WEBVTT 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.570 Hey 00:00:16.310 --> 00:00:21.210 if I were to ask you what are some of the best fictional stories ever told 00:00:21.210 --> 00:00:25.140 what would you say war and peace Moby Dick 00:00:25.140 --> 00:00:31.830 the brothers karmas off I mean um The Brothers Karamazov or the Super 00:00:31.830 --> 00:00:36.239 Mario Brothers movie well these are great and all but it's time to throw all 00:00:36.239 --> 00:00:43.380 that shit in the trash howl nights story literally has everything action betrayal 00:00:43.380 --> 00:00:51.059 comedy tragedy relatable characters multiple endings and sex appeal lots and 00:00:51.059 --> 00:00:56.760 lots of sex appeal of course it's all very nuanced remember how confusing 00:00:56.760 --> 00:01:02.879 inception was well Halle Knight is basically inception but with bugs so if 00:01:02.879 --> 00:01:04.710 you want to truly understand hollow Knight 00:01:04.710 --> 00:01:09.780 we're gonna have to go deeper so just call me Matt Damon because this is 00:01:09.780 --> 00:01:12.890 hollow not explained 00:01:13.100 --> 00:01:18.930 first let's talk about how the story for Holland I came to be pretty much all of 00:01:18.930 --> 00:01:24.870 Halle night was made by these three guys William Pelin re Gibson and Dave Koz II 00:01:24.870 --> 00:01:29.160 also Matt Griffin helped out to these three men live in the mystical land of 00:01:29.160 --> 00:01:33.540 Australia where everything is upside down their design philosophy for Halle 00:01:33.540 --> 00:01:36.440 Knight was to leave the script blank while creating the game's world 00:01:36.440 --> 00:01:41.670 basically they put whatever locations dungeons bosses or gameplay mechanics 00:01:41.670 --> 00:01:46.229 they wanted in the game and then they built the lore around those elements the 00:01:46.229 --> 00:01:49.680 dialogue for the game was written together in a Google document by William 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:53.520 and Ari later on in the game's development the game script ended up 00:01:53.520 --> 00:01:57.420 being over 20,000 words long which is not too bad for a game where you can 00:01:57.420 --> 00:02:02.040 literally skip the majority of the text and there's still more to come as of 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:07.410 right now all night will be getting to more content updates and a Hornet DLC so 00:02:07.410 --> 00:02:10.590 while this video will be pretty comprehensive we are still waiting for a 00:02:10.590 --> 00:02:15.690 few more pieces to the puzzle alright so now it's time to talk about the game's 00:02:15.690 --> 00:02:20.190 plot but first we need to talk about metaphysics there are three different 00:02:20.190 --> 00:02:24.090 metaphysical forces that the player interacts with during the game soul a 00:02:24.090 --> 00:02:30.390 white liquidy goop void a black liquidy goop and essence a substance that is 00:02:30.390 --> 00:02:36.000 neither liquidy nor goopy in hollow night soul is used to cast spells as 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:40.830 well as repair the night shell soul originates in living organisms and acts 00:02:40.830 --> 00:02:45.989 as a sort of lifeforce void works kind of like play-doh it can be morphed into 00:02:45.989 --> 00:02:50.820 different shapes and given form the night is made a void for example the 00:02:50.820 --> 00:02:54.870 only place where void is known to come from is in the abyss an area at the very 00:02:54.870 --> 00:02:59.430 bottom of the world map essence is basically the light found within dreams 00:02:59.430 --> 00:03:03.030 whatever that means it can be found within whispering roots 00:03:03.030 --> 00:03:07.799 and in the many ghosts that populate the world essence is collected using the 00:03:07.799 --> 00:03:11.610 dream nail a powerful weapon that can cut through the veil that separates the 00:03:11.610 --> 00:03:15.780 real world from the dream world the player character travels to the dream 00:03:15.780 --> 00:03:19.739 world several times in the game to fight several bosses and its features are 00:03:19.739 --> 00:03:24.170 vaguely defined all it is is just a bunch of rocks and floating lamp posts 00:03:24.170 --> 00:03:28.160 you know the stuff that pretty much everyone dreams about now that we've 00:03:28.160 --> 00:03:31.820 established some of the forces that act in this world let's talk about the 00:03:31.820 --> 00:03:36.920 history of hollowness before the game started the oldest objects that can be 00:03:36.920 --> 00:03:41.510 found in hollow night are the arcane eggs and the soul totems these objects 00:03:41.510 --> 00:03:45.950 were created by an ancient society that existed long before hollow nest the 00:03:45.950 --> 00:03:49.730 civilization knew how to harness a new soul and they were probably aware of the 00:03:49.730 --> 00:03:53.810 voids existence the designs of the soul totems were most likely based on the 00:03:53.810 --> 00:03:58.070 creatures that lived during that time on the other hand though some of the totems 00:03:58.070 --> 00:04:01.120 are pretty phallic looking I'll blur them out just in case 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:05.450 there are also some ancient creatures still farting around in the game albeit 00:04:05.450 --> 00:04:10.130 mostly in the form of dead bodies in kingdoms edge there's a giant corpse 00:04:10.130 --> 00:04:14.630 located next to the quick slash charm in the game's code this being is referred 00:04:14.630 --> 00:04:19.489 to as the ancient nail Smith there's also an ancient being hidden inside of 00:04:19.489 --> 00:04:23.780 the abyss where the lifeblood core is found this guy is hidden really well 00:04:23.780 --> 00:04:28.010 when I recorded this footage I didn't even know he was there the game refers 00:04:28.010 --> 00:04:32.150 to this thing as an abyss creature and that's about all we know is this 00:04:32.150 --> 00:04:35.660 creature the source of lifeblood the blue liquidy coupe that exists all over 00:04:35.660 --> 00:04:41.270 hollow nest maybe but I wouldn't expect an answer anytime soon the most 00:04:41.270 --> 00:04:45.470 important ancient creatures that we know about are called worms these worms were 00:04:45.470 --> 00:04:49.610 probably similar in anatomy to regular worms but much bigger in regard to the 00:04:49.610 --> 00:04:55.100 rest of the world bar dune an npc found in kingdoms edge claims to be too small 00:04:55.100 --> 00:04:58.880 to be a worm but as incredibly long himself with his head being at the top 00:04:58.880 --> 00:05:01.310 of the map and his tail being quite a ways down 00:05:01.310 --> 00:05:05.660 it is likely that these worms were higher beings a phrase that occasionally 00:05:05.660 --> 00:05:10.580 pops up in the game the developers notes clarified that higher beings are godlike 00:05:10.580 --> 00:05:15.290 creatures we can infer from bar dooms dialog that all of the worms are now 00:05:15.290 --> 00:05:20.660 gone possibly dead but the corpse of one worm can still be found in kingdoms edge 00:05:20.660 --> 00:05:26.360 according to bar Doon this worm did not die but instead transformed we know from 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:30.620 bar Doon and other sources that the transformed worm was The Pale King the 00:05:30.620 --> 00:05:36.250 creator and ruler of hollow nest before the pale King began trying to 00:05:36.250 --> 00:05:39.699 build his nation there were other powerful beings already at work within 00:05:39.699 --> 00:05:44.680 the lanes of hallow nest one of which being the radiance the radiance is the 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:49.300 true final boss and main antagonist of the game she is a moth like creature who 00:05:49.300 --> 00:05:53.800 was often referenced to in game as a light