having brain damage they tend to forget things very frequently along with head-splitting headaches, having a condition similar to dementia

🕸️ • With their memory loss they tend to repeat phrases or rhymes to help remember important details. When they are in the state of severe focus their face is terrifying to other cult members, usually scaring them away in the process

🕸️ • In Silk Cradle food is hard to get by, followers fighting for scraps or even resorting to extreme methods. With Shamura being accustomed to this harsh environment they prefer follower meat as this was the main food source. They are willing to eat anything but their carnivorous instincts get the better of their diet

🕸️ • Shamura is naturally the tallest member, being a whopping 7’2ft. They tend to lean over other cult members to be more eye level with them, but intimidating them instead

🕸️ • Tries to dissent against the Lamb due to often forgetting they are part of the cult now

🕸️ • Had to re-learn how to read when they were indoctrinated

🕸️ • The embodiment of patience. Shamura retains the cold and calculating nature of their early days in that they are very slow to anger or even irritate, and have rarely had need to raise their voice. When angered however, their anger is cold and their words or actions are precise and devastating

🕸️ • Shamura loves to read and knit in their free time. They also have a talent of playing at least one string instrument

🕸️ • Shamura is the most quiet and polite out of the Ex-bishops, holding respect for individuals that prove that they deserve it

🕸️ • They are the librarian of the cult, managing all of the cult’s documents and books.

🕸️ • Shamura has Athazagoraphobia, fearing they’ll forget everything including their siblings

🕸️ • If Shamura gets over stressed they get a major headache and start drooling everywhere as they try to concentrate on channeling the pain