Hey
if I were to ask you what are some of
the best fictional stories ever told
what would you say war and peace Moby
Dick
the brothers karmas off I mean um
The Brothers Karamazov or the Super
Mario Brothers movie well these are
great and all but it's time to throw all
that shit in the trash howl nights story
literally has everything action betrayal
comedy tragedy relatable characters
multiple endings and sex appeal lots and
lots of sex appeal of course it's all
very nuanced remember how confusing
inception was well Halle Knight is
basically inception but with bugs so if
you want to truly understand hollow
Knight
we're gonna have to go deeper so just
call me Matt Damon because this is
hollow not explained
first let's talk about how the story for
Holland I came to be pretty much all of
Halle night was made by these three guys
William Pelin re Gibson and Dave Koz II
also Matt Griffin helped out to these
three men live in the mystical land of
Australia where everything is upside
down their design philosophy for Halle
Knight was to leave the script blank
while creating the game's world
basically they put whatever locations
dungeons bosses or gameplay mechanics
they wanted in the game and then they
built the lore around those elements the
dialogue for the game was written
together in a Google document by William
and Ari later on in the game's
development the game script ended up
being over 20,000 words long which is
not too bad for a game where you can
literally skip the majority of the text
and there's still more to come as of
right now all night will be getting to
more content updates and a Hornet DLC so
while this video will be pretty
comprehensive we are still waiting for a
few more pieces to the puzzle alright so
now it's time to talk about the game's
plot but first we need to talk about
metaphysics there are three different
metaphysical forces that the player
interacts with during the game soul a
white liquidy goop void a black liquidy
goop and essence a substance that is
neither liquidy nor goopy in hollow
night soul is used to cast spells as
well as repair the night shell soul
originates in living organisms and acts
as a sort of lifeforce void works kind
of like play-doh it can be morphed into
different shapes and given form the
night is made a void for example the
only place where void is known to come
from is in the abyss an area at the very
bottom of the world map essence is
basically the light found within dreams
whatever that means
it can be found within whispering roots
and in the many ghosts that populate the
world essence is collected using the
dream nail a powerful weapon that can
cut through the veil that separates the
real world from the dream world the
player character travels to the dream
world several times in the game to fight
several bosses and its features are
vaguely defined all it is is just a
bunch of rocks and floating lamp posts
you know the stuff that pretty much
everyone dreams about now that we've
established some of the forces that act
in this world let's talk about the
history of hollowness before the game
started the oldest objects that can be
found in hollow night are the arcane
eggs and the soul totems these objects
were created by an ancient society that
existed long before hollow nest the
civilization knew how to harness a new
soul and they were probably aware of the
voids existence the designs of the soul
totems were most likely based on the
creatures that lived during that time on
the other hand though some of the totems
are pretty phallic looking I'll blur
them out just in case
there are also some ancient creatures
still farting around in the game albeit
mostly in the form of dead bodies in
kingdoms edge there's a giant corpse
located next to the quick slash charm in
the game's code this being is referred
to as the ancient nail Smith there's
also an ancient being hidden inside of
the abyss where the lifeblood core is
found this guy is hidden really well
when I recorded this footage I didn't
even know he was there the game refers
to this thing as an abyss creature and
that's about all we know is this
creature the source of lifeblood the
blue liquidy coupe that exists all over
hollow nest maybe but I wouldn't expect
an answer anytime soon the most
important ancient creatures that we know
about are called worms these worms were
probably similar in anatomy to regular
worms but much bigger in regard to the
rest of the world bar dune an npc found
in kingdoms edge claims to be too small
to be a worm but as incredibly long
himself with his head being at the top
of the map and his tail being quite a
ways down
it is likely that these worms were
higher beings a phrase that occasionally
pops up in the game the developers notes
clarified that higher beings are godlike
creatures we can infer from bar dooms
dialog that all of the worms are now
gone possibly dead but the corpse of one
worm can still be found in kingdoms edge
according to bar Doon this worm did not
die but instead transformed we know from
bar Doon and other sources that the
transformed worm was The Pale King the
creator and ruler of hollow nest
before the pale King began trying to
build his nation there were other
powerful beings already at work within
the lanes of hallow nest one of which
being the radiance the radiance is the
true final boss and main antagonist of
the game she is a moth like creature who
was often referenced to in game as a
