The world controlled by dice [Western Fantasy]

Waking up from a dream is an amazing feeling.

For Siles, it was almost like when he came to Fisher's world for the first time, he opened his eyes in a daze and found himself in a strange, novel and grand world.

Moreover, there are still some memories in the brain that do not belong to him.

...Four o'clock in the morning in Ramifa City.

It was near the end of autumn, so the sky was still dim outside the window.

Qin Duo has also woken up, silently moved towards Sirius, and then stretched out his hand to hold Sirius' hand.None of them spoke, they just enjoyed this moment of silence peacefully for the time being.

After a while, they fell asleep again unknowingly.This time it was a good sleep, and they didn't let dreams disturb their sleep.

It's Sunday, +10/14.

In the morning, Siles and Cindo went to the Lancelot Theatre.

"Professor Noel! Mr. Cindo!"

Ms. Heidi greeted them very surprised. The theater had just opened, and even the actors hadn't arrived yet.Heidi came early because she was going to prepare props and costumes.

Arkwright the clown was naturally standing beside her, with a blank expression of pure ignorance on his face as always.His facial features are always very flexible, and he would twist them from time to time, as if he was reviewing what he had learned.

Siles also greeted Heidi and Arkwright.They went to Heidi's office, and then Siles looked at Arkwright.

He thought for a while, then asked: "Arkwright, have you ever learned any burlesque?"

Arkwright tilted his head and grinned, "I've learned... a lot!"

"So do you know "Desert of the Forest"?"

Arkwright thought for a while, then nodded vigorously.

""Desert of the Forest"?" Heidi hesitated for a moment, "It is indeed one of the classic clown plays of the circus, but in my impression, it has not been staged much these years because people are already tired of watching it. "

This statement is similar to the previous findings of Herd Dreyson.

...Siles couldn't tell the two former members of the circus in front of him straightforwardly, the specific information about "Desert of the Forest", which might bring some unnecessary troubles.

He simply said, "I think there may be something wrong with the source of this farce. Maybe followers of the old gods are secretly promoting this farce."

Heidi showed a surprised expression.Arkwright scratched his face in confusion, as if he didn't understand much.

Heidi thought for a while, and then said: "If I remember correctly, this is actually a drama that appeared a long time ago, that is, it was popular in the former country of the land east of the Endless Land.

"After the arrival of the Age of Mists, this script slowly spread in Land of No Embers. The repertoire currently being performed by the circus should have undergone some adaptations.

"...Usually, in a circus, a new clown learns these burlesques and other performances from the previous clown."

Having said that, Heidi paused for a moment, then subconsciously looked at Arkwright.

Arkwright had been muttering something under his breath.If Siles heard correctly, it seemed to be a line from Miss Garland's story.Arkwright looks like a pretty capable actor.

When other people's eyes stopped on him, he blinked, touched his face, and asked, "What's wrong with me?"

"Nothing," said Siles. "Did you learn this farce from the jester before you?"

Arkwright nodded blankly.

"The clown before the Hales House Circus?" Qin Duo's expression moved slightly, and he said thoughtfully, "Isn't that..."

Siles was silent.

He once speculated that the clown might be the mysterious Mr. Dreyson, the uncle of Hed Dreyson, the "worker" among the shadow believers.

After all, the identity of a clown makes it easy for a person to hide his identity.

In the running group script, when the apostate Hamlin planned to leave Ramifa City, one of his choices was to replace Arkwright as the clown.

However, Ms. Heidi didn't seem to have any contact with the clown, or she was too young at that time to leave any impression.As for Arkwright, he probably couldn't tell why.

...Moreover, if Arkwright was indirectly related to Josephine Hosier, then the actions of that Mr. Dreyson would be even more suspicious.Was it the Shadow Believers who specially sent him to Arkwright's side to train him to be a clown?

No, no, the timing would be a bit out of date then.

Shadow worshipers seem to have only taken a sudden interest in the power of the circus until last year.Before that, they probably didn't pay attention to the existence of the circus at all.

Even if that Dreyson chose to become a clown, it may only be because it is more convenient for him to hide himself in Hales House-after all, if the clown does something unexpected, people will just shrug their shoulders and say, " That's the clown."

Siles is still not sure about the relationship between Arkwright and that Corgichel Lancelot, but Mr. Dreyson's reunion with Arkwright is a certainty.

Even if Dreyson is not necessarily a clown, he has stayed at Hales House for a long time, and may have observed the power of the circus.

...Hales House had an accident last year.But to be more precise, the matter of Hales House was actually brewing long before the Grayson incident.

It was the shadow followers who used the followers of Huddoka and Menawaka, who in turn used the followers of Temiafa and Broncani.

I am afraid that this plan has been finalized earlier.As the "worker" who has been hiding in the Hales House, that Dreyson may have known this earlier than anyone else.

...In the final analysis, what Siles doubted was that the Shadow Believers suddenly became interested in the power of the circus last year. Could it be the work of that Mr. Dreyson?

He may have noticed the uniqueness of the power of the circus while observing the House of Hales and secretly assisting those plans, so he mentioned such a strange power by the way when reporting to the higher authorities.

The power of the circus is based on "reappearance", based on the countless small circuses of the past in this vast and endless land, different clowns, astrologers, magicians, animal trainers, etc., for these similar professions Branded with his own engraving.

And these countless imprints are superimposed, even though each one is so weak and harmless, the integration cannot be underestimated.

In fact, this is also the shackles that have imprisoned these circus members for countless years.

Dreyson may have been a clown, he probably knows it all too well, especially...after he left the clown.That did have the potential to be a disaster.

Siles fell into deep thought for a moment.

Then he asked Arkwright about other burlesques he knew.Goofy as he may seem, Arkwright has a pretty good memory and recounts the burlesques he knows.

Not surprisingly, many of them hint or metaphor the content of stories related to the old gods.

Ms. Heidi added on the side: "These farces, in fact, were rarely staged before the Hales House accident last year. Because people don't have the patience to watch clowns perform so long. Funny...just out of embarrassment."

They all fell silent for a while.

Arkwright looked left and right, then he laughed to himself.

Siles thought for a while, then turned to ask: "About Arkwright's experience before coming to the Hales House, ma'am, do you know anything?"

Heidi shook her head helplessly: "At that time, he was already... I mean, like a little fool. No one knew what happened to him before. He was an orphan at that time, and he wandered here for some reason. Hales House, and then Mickey took in.

"...Besides, at that time, I was still young, and I couldn't remember many things clearly."

Someone knocked on the door outside, and then Carlos poked his head in: "Heidi? I need to go with you... Oh, professor! Why are you here?"

Carlos Ranmier had apparently come to see Heidi on rehearsal matters.Siles then explained that they were a little curious about Heidi and Arkwright's experiences in the Neverland, so they came to ask.

Carlos nodded absently, not paying much attention to the question.He chatted with Heidi again.

Siles listened silently, and noticed that Carlos seemed to think that the two days of rehearsal had not been effective, so he wanted to hurry up.

Soon, Heidi smiled apologetically at Siles and Cinder, saying that she had lost her company, and she was going to the warehouse to find other props that might meet Carlos' requirements.

"And what about Arkwright?" asked Siles.

"Could I trouble you to stay here for a while?" Heidi said, "I'm not sure about leaving Arkwright alone...you understand."

Carlos waited aside, but he didn't seem to care about Heidi's words.He probably thought Heidi was just worried about Arkwright's "stupidity".

Siles nodded and said, "No problem, we will wait here for your return."

Heidi thanked gratefully, and then left with Carlos, leaving Siles, Cinder and Arkwright looking at each other here.

In fact, Arkwright was quite at ease.He whispered his lines to himself, stood up and moved around from time to time, dancing with his hands and feet.He has an air of demeanor.

Cindo leaned his head on Sirius' shoulder in annoyance, fixed his eyes on Arkwright, and said, "It seems that there are no clues here."

Perhaps the antics of the clowns, and even some other performances, were promoted behind the scenes by followers of the old gods or shadow believers, with the purpose of secretly spreading pollution.

... Like the Kanla River in La Mifa, this pollution is always with us.

People don't realize it; if, like Siles, they were reminded of the dice at any time, then of course people would be aware of the problem, but alas, they didn't.

Another pity is that Siles has never actually seen the clown's antics during his several trips to the Land of Embers, otherwise he would have realized the problem long ago.At Hales House it was because of a circus accident, and at other times it was because of a rush.

But in any case, this kind of pollution is not uncommon.

The shadow of the old gods has always shrouded this world, as if many researchers have to be careful when reading literature.Danger is always everywhere.

