![]() It's also notable that you don't take their crown, you take their still-beating hearts instead, which suggests that the beings themselves have power, something supported when you battle Narinder/The One Who Waits, who is still able to fight you, and draw on a One-Winged Angel form similar to the monstrous forms of the other deities of the old faith, despite giving his crown to the lamb. After the betrayal of the One Who Waits/The Heretic, and to deal with the threat posed by the lamb, they may be more likely to draw upon the powers of their crown. We see Shamura without their bandages, and it reveals that the crown is physically rooted into their brain, likely preserving their life, and keeping what's left of their mind together after the damage they sustained, but with the result being their madness. The crowns are more likely symbols/extensions of their power, or tools that let them use that power more effectively, rather than being the source of them. Shamura, for example, was mentioned to have been the brightest before their skull was split. After the betrayal, they're gravely injured, and their power appears to have similarly diminished. true and false worship and that John wishes to force the choice between worship of the ' beast ' and worship of God and the Lamb. If anything, it's likely that the more dignified statues are the gods of the old faith, before the betrayal of the one who waits. Even if their mortal hosts die, the crowns survive, get claimed by another, and continue as if nothing happens, because they do not truly need to be the objects of worship, merely drink up the devotion towards another. What if the Bishops are, in truth, merely ascended mortals, like the Lamb? Meanwhile the true power, the actual deities, are the crowns? Perhaps they are all that remains of the gods of old, mere symbiotes, using mortal hosts in order to ensure their survival in an age of constant deicide. While the last two parts do not truly fit, the overall shape makes me think of one thing. One with a two-peaked head, lots of tentacles, and a large smile. The real gods are the crowns.When we see the various statues of the old gods, the Money God, the statues around Haro, and sometimes just statues of them in random levels, they always have a much, much more unified appearance than the Bishops. ![]() The Bishops and The One who Waits are all ascended mortals.
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