light she tends to appear to bugs in her
dreams and it is mentioned that the
radiance shares some similarities to
essence the radiance only appears in the
dreamworld in-game so it's unknown if
she ever existed in the physical world
her sex has stayed as female in a
developer's note inside the game's code
the radiance created the moth race who
worshipped her and passed in her light
the radiance is light is described by
Barr dune as a sort of unity at the cost
of thought once you drink the kool-aid
you become connected and powerful but
you lose control of yourself becoming a
mindless bug other groups in the area
included the mantis tribe who took
residence in the fungal wastes and the
bees who likely lived in the hive at
kingdom's edge respect and power in the
Mantis tribe was based upon physical
strength and combat abilities the
strongest members of the group were also
the most valued not much is known about
the bees other than that their scariest
fuck in green path there appeared to be
a group of followers of a creature
called une there's a structure located
at the lake of oon that looks like some
sort of Temple and une can be found
hidden in the lake une is the being
supposedly responsible for producing the
plant life in green path there's also a
mas Knight that stands at the edge of
the lake and if we dream nail him he
says something interesting he says that
she is calling now I have no idea who
else has got to be referring to other
than une so I think this pretty much
confirms that she's a chick and I gotta
say that is one gorgeous gastropod
the mushrooms of the fungal waste also
had some sort of society they're able to
communicate with each other through a
manner similar to telepathy this
telepathy seems to involve something
with spores since the lure tablets in
the area only activate when the night is
wearing the spore shroom charm within
the game's code there's a lore tablet
that reads as follows strengthen the
shared self strengthen the mine United
in every bug that would pass upon our
roads only the melancholy of disparity
now I have no idea what the shit of the
end is talking about but the beginning
clearly indicates that the mushrooms
have some sort of connected
consciousness there's more evidence for
this in the form of mr. mushroom so if
you haven't seen this guy around he's
basically just a talking fortune cookie
that pops up in various parts of hallo
nest the thing is with the exception of
the last encounter every time you try
and talk to mr. mushroom he seems to be
talking to someone else and when he
notices that you're there he just leaves
clearly mr. mushroom is using the shared
mind to talk to other mushrooms when mr.
mushroom finally does talk to the night
he reveals that he has visited many
kingdoms before and that holliness is
just one of many if we dream no mr.
mushroom he provides us with a little
poem about worms it seems to imply that
worms have been creating societies for a
long time then there's the bugs and deep
nest now you're probably wondering did
these assholes worship a God - well
maybe in deep nest there's a shrine
located in the beasts den inside the
shrine is a statue of a trilobite and as
I'm sure we all know trilobite sar one
of the oldest known groups of arthropods
they went extinct in the mass extinction
of the Permian back 252 million years
ago so in other words these guys are
ancient trilobite belongs to the
subphylum trilobite dome or feh their
closest living relatives are the animals
in the subphylum chilla sirata which
consists of horseshoe crabs scorpions
and spiders so it kind of makes sense
that there's a trilobite statue and deep
nest
it seems to be implying that the
residents of deep nest have been there
for quite some time for some reason
there are no lore tablets in deep nest
so that's about as much as we can figure
out at the moment on top of that we're
gonna learn a lot more about deep nest
in the upcoming content pack so I
wouldn't even get too worked up about
figuring it out now and so the pill King
arrived in this fractured land offering
a gift to the bugs of his future Kingdom
he granted them some form of knowledge
or greater sentience a hidden lore
tablet in the white palace reveals a
line was a worm becomes beacon mines
expanded to yield to devote also modem
on the teacher in her poem elegy of
hollowness mentions that the pale King
taught the bugs colonists and tamed
their savage Souls bharden explains that
the pale King brought order to the land
so if we put it all together the pale
King granted bugs more powerful minds
and promised a more ordered society now
this is where things get a little bit
complicated these bugs without Minds not
have them because that was how they
naturally were or was it because the
radiance had them within her hive mind a
lot of what I've read online says that
all of hollowness was under the
radiances control but it is never
explicitly stated if the radiance was
worshiped by bugs other than the moth
tribe the only moth in the game the seer
who lives in the resting grounds
explains that her ancestors stopped
worshiping the radiance in order to
worship the pale King she's not
mentioned other non moth bugs engaging
and worshiping the radiance also a
tablet and howling cliffs it states that
anyone who leaves hollowness must
relinquish the precious mind this
kingdom grants personally I think that
the radiance was only worshipped by the
moth race and that many of the other
