NPCs

There are characters you will run into in Cult of the Lamb.

Characters Encountered on Crusades

You will randomly meet them in rooms on your crusades.

Vendors/Background Characters

Name	Location	Use	First Appearance
Haro	Appears in random rooms while on a crusade	Tells lore	Appears in the beginning of the game
Clauneck	Random room while on crusades.	Offer tarot cards for powerups	While fighting in Darkwood in the beginning of the game
Kudaai	Random room while on crusades.	Offers alternative weapons	While fighting in Anura in the beginning of the game
Chemach	Random room while on crusades.	Offers relics. Mostly one time use items of power.	While fighting in Anura
Forneus	Random path while on crusades with shop icon with a cat head	Offers various items like blue prints, tarot cards, or covenant pieces. Usually gifts are hidden when you break their surroundings.	Random path while on crusades in Darkwood
Helob	Random path while on crusades with shop icon with a follower icon.	Offers a follower in exchange for coins (between 0 to 200 coins)	Right outside the rooms to go on crusades next to the silk cradle door or randomly on a crusade.
Rakshasa	Random path while on crusades with shop icon with a food symbol	He sells seeds and prices double post game.	Next to the door leading to anchordeep.
Rakshasa's wife	Random path while on crusades with shop icon with a seed always with Rakshasa	Can attack for a Massive monster statue decoration. Interacting with decoration can give you a new monster follower form	Any biome on a crusade with Rakshasa
worm		Can attack for bones and loot.
Monch	Random rooms path on crusades with a question mark ? on it	Increases the loyalty of one follower for free.	Random room in Darkwood
Berith	Random path while on crusades with shop icon with a t-shirt icon	Offers a new clothing in exchange for 5 gold bars once per visit. Usually blue hearts are hidden when you break their surroundings.	Random path in Silk Cradle

Lonely Shack

You can play knuckle bones here

Knuckle Bones Players

Name	Use	First Appearance
Ratau	Offers advice. Later can play knucklebones with him in Lonely Shack. Easiest opponent	Gives tutorial at the beginning of the game
Flinky	Defeat all knuckle bones players to get your own knucklebones table structure to build at your base. Second easiet	Random room in Anura
Klunko and Bop	Defeat all knuckle bones players to get your own knucklebones table structure to build at your base. Medium Difficulty.	Random room in Anchordeep
Shrumy	Defeat all knuckle bones players to get your own knucklebones table structure to build at your base. Hardest Player.	Random room in Silk Cradle

Pilgrim's Passage

You can fish and buy 3 tarot cards here. Appears after exploring Darkwood enough.

Inhabitants

Name	Use	First Appearance
Fisherman	Offers a fishing rob and a quest to earn holy talisman pieces	In a random room in Darkwood
Lighthouse Keeper	Shrine provides devotion if you fuel their lighthouse with wood. Light the lighthouse with logs to get axolotl follower form.	lighthouse in pilgrim's passage
Lighthouse Followers

Spore Grotto

Found when exploring Anura

Inhabitants

Name	Use	First Appearance
Mushroomo	Followers of Sozo. Randomly appear on crusades and you can attack them for fun	Spore Grotto
Sozo	He can teach you the brainwashing ritual in exchange for 20 menticide mushrooms. He can be recruit as a follower after completing his tasks and retrieving the seed of sozo from his head.	Randomly in Anura after finding a mushroom

Smuggler's Santuary

Found when exploring Anchors deep

Inhabitants

Name	Use	First Appearance
Plimbo	Find the witness eyes in exchange for talisman pieces Witness Agares Witness Bathin Witness Astaroth Witness Allocer	Randomly in Anchors deep on a cruades
Plimbo's fish	Tickle the giant fish to get the relic, Kudaai's fingernail	Already in Smuggler's Sanctuary

Midas's Caves

Found when exploring silk cradle.

Inhabitants

Name	Use	First Appearance
Midas	He will offer you a holy talisman piece in exchange for each permanently sacrificed follower for up to 4 followers. You will eventually meet him post game in all 4 biomes and he will steal 60% of your gold until you encounter him a 4th time. On the 4th encounter, you can steal it all back.	First met in Midas's Cave after encountering the golden sign in silk cradle.

Post Game NPCs

All mini bosses can be recruited as followers after defeating them.

Unique Followers

Name	Use	First Appearance
Narinder	Has the immortal trait so will never grow old. Can give you special quests to raise their loyalty Give him camellia flowers from Darkwood Give him Menticide Mushrooms from Anura Give him Crystals from Anchordeep Make him go on a mission Bring a follower back to life using the resurrection ritual	Defeat Narinder for the first time and spare him.
Aym	Can return to Forneus by turning them into a demon in the demon circle and taking them on crusades.	Defeat Narinder for the first time and get a dark necklace for exchanging a god tear to the mystic merchant
Baal	Can return to Forneus by turning them into a demon in the demon circle and taking them on crusades.	Defeat Narinder for the first time and get a light necklace for exchanging a god tear to the mystic merchant
Leshy	Can return their eye and bless it by defeating him another time with the cursed body part.	Defeat Leshy post game
Heket	Can return their throat and bless it by defeating him another time with the cursed body part.	Defeat Heket post game
Kallamar	Can return their ears and bless it by defeating him another time with the cursed body part.	Defeat Kallamar post game
Shamura	Can return their skull and bless it by defeating him another time with the cursed body part.	Defeat Shamura post game

Other

Fox

Name	Use	First Appearance
Fox	The first appearance, he will ask the Lamb to give him a "big fish". He can be given any fish except Minnow. Afterwards he gives the lamb a Holy Talisman fragment and says he will appear elsewhere at night. In the second encounter, he will ask the Lamb to sacrifice a follower to him. Choosing yes will open up a list of your followers and pick which one to kill. Afterwards he gives you another Holy Talisman fragment. In the third encounter, he will ask to sacrifice either 2 followers, or permanently remove half a red heart. Sacrificing either will earn you a Holy Talisman fragment. In the final encounter, he will ask you to sacrifice Ratau. Choosing yes will permanently kill Ratau, meaning you cannot play Knucklebones with him anymore (also causing the Master of Chance achievement to be unobtainable if you haven't already defeated Ratau). Doing so will earn you a Holy Talisman fragment and the Wolf follower form.	The dock at pilgrims passage