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The question of whether the playable Hornet expansion

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is a sequel or a prequel, has been plaguing me

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for as long as I can remember.

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I lie awake every night, just begging Team Cherry

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to finally

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give us an answer.

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But I know they're just laughing.

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Laughing at me. But not anymore. I think I

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finally figured it out. The answer to what Silksong's about

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has been right in front of us the entire time.

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And all it took to see was a little help, an unlikely ally.

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The French.

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Ah yes. The French. I don't get to

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talk much about them

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on this channel. But today, that

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finally changes.

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I love the French. I mean, if Team Cherry was French,

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you'd bet we'd be getting that Snail Village.

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So that's a big plus right there. Anyway, by the name of

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Buisson, pointed out to me an interesting

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line of dialogue found in the French translation of Hollow Knight. Here's

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the dialogue in question.

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An alarm bell should be going off in your head right now.

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Now first, let's look at the line in English.

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Hornet says the following: "An old kingdom. . .

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a terrible thing awakens. I can smell it in the air.

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I know what you are. I know what you try to do. I

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can't allow it." Now let's go back to the French translation.

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You see it, don't you? There's an extra line in

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here.

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J'ai beaucoup trop tardé à revenir.

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Now Buisson told me that this translates to:

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"This ancient kingdom. . . I took too much time to come

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back.

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Now, a terrible thing awakens."

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I ran up through Google Translate just to make sure I wasn't being hoodwinked. And it checks out. I talked to some of

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the lovely people who run the Hollow Knight wiki.

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And according to them, this line of dialogue does not appear in the

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Spanish or German translations of the game.

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But it does show up in the developer's notes of version

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1.0.0.6 of Hollow Knight. It says:

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"THE LINE I've returned late.

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has currently been removed. Should it be in there?"

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In other words, when Hornet first met the Knight in Greenpath,

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she was originally going to mention she had spent too much time being

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away from Hallownest.

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This line of dialogue was removed before the game was released.

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But somehow, this line was not removed from the French

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translation. This is huge. If Hornet was outside

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of Hallownest all the way until right before the events of Hollow Knight,

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then this strongly implies that Silksong, is in fact, a prequel.

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Of course this line of dialogue was from way back when Hollow Knight first came out. It might not reflect

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Team Cherry's plan for Silksong at all.

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But honestly, this makes a lot of sense.

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None of Hornet's dialogue implies that she spent her whole life in

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Hallownest. So this theory doesn't contradict anything

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she says. If we look at that manual for Hollow Knight,

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we get a very interesting description for Hornet. It describes her as a mysterious

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wanderer seeking answers in Hallownest's deepest depths.

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So how is Hornet a wanderer?

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It seems to imply that Hornet has been outside Hallownest

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since some point, before the events of the game. In Hollow Knight,

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all we really know about Hornet's goal, in Hallownest, is that

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she guards the King's Brand. We don't know why,

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or for how long. Does Hornet do this just because

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she learned during the events of Silksong? Again,

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the fact that this dialogue was ever in the game in the first place

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connects this all together. The developer's notes I

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mentioned earlier was also removed from the game in a later update.

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Which to me, is a red flag that Team Cherry

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did not want us to see it. You think you're so smart, don't you

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Team Cherry? Well, your game is up!

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I have all the evidence I need to finally declare that Silksong is a

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prequel. That's right, I went full circle, baby.

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So when Team Cherry says that Silksong is a sequel to Hollow Knight,

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they just mean that it's the second installment in the series.

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Kinda like Marley & Me 2. It's

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called Marley & Me 2, but for obvious reasons, it's actually a

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prequel.

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Actually, fuck Marley & Me 2! Silksong is God-

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father Part II. It's a sequel AND a prequel.

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The game will start before the events of

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Hollow Knight, and then Hornet will travel back to Hallownest,

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and then we'll play through the events of Hollow Knight as Hornet.

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And the game will end with the Godmaster ending.

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It makes so much sense, guys. Think Dark Souls III

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or Pokemon Gold and Silver.

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Let's just place Hallownest back into Silksong. I mean, it's Free Real Estate.

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In fact, Team Cherry said this in a Reddit AMA, back in 2017. According to Ari,

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some of Hornet's story will take place in all new areas,

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though we yet have to specify how much of adventure

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takes place in Hallownest, old or new zones.

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So what do you think guys? Do you think we have cracked this whole thing wide

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open? Or have I just been thinking about Silksong for

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so long, I'm starting to lose touch with reality?

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That, my friends, is for you to decide.

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Au revoir.