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!Spoiler for Relics of the Old Faith!

So After The Update, If You Choose To Kill Narinder After His Boss Fight...

??? will still give him to you as part of the reward after freeing the Bishops.

certified trophy wife moment

One important thing to notice is that this Narinder does NOT have the "immortal" trait like his counterpart which you spare after the boss fight.

This could just be a glitch, but if it's not, it may imply that Lamb is able to strip away other gods' immortality through bringing death to them, and if we choose to spare Narinder, he has never actually died and thus is able to keep his immortality.

So my theory? The Bishops were originally immortal too, just like TOWW, until they were slain by us.

!Spoiler for Relics of the Old Faith!

So After The Update, If You Choose To Kill Narinder After His Boss Fight...

??? will still give him to you as part of the reward after freeing the Bishops.

certified trophy wife moment

One important thing to notice is that this Narinder does NOT have the "immortal" trait like his counterpart which you spare after the boss fight.

This could just be a glitch, but if it's not, it may imply that Lamb is able to strip away other gods' immortality through bringing death to them, and if we choose to spare Narinder, he has never actually died and thus is able to keep his immortality.

So my theory? The Bishops were originally immortal too, just like TOWW, until they were slain by us.

(spoiler!)

there is a chance that you find them in a room during a regular crusade after returning them to Forneus, it looks something like this,

I won't spoil further about the actual interaction but you do meet them again after the whole quest

New RELICS OF THE OLD FAITH dialogue for Aym and Baal

Spoilers below.

BAAL

Master! Aym? What is this place?"

"So much color... so many creatures..."

"...master?"

My thoughts

The first thing he does is call out to TOWW and Aym and that makes me so soft🥺. But his next line is an eye opener for me. "So much color.." Has he has never been outside of the the Gateway?! I know the twins were given to TOWW as children but it never clicked that they WOULDN'T remember their time on the surface. "So many creatures..." Same as before the twins don't remember their time on the surface. It's only been the twins and TOWW for a very long time. It's a wonder they remember Forneus at all...

AYM

"Back! Stay back! I will slice your belly open! I will cut that crown from your head!" "What foul place is this? Moments ago I was... I was..."

My thoughts

This man went full "get back you savages" lmao. Also way more violent than his brother, then again it seems as though Aym was reliving his final moments whereas his brother was not. "What foul place is this?" Rude Aym that's our temple. He seems less disoriented by the new scenery and more of the sudden change of location. "Moments ago I was... I was..."

Questions...?

The thing about Aym and Baal is how did they end up where they were. Their revival is completely unlike the resurrection ritual and is the reverse of the sacrifice ritual. It appears as though the twins were sacrificed and we trade two of our followers to take their place. It makes you wonder: where do the sacrifices go? Because we never see any in the gateway, TOWW only ever references them as having been done in his honor. Their souls go somewhere else and not to him.

Conclusion

While I am happy we get the resolution of Forneus reuniting with her sons, i sorta wish there was more 'substance' to it, ya know. From what I can find there are no interactions between the twins with TOWW or the Lamb. And the twins vanish from the game after being reunited with Forneus. We never learn anything about them. Even with the new content.