#fervour

Upon close inspection, the white flowers looks alot like daisies to me. But it could also just be a white camellia, which look very similar to daisies at a glance.

Camellia (left) Daisy (right)

The art style doesn't really make it clear which of flowers they are. All the same each flower has different symbolic meanings across many cultures. The meanings could be tue reason Massive Monster chose the particular flowers out of all other flowers.

The colors red and white are featured primarily of TOWW, baal, and healer cultists. And I believe the latter two are derivatives of the first. I recently learned that Narinder may have always worn white, and possibly red, robes as seen on the statue the player recieves for killing instead indoctrinating him.

Camellias

Depending on the culture, Camellias can represent unyielding love, a honorable death, or adoration. The color of the flower can also determine the meaning. Camellias come in shades of red, pink, and white.

Red Camellias can represent deep romantic desire for someone, love, and devotion. This might explain why Narinder responds the way he does when completing his follower request.

White camellias can symbolizes purity and innocence but in Japan, and China, they are associated with death and mourning. They also can mean the same as red camellias but without the romantic connotation. Platonic.

Daisies

Daisies also symbolize purity in some cultures aswell as childbirth, motherhood, new beginnings, rebirth, and fertility.

White daisies, specifically, also represent purity and innocence.

In celtic culture, daisies were believed to be given by the gods to cheer up parents who have loss children.

I am now under the impression that white flowers typically represent "purity" and "innocence", how unoriginal...

ANALYSIS

In game, camellias grow in the Darkwood and seem to represent Leshy as they are a component of his crown trophy. Similar to how menticide mushrooms are found in Heket's domain, Anura. It's hard to say if camellias represented some aspect of Leshy since he only ever hostile to the Lamb.

The reason I think the white flowers are daisies is based on my theory that TOWW was dabbling in resurrection and giving life, rather than just being the god of death. This possibly being the reason he was imprisoned. Daisies representing rebirth and new beginnings. We don't know if TOWW had a specific resource found in his domain, like crystals from Anchordeep, or silk from Silk Cradle. Maybe it was this flower or nothing at all.

These flowers could also represent the overarching theme of cults, religious devotion and intense passion in COTL.

The definition of Fervour, the red mana points needed to cast curses, is an intense and passionate feeling. It appears to mean that the Lamb, and all other curse users, feel strong emotions when killing those that don't follow their ways. Or toward those that attack them, who knows. This could mean that curse in COTL are created/cast by having strong feeling of ill intent toward something. A negative emotion made manifest.

The definition of Devotion, the white currency the lamb recieves from the followers, is "love, loyalty, or enthusiasm for a person or activity." In game, devotion can be collected from any source by the lamb, even if they themselves are not the target of said devotion. Zealous weapons are able to to convert fervour into devotion, zeal meaning "great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective."