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E3 has once again reared its ugly head upon
us, and Team Cherry has decided to grace us

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with a playable demo for Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Unfortunately, William and Ari decided to

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stay in Australia this year. Did last year’s
trip leave them permanently scarred from the

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horrors of the L.A. transportation system?
Of course we can only speculate. But even

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without William or Ari’s presence, we still
got a lot of info about Silksong to plow through.

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Nintendo Treehouse did an excellent segment
on the game, and we also have a few off screen

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videos to go through as well. But first let
me give my overall thoughts on E3 2019. *Farting

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noise

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So we have quite a few recording of Silksong
from E3. But this one by Harker is the only

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video to actually give us a look at the title
screen for Silksong. And yeah, it’s fucking

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awesome. I wish we had better footage of it,
but I guess nobody wanted to stare at the

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title screen for 20 seconds like I would have.
Anyway, there are two zones available to play

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in the demo, the Moss Grotto and the Deep
Docks. Both of these areas appear to be early

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on in the game, located at the bottom of the
kingdom of Pharloom. That’s right, the name

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of the Kingdom in Silksong is Pharloom. Like
Far as in “far from Hallownest”, and loom

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as in “a frame or machine for interlacing
at right angles two or more sets of threads

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or yarns to form a cloth”. Wouldn’t have
been my first choice for a name, but I guess

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it’s okay.

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That game starts off with a poem. Very classy.
All great media starts off with a poem. Like

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my recent creepypasta, for example. Although
it pains me to call this a poem since it doesn’t

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even rhyme. Maybe it’s slam poetry or something.
The poem is titled Pharloom’s Folly and

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it was written by the Conductor Romino. It
reads:

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They see your beauty, so frail and fine,
They see your peace, woven of faith and toil,

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They forget your heart, bound in slumber and
servitude,

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When you wake they shall see your truth,
A beast’s nature bare to all.

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So the author of this poem appears to be speaking
directly to Pharloom, or whoever or whatever

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power Pharloom operates on. This could be
similar to the Elegy for Hallownest, which

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was more or less speaking directly to the
Pale King. Pharloom’s Folly seems to tell

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the story of how Pharloom’s people forgot
about the true nature of the heart of the

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kingdom. The poem then warns about what will
happen when this nature is awoken. This awakening

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might have already happened, as this poem
might have been written a long ass time ago.

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Digging deeper into this, the first two lines
go into detail about the citizens of Pharloom.

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It appears as though the citizens kept the
heart of Pharloom at peace through faith and

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toil. If I were to wildly speculate, I might
be able to link this back to the bells. The

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bells do seem tied to some sort of faith or
religion, and the bugs of Pharloom appear

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to be endlessly toiling to create more of
them.

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The next line in the poem tells us what Pharloom’s
folly actually is. The citizens have forgotten

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about the heart of the kingdom, as they have
kept this heart in slumber and servitude.

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In other words, these bugs have kept something
bound for a really long time. They appear

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to be doing this as a way to gain some kind
of service. But this has been going on for

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so long that the citizens of Pharloom have
forgotten just what they are dealing with.

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In the last two lines it is explained that
once the heart of the kingdom awakens from

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its slumber, the citizens will finally see
its beast-like nature.

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I will be calling back to this poem a few
times so you might want to write it down on

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a sticky note or something. But for now, let’s
move on to the opening cutscene. Part of this

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cutscene was already shown off in the reveal
trailer, but the new shots we got are not

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only beautiful, but also really important.
It’s like Team Cherry cut all of the best

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bits from the reveal trailer. What a tease!
The first new detail we got was that this

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cage is surrounded by what appears to be a
Seal of Binding. At least that’s what the

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Treehouse hosts call it. “No, it seems like
there’s some sort of Seal of Binding as

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well on this.” That’s right, these ladies
actually know a little bit of Hollow Knight

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lore. In fact, they are even able to give
a few new tidbits of lore during the event.

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“These enemies seem to have some sort of
curse”

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“I do believe that’s the Church Keeper…”

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“I’ve been terrorized by fleas in my past.”

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“It’s okay, Katie.”

