Lambrick

Lambrick
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Vital statistics
Title	Pastor
Gender	Male
Status	Alive
Ships	None
Relationships	Miranda Barlow (Friend/Intimate; deceased)
Appearances	First Apperance: III. Last Appearance: XXIX.
Portrayed by	Mark Elderkin

Lambrick is a pastor and the head of the local Puritan church in Nassau. He is openly against piracy, and anybody who supports them, including Richard Guthrie and his daughter. He awaits the day the Royal Navy comes and cleans the island, and believes his flock will be safe, as they are good with God.

Biography[]

Season One[]

Pastor Lambrick regularly visited Miranda Barlow once a week to talk, their main topics being religion and the pastor's upcoming sermons. However, he also had his congregants spy on her due to her association with Captain Flint.

Lambrick gives her a draft of his Easter sermon, and Miranda is surprised that it is already Easter. She reads that "It is Christ's love of sinners that gave him the strength to endure his agony. This, the truest form of love, love through suffering," she then asks Lambrick if he believes this. Lambrick replies that it is not to be believed or disbelieved, but it's God's gospel truth. Miranda then counters him by quoting a poetic verse from the Song of Solomon, and says that God wrote that too and that he could take her word that true love should not require suffering, and offers him more tea.

Lambrick confesses that there's an ulterior motive to his visit, He also informed her that his congregation is talking of the Royal Navy preparing to retake the island, and that there would be judgement on the pirates in this world not just the next. He says he is worried for Miranda when the navy arrives. When he asked if "He is keeping you here", she didn't answer, and wished him a good day, and he leaves^[1].

After Richard Guthrie decided to help the British, he had Miranda call for the Pastor. When Lambrick arrives, Richard asks if Lambrick knows who he is, and the Pastor answers that Richard is the reason New Providence is infested with pirates. He adds that God teaches not to cheer when others stumble, but admits that he finds it difficult not to in Richard's case. Richard then asks for his sins to be forgiven, as he wanted to clean his soul of what he had done. Lambrick says that if Richard accepts God's love he will find it. Richard promises to go further and do penance by ensuring that the pirates are cast out of Nassau^[2].

After the Andromache flees instead of handing over her guns to Flint, Lambrick rode to Miranda's house, in the middle of the night. Miranda greets him on the porch, remarking that it is later than she is comfortable receiving visitors. Lambrick explains that he has come to talk to her about her relationship with Flint, as now that she had apparently betrayed him, he feared for her safety. He warns her that Richard Guthrie was granted sanctuary on Underhill's well defended estate. He begs her to do the same, afraid of reprisals against her by Flint, and Miranda agrees to explain. Miranda tells him that before she lived on New Providence, she lived a very different life, and her husband, whom she describes as a man of ideas who would have loved to talk and debate with Lambrick. She says that he would have picked apart everything Lambrick held sacred out of a desire for Lambrick to not feel shame, confusing Lambrick. However their happy life engendered jealousy, and after her husband died, Flint, a friend of her late husband's, brought her to Nassau after his death and looks after her. She then pointed out that the Pastor was seeking more than just to protect her, and that he had arrived late at night knowing she was alone. She then kissed him and removed her robe. The two then had sex on her porch, ending moments after they began^[3].

The next day, a heavily sweating and seemingly distraught Lambrick went to a field alone and practiced his Easter sermon. He describes Easter as a time for renewal and rebirth in both spirit and flesh, but asks what happens to sin after resurrection, and whether or not a trace of it will linger, mocking and tormenting in order to remind people of the "roiling pit of despair" that awaits the unrepentant in the afterlife. He then says that life often feels like the pit before he is interrupted by a Horse Riding Slave who rides through the field^[4].

Season Two[]

Lambrick observes the unrest in Nassau as the pirate crews choose sides between Captains Flint and Vane over Fort Nassau. He listens to a Crier spread Vane's message warning against Flint on the street, and watches in displeasure as Eleanor Guthrie and the leaders of the Consortium walk past. Later, Lambrick approaches Miranda Barlow in her home at dawn. He tells her that he wants to believe her claims of desiring a new beginning, but cannot believe due to her association with Eleanor Guthrie, for Barlow even reached out to Underhill on her behalf. Miranda brushes aside his concerns however, and insists that she does want to pursue a more virtuous path. She is uninterested as he talks about how Vane beheaded another pirate captain over possession of the daughter of the God-fearing Governor of the Carolina Colony, Peter Ashe. Miranda perks up when she hears him mention Lord Ashe, and recalls that his daughter's name was Abigail. Lambrick is confused by Miranda's actions^[5].

Pastor Lambrick tries to dissuade Mrs. Barlow as she prepares to ride out to Nassau to convince Flint to stop bombarding the fort. He tells her that there is no chance a peaceful solution can still be achieved but she tells him she has to try, for she is the only one who knows why Flint is doing what he does^[6].

Lambrick administers the funeral services for Richard Guthrie, reciting the 23rd Psalm as the coffin is lowered into the ground^[7].

Season Three[]

After the trial and conviction of Charles Vane for piracy in Nassau, Pastor Lambrick administers the last meal to Vane. He warns Vane that the coming moments will be loud, confusing, even terrifying. However, he tells Vane that he has the opportunity to find some peace in the cell with him. Vane asks the Pastor if he has done this a lot before, and Lambrick answers that he has, regretfully. Vane then asks if he gets many takers for the kind of peace Lambrick offers, and he responds that while Vane may have faced death before, this time it won't cloaked in glory. Lambrick then offers Vane a chance to repent.

Vane answers that he has nothing to repent for with him. Lambrick grows angry, and berates Vane for all the violence and destruction that he has committed. Vane replies that whatever remorse he has is his own, and the fact that he chooses not to share it with Lambrick says more about the Pastor than it does him. Insulted, Lambrick says that he is a shepherd sent to help Vane find the path to God's forgiveness. Vane retorts that Lambrick is a sheep, and whatever he has to say to God he'll say himself or not at all.

Lambrick stands on the dais with the Court Official when Vane is wheeled into the town square as the audience jeers at him. The Court Official and gives a speech about how this execution symbolizes the restoration of law and order to Nassau. Vane is then allowed his last words, and he tells the audience that the Governor and his men want to use Vane's death to frighten the people into submission, but he reminds them that they outnumber the Governor's forces. Vane is then hanged, and the audience disperses, having taken more heed of Vane's words than the Official's^[8].

Season Four[]

Pastor Lambrick waits out the pirate invasion of Nassau with the rest of the civilians in the vaults below the fort, reading from the bible to some women and children. He presumably returns to town once they are satisfied that it is safe^[9].

Quotes[]

"Easter is upon us... an opportunity for renewal and rebirth... both in spirit and the flesh. And yet we may also ask ourselves, "When the spirit is renewed and the body resurrected, what becomes of the sin?" Will not a trace of it linger to mock and torment us, to remind us of the roiling pit of despair that awaits the unrepentant beyond this life? And yet does it not often feel as if life itself is the pit?" - Lambrick practicing his sermon in VII.

"The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, leaves me beside the quiet waters, refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right path for His name's sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for You are with me. Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup overflows. Surely Your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord evermore." - Pastor Lambrick at the funeral of Richard Guthrie in XVII.

"I understand the code you subscribe to. I understand you believe your violence is justified in the name of a defiance of tyranny, but there are mothers who buried their sons because of you. Wives widowed because of you. Children awoken in their sleep to be told their father was never coming home because of you. What kind of a man can experience no remorse from this?" - Pastor Lambrick to Charles Vane in XXVII.