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