They now have to deal with the "Shadow" and the Shadow Believers first. After these things are resolved, they can go back to study the issue of the Land of Eternity.Those are problems that have been created over the years.

However, Siles didn't want to give up so easily.He felt brooding about the fact that the Shadow Believers had brought the circus to Ramifa City last year.

... He thinks there may be some important factors in this.

After thinking for a while, he said to Qindo: "Perhaps we just overlooked Arkwright's role." Then he turned to ask, "Arkwright, do you have any impression of the previous clown?"

Arkwright had finished speaking his lines for a round at this time, and was sitting quietly on the sofa, took out a deck of cards—the Fate Cards—and started playing.

He shuffled the cards very deftly, and at one point deliberately made himself comically wrong, and then frantically sorted the scattered cards.

When Siles asked this question, Arkwright was obviously taken aback.

He thought for a while before saying slowly, "I...don't like him."

Both Siles and Qindo were stunned for a moment.

This seemed to be the first time that Arkwright showed obvious mood swings and emotional tendencies.

Later, Arkwright added: "He wants me to forget my name...he wants me to be 'Joker'."

This sentence made Sirius squint his eyes involuntarily.

He was almost uncontrollably surprised, but perhaps also tinged with anticipation.

"...Is that why Heidi is unfamiliar with your name?" Qin Duo said.

When they met these circus members, just take Heidi, of course they knew that Heidi was an astrologer, but when they called the astrologer lady, they still called her by her first name.

But the Joker is different.

Before the clown came to Ramifa City, the clown was just a clown, as if his name had disappeared in the long river of history and was forgotten by everyone.This is not an ordinary thing.

Arkwright scratched his hair, seemed to think hard for a while, and then said: "Should... yes. Because, he told other people not to call me by my name... He said, this can make me become a faster person." clown."

...It sounds like it was intended to train Arkwright, who was still young at the time, so that he could take over the professional identity of the clown as soon as possible.

If this happened in a world without supernatural powers, then Siles would not think there was any problem.However, in Fisher's world, such an approach is undoubtedly pushing Arkwright to a dead end-it is making him forget his name and his self-knowledge.

"Did he say why he did it?" Sirius asked.

Arkwright fell into deep thought again, he seemed to be struggling to search his empty memory, trying to find an ink dot in the blank—that sudden, eye-catching, pitch-black ink dot.

Then his eyes popped open.There is a darker color around his eye sockets, as if the oil paint on the clown's mask has been unable to wipe off his face and soul.

His empty eyes, stained with comic oil paint, stared blankly at Sirius.

He said: "...because, the power of the clown..."

Siles and Cendo maintained a breathless silence, waiting for Arkwright to continue.At the same time, Siles is ready to judge at any time.

"The power of the clown..." Arkwright almost stammered, "it's weird. He...he wants, look at me...he wants me to be the clown, to be...his, Experiment."

When he finally uttered the last three words, he was taken aback for a moment—experimental product, he seemed to be thinking a little bit confused.

Siles observed Arkwright's expression, and noticed that the confusion never dissipated.But soon, Arkwright seemed to lose interest in this matter, and began to play cards by himself again.

...As Siles thought, "ignorance" is the protective color of clowns.

But this also made him slightly relieved, and turned to think about the information provided by the clown.

The previous clown regarded Arkwright as his experimental product, and wanted to use it to study the strength of the clown... To be honest, it doesn't sound like a clown.This seems to have deepened Mr. Dreyson's suspicion.

And if it's really that Dreyson, then the starting point of the Shadow Believers' interest in the circus seems to come from here.

..."The Worker" chose a circus clown as his temporary identity in order to hide his identity, but because of this, he noticed the strange power of the circus that has been passed down for a long time.

He himself couldn't stay in the circus forever, so he chose his successor as an experiment.

…Perhaps it was after this cruel experiment on living people that he obtained some gains, and then passed them on to the higher-level "decision-makers" through the advancement of the Hales House and the Grayson incident.

So Shadow Believers found an opportunity last year to observe the circus up close.

This is the essential reason why the circus came to Ramifa City last year.There is an invisible hand moving their destiny, and that is not destiny itself, but other human beings.

... There were footsteps outside the door, Ms. Heidi came back from the warehouse.She walked in, noticed the subtle atmosphere, and showed a puzzled expression.

"What happened?" she asked.