she tends to appear to bugs in her 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:57.400 dreams and it is mentioned that the radiance shares some similarities to 00:05:57.400 --> 00:06:02.290 essence the radiance only appears in the dreamworld in-game so it's unknown if 00:06:02.290 --> 00:06:06.460 she ever existed in the physical world her sex has stayed as female in a 00:06:06.460 --> 00:06:11.919 developer's note inside the game's code the radiance created the moth race who 00:06:11.919 --> 00:06:16.419 worshipped her and passed in her light the radiance is light is described by 00:06:16.419 --> 00:06:20.979 Barr dune as a sort of unity at the cost of thought once you drink the kool-aid 00:06:20.979 --> 00:06:25.300 you become connected and powerful but you lose control of yourself becoming a 00:06:25.300 --> 00:06:30.789 mindless bug other groups in the area included the mantis tribe who took 00:06:30.789 --> 00:06:34.750 residence in the fungal wastes and the bees who likely lived in the hive at 00:06:34.750 --> 00:06:39.039 kingdom's edge respect and power in the Mantis tribe was based upon physical 00:06:39.039 --> 00:06:43.030 strength and combat abilities the strongest members of the group were also 00:06:43.030 --> 00:06:47.590 the most valued not much is known about the bees other than that their scariest 00:06:47.590 --> 00:06:52.210 fuck in green path there appeared to be a group of followers of a creature 00:06:52.210 --> 00:06:56.440 called une there's a structure located at the lake of oon that looks like some 00:06:56.440 --> 00:07:00.910 sort of Temple and une can be found hidden in the lake une is the being 00:07:00.910 --> 00:07:05.139 supposedly responsible for producing the plant life in green path there's also a 00:07:05.139 --> 00:07:08.590 mas Knight that stands at the edge of the lake and if we dream nail him he 00:07:08.590 --> 00:07:13.120 says something interesting he says that she is calling now I have no idea who 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:16.539 else has got to be referring to other than une so I think this pretty much 00:07:16.539 --> 00:07:24.840 confirms that she's a chick and I gotta say that is one gorgeous gastropod 00:07:24.840 --> 00:07:30.070 the mushrooms of the fungal waste also had some sort of society they're able to 00:07:30.070 --> 00:07:33.910 communicate with each other through a manner similar to telepathy this 00:07:33.910 --> 00:07:37.690 telepathy seems to involve something with spores since the lure tablets in 00:07:37.690 --> 00:07:42.040 the area only activate when the night is wearing the spore shroom charm within 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:45.580 the game's code there's a lore tablet that reads as follows strengthen the 00:07:45.580 --> 00:07:50.140 shared self strengthen the mine United in every bug that would pass upon our 00:07:50.140 --> 00:07:54.790 roads only the melancholy of disparity now I have no idea what the shit of the 00:07:54.790 --> 00:07:58.120 end is talking about but the beginning clearly indicates that the mushrooms 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:01.960 have some sort of connected consciousness there's more evidence for 00:08:01.960 --> 00:08:05.890 this in the form of mr. mushroom so if you haven't seen this guy around he's 00:08:05.890 --> 00:08:09.280 basically just a talking fortune cookie that pops up in various parts of hallo 00:08:09.280 --> 00:08:13.540 nest the thing is with the exception of the last encounter every time you try 00:08:13.540 --> 00:08:17.530 and talk to mr. mushroom he seems to be talking to someone else and when he 00:08:17.530 --> 00:08:22.090 notices that you're there he just leaves clearly mr. mushroom is using the shared 00:08:22.090 --> 00:08:26.650 mind to talk to other mushrooms when mr. mushroom finally does talk to the night 00:08:26.650 --> 00:08:30.880 he reveals that he has visited many kingdoms before and that holliness is 00:08:30.880 --> 00:08:35.020 just one of many if we dream no mr. mushroom he provides us with a little 00:08:35.020 --> 00:08:39.220 poem about worms it seems to imply that worms have been creating societies for a 00:08:39.220 --> 00:08:44.500 long time then there's the bugs and deep nest now you're probably wondering did 00:08:44.500 --> 00:08:49.720 these assholes worship a God - well maybe in deep nest there's a shrine 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:55.630 located in the beasts den inside the shrine is a statue of a trilobite and as 00:08:55.630 --> 00:09:00.340 I'm sure we all know trilobite sar one of the oldest known groups of arthropods 00:09:00.340 --> 00:09:05.650 they went extinct in the mass extinction of the Permian back 252 million years 00:09:05.650 --> 00:09:10.510 ago so in other words these guys are ancient trilobite belongs to the 00:09:10.510 --> 00:09:16.330 subphylum trilobite dome or feh their closest living relatives are the animals 00:09:16.330 --> 00:09:21.310 in the subphylum chilla sirata which consists of horseshoe crabs scorpions 00:09:21.310 --> 00:09:26.410 and spiders so it kind of makes sense that there's a trilobite statue and deep 00:09:26.410 --> 00:09:28.920 nest it seems to be implying that the 00:09:28.920 --> 00:09:32.760 residents of deep nest have been there for quite some time for some reason 00:09:32.760 --> 00:09:36.330 there are no lore tablets in deep nest so that's about as much as we can figure 00:09:36.330 --> 00:09:40.260 out at the moment on top of that we're gonna learn a lot more about deep nest 00:09:40.260 --> 00:09:43.410 in the upcoming content pack so I wouldn't even get too worked up about 00:09:43.410 --> 00:09:48.990 figuring it out now and so the pill King arrived in this fractured land offering 00:09:48.990 --> 00:09:53.190 a gift to the bugs of his future Kingdom he granted them some form of knowledge 00:09:53.190 --> 00:09:57.779 or greater sentience a hidden lore tablet in the white palace reveals a 00:09:57.779 --> 00:10:05.130 line was a worm becomes beacon mines expanded to yield to devote also modem 00:10:05.130 --> 00:10:09.480 on the teacher in her poem elegy of hollowness mentions that the pale King 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:14.459 taught the bugs colonists and tamed their savage Souls bharden explains that 00:10:14.459 --> 00:10:19.380 the pale King brought order to the land so if we put it all together the pale 00:10:19.380 --> 00:10:25.170 King granted bugs more powerful minds and promised a more ordered society now 00:10:25.170 --> 00:10:28.950 this is where things get a little bit complicated these bugs without Minds not 00:10:28.950 --> 00:10:32.250 have them because that was how they naturally were or was it because the 00:10:32.250 --> 00:10:36.270 radiance had them within her hive mind a lot of what I've read online says that 00:10:36.270 --> 00:10:39.600 all of hollowness was under the radiances control but it is never 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:42.930 explicitly stated if the radiance was worshiped by bugs other than the moth 00:10:42.930 --> 00:10:47.160 tribe the only moth in the game the seer who lives in the resting grounds 00:10:47.160 --> 00:10:50.670 explains that her ancestors stopped worshiping the radiance in order to 00:10:50.670 --> 00:10:54.510 worship the pale King she's not mentioned other non moth bugs engaging 00:10:54.510 --> 00:10:58.860 and worshiping the radiance also a tablet and howling cliffs it states that 00:10:58.860 --> 00:11:02.220 anyone who leaves hollowness must relinquish the precious mind this 00:11:02.220 --> 00:11:06.480 kingdom grants personally I think that the radiance was only worshipped by the 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:10.350 moth race and that many of the other bugs at Hall nests specifically the 00:11:10.350 --> 00:11:14.880 husks had always just been dumb shits they didn't have minds to think in the 00:11:14.880 --> 00:11:18.149 first place I'm not saying there's no evidence to 00:11:18.149 --> 00:11:22.170 support the idea that the radiance controlled all Apollo nest but I haven't 00:11:22.170 --> 00:11:26.100 really seen enough evidence to convince me of that my biggest reason for 00:11:26.100 --> 00:11:30.360 believing this is because of the way I interpret seers dialogue seer doesn't 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:33.950 blame the radiance for what happened but instead blames the people of her tribe 00:11:33.950 --> 00:11:38.790 she never claims that the radiance was an evil or power-hungry God 00:11:38.790 --> 00:11:42.600 she was betrayed see our views helping the knight obtain the dream nail as 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:47.550 penitence for old crimes so on one hand seer thinks that her ancestor should 00:11:47.550 --> 00:11:51.480 remain loyal to the radiance but at the same time she is willing to help the 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:56.100 knight in its quest to kill the radiance the only way this makes sense is if the 00:11:56.100 --> 00:12:00.380 radiance of the past was quite different to the radiance of the present after all 00:12:00.380 --> 00:12:05.220 members of the moth race were pacifists by nature with few ever choosing to 00:12:05.220 --> 00:12:09.900 wield a weapon given the fact that she's also a moth the radiance was possibly 00:12:09.900 --> 00:12:13.800 quite pacifist in the beginning that is until the pale King arrived and fucked 00:12:13.800 --> 00:12:18.810 everything up for after such a betrayal as well as an extended time spent in 00:12:18.810 --> 00:12:22.680 isolation it's not a stretch to believe that the radiance would retaliate in the 00:12:22.680 --> 00:12:27.600 way she did so there's my little theory on the radiance some of you watching may 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:31.350 not agree with me but that's what I really love about hollow Knights story a 00:12:31.350 --> 00:12:34.500 lot of different people have a lot of different ideas about how certain things 00:12:34.500 --> 00:12:38.010 happened and the game leaves it just vague enough to let all of those 00:12:38.010 --> 00:12:42.150 theories be viable hell there's probably evidence to support the idea that the 00:12:42.150 --> 00:12:46.320 entire game takes place on the fucking moon so while a good chunk of the stuff 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:49.950 in this video is probably agreed upon by a lot I'll let you know whenever I 00:12:49.950 --> 00:12:54.360 started throwing out my own dumbass theories regardless the important thing 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:58.140 to take away from all this is that the pale king endowed his followers with 00:12:58.140 --> 00:13:01.830 more intelligence and then he convinced the Mothe tribe to stop worshiping the 00:13:01.830 --> 00:13:06.180 radiance because the moth tribe stopped worshiping her the radiance was sealed 00:13:06.180 --> 00:13:11.340 away and memories of her were forgotten over time the only lasting monument to 00:13:11.340 --> 00:13:16.170 the radiance was a statue located at hollowness crown seer looks back on this 00:13:16.170 --> 00:13:20.490 moment with regret viewing it as a betrayal of her people on their creator 00:13:20.490 --> 00:13:27.810 it was out of this act that Halle nest was born while the moths drive and 00:13:27.810 --> 00:13:31.230 others accepted the pale Kings rule there were other groups that resisted 00:13:31.230 --> 00:13:34.440 the bees for example chose to lock themselves away in the high of the 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:38.790 kingdoms edge deciding to play no part in the pale Kings Kingdom according to 00:13:38.790 --> 00:13:42.330 the manual for Hall Knight the hive Queen eventually became too big to even 00:13:42.330 --> 00:13:46.620 leave every time I read this I just end up thinking about Fight Club 00:13:46.620 --> 00:13:51.270 the Mantis race refused the Kings rule but a truce was reached allowing them to 00:13:51.270 --> 00:13:55.320 keep their territory as well as their societal structure in exchange the 00:13:55.320 --> 00:14:00.030 mantises would protect hallow nest from the bugs invading from deep nest we 00:14:00.030 --> 00:14:03.810 don't know for sure how own and its followers reacted the size of green path 00:14:03.810 --> 00:14:08.760 was reduced but the remaining area of green path remained under UN's law the 00:14:08.760 --> 00:14:12.240 members of the Mushroom Kingdom accepted the pale Kings rule but not with 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:16.950 complete confidence according to lore tablets in the fungal ways they put 00:14:16.950 --> 00:14:20.850 faith in the pale Kings insight into future events to protect them which is a 00:14:20.850 --> 00:14:26.010 power that he apparently had bar Doon is the only other NPC that even mentions 00:14:26.010 --> 00:14:31.680 disability which is weird because it's kind of a big fucking deal but it 00:14:31.680 --> 00:14:36.540 doesn't really seem to have much of an impact on the story so whatever it is 00:14:36.540 --> 00:14:40.980 what it is the bugs of deepness refused the Kings rule completely keepeth 00:14:40.980 --> 00:14:45.600 himself separate from the pale Kings domain the mask maker who resides in 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:49.260 deep nest says that the pale King made a mistake in trying to expand his kingdom 00:14:49.260 --> 00:14:55.290 across all of Hollow nest under the pale Kings rule the city of tears was 00:14:55.290 --> 00:14:59.160 constructed for some reason somebody thought it was a good idea to build the 00:14:59.160 --> 00:15:03.660 entire city underneath the giant lake resulting in constant rain it may be 00:15:03.660 --> 00:15:09.210 stupid but goddamn it makes for some good atmospheric moments underneath the 00:15:09.210 --> 00:15:13.440 city the royal waterways were built where horrific parasite monsters began 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:17.550 to appear static stations were built making travel across the kingdom much 00:15:17.550 --> 00:15:22.590 easier structures such as the archive and the Coliseum of fools popped up bugs 00:15:22.590 --> 00:15:27.180 began working in the mines harvesting powerful crystals geo was established as 00:15:27.180 --> 00:15:31.260 a primary currency and reputable banking services became available allowing 00:15:31.260 --> 00:15:34.470 citizens to store all that shit they found while smacking rocks all day 00:15:34.470 --> 00:15:38.580 Kings idols began to circulate around the land so that bugs could worship the 00:15:38.580 --> 00:15:43.830 pale King on the go a tramway system began development but as construction 00:15:43.830 --> 00:15:48.510 reach deep nest all of the workers got killed by local bugs as you can imagine 00:15:48.510 --> 00:15:53.700 this really slowed down construction the tram workers unionized demanding to not 00:15:53.700 --> 00:15:55.880 be sent places where they could get killed 00:15:55.880 --> 00:15:59.970 ridiculous I know but after the events of Tran gate 00:15:59.970 --> 00:16:03.420 it seemed pretty obvious that deep nest and Halle nest were not going to be 00:16:03.420 --> 00:16:06.660 getting along anytime soon now you might be thinking to yourself 00:16:06.660 --> 00:16:10.800 hey wait a minute if the deep nest bugs didn't want a tram 00:16:10.800 --> 00:16:15.240 light why is their stack stationed in the distant village well don't worry 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:19.199 we will get to that later but let's talk about the man behind it all 00:16:19.199 --> 00:16:24.480 