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Getting back to the Seal of Binding, this
explains why Hornet was never able to escape

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the cage when she was first captured. Anyway,
we now get a shot of Hornet’s captors carrying

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her through some sort of archway. This is
likely the proper entrance to Pharloom. This

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next scene finally gives us a clue about how
Hornet escaped. This glowing white bug lands

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on the cage, and destroys the Seal of Binding.
Now that’s OP as fuck. I don’t know why

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Team Cherry keeps giving insane powers to
these tiny, white glowing objects. Actually,

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you know what? That’s not a bad idea. I’m
gonna use that in my creepypasta.

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After the Seal of Binding is destroyed, we
get that same scene of thread coming out of

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Hornet as her expression changes. The threads
destroy the bridge and everyone falls into

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the darkness below. Now the big question here
is what exactly is happening to Hornet? Maybe

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with the seals gone, Hornet’s abilities
came back to her, allowing her to unleash

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her thread and escape. I’ve theorized in
the past that the thread coming out of her

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was the result of some power that Pharloom
has over those who enter it. And that’s

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still possible, Hornet does seem pretty shocked
about what’s happening, implying that she

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isn’t completely in control of the situation.
I don’t feel too strongly about either explanation,

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so I’ll leave it up to you to decide.

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And now we arrive at the Moss Grotto. Hornet’s
needle pierces into the ground and you have

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to use the bind ability to get up. Binding
in Silksong requires Hornet to spend her entire

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spool of thread in order to heal three masks
of damage. In the demo, the thread now has

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8 notches instead of 12 like in the reveal
trailer. Binding appears to have replaced

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focusing from Hollow Knight, and allows for
much faster gameplay. Instead of playing it

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safe, waiting for a chance to spend a little
soul to heal, you are now encouraged to be

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aggressive. Keep landing hit so that you can
heal a bunch of damage.

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Now in one part of the demo, Hornet gets hit
at the end of her heal, and all three masks

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disappear. This has led to some confusion
about how getting hit while healing works.

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In this particular instance, I think it’s
just a glitch in the HUD. We can see Hornet

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get hit two more times after this, but her
she never loses any masks. I think this is

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because Hornet still has those masks, but
they just aren’t showing up on the HUD.

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I’ll get more into movement later, but the
Bind ability is a good glimpse into what makes

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Silksong different from Hollow Knight. People
compare Silksong to being like what Bloodborne

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is to Dark Souls or what Spectre of Torment
is to Shovel Knight, or what Garfield Kart

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is to Garfield and I’d say that those are
all pretty apt comparisons.

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Getting into Moss Grotto proper, there are
a lot of cool details that I want to point

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out. First of all, the moss underneath Hornet’s
feet actually reacts to being stepped on.

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You see, this is the small shit that gets
me really excited. Killing enemies in this

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area will get you shell shards. Shell shards
are described as being fossilised fragments

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of shell and bone. This item can be used for
crafting tools, which we will see later on

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in the next part of the demo. Shell shards
can also be found by breaking these weird

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statues.

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Now you didn’t hear this from me, but it
appears as though silk will be very important

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in this game, seeing as there are many natural
silk reserves in the world, similar to soul

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totems in Hollow Knight. In the Moss Grotto
we have these spider webs resting on vines.

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I really hope each area in Silksong has different
designs like this. It helps each area feel

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more distinct, instead of just finding Soul
Totems all over the map, including the Royal

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Waterways for some reason.

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In terms of enemies, we have this spikey moss
baby and this flying spikey moss baby. I’m

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sure they have really cute names like mossbug
or winged mossbug or something dumb like that.

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Moving on, we also have this little guy. He
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Sonic the Hedgehog. But not only that, if
you go right instead of left at the beginning

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of the demo, you can find this secret location.
Here, you’ll find a giant version of the

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same bug. And if you hit it, it gets super
pissed. I have no idea how Team Cherry expected

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anyone to fight that thing. I’m guessing
they just stuck it here as an easter egg and

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will give it a big arena later. Or maybe this
is supposed to be some kind of ascended arena

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or some shit.

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Now during the treehouse event, the hosts
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in a manner similar to the bugs of Hallownest.
We can already see in this area of the game

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that enemies give off silk fibers when they
are hit. In one of my other Silksong speculation

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videos, I talked about the different colored
particles that came off of different enemies.

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But in this demo, some bugs have been changed.
But they still all give off silk, so that

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appears to be the common thread between all
of these enemies. And just like with the infection

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in Hollow Knight, this silk is probably tied
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At the end of the Moss Grotto area is the
Old Church subarea. There, Hornet must fight

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a boss called the Moss Mother. Now people
have been saying that this thing is actually

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my mother. Which makes this line much more awkward.