Siles asked Cendo to stay in the office temporarily to avoid any accidents on Arkwright's side, while he and Heidi went to the corridor.They avoided Arkwright before Siles said, "Maybe the former clown was experimenting with Arkwright."

Heidi showed a surprised expression.

"This former clown is very likely to be related to the collapse of Hales House last year." Siles said, "He studied the power of clowns and made the organization behind him interested in the power of the circus, so last year You will come to Ramifa City.

"...through the merchant I mentioned to you earlier, David Babbitt."

Heidi opened her mouth, looking very caught off guard.Of course, she never thought that the whole process of the matter would be like this.

Soon, Heidi regained her composure.She asked: "So, does this matter help you with your current problem?"

Siles thought for a while, and then said in a low voice, "I'm still very concerned about where Arkwright came from."

"His parents, and why he was homeless?" Heidi asked.

"No, his name." Siles said, he thought for a while, whitewashed the matter between Josephine Hosier and Cogichel Lancelot, told Heidi, and mentioned And the pseudonym of Kogicher.

"That was thirty-four years ago," said Siles, slightly troubled. "Have you ever heard of the name Fitzroy Arkwright?"

Heidi thought for a while, then shook her head.

Sirius was silent for a moment, then heaved a sigh of relief.He said, "Forget it."

Heidi froze for a moment.

"We need to pay more attention to the birthday of God in a few days." Siles said in a low voice, "Perhaps those past events can be investigated slowly after we have resolved everything."

Heidi nodded too, looking relieved.

...In fact, this was not Siles' original intention, because he was still thinking about the reason why Mr. Xia asked Arkwright to go to Ramifa City—it couldn't possibly be for Arkwright to act in this play, right?

There must be some reason for this, and now Sirius was looking for that reason.But at this hour and a half, there is no rush.

They went back into the room again.Arkwright was still playing cards, while Jindo sat aside bored.Siles called Cendo and planned to leave the Lancelot Theater.

Before they left, Heidi hesitated, then said: "I think you might want to relax a bit, Professor. I think...it's necessary."

Siles was slightly taken aback, then laughed, and he whispered, "I will, thank you for reminding me, ma'am."

Aside, Arkwright's hand suddenly trembled, and the cards suddenly fell from his hand and scattered all over the ground.He stared blankly at this scene, and then murmured in a low voice: "He kicked me out."

They all looked at Arkwright with some surprise.

"...'Arkwright, get out!'" he described the scene vividly, with a natural sense of humor. I'm sending the money! He's probably dead already!"

"I...oh, I said, 'I'm sorry...take it easy...sorry.' Aha, take it easy!

"And he said, 'Relax? It's not that you're making money, of course you can relax. You little brat...I've raised you for years! Get the hell out of here, the Land of Embers is huge, you Find a way out.'

"I just had to leave...the others were laughing when I left. I was so embarrassed...but they thought it was funny. Someone said, 'Oops, a kid got kicked out!'

"'Just kidding!''It looks so funny, the kid didn't understand at all.''Just kidding, just go back and admit his mistake.''How can a kid be angry with an adult.'

"...I'm angry! I think, I'm really angry! So I left the city without looking back. I don't know what my adoptive father is...adoptive father. He said that it was my adoptive father who gave me this name .

"He said it was a fake name and no one knew my adoptive father's real name. Because it wasn't his place. He adopted me and then abandoned me; he raised me and then abandoned me.

"...I became a clown and people liked me."

Arkwright gave an ugly smile almost instinctively, the instinct of a clown.A grin, a wide grin, and a bend—the kind that almost tears your lips apart.

The other three people in the room were already stunned.

Adoptive father?pseudonym?abandon?

Siles was stunned for a moment, then snapped back to his senses.He thought—he realized that Arkwright was a adopted child of Cogichel Lancelot in the Never Embers.

Arkwright was indeed an orphan.Then a man adopted him, giving the fake son a fake name with a fake surname.

...It sounds like everything is false, so it seems logical that the cold truth breaks everything.

After returning to Lamifa City, Cogichel Lancelot was not only involved in a conspiracy related to Josephine Hosier, but also had to fight against the Duke of Const's crackdown on smuggling activities.

He died at that moment. Naturally, he had no choice, no time, no energy to think about the children he had adopted.