bugs at Hall nests specifically the
husks had always just been dumb shits
they didn't have minds to think in the
first place
I'm not saying there's no evidence to
support the idea that the radiance
controlled all Apollo nest but I haven't
really seen enough evidence to convince
me of that my biggest reason for
believing this is because of the way I
interpret seers dialogue seer doesn't
blame the radiance for what happened but
instead blames the people of her tribe
she never claims that the radiance was
an evil or power-hungry God
she was betrayed see our views helping
the knight obtain the dream nail as
penitence for old crimes so on one hand
seer thinks that her ancestor should
remain loyal to the radiance but at the
same time she is willing to help the
knight in its quest to kill the radiance
the only way this makes sense is if the
radiance of the past was quite different
to the radiance of the present after all
members of the moth race were pacifists
by nature with few ever choosing to
wield a weapon given the fact that she's
also a moth the radiance was possibly
quite pacifist in the beginning that is
until the pale King arrived and fucked
everything up for after such a betrayal
as well as an extended time spent in
isolation it's not a stretch to believe
that the radiance would retaliate in the
way she did so there's my little theory
on the radiance some of you watching may
not agree with me but that's what I
really love about hollow Knights story a
lot of different people have a lot of
different ideas about how certain things
happened and the game leaves it just
vague enough to let all of those
theories be viable hell there's probably
evidence to support the idea that the
entire game takes place on the fucking
moon so while a good chunk of the stuff
in this video is probably agreed upon by
a lot I'll let you know whenever I
started throwing out my own dumbass
theories regardless the important thing
to take away from all this is that the
pale king endowed his followers with
more intelligence and then he convinced
the Mothe tribe to stop worshiping the
radiance because the moth tribe stopped
worshiping her the radiance was sealed
away and memories of her were forgotten
over time the only lasting monument to
the radiance was a statue located at
hollowness crown seer looks back on this
moment with regret viewing it as a
betrayal of her people on their creator
it was out of this act that Halle nest
was born while the moths drive and
others accepted the pale Kings rule
there were other groups that resisted
the bees for example chose to lock
themselves away in the high of the
kingdoms edge deciding to play no part
in the pale Kings Kingdom according to
the manual for Hall Knight the hive
Queen eventually became too big to even
leave every time I read this I just end
up thinking about Fight Club
the Mantis race refused the Kings rule
but a truce was reached allowing them to
keep their territory as well as their
societal structure in exchange the
mantises would protect hallow nest from
the bugs invading from deep nest we
don't know for sure how own and its
followers reacted the size of green path
was reduced but the remaining area of
green path remained under UN's law the
members of the Mushroom Kingdom accepted
the pale Kings rule but not with
complete confidence according to lore
tablets in the fungal ways they put
faith in the pale Kings insight into
future events to protect them which is a
power that he apparently had bar Doon is
the only other NPC that even mentions
disability which is weird because it's
kind of a big fucking deal but it
doesn't really seem to have much of an
impact on the story so whatever it is
what it is the bugs of deepness refused
the Kings rule completely keepeth
himself separate from the pale Kings
domain the mask maker who resides in
deep nest says that the pale King made a
mistake in trying to expand his kingdom
across all of Hollow nest under the pale
Kings rule the city of tears was
constructed for some reason somebody
thought it was a good idea to build the
entire city underneath the giant lake
resulting in constant rain it may be
stupid but goddamn it makes for some
good atmospheric moments underneath the
city the royal waterways were built
where horrific parasite monsters began
to appear static stations were built
making travel across the kingdom much
easier structures such as the archive
and the Coliseum of fools popped up bugs
began working in the mines harvesting
powerful crystals geo was established as
a primary currency and reputable banking
services became available allowing
citizens to store all that shit they
found while smacking rocks all day
Kings idols began to circulate around
the land so that bugs could worship the
pale King on the go a tramway system
began development but as construction
reach deep nest all of the workers got
killed by local bugs as you can imagine
this really slowed down construction the
tram workers unionized demanding to not
be sent places where they could get
killed
ridiculous I know but after the events
of Tran gate
it seemed pretty obvious that deep nest
and Halle nest were not going to be
getting along anytime soon
now you might be thinking to yourself
hey wait a minute
if the deep nest bugs didn't want a tram
light why is their stack stationed in
the distant village well don't worry
we will get to that later but let's talk
about the man behind it all
The Pale King himself lived a life of