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“It also looks like a total bitch.”

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Moss Mother seems to be a sort of parallel
to the Gruz Mother, since that was also a

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mother, and also lived in a church, and was
also was a total bitch. But maybe I’m wrong.

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Maybe this boss might actually be pretty tough.
She definitely gave a lot of pro gamers trouble.

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Here’s a reporter from Kotaku dying to her.
“Hubris there. Hubris,folks.”

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After the battle, Hornet is knocked unconscious
when this silhouette does… nothing. And

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then she starts laughing. For all she knows,
Hornet just had a heart attack! According

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to Katie, the woman playing the game for the
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who might act as a guide for Hornet throughout
the game. We know from the Silksong reveal

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trailer that the Church Keeper teaches Hornet
how to play her needle like a stringed instrument.

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We still don’t see any of this in the demo,
so the utility of this ability still remains

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up in the air.

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Before we leave the Moss Grotto, I wanted
to call attention to these strange doors that

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can be found on either side of the map. The
face designs appear to be based on the Weavers.

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There is no way to open these doors in the
demo, so we’ll have to wait to see what

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might be hidden behind them. More importantly,
this strengthens the argument that Pharloom

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was the original home for the Weavers.

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And now let’s move on to the second area
of the game, the Deep Docks. In this section,

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Hornet gains more of her moveset. She gets
access to her tool by pressing R. She gets

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her sprint, which is activated by holding
ZR. And she gets a skill move using the X

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button. Looking at the footage that was recorded
on the show floor, it seems like Hornet is

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a little difficult to control at first. When
using the downward strike in Silksong, Hornet

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will lunge down diagonally, making spacing
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When sprinting Hornet can perform a long jump,
which is used to reach a mask shard. She is

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also capable of grabbing ledges. And if you
press in the right joystick, she does a cute

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little taunt. All of these movement abilities
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Here in the Deep Docks, we see lever operated
platformers, a room filled with hot coals

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that Hornet has to run on and a room with
lava falls that fucked up a ton of people

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playing the demo. I’m really happy to see
this greater emphasis on platforming. The

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biggest problem with Hollow Knight for me
was that it didn’t have enough areas like

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the White Palace.

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Let’s take a look at Hornet’s inventory.
So we have Hornet’s cloak, known as the

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Hunter’s cloak, which confirms that Hornet
has pockets that allow her to store things

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like giant ass buzzsaws so that’s good.
We have the needle which is described as being

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perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

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Next up, we have the Thread Spool. This item
tells us that silk thread is produced naturally

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within Hornet’s shell. So how exactly does
hitting enemies cause Hornet to naturally

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produce silk thread? Does it have to do with
the fact that these enemies release silk fibers

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when they get hit? And then Hornet is taking
these fibers and turning them into thread?

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Is this related to soul at all? Can Hornet
even manipulate soul? She is the daughter

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of the Pale King, so it’s not an unbelievable
suggestion.

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Hornet also has a tool kit, which is likely
what holds all of the weapons we saw in the

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reveal trailer. There’s a description of
the mask shard, which says “Mask Pieces

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2”. This is probably just placeholder text,
indicating that the player currently has two

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masks shards, given that the player collects
one later and is shown to have three of them.

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There’s also the description for the Mossberry,
which is an item that is mentioned in a quest

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we saw in the reveal trailer.

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Now let’s talk about Rosaries and Shell
Shards. Rosaries are the new currency found

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in Silksong. They are described as being holy,
and having patterns etched into them. What

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I like about this item is that none of the
enemies in the Moss Grotto drop them, which

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makes sense, since these bugs have probably
never used currency living in the wilderness.

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It never made sense that Primal Aspids would
be carrying Geo after all. What are they gonna

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do with it? Go to a matinee?

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Now there is an item that we don’t have
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But we do have a description of it from the
Nintendo Live Treehouse hosts. Basically they

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state that Hornet will lose all of her rosaries
upon death. It’s unclear whether or not

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she can retrieve them, but as of this demo,
she cannot. But they do go on to explain that

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rosaries on a string won’t be lost. They
then mention that they kept breaking their

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rosary strings to get the rosaries. So I think
Rosary Strings act like Boss Souls from Dark

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Souls. It’s just a regular item, but you
can spend it to receive a certain amount of

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currency.