The Pale King himself lived a life of reclusion relic seeker LEM a bug in the 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:28.379 city of tears who buys historical artifacts claims that the king was an 00:16:28.379 --> 00:16:32.670 elusive figure the last stag also mentions that the Bell King never rode 00:16:32.670 --> 00:16:38.490 the stag ways even the pale king's castle was kept hidden his white palace 00:16:38.490 --> 00:16:42.839 was built underneath the city of tears in the ancient basin a dark area with 00:16:42.839 --> 00:16:46.589 little life in it despite his introverted lifestyle the 00:16:46.589 --> 00:16:52.709 king did get together with this whatever this is and she became queen the queen 00:16:52.709 --> 00:16:56.759 is likely also a higher being according to the description found on the King's 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:02.250 soul the Queen can be found in game going by the name white lady the pale 00:17:02.250 --> 00:17:05.760 King also assigned five nights to the task of protecting the realm of 00:17:05.760 --> 00:17:09.360 hollowness the five great Knights as they were called with consistent of 00:17:09.360 --> 00:17:17.069 fierce jiraiya kindly yzma mysterious zamir loyal or grim and mighty hegemon 00:17:17.069 --> 00:17:21.150 not much is known about what these Knights did before the fall of colonists 00:17:21.150 --> 00:17:25.589 other than that they served the King the white defenders entry in the hunters 00:17:25.589 --> 00:17:29.250 journal gives us the most insight into the shenanigans of the five great 00:17:29.250 --> 00:17:34.230 Knights he mentions the champions call the knotted Grove and the Battle of the 00:17:34.230 --> 00:17:39.570 black worm now that's a badass name for a battle but what is the black worm is 00:17:39.570 --> 00:17:44.220 its corpse somewhere in Holland s2 so there's some flavor text for you letting 00:17:44.220 --> 00:17:47.400 you know that the five great Knights were apparently some pretty cool dudes 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:51.690 but as impressive as these events may sound the king and his Knights were 00:17:51.690 --> 00:17:55.090 nowhere near prepared for what happened next 00:17:55.090 --> 00:17:59.320 remember how I said that the radiance had been completely forgotten well I 00:17:59.320 --> 00:18:04.149 lied according to the seer faint memories of the radiance lingered until 00:18:04.149 --> 00:18:08.740 eventually they surfaced once again one theory suggests that some bugs 00:18:08.740 --> 00:18:12.999 accidentally discovered the statue at holliness crown resulting in thoughts of 00:18:12.999 --> 00:18:17.379 her to enter back into their minds within the game's code are additional 00:18:17.379 --> 00:18:21.700 verses to the allergy of hallow nest that can not be found in game the poem 00:18:21.700 --> 00:18:25.090 mentions that the bugs of hallow nest had dreams and desires that the pale 00:18:25.090 --> 00:18:29.710 King could not satisfy eventually out of these dreams appeared a light that 00:18:29.710 --> 00:18:34.090 turned the bugs back into mindless beasts in the game the player can 00:18:34.090 --> 00:18:38.919 encounter an NPC beam my Allah my Allah is a happy little minor bug who minds 00:18:38.919 --> 00:18:41.889 crystals while singing a tune as the game progresses 00:18:41.889 --> 00:18:46.210 milah begins to lose control of her thoughts not being able to remember the 00:18:46.210 --> 00:18:51.340 verses to her song a second voice begins to appear in her dialogue an angry voice 00:18:51.340 --> 00:18:56.230 that demands my let it kill the player character eventually Milo becomes just 00:18:56.230 --> 00:18:59.549 another enemy NPC 00:19:11.850 --> 00:19:17.110 while many bugs shared the same fate as milah some looked for solutions in the 00:19:17.110 --> 00:19:21.250 city of tears a group of intellectual bugs began to experiment with soul they 00:19:21.250 --> 00:19:24.280 believed that with enough soul they could remain powerful enough to escape 00:19:24.280 --> 00:19:28.690 the infection the collection of souls involved a killing of hundreds of bugs 00:19:28.690 --> 00:19:34.030 whose shells could still be found in the sole sanctuary or the sole sanctum or 00:19:34.030 --> 00:19:38.440 whatever was The Pale King was against these experiments but I guess these 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:43.150 criminals were just too well-hidden to find the experiments failed anyway and 00:19:43.150 --> 00:19:47.230 the soul master and his associates became infected after getting his ass 00:19:47.230 --> 00:19:50.950 kicked twice by the player-character the soul master explains that a prophetic 00:19:50.950 --> 00:19:56.470 vision told him to experiment with soul yeah okay buddy most of the Mantis race 00:19:56.470 --> 00:19:59.890 was able to stave off the infection keeping Nancy's village intact despite 00:19:59.890 --> 00:20:04.270 the surrounding chaos within the tribe however a group of mantises defected and 00:20:04.270 --> 00:20:08.800 decided to accept the infection in order to become more powerful one of the four 00:20:08.800 --> 00:20:12.760 mantis Lords turned against his sisters and he and his allies were driven out of 00:20:12.760 --> 00:20:16.810 mantas village and took up residence in the Queen's garden after accepting the 00:20:16.810 --> 00:20:20.800 infection these mantises went mad and lost control of their minds the fair 00:20:20.800 --> 00:20:24.310 Lords daughter somehow died during these events and is buried in Queens garden 00:20:24.310 --> 00:20:29.050 this unnamed mantis was actually in a relationship with mysterious a mere one 00:20:29.050 --> 00:20:33.250 of the five great nights the mantises didn't approve of this however and now 00:20:33.250 --> 00:20:36.640 Samir lives as the gray mourner in the resting grounds lamenting her dead lover 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:41.470 would have guessed that mantises were so homophobic with the infection spreading 00:20:41.470 --> 00:20:44.320 across hollow nest The Pale King became desperate to find a 00:20:44.320 --> 00:20:48.600 solution the five great knights served as nothing but a waste of taxpayers geo 00:20:48.600 --> 00:20:52.000 because the infection was targeting the minds and dreams of bugs 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:56.620 another method had to be used in order to combat the radiance deep down in the 00:20:56.620 --> 00:21:01.290 abyss The Pale King found the void and possibly the last hope for hallow nest 00:21:01.290 --> 00:21:06.760 now let's talk about the void The Pale King is basically playing with fire at 00:21:06.760 --> 00:21:12.340 this point void itself is a dangerous force it seems to oppose other forms of 00:21:12.340 --> 00:21:17.470 life always trying to consume them that is why the character shade and the other 00:21:17.470 --> 00:21:21.850 ADEs called the siblings attack the night the lighthouse keeper in the abyss 00:21:21.850 --> 00:21:25.620 seems to have been influenced and possibly killed by the void somehow 00:21:25.620 --> 00:21:30.190 confessor gigi in dirt mouth is terrified of the shades fearing that she 00:21:30.190 --> 00:21:34.960 might get swallowed up by the darkness that's right the night might seem like a 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:39.220 little harmless guy but underneath the surface is a monster that wants nothing 00:21:39.220 --> 00:21:44.470 more than to do terrible things to you kind of like Bill Cosby asks for the 00:21:44.470 --> 00:21:48.309 lighthouse it seems like it was built as a way to subdue the sea of void beneath 00:21:48.309 --> 00:21:52.090 it but it sounds like at some point the king wanted the lighthouse turned off 00:21:52.090 --> 00:21:58.659 why honestly I have no clue using the void The Pale