reclusion relic seeker LEM a bug in the
city of tears who buys historical
artifacts claims that the king was an
elusive figure the last stag also
mentions that the Bell King never rode
the stag ways even the pale king's
castle was kept hidden his white palace
was built underneath the city of tears
in the ancient basin a dark area with
little life in it
despite his introverted lifestyle the
king did get together with this whatever
this is and she became queen the queen
is likely also a higher being according
to the description found on the King's
soul the Queen can be found in game
going by the name white lady the pale
King also assigned five nights to the
task of protecting the realm of
hollowness the five great Knights as
they were called with consistent of
fierce jiraiya kindly yzma mysterious
zamir loyal or grim and mighty hegemon
not much is known about what these
Knights did before the fall of colonists
other than that they served the King the
white defenders entry in the hunters
journal gives us the most insight into
the shenanigans of the five great
Knights he mentions the champions call
the knotted Grove and the Battle of the
black worm now that's a badass name for
a battle but what is the black worm is
its corpse somewhere in Holland s2 so
there's some flavor text for you letting
you know that the five great Knights
were apparently some pretty cool dudes
but as impressive as these events may
sound the king and his Knights were
nowhere near prepared for what happened
next
remember how I said that the radiance
had been completely forgotten well I
lied according to the seer faint
memories of the radiance lingered until
eventually they surfaced once again one
theory suggests that some bugs
accidentally discovered the statue at
holliness crown resulting in thoughts of
her to enter back into their minds
within the game's code are additional
verses to the allergy of hallow nest
that can not be found in game the poem
mentions that the bugs of hallow nest
had dreams and desires that the pale
King could not satisfy eventually out of
these dreams appeared a light that
turned the bugs back into mindless
beasts in the game the player can
encounter an NPC beam my Allah my Allah
is a happy little minor bug who minds
crystals while singing a tune as the
game progresses
milah begins to lose control of her
thoughts not being able to remember the
verses to her song a second voice begins
to appear in her dialogue an angry voice
that demands my let it kill the player
character eventually Milo becomes just
another enemy NPC
while many bugs shared the same fate as
milah some looked for solutions in the
city of tears a group of intellectual
bugs began to experiment with soul they
believed that with enough soul they
could remain powerful enough to escape
the infection the collection of souls
involved a killing of hundreds of bugs
whose shells could still be found in the
sole sanctuary or the sole sanctum or
whatever was The Pale King was against
these experiments but I guess these
criminals were just too well-hidden to
find the experiments failed anyway and
the soul master and his associates
became infected after getting his ass
kicked twice by the player-character the
soul master explains that a prophetic
vision told him to experiment with soul
yeah okay buddy most of the Mantis race
was able to stave off the infection
keeping Nancy's village intact despite
the surrounding chaos within the tribe
however a group of mantises defected and
decided to accept the infection in order
to become more powerful one of the four
mantis Lords turned against his sisters
and he and his allies were driven out of
mantas village and took up residence in
the Queen's garden after accepting the
infection these mantises went mad and
lost control of their minds the fair
Lords daughter somehow died during these
events and is buried in Queens garden
this unnamed mantis was actually in a
relationship with mysterious a mere one
of the five great nights the mantises
didn't approve of this however and now
Samir lives as the gray mourner in the
resting grounds lamenting her dead lover
would have guessed that mantises were so
homophobic with the infection spreading
across hollow nest
The Pale King became desperate to find a
solution the five great knights served
as nothing but a waste of taxpayers geo
because the infection was targeting the
minds and dreams of bugs
another method had to be used in order
to combat the radiance deep down in the
abyss The Pale King found the void and
possibly the last hope for hallow nest
now let's talk about the void The Pale
King is basically playing with fire at
this point void itself is a dangerous
force it seems to oppose other forms of
life always trying to consume them that
is why the character shade and the other
ADEs called the siblings attack the
night the lighthouse keeper in the abyss
seems to have been influenced and
possibly killed by the void somehow
confessor gigi in dirt mouth is
terrified of the shades fearing that she
might get swallowed up by the darkness
that's right the night might seem like a
little harmless guy but underneath the
surface is a monster that wants nothing
more than to do terrible things to you
kind of like Bill Cosby asks for the
lighthouse it seems like it was built as
a way to subdue the sea of void beneath
it but it sounds like at some point the
king wanted the lighthouse turned off
why honestly I have no clue using the