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Shell shards aren’t currency like rosaries,
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they are still important collectables in Silksong.
In the Deep Docks demo, Hornet has access

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to a tool described as a straight pin. When
Hornet uses a pin, this wheel decreases. The

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one only way to replenish Hornet’s tool
is to sit at a bench. Hornet will then use

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the shell shards to rebuild her tools. But
how exactly do you get a metal pin out of

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bone and shell? Are these benches able to
transmute matter? In the demo, Hornet is only

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able to hold 400 shell shards, meaning there
might be items in the game that increase how

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many you can hold.

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Since I brought up Hornet dying earlier, I
think it’s time we talk about… it. Now,

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as you know, the debate about whether or not
Hornet is a void being has been raging on

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for over two years now. For a long time now.
I have firmly believed that Hornet is not

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a void being, and I even made an amazing video
about it.

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But even after this video, there have been
people who have continued to believe a lie.

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Vysuals, a Hollow Knight speedrunner, even
made a fool of himself at ADGQ this year sharing

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his silly belief that Hornet is made of void.

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“Is Hornet void?”

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“Hornet is definitely void.”

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I’m sorry, Visuals, but isn’t your job
to see as little of the game as possible?

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Why should anybody trust you on lore?

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But despite what anyone thought, we all knew
that the answer would finally arrive once

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Hornet became a playable character. If Hornet
was a void being, similar to the Knight and

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the other vessels, then she would leave a
shade behind upon death. And now, after years

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of waiting, we finally have an answer.

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HORNET IS NOT FUCKING VOID. WHENEVER SHE GETS
HIT, SHE SPILLS WHITE PARTICLES LIKELY REPRESENTING

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SOUL. THIS IS DIFFERENT TO THE KNIGHT, WHO
ALWAYS SPILLED BLACK VOID PARTICLES. WHEN

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HORNET IS AT ONE HEALTH, SOUL WILL LEAK FROM
HER BODY AND HEALTH METER, SIMILAR TO HOW

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THE KNIGHT LEAKED VOID. WHEN HORNET DIES,
SHE EXPLODES INTO SOUL AND SILK UNTIL THE

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SCREEN GOES DARK. UPON RETURNING TO THE PLACE
OF HER DEATH, HORNET IS GREETED WITH A COCOON

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THAT REPLENISHES HER THREAD SPOOL. WHEN THE
KNIGHT DIES, ITS BODY CRUMBLES APART AS VOID

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PARTICLES APPEAR. A SHADE IS LEFT BEHIND THAT
THE KNIGHT HAS TO DEFEAT IN ORDER TO REGAIN

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ALL OF ITS SOUL METER. ALL OF THESE DETAILS
CLEARLY HINT AT HORNET NOT BEING RELATED TO

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THE VOID.

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But of course, we all knew it wouldn’t be
that easy. There are still those in the Hollow

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Knight community who believe that Hornet is
still a void entity. How is that? Well, it

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all has to do with how the screen goes black
after Hornet’s death. Some people believe

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that this is void violently erupting from
Hornet’s body. Here’s my counter argument.

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It’s just a screen transition.

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You see, screen transitions are important
in video games. They give the game a chance

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to load in new rooms, instances and other
shit without looking really weird. They are

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also useful for setting the pace while storytelling.
Here’s an example from the popular cartoon

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TV show, Ed, Edd n Eddy.

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“End of first sequence and fade to black.”

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You see the Eds weren’t being swallowed
up by void. They were just ending that scene.

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Hell, even I use screen transitions sometimes.
Here, watch.

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See how seamless that was? If

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I had just hard cut to this image, it would
have been really weird.

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Oh shit! Did you just

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see that? Hornet and her captors just got
attacked by a whole cascade of void. Oh wait,

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that was just a transition.

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But maybe I’m being too harsh on Team Vornet.
Let’s look at this scene where Hornet gets

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killed by the Moss Mother. Wow, that’s a
lotta void! There’s way more void there

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than anything that ever erupted out of the
Knight. I bet there must be void all over

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the Moss Mother’s lair now.

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“Oh my god.

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There’s VOID everywhere.

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My
house is full of VOID!

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He VOID everywhere!

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Look what he did, he VOID all over the wall!”