King hoped to create 00:21:58.659 --> 00:22:03.130 something that could act as a vessel to contain the radiance this vessel had to 00:22:03.130 --> 00:22:08.620 be completely lacking in mind will or personality without these straits the 00:22:08.620 --> 00:22:12.250 infection would not be able to control the host and the radiance would be 00:22:12.250 --> 00:22:17.010 stopped dead in her tracks the pale King began experimenting with the void 00:22:17.010 --> 00:22:20.860 several creatures were made in the white palace using the void such as the Kings 00:22:20.860 --> 00:22:25.210 molds and the wings molds as well as the collector a boss that can be found in 00:22:25.210 --> 00:22:29.260 the Tower of love the pale King started creating countless vessels an attempt to 00:22:29.260 --> 00:22:32.860 create one that was completely empty these vessels were unique to the 00:22:32.860 --> 00:22:37.000 previously mentioned constructs Kings molds and wings molds are void contained 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:41.799 within Armour while the collector seems to be made solely a void the vessels 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:45.760 however wear shells the game doesn't explain where these shells came from but 00:22:45.760 --> 00:22:50.679 a metric fuckton of them can be found in the abyss well put on your tinfoil hats 00:22:50.679 --> 00:22:55.690 boys because it's time to speculate the white lady has some interesting dialogue 00:22:55.690 --> 00:22:59.080 about this event she explains that she locked herself away in the Queen's 00:22:59.080 --> 00:23:03.789 garden her reason appears to be that she felt shame for her participation in the 00:23:03.789 --> 00:23:08.080 deed she then mentions that she still has the urge to breed and propagate 00:23:08.080 --> 00:23:13.059 herself I think that the Queen helped create the vessels specifically by using 00:23:13.059 --> 00:23:17.559 her seeds this biological origin for the vessels could explain where the shells 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:21.280 came from and it explains why there are eggs lying around in the abyss 00:23:21.280 --> 00:23:25.480 thanks to dialogue from the white lady we know that the player-character was 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:29.799 born in the abyss not in the white palace and it makes sense with the 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:33.220 phrase born of and void which is later used to describe 00:23:33.220 --> 00:23:38.290 the hollow night also in the white palace a room that appears to be a 00:23:38.290 --> 00:23:42.730 nursery can be found in this room is a chair with what appears to be the white 00:23:42.730 --> 00:23:46.810 lady's silhouette on it and a cradle what's interesting about this is that 00:23:46.810 --> 00:23:50.680 there is a melody that plays in this room which is identical to the melody 00:23:50.680 --> 00:23:55.170 that plays when the player characters shade is nearby 00:24:36.670 --> 00:24:40.490 this practically screamed at the white lady had at least something to do with 00:24:40.490 --> 00:24:44.360 the creation of the vessels but I'm sure this little theory of mine is littered 00:24:44.360 --> 00:24:48.050 with problems so for now that take away from all this is that the pale King 00:24:48.050 --> 00:24:52.580 created a lot of vessels in an attempt to find one that was perfectly empty any 00:24:52.580 --> 00:24:56.960 vessels not deemed worthy or cast down into the abyss the vessel that the 00:24:56.960 --> 00:25:00.320 player controls during the game is one of the pale kings many failed creations 00:25:00.320 --> 00:25:04.400 they were thrown into the abyss and another vessel was chosen who eventually 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:08.810 would become the hollow Knight the not true final boss of the game after the 00:25:08.810 --> 00:25:12.500 whole night was chosen the entrance to the abyss was sealed hiding the pale 00:25:12.500 --> 00:25:17.150 Kings rejected children from the world somehow the radiance was placed inside 00:25:17.150 --> 00:25:20.450 the hollow Knight I don't really know the logistics of how that worked and 00:25:20.450 --> 00:25:25.160 honestly I don't want to know the hope was that without a will or mine the 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:28.820 radians would not be able to take control of the hollow knight's body but 00:25:28.820 --> 00:25:32.480 of course it didn't work the white lady mentions that the hollow 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:36.200 Knight was not completely void of thought that it was tarnished by an idea 00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:39.890 instilled there's not much we can look to to try and figure out what the white 00:25:39.890 --> 00:25:43.340 lady means by this but there is one thing in the scene where the hollow 00:25:43.340 --> 00:25:46.700 Knight is chosen by the Bell King we see it turn its head towards the 00:25:46.700 --> 00:25:49.310 player-character is it because the hall and I has 00:25:49.310 --> 00:25:57.470 feelings of regret sympathy maybe even guilt why then why were they chosen 00:25:57.470 --> 00:26:01.480 while all the other siblings were thrown away near the hall Knight was afraid 00:26:01.480 --> 00:26:05.900 maybe it didn't think it could live up to the pressure of being the vessel it 00:26:05.900 --> 00:26:09.950 didn't ask for this it didn't ask to be born and he didn't 00:26:09.950 --> 00:26:14.240 want to be the savior of hollowness I mean what hall must ever do for it 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:19.070 what made hollowness so special that it even deserved to be saved after all 00:26:19.070 --> 00:26:22.100 isn't life just a cyclical process of birth and death 00:26:22.100 --> 00:26:26.090 why should hollowness be spared a faint given to every Kingdom that preceded it 00:26:26.090 --> 00:26:31.010 you can't stop the inevitable everything dies in the end and nothing really 00:26:31.010 --> 00:26:36.950 matters or maybe I'm reading too much into this anyways the pale Kings plan 00:26:36.950 --> 00:26:41.030 had failed his creation could not contain the radiances power and soon she 00:26:41.030 --> 00:26:44.630 would break free once again but instead of giving up The Pale King devised 00:26:44.630 --> 00:26:49.120 another scheme he seek the assistance of be powerful bugs modem on the teacher 00:26:49.120 --> 00:26:54.280 lure in the watcher and Hurra the Beast Lauren lived in the spire in the city of 00:26:54.280 --> 00:26:59.290 tears there he kept a telescope which is kind of creepy if you think about it Mon 00:26:59.290 --> 00:27:03.760 Aman maintained an archive in the fog Canyon there she tried to keep all the 00:27:03.760 --> 00:27:08.169 information of hollowness history unfortunately all of her data logs read 00:27:08.169 --> 00:27:13.179 like bad George Orwell fan fiction Hurra was Queen and ruler in the domain of 00:27:13.179 --> 00:27:17.890 deep nest as I'm sure you remember relations between deep nest and hallow 00:27:17.890 --> 00:27:21.669 nest were not that good while the other two were okay with doing the king of 00:27:21.669 --> 00:27:27.220 solid Hara was a bit more difficult but a deal was struck her agreed to help the 00:27:27.220 --> 00:27:32.750 pale King but in exchange the pale King had to give her a child Hornet 00:27:32.750 --> 00:27:37.130 the circumstances of Hornets birth are shrouded in mystery is she her as 00:27:37.130 --> 00:27:40.789 biological offspring or was she created from the void like the siblings 00:27:40.789 --> 00:27:44.330 the white lady mentions a sexual relationship between the pale King and 00:27:44.330 --> 00:27:48.860 her she also mentions that her and Hornet looked very similar so it sounds 00:27:48.860 --> 00:27:53.390 