void The Pale King hoped to create
something that could act as a vessel to
contain the radiance this vessel had to
be completely lacking in mind will or
personality without these straits the
infection would not be able to control
the host and the radiance would be
stopped dead in her tracks the pale King
began experimenting with the void
several creatures were made in the white
palace using the void such as the Kings
molds and the wings molds as well as the
collector a boss that can be found in
the Tower of love the pale King started
creating countless vessels an attempt to
create one that was completely empty
these vessels were unique to the
previously mentioned constructs Kings
molds and wings molds are void contained
within Armour while the collector seems
to be made solely a void the vessels
however wear shells the game doesn't
explain where these shells came from but
a metric fuckton of them can be found in
the abyss well put on your tinfoil hats
boys because it's time to speculate the
white lady has some interesting dialogue
about this event she explains that she
locked herself away in the Queen's
garden her reason appears to be that she
felt shame for her participation in the
deed she then mentions that she still
has the urge to breed and propagate
herself I think that the Queen helped
create the vessels specifically by using
her seeds this biological origin for the
vessels could explain where the shells
came from and it explains why there are
eggs lying around in the abyss
thanks to dialogue from the white lady
we know that the player-character was
born in the abyss not in the white
palace and it makes sense with the
phrase born of
and void which is later used to describe
the hollow night also in the white
palace a room that appears to be a
nursery can be found in this room is a
chair with what appears to be the white
lady's silhouette on it and a cradle
what's interesting about this is that
there is a melody that plays in this
room which is identical to the melody
that plays when the player characters
shade is nearby
this practically screamed at the white
lady had at least something to do with
the creation of the vessels but I'm sure
this little theory of mine is littered
with problems so for now that take away
from all this is that the pale King
created a lot of vessels in an attempt
to find one that was perfectly empty any
vessels not deemed worthy or cast down
into the abyss the vessel that the
player controls during the game is one
of the pale kings many failed creations
they were thrown into the abyss and
another vessel was chosen who eventually
would become the hollow Knight the not
true final boss of the game after the
whole night was chosen the entrance to
the abyss was sealed hiding the pale
Kings rejected children from the world
somehow the radiance was placed inside
the hollow Knight I don't really know
the logistics of how that worked and
honestly I don't want to know the hope
was that without a will or mine the
radians would not be able to take
control of the hollow knight's body but
of course it didn't work
the white lady mentions that the hollow
Knight was not completely void of
thought that it was tarnished by an idea
instilled there's not much we can look
to to try and figure out what the white
lady means by this but there is one
thing in the scene where the hollow
Knight is chosen by the Bell King we see
it turn its head towards the
player-character
is it because the hall and I has
feelings of regret sympathy maybe even
guilt why then why were they chosen
while all the other siblings were thrown
away near the hall Knight was afraid
maybe it didn't think it could live up
to the pressure of being the vessel it
didn't ask for this
it didn't ask to be born and he didn't
want to be the savior of hollowness I
mean what hall must ever do for it
what made hollowness so special that it
even deserved to be saved after all
isn't life just a cyclical process of
birth and death
why should hollowness be spared a faint
given to every Kingdom that preceded it
you can't stop the inevitable everything
dies in the end and nothing really
matters or maybe I'm reading too much
into this anyways the pale Kings plan
had failed his creation could not
contain the radiances power and soon she
would break free once again but instead
of giving up The Pale King devised
another scheme he seek the assistance of
be powerful bugs modem on the teacher
lure in the watcher and Hurra the Beast
Lauren lived in the spire in the city of
tears there he kept a telescope which is
kind of creepy if you think about it Mon
Aman maintained an archive in the fog
Canyon there she tried to keep all the
information of hollowness history
unfortunately all of her data logs read
like bad George Orwell fan fiction Hurra
was Queen and ruler in the domain of
deep nest as I'm sure you remember
relations between deep nest and hallow
nest were not that good while the other
two were okay with doing the king of
solid Hara was a bit more difficult but
a deal was struck her agreed to help the
pale King but in exchange the pale King
had to give her a child Hornet
the circumstances of Hornets birth are
shrouded in mystery is she her as
biological offspring or was she created
from the void like the siblings
the white lady mentions a sexual
relationship between the pale King and
her she also mentions that her and
Hornet looked very similar so it sounds
like the King in her a totally did it