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Oh wait, there’s literally nothing here
but a silk cocoon. Now where did all of that

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pesky void go? Ah, who cares? It just disappeared.
It’s not like Hornet has to come to term

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with her regrets or anything. That was never
a part of Hollow Knight lore. /s

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Now of course, all of Hollow Knight lore is
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the beauty of this kind of storytelling. However,
when an interpretation is countered by numerous

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pieces of evidence found in the game, you
have to reevaluate your theory. If you still

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think Hornet is void, let me give you a quick
rundown of all of the issues you have to resolve

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with lore.

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Why doesn’t Hornet leave a shade?
Why doesn’t Hornet leak void like the Knight

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when at one health?
Why would Herrah sacrifice herself for brood,

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if her child would be killed and hollowed
out by void?

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Why does Hornet say “your birth” to the
Knight when talking about the Abyss? Why not

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say “our birth”?
What is the purpose of putting void in Hornet

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if she’s not meant to be a vessel for the
Radiance?

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Why does Hornet say she lacks the crucial
emptiness of the Knight when we know that

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“emptiness” is a phrase completely synonymous
with the void?

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Why does Hornet have a gender?
Why does Hornet say the bindings of the Black

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Egg would drain her if she’s a void being?
“How can my feet smell if they don’t have

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a nose?”

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If you think Hornet isn’t void, you have
the very difficult task of explaining why

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the screen goes black when she dies. Hmmm…
Yeah, it’s a real toss up, isn’t it.

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But hey, it’s not that big of a deal. Let’s
talk about what kind of characters can be

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found in the Deep Docks. The enemies found
here have already been shown off in the reveal

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trailer, aside from one. This guy uses a bell
cap as a form of defense, as well as a weapon

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to charge forward with. As we can see in the
demo, bells act as a form of protection against

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Hornet’s needle, requiring the player to
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But there are more than just enemies to be
found in this area. One new character is this

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weird looking thing that the Treehouse host
calls a flea. Not sure what the fuck kind

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of flea this is. These creatures appear to
be the replacement for the grubs from Hollow

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Knight. According to the treehouse host, these
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The Silksong website describes Hornet’s
journey to the top of Pharloom as a deadly

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pilgrimage. So between all of that, and the
numerous amounts of religious imagery in the

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game, we can see that Pharloom must offer
some kind of spiritual enlightenment. I don’t

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think we can really know how this works yet,
but it seems very likely that bells are somehow

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involved.

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Speaking of which, Hornet meets a few new
NPCs in the Deep Docks, a large bug known

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as Forge-Daughter and her assistant Ballow.
First of all, this gives us our first look

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at how dialogue will work in Silksong. However,
Hornet doesn’t “Listen” like the Knight

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does, she actually speaks. Dialogue from NPCs
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while Hornet’s dialogue is indicated with
her face, as well as a Weaver face. Hornet

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being able to talk will probably be one of
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Just from this conversation, we can see that
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to have before getting captured.

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This whole issue of what happens when bugs
leave Hallownest has troubled me to my very

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soul for quite some time now. Hornet is yet
another example that some bugs can maintain

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their minds and memories even after leaving
Hallownest. Is the specific example due to

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Hornet’s nature, or the Seal of Binding
protecting her? Regardless of the answer,

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I do believe this question will be answered
by the very virtue of Silksong taking place

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outside of Hallownest.

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Getting back to Forge-Daughter, she appears
to be the NPC that will give Hornet access

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to make new tools, weapons and accessories.
From what I can gather, it appears as though

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Hornet will have to find the right supplies,
and then Forge-Daughter will turn them into

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permanent items that Hornet can then replenish
using shell shards.

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Forge-Daughter also describes her work as
“the ancient line and honoured role.”

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Now the treehouse host mentions that the bugs
in this area appear to be gathering coal to

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send up to the citadel high above in Pharloom.
So whatever this process is, it must have

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been going on for a long time. It probably
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This could be related to the section mentioning
toil. This process does seem like it would

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be very difficult, and I don’t think OSHA
would be too happy with this work environment

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either.

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Another important nugget of information that
Forge-Daughter gives us is that the other

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bugs have indeed lost their senses. So this
whole silk thing is very similar to that of

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the infection from Hollow Knight. But is it
a hivemind? Possibly, but we don’t have

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the finer details quite yet.

