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We don't know how Shamura found the purple crown (I have my own thoughts about that), but if we're going on possession rules then the crowns reach out to those who are already vulnerable.

Death was given to Lambert and technically still under Narinder's control until AFTER the rest of the Bishops fell, in which it decided to change its allegiance to a new vessel that could enact the rest of the prophecy.

War on the other hand, and like I said before, we don't know how Shamura go that crown. My thought is that it thrived on the conflict within the lands of the Old Faith, twisting its followers into monstrous, mutated forms that were constantly angry and fighting each other. It needed the conflict to still have power, and without a vessel to enact its will, it was slowly losing its influence and ability to remain active.

Which is where Hastur comes in.

Hastur was and still is already in a poor mental state - he's spiraling from the lack of autonomy over his own life, the feeling of being wrenched from the afterlife over and over again, and experiencing the horrors firsthand of what the heretics likely went through in the Old Faith, regardless of if the Lamb's intentions were good or not.

But despite the fear he felt for the Lamb, the War crown was woken up by two things:

Rage - for keeping him here, for mentally destroying him, for everything he'd ever been through (even if some of it wasn't the Lamb's fault)

Envy - because if one little lamb could become a god, if a fucking worm could become a god, why couldn't he?

And so the War crown found crevice to root itself into.

A friend of mine asked me something similar a while back, and this is a bit of what I said in return

Its why Hastur's thoughts were conflicting with each other, even the ones in his own voice.

It's both an outside influence and an inside influence - it keeps its vessel complacent by making them believe that it was their idea.

And when Hastur stopped during a brief moment of clarity, him crying wasn't just because he just nearly killed Leshy.

It was because he wanted to, and this was the first time something nearly convinced him to do it. And it scared the shit out of him because he didn't know why.

So, it was technically an instinct for the purple crown, but it doesn't have any real thoughts or feelings aside from self-preservation and the need to sustain itself.

And it's going to have its vessel back, whether he wants it or not.

We don't know how Shamura found the purple crown (I have my own thoughts about that), but if we're going on possession rules then the crowns reach out to those who are already vulnerable.

Death was given to Lambert and technically still under Narinder's control until AFTER the rest of the Bishops fell, in which it decided to change its allegiance to a new vessel that could enact the rest of the prophecy.

War on the other hand, and like I said before, we don't know how Shamura go that crown. My thought is that it thrived on the conflict within the lands of the Old Faith, twisting its followers into monstrous, mutated forms that were constantly angry and fighting each other. It needed the conflict to still have power, and without a vessel to enact its will, it was slowly losing its influence and ability to remain active.

Which is where Hastur comes in.

Hastur was and still is already in a poor mental state - he's spiraling from the lack of autonomy over his own life, the feeling of being wrenched from the afterlife over and over again, and experiencing the horrors firsthand of what the heretics likely went through in the Old Faith, regardless of if the Lamb's intentions were good or not.

But despite the fear he felt for the Lamb, the War crown was woken up by two things:

Rage - for keeping him here, for mentally destroying him, for everything he'd ever been through (even if some of it wasn't the Lamb's fault)

Envy - because if one little lamb could become a god, if a fucking worm could become a god, why couldn't he?

And so the War crown found crevice to root itself into.

A friend of mine asked me something similar a while back, and this is a bit of what I said in return

Its why Hastur's thoughts were conflicting with each other, even the ones in his own voice.

It's both an outside influence and an inside influence - it keeps its vessel complacent by making them believe that it was their idea.

And when Hastur stopped during a brief moment of clarity, him crying wasn't just because he just nearly killed Leshy.

It was because he wanted to, and this was the first time something nearly convinced him to do it. And it scared the shit out of him because he didn't know why.

So, it was technically an instinct for the purple crown, but it doesn't have any real thoughts or feelings aside from self-preservation and the need to sustain itself.

And it's going to have its vessel back, whether he wants it or not.