Editing AnglerStudios:Story/Lamb Shank (section)

== Relationships ==

Most people on the street think that Lamb Shank is a madman who acts without reason or overarching plan.

=== Enzi ===

[[AnglerStudios:Story/Enzi|Enzi]] is one of the few people that Lamb Shank has an ounce of respect for.  That is, Lamb Shank puts his intellegence at around the level of a ladybeetle.  The way that Enzi treats him casually and without much fear or gravity is a real teeth-grinder, particularly the way he refers to him as 'Shanky'.  This just serves to spur Lamb Shank to try more and more to get Enzi to treat him seriously.  As one of the two major instruments of his Plan, Lamb Shank pays Enzi more attention than he normally would another sentient being.

Enzi is dedicated to stopping Lamb Shank, but has an uncharacteristic interest in his motives.  He is not certain what Lamb Shank is after, but is confident that there is an underlying method to the madness.

=== Uzi ===

[[AnglerStudios:Story/Uzi|Uzi]] is another person whose intellegence is lifted to 'small insectoid' level.  Lamb Shank largely deals with him through proxy - that is, [[AnglerStudios:Story/Cid|Cid the Dirge Poet]].  He derives some amusement in the way Uzi feels that he has earnt his own way to the top when Lamb Shank engineered much of it.

Uzi hates Lamb Shank with an absolute passion, but wants his Twin Cousin to kill him.  He thinks Lamb Shank is similarly trying to create a totalitarian society, but 'unlike his one', would be run selfishly and evilly.

=== Hoth the Ethereal ===

After Lamb Shank destroyed his home city of [[AnglerStudios:Story/Places/Cephas|Cephas]], [[AnglerStudios:Story/Hoth|Hoth]] became obsessed with getting revenge on him.  Despite being credited as the greatest human hero of all time, and particularly with pushing back Lamb Shank's armies, the tyrant doesn't pay him much heed at all, hardly even as a nuisance.  This gets Hoth even more enraged.

Hoth thinks Lamb Shank wants to create a universal tyranny.

=== Leen ===

Lamb Shank doesn't think much of [[AnglerStudios:Story/Leen|Leen]] as a politician, or as anything much at all.  Lamb Shank doesn't think much of women generally.  Her romance with [[AnglerStudios:Story/Enzi|Enzi]] is a trivial amusement to him, and he does enjoy taunting her about how he killed her father.

Leen only begins to feel personally involved in the battle with Lamb Shank when she finds out that he killed her father.  Previously, she had seen him as a terribly evil person, and that it was her royal duty to try and stop him.  Even after she finds out, she is more given to greiving than vengeance, and remains relatively dispassionate towards Lamb Shank.  She believes that he's a madman who loves random destruction.

=== King Roland ===

Lamb Shank never saw [[AnglerStudios:Story/King_Roland|King Roland]] as a threat.  He was just one of those tiny little obsticles for him to conquer and leave alone.  Seeing no value in the monarch, Lamb Shank killed him fairly quickly after bringing him to [[AnglerStudios:Story/Castle_Sirosis|Sirosis]].  King Roland, in turn, saw Lamb Shank as a horrifically powerful madman who had to be killed for the general good of everyone, lest he lash out arbritarily.

=== Zed the Unholy ===

Lamb Shank was not hugely fussed about [[AnglerStudios:Story/Zed|Zed]] leaving the Legendary Swords.  He treats him like a chess piece, but does consider him to be a bit more intellegent that the bulk of people.  Zed is absolutely convinced that Lamb Shank needs to be stopped, but is pessimistic as to anyone's chances of doing so.  He is under the impression that Lamb Shank is trying to wipe out all life for bloodlust's sake, but is constantly frustrated by his random madness.

=== Flock the White Prince ===

[[AnglerStudios:Story/Flock|Flock]] resents Lamb Shank greatly, and Lamb Shank knows it.  Flock struggles against the powers of [[AnglerStudios:Story/The_Gem_of_Hubris|the Gem of Hubris]] so he can then kill Lamb Shank himself, realising that he would earn much fame with the story.  He also hates being bossed around and made to do mundane tasks.  Being a canny soldier, Flock sees all Lamb Shank's glaring tactical errors, and tries in vain to correct them.  He puts it down to Lamb Shank's insanity, not realising that it is part of the plan.  He is under the impression that Lamb Shank wants to impose his tyranny over the whole world.

Lamb Shank thinks that Flock's machinations are pathetic to the point of being funny.  He is also deliciously pleased that the one who gave him so much trouble in the [[AnglerStudios:Story/Death_Mountains|Death Mountians]] now works for him.

=== Cid the Dirge Poet ===

[[AnglerStudios:Story/Cid|Cid]] has not been happily under Lamb Shank's command for many years.  He hates every moment of it, but continues to serve because he feels that his fate is sealed.  He particularly resents the way Lamb Shank treats his daughter, [[AnglerStudios:Story/Xa_the_Abominable|Xa the Abominable]] - that is, as a weapon.

Lamb Shank is cautious of Cid turning on him, but is not overly worried.  He continues to treat Cid and his family like tools, knowing full well what he feels about it.

=== Pete the Unstable ===

[[AnglerStudios:Story/Pete_the_Unstable|Pete]] is one of the few people Lamb Shank has mis-estimated.  Lamb Shank thinks that Pete is servile and totally dedicated to him.  In reality, Pete is more than willing to go against Lamb Shank's orders if it would serve his own ultimate purposes.  He simply knows where he stands, and is not greatly opposed to Lamb Shank's actions.

Lamb Shank keeps Pete constantly around as a confident.  Pete doesn't know the full extent of Lamb Shank's plans, though he is aware that most of the Legendary Swords are expendable.  He thinks Lamb Shank is ultimately trying to establish an empire, and is under the impression that he'll receive the crown of Burgand out of the deal.

He doesn't know why Lamb Shank is all up ons about Enzi, but he doesn't really care, so goes along with it.