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In this part of the demo, we also find an
interesting lore tablet. This tablet appears

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to be a list of instructions. When the bugs
hear certain bell tolls, they have to send

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Smokerock and Sweetmelt. These are likely
materials similar to what this bellhead is

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carrying in his fanny pack, and they might
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What’s interesting about this lore tablet
though, is that these materials are measured

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using measures and beats. Now, I’m not an
expert in music lore, but measures are used

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to indicate a period of time in a song, while
beats are when the actual notes are played.

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This further reinforces the importance of
song in this world. The last line these two

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instructions reads “Mark of fealty, all
workers”. Is this referring to the “faith”

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part of the “faith and toil” line from
Pharloom’s Folly? Or are the workers forced

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to show fealty to the bugs up in Pharloom?
Are we going to see some kind of deep class

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warfare commentary from Team Cherry?

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Now let’s turn our attention to one of the
most exciting parts of the demo, the fight

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with Lace. Lace’s dialogue in this section
is really entertaining. She sounds like such

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a brat. And the fight itself looks incredibly
frantic. Lace’s moves come out quick, and

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we can see here that Hornet has fewer invincibility
frames than the Knight. I really hope we get

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some kind of boss rush for Silksong like we
did in Hollow Knight, because I have the feeling

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these fights are going to be really fun.

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Before the fight starts, we can see that Lace
appears to be conducting these glowing bugs

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with her pin. This is a really important detail,
since a very similar bug is what removed the

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Seal of Binding from Hornet’s cage. Lace
might even be aware of this, since she mentions

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the cage that Hornet was trapped in. If this
is true, then it means that Lace might be

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working against the bugs we saw carry Hornet
into Pharloom.

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Lace tells Hornet that she will face suffering
as she continues her journey up through Pharloom,

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offering to kill Hornet instead. How nice!
Lace also keeps referring to Hornet as a “little

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spider”, which is weird since Hornet and
Lace are the same size, so she should probably

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just shut her mouth. But I think this tells
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place. They want her because she is a spider.
The bugs of Pharloom might be capturing spiders

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and using them to produce silk that the kingdom
uses. This is why we see a sleeping Weaver

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in the reveal trailer, it's been captured
and forced to produce silk. All of this might

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also tie back to Pharloom’s Folly, which
talks about a beast’s nature being revealed

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after it is awakened. Hornet’s mother, Herrah,
is called the “Herrah the Beast”, so the

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word beast might be synonymous with the word
spider. In other words, I think the bugs of

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Pharloom imprison spiders and force them to
produce silk.

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Lace, on the other hand, wants to keep these
spiders from being captured. That’s why

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she wants to kill Hornet. She doesn’t want
Hornet falling into the hands of these bugs.

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But this theory raises a few questions. Why
does Lace appear to be part of this bell cult

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if she disagrees with their plan? Her design
appears to be tied back to them, given she

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uses a pin similar to what other bugs in the
cult use. On top of that, Lace’s stupid

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headdress appears to be based on the stupid
headdresses that other religious people wore

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in the past such, as the cornette. So maybe
Lace has nothing to do with the bug that freed

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Hornet. The Treehouse host did say that Lace
was part of a group that was trying to impede

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Hornet’s journey, so there’s definitely
still more to her than what we know right

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now.

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A few other noteworthy details about this
fight. Lace gives off the same silk fibers

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that other enemies give off when hit, implying
that she has also been targeted by whatever

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is haunting Pharloom. However, Lace appears
to maintain her senses, given that she can

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shittalk Hornet. On top of that, Hornet also
explodes into silk when she dies. So I think

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it’s something that happens to everyone
in the kingdom, but it’s not clear how exactly

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it affects them yet.

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When staggered, Lace and the Moss Mother both
have this weird animation that shows up over

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their heads. I’m not sure why this was added
to the game. I’ve never had a problem with

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telling when a boss was staggered in Hollow
Knight, but maybe the bosses in Silksong get

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so frantic, that it was necessary to add this
effect in. Also, this fight was in the reveal

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trailer, and it appears as though they changed
the background. I think the background looks

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a lot better with that giant statue covered
in moss.

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After the fight, Hornet gains access to the
Wild Songshrine. In the shrine, there is a

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giant bell covered in silk. After removing
the silk, a lever appears which winds up the

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bell. Unfortunately, the Treehouse feed cuts
away right before the bell starts to ring.

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I have no idea why Nintendo thought that was
a good idea, but it angers me so. Luckily

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we still have footage of the bell ringing.
The most interesting detail here is that the

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Seal of Binding on the bell is white instead
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So I guess this means Grimace won’t be the
final boss of Silksong.