and Hornets their baby right well not so
fast if her a could give birth in the
first place why would the King have to
give her a child is she barren is her
just bad at dating well a tablet in the
fungal wastes hints at deep nest once
having a king but that he somehow died
so it seems possible that the death of
the King simply left Hera without a
suitable mate so yeah something was
definitely going on between the pale
King and her ax the stag stationed in
deep nest was probably built around the
time this was going on The Pale King
could just hop on his elite special
forces stag head over to her his place
and have crazy bug sex with her that
would explain why the last tank has
never seen the stag stationed in the
distant village or the hidden station
while this all makes sense there is also
evidence that points towards Hornet
being made from the void like the knight
and the siblings which if true
complicates things a little bit Hornet
tells the player character that they
share the same force while we know that
the player character is made of void so
it seems likely that Hornet was created
in a similar fashion Plus Hornet is
called the gendered child by a number of
NPCs the only reason they would call her
that is if her kind wouldn't normally
have a gender and according to the
developers notes the vessels made from
the void do not have genders there's
also the weavers den a hidden area and
deep nest that appears to be connected
to Hornet in some way the loom spiders
mentioned a bargain and a princess
within this hidden area is another
hidden area in this room there's a
design with Hornets head displayed in
the middle plus all the string lying
around makes sense given on Hornet uses
thread in combat
when you leave the weavers den for the
first time you see this loom spider
runaway there's no real explanation
about this but I'm guessing the upcoming
Hornet DLC will shed more light on
what's going on here also midwife is
clearly involved in Hornets creation but
she doesn't really tell us much about
how exactly Hornet was created honestly
unless we can get all these guys on
Maury we're not gonna know for sure and
so with the pale King and her as steel
struck she lurin and modem on became the
dreamers the challah knight was chained
up in the temple of the black egg and
the dreamers went into an endless
slumber where they placed a seal over
the temple from the dream world to
memorials were built one in the city of
tears and one in the resting grounds to
commemorate the sacrifices made also at
some point between all this the whole
night hit puberty or something this has
actually led to a lot of questions being
asked about why the Halle night grew but
none of the other siblings grew my
theory Flintstones chewable vitamins so
at this point the radiance was trapped
inside a vessel that was chained up
inside a temple that was surrounded by
an interdimensional telepathic
forcefield stationed all the way up at
the top of the world and it didn't work
it was at this point when the pale King
and the white Palace suddenly vanished
into thin air the white lady in fierce
Tyrel retreated to the Queen's garden
dyra died fighting off infected mantises
while the white lady rooted herself into
the ground mighty head Jamal got his
armor stolen by a maggot who the player
later finds under the name false Knight
yeah nice job mighty head Jamal but this
doesn't mean that hegemon August 6 2017
team cherry held an AMA on reddit where
they answered questions about the game
it was revealed in this thread that a
Jamel couldn't live without his armor
which makes sense I mean I certainly
hope he wasn't born wearing a giant suit
of armor
mysterious Emir remained in the resting
grounds waiting for some poor sucker to
attempt her soul-crushing side quest so
they could get a peace of heart loyal
Agra moved into the Royal waterways and
chain
his name - dung defender now I'm not
gonna get too hard on this guy we all
have our fetishes
it may not be copper philia but teach
their own you know but Oh grams love is
not exclusive to excrement he acts as
the protector of isthmus Grove has is
only accessible after beating him in
combat his Musgrove is the Grove where
kindly yzma is she is dead by the time
the player finds her however it is clear
from the dunk offenders dialogue that
Agra man disma had some sort of
relationship as to whether or not he
gave her a dirty sanchez or something I
don't know the game never discloses
hornets whereabouts during all this
at some point it seems possible that she
spent a good deal of time with the white
lady this would make sense because the
white lady could have been the one who
explained a Hornet everything she knows
about how to stop the infection in the
previously mentioned reddit AMA a
developer from Team cherry mentioned the
original plans for Hornets lore they
involved Hornet being raised by Hera the
white lady and Vespa the queen of the
hive hence the name Hornet this is
actually pretty badass but we don't know
for sure if this is still Horne his
backstory in the game over time the
player character and several other
failed vessels escaped the abyss ending
up in various locations the player
character leaves hollow nest and wanders
into the wilderness beyond the howling
cliffs at this point the collapse of
holliness seemed inevitable the kingdom
was sealed away from the rest of the
world with the well in dirt mouth being