like the King in her a totally did it and Hornets their baby right well not so 00:27:53.390 --> 00:27:57.440 fast if her a could give birth in the first place why would the King have to 00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:03.289 give her a child is she barren is her just bad at dating well a tablet in the 00:28:03.289 --> 00:28:07.179 fungal wastes hints at deep nest once having a king but that he somehow died 00:28:07.179 --> 00:28:11.570 so it seems possible that the death of the King simply left Hera without a 00:28:11.570 --> 00:28:15.650 suitable mate so yeah something was definitely going on between the pale 00:28:15.650 --> 00:28:20.179 King and her ax the stag stationed in deep nest was probably built around the 00:28:20.179 --> 00:28:24.049 time this was going on The Pale King could just hop on his elite special 00:28:24.049 --> 00:28:29.120 forces stag head over to her his place and have crazy bug sex with her that 00:28:29.120 --> 00:28:31.970 would explain why the last tank has never seen the stag stationed in the 00:28:31.970 --> 00:28:36.679 distant village or the hidden station while this all makes sense there is also 00:28:36.679 --> 00:28:39.950 evidence that points towards Hornet being made from the void like the knight 00:28:39.950 --> 00:28:44.480 and the siblings which if true complicates things a little bit Hornet 00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:48.169 tells the player character that they share the same force while we know that 00:28:48.169 --> 00:28:51.890 the player character is made of void so it seems likely that Hornet was created 00:28:51.890 --> 00:28:56.270 in a similar fashion Plus Hornet is called the gendered child by a number of 00:28:56.270 --> 00:29:00.200 NPCs the only reason they would call her that is if her kind wouldn't normally 00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:04.610 have a gender and according to the developers notes the vessels made from 00:29:04.610 --> 00:29:10.100 the void do not have genders there's also the weavers den a hidden area and 00:29:10.100 --> 00:29:14.330 deep nest that appears to be connected to Hornet in some way the loom spiders 00:29:14.330 --> 00:29:18.770 mentioned a bargain and a princess within this hidden area is another 00:29:18.770 --> 00:29:22.820 hidden area in this room there's a design with Hornets head displayed in 00:29:22.820 --> 00:29:27.049 the middle plus all the string lying around makes sense given on Hornet uses 00:29:27.049 --> 00:29:31.570 thread in combat when you leave the weavers den for the 00:29:31.570 --> 00:29:35.860 first time you see this loom spider runaway there's no real explanation 00:29:35.860 --> 00:29:39.640 about this but I'm guessing the upcoming Hornet DLC will shed more light on 00:29:39.640 --> 00:29:45.730 what's going on here also midwife is clearly involved in Hornets creation but 00:29:45.730 --> 00:29:49.870 she doesn't really tell us much about how exactly Hornet was created honestly 00:29:49.870 --> 00:29:54.540 unless we can get all these guys on Maury we're not gonna know for sure and 00:29:54.540 --> 00:29:59.530 so with the pale King and her as steel struck she lurin and modem on became the 00:29:59.530 --> 00:30:02.950 dreamers the challah knight was chained up in the temple of the black egg and 00:30:02.950 --> 00:30:06.430 the dreamers went into an endless slumber where they placed a seal over 00:30:06.430 --> 00:30:10.810 the temple from the dream world to memorials were built one in the city of 00:30:10.810 --> 00:30:16.030 tears and one in the resting grounds to commemorate the sacrifices made also at 00:30:16.030 --> 00:30:20.650 some point between all this the whole night hit puberty or something this has 00:30:20.650 --> 00:30:24.340 actually led to a lot of questions being asked about why the Halle night grew but 00:30:24.340 --> 00:30:29.500 none of the other siblings grew my theory Flintstones chewable vitamins so 00:30:29.500 --> 00:30:33.340 at this point the radiance was trapped inside a vessel that was chained up 00:30:33.340 --> 00:30:37.120 inside a temple that was surrounded by an interdimensional telepathic 00:30:37.120 --> 00:30:44.070 forcefield stationed all the way up at the top of the world and it didn't work 00:30:46.500 --> 00:30:50.620 it was at this point when the pale King and the white Palace suddenly vanished 00:30:50.620 --> 00:30:54.940 into thin air the white lady in fierce Tyrel retreated to the Queen's garden 00:30:54.940 --> 00:30:59.800 dyra died fighting off infected mantises while the white lady rooted herself into 00:30:59.800 --> 00:31:04.540 the ground mighty head Jamal got his armor stolen by a maggot who the player 00:31:04.540 --> 00:31:10.210 later finds under the name false Knight yeah nice job mighty head Jamal but this 00:31:10.210 --> 00:31:16.990 doesn't mean that hegemon August 6 2017 team cherry held an AMA on reddit where 00:31:16.990 --> 00:31:20.440 they answered questions about the game it was revealed in this thread that a 00:31:20.440 --> 00:31:25.660 Jamel couldn't live without his armor which makes sense I mean I certainly 00:31:25.660 --> 00:31:28.530 hope he wasn't born wearing a giant suit of armor 00:31:28.530 --> 00:31:32.920 mysterious Emir remained in the resting grounds waiting for some poor sucker to 00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:37.480 attempt her soul-crushing side quest so they could get a peace of heart loyal 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:40.230 Agra moved into the Royal waterways and chain 00:31:40.230 --> 00:31:45.540 his name - dung defender now I'm not gonna get too hard on this guy we all 00:31:45.540 --> 00:31:49.020 have our fetishes it may not be copper philia but teach 00:31:49.020 --> 00:31:53.880 their own you know but Oh grams love is not exclusive to excrement he acts as 00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:57.809 the protector of isthmus Grove has is only accessible after beating him in 00:31:57.809 --> 00:32:03.390 combat his Musgrove is the Grove where kindly yzma is she is dead by the time 00:32:03.390 --> 00:32:06.900 the player finds her however it is clear from the dunk offenders dialogue that 00:32:06.900 --> 00:32:10.620 Agra man disma had some sort of relationship as to whether or not he 00:32:10.620 --> 00:32:15.600 gave her a dirty sanchez or something I don't know the game never discloses 00:32:15.600 --> 00:32:19.410 hornets whereabouts during all this at some point it seems possible that she 00:32:19.410 --> 00:32:22.950 spent a good deal of time with the white lady this would make sense because the 00:32:22.950 --> 00:32:25.890 white lady could have been the one who explained a Hornet everything she knows 00:32:25.890 --> 00:32:29.940 about how to stop the infection in the previously mentioned reddit AMA a 00:32:29.940 --> 00:32:34.080 developer from Team cherry mentioned the original plans for Hornets lore they 00:32:34.080 --> 00:32:38.549 involved Hornet being raised by Hera the white lady and Vespa the queen of the 00:32:38.549 --> 00:32:43.020 hive hence the name Hornet this is actually pretty badass but we don't know 00:32:43.020 --> 00:32:47.520 for sure if this is still Horne his backstory in the game over time the 00:32:47.520 --> 00:32:51.330 player character and several other failed vessels escaped the abyss ending 00:32:51.330 --> 00:32:55.110 up in various locations the player character leaves hollow nest and wanders 00:32:55.110 --> 00:32:59.070 into the wilderness beyond the howling cliffs at this point the collapse of 00:32:59.070 --> 00:33:02.640 holliness seemed inevitable the kingdom was sealed away from the rest of the 00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:06.410 world with the well in dirt mouth being one of the only ways to get back inside 00:33:06.410 --> 00:33:10.290 