He may have temporarily entrusted the child to his old friend or some acquaintance before returning to Lamifa City.His intention was to let him take care of it only for a while, but in the end, the child turned out to be a big problem.

Taking care of children in Neverland is not an easy task.

So in the end, Arkwright's only possible fate is to be abandoned and embark on a wandering journey.He was taken in by the circus again, but the clown in the circus stared at him with malice.

Then, all these years later, Arkwright spoke of his past in an almost unfamiliar tone.

Does he remember all this?Of course he remembered.

However, he cannot take off the mask of "ignorance", otherwise the terrible and crazy pollution will instantly erode his soul and suck his bone marrow.

Arkwright stared fixedly at Siles for a moment, and after a while, he suddenly said in an almost weak voice, almost pleading tone: "I want to come to Ramifa City...I want to solve the problem. all of these."

Siles stood there stunned.

There were hurried footsteps outside the door, Carlos slammed the door open, and said in a grumpy tone: "It's time to rehearse! Pay attention to the time!"

Heidi came back to her senses for a moment, and she instinctively said: "Sorry." Then she looked at Arkwright again, and after a moment of hesitation, she said with the same attitude as before, "Arkwright, let's go."

Arkwright nodded dully and grinned again.He put the cards back in his pocket, and followed Heidi's footsteps.

After they left, Siles and Qindo were silent for a moment.Then Qin Duo muttered in a low voice: "Disgusting shadow believer."

Their plans didn't just harm those directly involved, but affected the fate of countless others as well.In the past 400 years of the Mist Age, the world has always been under the shadow of chaos and darkness.

Siles also sighed secretly, he said: "We will solve all this." He glanced at the time and said, "Let's go, it's time for us to go back."

Returning to 99 Kelly Street, they happened to meet Mr. Postman, who had delivered a letter for Cilles from Alden Bridges.

He invited Siles to talk to the Bridges family tomorrow.

"Tomorrow?" Qindo asked sharply, "but are you free tomorrow?"

Tomorrow is Monday and it is also the beginning of the final week at Ramifah University.In the afternoon, there will be exams for required majors, and Siles needs to invigilate the exams.

There should be time in the morning, but tomorrow the academic team from Kansas will arrive.As the professional director, Siles must be accompanied.

"...Looks like you have to do me a favor tomorrow afternoon, Qindo." Siles said helplessly, "Help me invigilate the exam?"

"Okay, I'm happy to help you." Qin Duo leaned over and rubbed Siles' cheek, "At least I'm not substituting for you, I'm already satisfied."

Siles: "..."

They have talked about this topic many times.However, although Siles is indeed busy, he still tries his best to teach by himself, so this slightly joking guess did not come true.

...Of course, it is still too embarrassing for Qin Duo to ask a Kansasian to teach Conster literary theory to Conster people, although Qin Duo can already speak clearly about the content of the students' homework.

Siles kissed Qindo sideways, with a slight smile.

It was almost noon, and they planned to cook lunch at home by themselves.Naturally, they would be more than happy to do so, time permitting.In addition, the weather is getting cooler, and the ingredients they bought before can finally be stored for a while without worrying about spoilage that day.

Qin Duo was cutting the meat absently, and asked, "What do you think the old painter wants to talk to you about tomorrow?"

"Maybe it's about the Art Institute of La Mifa University, or maybe it's about Emil." Siles said, he was carefully looking at the vegetables in front of him, thinking about where to start, "Alden knows that I and I Connection to the Underground Arch incident."

Qin Duo raised his eyebrows, but said mercilessly: "But Emil has already finished the painting, so he can't bear it at this time?"

Siles had written to Alden Bridges before, but Alden's replies never seemed quite normal.From August to now, more than two months have passed. Alden had many opportunities to be honest, but he gave up all of them.

"Perhaps. After all, he has achieved his goal." Siles said objectively, he finally decided how to arrange the vegetables in front of him, "The Fillmore family has not made any movement in the past, but they must be secretly What are you doing?"

Some forces of the Praia family in Lamifa City, such as carriage dealers, etc., have actually been paying attention to the situation of the shadow believers.But they didn't find anything. It seems that the shadow believers pay special attention to this problem and don't intend to reveal their actions.

This allowed them to live in peace for a while, but they both knew very well that this would not be the end, and neither of them could accept that the current situation lasted forever.

The fact that "Shadow" keeps hovering around Fisher's world alone is quite annoying.