one of the only ways to get back inside
dirt mouth itself remained unaffected
because of its location on the surface
oh I guess it was that easy but slowly
the bugs that live there decide to
travel into hollow nest leaving the
elder bug is one of the few remaining
survivors time within the kingdom froze
and howl nest was left incomplete stasis
and basically that's all that happens
before the game starts for the rest of
this video I'll explain the plot as if
the player is going for the dream no
more ending which is the good ending to
the game the player character who I will
refer to as the knight is called back to
hollowness by some force they arrive in
dirt mouth and descend into hollow nest
the knight encounters Hornet who it
first dismisses their abilities Hornet
again appears in the Steve tears where
she encourages the knight to travel to
kingdom's edge
to the corpse of the pale Kings original
form during this conversation Hornet
says that the night holds a resilience
of two voids the two voids she is
referring to are the void the night is
made of and the void that exists outside
of hollow nest
leaving colonists appears to cause bugs
to lose their memories or even their
minds quarrel is an example of a bug
that lost his memory from entering the
void beyond hallow nest quarrel was
originally an assistant to modem on when
the night Meets quarrel - being in the
game however he has no recollection of
any of this this means that the night
probably has no memory of anything at
the start of the game at kingdoms edge
Hornet challenges the night one last
time the night wins and they travel into
the corpse of worm where they obtained
the Kings brand which allows the knight
to travel into the abyss at some point
the knight visits the dreamers shrine in
the resting grounds where the dreamers
appear to the knight the dreamers admit
that their powers are not working to
stop the infection but remember that
their sworn duty to the King is to keep
the seal in place at this point madam on
Lauren and Hera make the executive
decision to lock the night away forever
in the dream world
hello darkness my old friend but the
night is immediately rescued by some
flying moth creature
yeah the dreamers really suck at their
job darkness mom this moth gives the
night a little pep talk before giving
them the dream nail after the sequence
the night awakens in the presence of the
seer the sole survivor of the moth race
the seer tells the night to obtain
essence in order to sharpen the dream
nail once the night collects 18-hundred
essence the dream nail transforms into
the awoken dream nail with the dream
nail the night breaks the seal on the
black egg temple by visiting the three
dreamers and murdering them in their
dreams Freddy Krueger style the night
travels to the abyss using the Kings
brand to unlock the gate that kept the
realms sealed away for so long
there the knight receives the shade
cloak which allows them to pass through
these annoying ass barriers which gives
the knight access to the building in
Queens garden where the reclusive white
lady lives
the white lady gives the knight the
first half of a charm called the King
soul which is a symbol of the union
between two higher beings the second
half of the Kings soul is located in the
white palace which can only be reached
by using the awakened dream nail on the
corpse of a king's mold in the ancient
basin after a ridiculous amount of
platforming bullshit the knight finds
the second half the Kings soul next to
the corpse of the pale King but as The
Pale King really dead
according to the manual for hollow light
the king is just in hiding also we're in
the dream world which could mean that
this is just a memory of the pale king
and not the real pale king but we know
that the real white palace vanished and
that this body is very close to where
the palace originally stood meaning that
this could be the real white palace
inside the dream world with the real
pale King sitting dead on the throne but
the pale King has been known a cheat
death it's possible that the pale king
reincarnated again into a different
creature also what would have even
killed him did he accidentally walk into
one of the hundreds of saw blades that
he has around the castle if that's the
case then he deserved to die
but there is a chance that the King soul
is literally the Kings soul salut bruh
the bug that sells charm to the night
reveals that some charms are created
from the dying wishes of bugs
there are many charms in the game that
confirmed this such as Joanie's blessing
and - master and after equipping the
Kings soul the white lady says she feels
like she's in the presence of worm once
again the pale King might have died in
the white palace and his wish to free
hollowness resulted in creating the
Kings soul but if that's the case why is
the charm broken in half if the Queen
take half of the Kings soul after the
bail King died and if the charms
description mentions a union so the
charm might have existed a long time
before the Kings death but the pale
Kings final words are no cost - great
those sound like the words of a person
who was willing to sacrifice himself to
end the infection but they never did
find Tupac's body and also you're
telling me that jet fuel can't even melt
passports and why is it that Ross Geller
is 29 in seasons three four and five of
friends there's only one plausible
explanation people he's probably dead
either way the night Lutz the body and