dirt mouth itself remained unaffected because of its location on the surface 00:33:10.290 --> 00:33:15.660 oh I guess it was that easy but slowly the bugs that live there decide to 00:33:15.660 --> 00:33:19.200 travel into hollow nest leaving the elder bug is one of the few remaining 00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:24.660 survivors time within the kingdom froze and howl nest was left incomplete stasis 00:33:24.660 --> 00:33:30.360 and basically that's all that happens before the game starts for the rest of 00:33:30.360 --> 00:33:33.630 this video I'll explain the plot as if the player is going for the dream no 00:33:33.630 --> 00:33:39.150 more ending which is the good ending to the game the player character who I will 00:33:39.150 --> 00:33:43.380 refer to as the knight is called back to hollowness by some force they arrive in 00:33:43.380 --> 00:33:47.280 dirt mouth and descend into hollow nest the knight encounters Hornet who it 00:33:47.280 --> 00:33:51.120 first dismisses their abilities Hornet again appears in the Steve tears where 00:33:51.120 --> 00:33:53.730 she encourages the knight to travel to kingdom's edge 00:33:53.730 --> 00:33:58.230 to the corpse of the pale Kings original form during this conversation Hornet 00:33:58.230 --> 00:34:02.220 says that the night holds a resilience of two voids the two voids she is 00:34:02.220 --> 00:34:05.910 referring to are the void the night is made of and the void that exists outside 00:34:05.910 --> 00:34:09.270 of hollow nest leaving colonists appears to cause bugs 00:34:09.270 --> 00:34:13.440 to lose their memories or even their minds quarrel is an example of a bug 00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:17.190 that lost his memory from entering the void beyond hallow nest quarrel was 00:34:17.190 --> 00:34:20.670 originally an assistant to modem on when the night Meets quarrel - being in the 00:34:20.670 --> 00:34:25.170 game however he has no recollection of any of this this means that the night 00:34:25.170 --> 00:34:29.400 probably has no memory of anything at the start of the game at kingdoms edge 00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:33.630 Hornet challenges the night one last time the night wins and they travel into 00:34:33.630 --> 00:34:37.110 the corpse of worm where they obtained the Kings brand which allows the knight 00:34:37.110 --> 00:34:42.270 to travel into the abyss at some point the knight visits the dreamers shrine in 00:34:42.270 --> 00:34:46.260 the resting grounds where the dreamers appear to the knight the dreamers admit 00:34:46.260 --> 00:34:49.740 that their powers are not working to stop the infection but remember that 00:34:49.740 --> 00:34:54.300 their sworn duty to the King is to keep the seal in place at this point madam on 00:34:54.300 --> 00:34:58.320 Lauren and Hera make the executive decision to lock the night away forever 00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:02.089 in the dream world 00:35:02.089 --> 00:35:09.210 hello darkness my old friend but the night is immediately rescued by some 00:35:09.210 --> 00:35:13.200 flying moth creature yeah the dreamers really suck at their 00:35:13.200 --> 00:35:18.210 job darkness mom this moth gives the night a little pep talk before giving 00:35:18.210 --> 00:35:22.530 them the dream nail after the sequence the night awakens in the presence of the 00:35:22.530 --> 00:35:26.970 seer the sole survivor of the moth race the seer tells the night to obtain 00:35:26.970 --> 00:35:30.839 essence in order to sharpen the dream nail once the night collects 18-hundred 00:35:30.839 --> 00:35:35.430 essence the dream nail transforms into the awoken dream nail with the dream 00:35:35.430 --> 00:35:39.089 nail the night breaks the seal on the black egg temple by visiting the three 00:35:39.089 --> 00:35:43.079 dreamers and murdering them in their dreams Freddy Krueger style the night 00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:46.380 travels to the abyss using the Kings brand to unlock the gate that kept the 00:35:46.380 --> 00:35:49.799 realms sealed away for so long there the knight receives the shade 00:35:49.799 --> 00:35:53.760 cloak which allows them to pass through these annoying ass barriers which gives 00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:57.030 the knight access to the building in Queens garden where the reclusive white 00:35:57.030 --> 00:35:59.490 lady lives the white lady gives the knight the 00:35:59.490 --> 00:36:03.329 first half of a charm called the King soul which is a symbol of the union 00:36:03.329 --> 00:36:07.829 between two higher beings the second half of the Kings soul is located in the 00:36:07.829 --> 00:36:11.460 white palace which can only be reached by using the awakened dream nail on the 00:36:11.460 --> 00:36:15.630 corpse of a king's mold in the ancient basin after a ridiculous amount of 00:36:15.630 --> 00:36:19.859 platforming bullshit the knight finds the second half the Kings soul next to 00:36:19.859 --> 00:36:31.540 the corpse of the pale King but as The Pale King really dead 00:36:31.660 --> 00:36:36.710 according to the manual for hollow light the king is just in hiding also we're in 00:36:36.710 --> 00:36:40.220 the dream world which could mean that this is just a memory of the pale king 00:36:40.220 --> 00:36:45.500 and not the real pale king but we know that the real white palace vanished and 00:36:45.500 --> 00:36:49.640 that this body is very close to where the palace originally stood meaning that 00:36:49.640 --> 00:36:53.330 this could be the real white palace inside the dream world with the real 00:36:53.330 --> 00:36:58.340 pale King sitting dead on the throne but the pale King has been known a cheat 00:36:58.340 --> 00:37:02.450 death it's possible that the pale king reincarnated again into a different 00:37:02.450 --> 00:37:06.620 creature also what would have even killed him did he accidentally walk into 00:37:06.620 --> 00:37:10.280 one of the hundreds of saw blades that he has around the castle if that's the 00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:14.270 case then he deserved to die but there is a chance that the King soul 00:37:14.270 --> 00:37:18.860 is literally the Kings soul salut bruh the bug that sells charm to the night 00:37:18.860 --> 00:37:22.490 reveals that some charms are created from the dying wishes of bugs 00:37:22.490 --> 00:37:26.420 there are many charms in the game that confirmed this such as Joanie's blessing 00:37:26.420 --> 00:37:30.740 and - master and after equipping the Kings soul the white lady says she feels 00:37:30.740 --> 00:37:34.940 like she's in the presence of worm once again the pale King might have died in 00:37:34.940 --> 00:37:38.420 the white palace and his wish to free hollowness resulted in creating the 00:37:38.420 --> 00:37:43.610 Kings soul but if that's the case why is the charm broken in half if the Queen 00:37:43.610 --> 00:37:46.580 take half of the Kings soul after the bail King died and if the charms 00:37:46.580 --> 00:37:50.750 description mentions a union so the charm might have existed a long time 00:37:50.750 --> 00:37:56.030 before the Kings death but the pale Kings final words are no cost - great 00:37:56.030 --> 00:37:59.840 those sound like the words of a person who was willing to sacrifice himself to 00:37:59.840 --> 00:38:05.360 end the infection but they never did find Tupac's body and also you're 00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:10.100 telling me that jet fuel can't even melt passports and why is it that Ross Geller 00:38:10.100 --> 00:38:16.420 is 29 in seasons three four and five of friends there's only one plausible 00:38:16.420 --> 00:38:22.280 explanation people he's probably dead either way the night Lutz the body and 00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:25.670 