... Putting aside the investigation of the truth, many arrangements for God's birthday and the eve of God's birthday are already in progress in an orderly manner.Siles is still dealing with the news that has been continuously delivered through the eight-petal rose paper.

Most of these messages are related to the arrangements of the revelators.

Surprisingly, and perhaps expectedly, there are more revealers than they imagined willing to participate in the incident when the incident broke out, and make efforts within their ability, which also made Celes feel a little more at ease.

"I hope Alden brings some useful information, some hints, about what the shadow believers are going to do," he said.

Qin Duo turned on the faucet and cleaned the ingredients. He said, "Speaking of hints...that nursery rhyme?"

"That nursery rhyme." As he spoke, Sirius shook his head helplessly, "Josephine seems to be playing tricks."

That nursery rhyme involves many related factors, the core of which is lamb, child, shooting star, fish, fisherman, and drawing board.

Aside from the sentence "the stars fell upon the sea" which first gave him a hint, many other concepts are hidden in the mist.

The dirt opened its mouth and swallowed the lamb?The fisherman picked up the fish carcass?Meat and coins on the scales?The child draws a new lamb?

What Siles is most concerned about is these four sentences.

What does the lamb symbolize?old god?Or the power of gods?

So what does it mean that the grass and the dirt cooperate to devour the lamb?But does Josephine really know the truth about the old god devouring the old god, and where did she know it?

Who are the fisherman and the child?If you consider the child's behavior of drawing a new lamb on the drawing board, then the child may be pointing to the "shadow".So the saying that the child traded with the fisherman and bought the fish meant that the "Shadow" was working with some old god?

... One of the questions he had a hard time determining was, does everything in this nursery rhyme really refer to the corresponding Old God?

For example, the dirt is Trisley, the star is Ruthmi, the fish is Amois, the wine bottle is Elkoo, and the fisherman with the balance is Menawaka?

But the god who devoured Erkoo was not Menawaka?

The image of the fisherman seems to be a mixture of Menawaka and Temiafa.

These specious and self-contradictory symbols made Siles very confused.

The only thing he confirmed was that the practice of children drawing lambs on the drawing board obviously pointed to the current actions of "shadow" and shadow believers.

... The lamb in the picture is food for children.he thinks.

He was lost in thought, but he was still absent-mindedly handling the ingredients, although Qin Duo quickly drove him out of the kitchen to let him think hard.

Siles couldn't help laughing.What they are cooking today is a stew. After processing the ingredients, throw them into the pot and cook slowly.Qin Duo made two other simple stir-fries.

Siles was standing at the door of the kitchen, looking at Qindo while thinking.

…Maybe it was the aroma of the food that gave him a hint of inspiration, and he suddenly thought, "One, two, three, four, one less"?

He remembered the entire content of the nursery rhyme.

The child made a deal with the fisherman, and he was still hungry after eating the fish, so he went home to look at the lambs he was raising. Only then did he realize that the lamb in his painting was missing one.The child then added another one, which made the lambs back to five.

...was this number chosen at random?Just to fit the nursery rhyme format?

Five, five... If this points to five old gods, which five are they likely to be?

Lycardia and Akamala can be ruled out first. These two powers have never been controlled by the "shadow", so it is naturally impossible for these two old gods to become the lamb in the painting; Amoyes can also be ruled out. Probability is the "fish" of nursery rhymes.

In addition, Erkoo, who was swallowed by Temiafa, and Huddoka, who was replaced by "Shadow" himself, can also be ruled out.

In this way, five old gods have been eliminated, leaving eight old gods.

Trisley, Ruthmi, Temiafa, Blanccarney, Atkinya, Pessonari, Thaddeus, Menawaka.

The old lamb and the new lamb, and the four lambs that have always existed.

... "Shadow" personally killed Temiafa (including Erkoo), Broncani, and Atkinya, this is Antinam's statement. "Shadow" directly replaced Menawaka (including Huddoka).

So the "four little sheep" should refer to Timiafa, Blancaney, Atkinya, and Menawaka.Their power always remains in the hands of "Shadow".

...Then, among the four old gods, Trisley, Luthmi, Pessonari, and Thaddeus, who is the old lamb and who is the new lamb?

One premise is that Pessonari devoured Trisley, the two gods should be regarded as one; and Thaddeus and Luthmi...

Wait, Thaddeus and Ruthmi?

Siles slightly