the Kings soul is complete after
chaining the Kings soul the knight
travels down into the abyss at a new
area is unlocked there the knight can
strike a big black ball with the
awakened dream nail to reveal a
flashback to when the pale King and the
hollow Knight leave the abyss the Kings
soul is then replaced by another charm
called the void heart according to the
in-game description the void heart
unifies the void under the bay
we'll what I think is happening with
this fear is that the night is hitting
their own reflection with the dream nail
allowing them access into their own mind
and memories the Kings soul turning into
the void heart is one unlocks and new
endings for the game it's an important
moment because now the night is not just
made of void but has control over all of
the void throughout the entire game the
nightshade and the siblings attacked the
night but after obtaining the void heart
these enemies become docile with
complete control over all of the void
the knight now has enough power in order
to defeat the radiance once and for all
after obtaining the void heart the
knight enters the temple of the black
egg unchanged a hollow Knight and the
two begin to fight partway through the
battle the hall Knight goes all 13
reasons why on us and begins mutilating
itself a possible explanation for this
is that the whole night is trying to
help the knight by weakening itself
while not in the final game the dream
nail dialogue for the hollow night has
been data mined most of it just appears
to be thoughts from the radiance things
like kill and shall blaze free there are
a few interesting lines here however
kill the usurper our light it would
suffocate this line implies that the
knight will be able to contain the
radiance completely another interesting
line seems to be coming from the hollow
night itself father yeah that's weird
maybe the howl and I noticed the Kings
soul consumed inside the void heart or
maybe the King's brand or maybe the poor
thing has just gone insane regardless
these lines of dialogue were cut from
the final game so we have to be cautious
when analyzing them at some point during
the fight Hornet pierces the hollow
Knights shell a knight uses the dream
nail to enter the hollow Knights mind
there the knight challenges the radiance
during the fight the dream nail can be
used on the radiance she says things
like dawn shall break and I do not fear
you at some point she calls the knight
her ancient enemy now when I hear this
the only two things I can think she's
referring to are the pale King or the
void without the pale King the knight
would probably never have existed so
that does make sense again it's also
possible that the radiance detects the
Kings soul inside the knight
however maybe this dialogue is hinting
at some greater fight between the
radiance and the void
maybe the radiance and the void have
some other beef that happened long
before the arrival of the pale King
maybe it had something to do with the
fall of the ancient civilization that we
learn about during the game
who knows maybe team cherry will make a
prequel saga to explain it all anyway as
the fight continues the siblings and the
hall and I appear in the dream world and
help the night corner the radiance the
void starts holding the radiance down
using its void tentacles and while I
think we've all seen enough hentai to
know where this is going acting is one
the void engulfs the radiance in total
darkness after the battle ends there's a
cutscene showing the void seeping into
the ground Hornet wakes up and finds the
night shattered shell and a final shot
shows siblings returning back into the
earth the radiance has been consumed and
the infection has presumably ceased
completely hopefully this video was able
to help you better understand the plot
to holla night it's definitely a bit
more complicated than your average
platformer however there are still many
unanswered questions like what's the
deal with the bugs wearing masks how
does the pale king's foresight abilities
play into the story clearly there was
some sort of plan put in place for the
knight to defeat the radiance was The
Pale King involved in this and most
importantly why the fuck are there god
damn jellyfish in a game about bugs it
makes no sense come on team Jerry
what kind of entomology textbooks are
they selling you in Australia but yeah
other than the jellyfish this game is
fucking perfect I love everything about
Halle Knight so now that we've mapped
out most of the plot to this game what's
the message is there a greater meaning
to it all people have argued that the
White Walkers in Game of Thrones are an
allegory for climate change they're
wrong but maybe Halle Knight has some
sort of similar allegorical message JRR
Tolkien flat-out said that the Lord of
the Rings is not an allegory at all it's
literally just about some short people
with big feet who hate jewelry or
something
maybe holla night is a cautionary tale
about the dangers of temptation and how
we shouldn't let our desires control us
maybe it's a story about the dangers of
imperialism and how trying to destroy
the cultures of others only leads to
more destruction
perhaps holo night is a tragic love
story between an orphan girl and her
mutant vertically challenged half
sibling it might also be a warning about
how exposed the human races to disease
and how easily a Pam demek could wipe us
all out
or maybe moths are just assholes