the Kings soul is complete after chaining the Kings soul the knight 00:38:25.670 --> 00:38:29.900 travels down into the abyss at a new area is unlocked there the knight can 00:38:29.900 --> 00:38:32.780 strike a big black ball with the awakened dream nail to reveal a 00:38:32.780 --> 00:38:37.100 flashback to when the pale King and the hollow Knight leave the abyss the Kings 00:38:37.100 --> 00:38:40.880 soul is then replaced by another charm called the void heart according to the 00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:44.480 in-game description the void heart unifies the void under the bay 00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:49.099 we'll what I think is happening with this fear is that the night is hitting 00:38:49.099 --> 00:38:52.790 their own reflection with the dream nail allowing them access into their own mind 00:38:52.790 --> 00:38:56.810 and memories the Kings soul turning into the void heart is one unlocks and new 00:38:56.810 --> 00:39:01.010 endings for the game it's an important moment because now the night is not just 00:39:01.010 --> 00:39:05.960 made of void but has control over all of the void throughout the entire game the 00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:10.010 nightshade and the siblings attacked the night but after obtaining the void heart 00:39:10.010 --> 00:39:14.329 these enemies become docile with complete control over all of the void 00:39:14.329 --> 00:39:19.450 the knight now has enough power in order to defeat the radiance once and for all 00:39:19.450 --> 00:39:23.570 after obtaining the void heart the knight enters the temple of the black 00:39:23.570 --> 00:39:28.160 egg unchanged a hollow Knight and the two begin to fight partway through the 00:39:28.160 --> 00:39:32.180 battle the hall Knight goes all 13 reasons why on us and begins mutilating 00:39:32.180 --> 00:39:36.050 itself a possible explanation for this is that the whole night is trying to 00:39:36.050 --> 00:39:40.280 help the knight by weakening itself while not in the final game the dream 00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:44.060 nail dialogue for the hollow night has been data mined most of it just appears 00:39:44.060 --> 00:39:49.790 to be thoughts from the radiance things like kill and shall blaze free there are 00:39:49.790 --> 00:39:53.960 a few interesting lines here however kill the usurper our light it would 00:39:53.960 --> 00:39:57.770 suffocate this line implies that the knight will be able to contain the 00:39:57.770 --> 00:40:01.640 radiance completely another interesting line seems to be coming from the hollow 00:40:01.640 --> 00:40:08.480 night itself father yeah that's weird maybe the howl and I noticed the Kings 00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:12.829 soul consumed inside the void heart or maybe the King's brand or maybe the poor 00:40:12.829 --> 00:40:16.700 thing has just gone insane regardless these lines of dialogue were cut from 00:40:16.700 --> 00:40:20.630 the final game so we have to be cautious when analyzing them at some point during 00:40:20.630 --> 00:40:24.470 the fight Hornet pierces the hollow Knights shell a knight uses the dream 00:40:24.470 --> 00:40:28.900 nail to enter the hollow Knights mind there the knight challenges the radiance 00:40:28.900 --> 00:40:33.650 during the fight the dream nail can be used on the radiance she says things 00:40:33.650 --> 00:40:39.589 like dawn shall break and I do not fear you at some point she calls the knight 00:40:39.589 --> 00:40:44.390 her ancient enemy now when I hear this the only two things I can think she's 00:40:44.390 --> 00:40:49.280 referring to are the pale King or the void without the pale King the knight 00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:53.510 would probably never have existed so that does make sense again it's also 00:40:53.510 --> 00:40:56.380 possible that the radiance detects the Kings soul inside the knight 00:40:56.380 --> 00:40:59.950 however maybe this dialogue is hinting at some greater fight between the 00:40:59.950 --> 00:41:02.950 radiance and the void maybe the radiance and the void have 00:41:02.950 --> 00:41:06.069 some other beef that happened long before the arrival of the pale King 00:41:06.069 --> 00:41:09.579 maybe it had something to do with the fall of the ancient civilization that we 00:41:09.579 --> 00:41:13.420 learn about during the game who knows maybe team cherry will make a 00:41:13.420 --> 00:41:18.759 prequel saga to explain it all anyway as the fight continues the siblings and the 00:41:18.759 --> 00:41:22.900 hall and I appear in the dream world and help the night corner the radiance the 00:41:22.900 --> 00:41:26.710 void starts holding the radiance down using its void tentacles and while I 00:41:26.710 --> 00:41:30.460 think we've all seen enough hentai to know where this is going acting is one 00:41:30.460 --> 00:41:38.470 the void engulfs the radiance in total darkness after the battle ends there's a 00:41:38.470 --> 00:41:42.849 cutscene showing the void seeping into the ground Hornet wakes up and finds the 00:41:42.849 --> 00:41:46.989 night shattered shell and a final shot shows siblings returning back into the 00:41:46.989 --> 00:41:51.099 earth the radiance has been consumed and the infection has presumably ceased 00:41:51.099 --> 00:41:56.650 completely hopefully this video was able to help you better understand the plot 00:41:56.650 --> 00:41:59.920 to holla night it's definitely a bit more complicated than your average 00:41:59.920 --> 00:42:05.920 platformer however there are still many unanswered questions like what's the 00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:10.539 deal with the bugs wearing masks how does the pale king's foresight abilities 00:42:10.539 --> 00:42:14.799 play into the story clearly there was some sort of plan put in place for the 00:42:14.799 --> 00:42:19.779 knight to defeat the radiance was The Pale King involved in this and most 00:42:19.779 --> 00:42:25.630 importantly why the fuck are there god damn jellyfish in a game about bugs it 00:42:25.630 --> 00:42:30.729 makes no sense come on team Jerry what kind of entomology textbooks are 00:42:30.729 --> 00:42:34.779 they selling you in Australia but yeah other than the jellyfish this game is 00:42:34.779 --> 00:42:40.900 fucking perfect I love everything about Halle Knight so now that we've mapped 00:42:40.900 --> 00:42:45.759 out most of the plot to this game what's the message is there a greater meaning 00:42:45.759 --> 00:42:49.599 to it all people have argued that the White Walkers in Game of Thrones are an 00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:54.009 allegory for climate change they're wrong but maybe Halle Knight has some 00:42:54.009 --> 00:42:59.619 sort of similar allegorical message JRR Tolkien flat-out said that the Lord of 00:42:59.619 --> 00:43:03.489 the Rings is not an allegory at all it's literally just about some short people 00:43:03.489 --> 00:43:06.370 with big feet who hate jewelry or something 00:43:06.370 --> 00:43:10.900 maybe holla night is a cautionary tale about the dangers of temptation and how 00:43:10.900 --> 00:43:14.800 we shouldn't let our desires control us maybe it's a story about the dangers of 00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:18.700 imperialism and how trying to destroy the cultures of others only leads to 00:43:18.700 --> 00:43:22.660 more destruction perhaps holo night is a tragic love 00:43:22.660 --> 00:43:26.140 story between an orphan girl and her mutant vertically challenged half 00:43:26.140 --> 00:43:31.120 sibling it might also be a warning about how exposed the human races to disease 00:43:31.120 --> 00:43:35.720 and how easily a Pam demek could wipe us all out 00:43:35.720 --> 00:43:39.550 or maybe moths are just assholes