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So the big question here is, who covered the
bell in silk? Was it these guys, or Lace and

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her crew, or some other group that we haven’t
met yet? What does the bell even do? How does

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Hornet know it’s a good idea to ring them?
Is this bell related to the lore tablet we

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saw earlier? Is Taco Bell canon in this game?

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And there you have it, that’s pretty much
everything we can pull from the demo. But

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that doesn’t mean we’re done here yet.
We still have to talk about the footage shown

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during the Nintendo E3 direct. Now there was
some really great stuff shown off in the Nintendo

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Direct. So I’ll just list them real fast.

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Gooigi.

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5 seconds of Silksong footage.

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And that’s about it. Unfortunately, half
of this footage we got for Silksong was old,

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so we basically only got three seconds of
new footage.

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The first new shot we have is of Hornet using
her aerial tricks to bounce off a bunch of

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bells. This is yet another example of how
Silksong appears to be implementing more challenging

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platforming into its world. The second shot
shows Hornet fighting these strange hooded

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enemies. And I think these guys might be fucking
birds! Yeah, birds. First of all they appear

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to have beaks peeking out from their hoods.
This guy is also flapping his wings, which

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apparently is a thing that birds do. Also,
the silhouettes of these guys can be seen

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in the Silksong reveal trailer. They appear
to be perching in a manner similar to birds.

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Another explanation for the beaks coming from
the hoods might be that these guys are wearing

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plague doctor masks. Now I’m not a history
major, but I am not aware of plague doctors

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being able to fly either.

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Now while William and Ari were both absent
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was able to make an appearance. Leth is the
PR and marketing guy for Team Cherry, and

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he apparently spent some time on the E3 show
floor talking to people who were demoing Silksong.

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I’m not sure why Leth didn’t make an appearance
on the Nintendo Treehouse event. I guess he

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was too busy eating burgers at IHOP or something.
Now I was not able to attend E3 this year

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as I was too busy playing Fortnite, but I
was able to get a few people to talk to Leth

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and try to coerce information out of him.
One of my informants sent me this message.

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“Hey mossbag, your spies are terrible, man.
They’re terrible.”

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I never heard from my informant again after
this message. Did Leth have them taken out?

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Of course we can only speculate.

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Let’s talk release date. All we got officially
is the dreaded “Coming Soon”. But during

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the treehouse event, Sam mentioned that development
of Silksong is wrapping up, but how would

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Sam know such information? Nintendo of America
released a list of what games were coming

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out soon, and Silksong is nowhere to be found
on this list. Judging from what we saw in

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the demo, there was a lot of stuff that wasn’t
developed. We didn’t see how crests work,

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we didn’t see how the quest system works,
and the level layouts felt more like demo

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areas than actual level designs for the game.
So I personally believe that the game still

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has quite a way to go. But I’m not an expert
on game design or anything so believe what

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you want, I suppose.

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So how is Silksong looking after analyzing
this demo? Well honestly, I believe that this

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game could be better than Hollow Knight. I
think the exploration and platforming will

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be more challenging and varied. I think the
combat will be faster-paced and more engaging.

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I think the story will have a greater presence,
while the underlying lore will continue to

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be amazing. I think the art will be even better,
as we can see how Team Cherry is learning

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how to integrate it with digital effects,
such as the swinging signs and krumping ground.

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Of course the big question will be how Team
Cherry introduces side quests and item management

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and how they’re going to keep them feeling
fresh and interesting without being boring.

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As for interpreting what we know about the
story so far, I think Pharloom’s Folly acts

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as a good backbone to figure out what happened
in this kingdom. Hallownest’s architecture

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was typically embroidered with the symbol
of the Hallownest Seal, which appeared to

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be some kind of depiction of the Pale King.
In Pharloom, the symbol is this ball of thread,

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usually surrounded by a hook. I think this
symbolizes what Pharloom is all about. This

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cult imprisons spiders, and puts them into
a life of servitude creating silk for the

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kingdom. Somehow, this is all maintained through
faith and toil, which could be related to

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the cult that has formed around bells. But
at some point, this slumber broke, or will

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break, and the beasts, or spiders, are set
free.

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But that’s just my interpretation, which
really doesn’t make sense, and it also doesn’t

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explain why silk fibers are coming off of
everyone. So be sure to let me know what crazy

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theories you guys can come up with in the
comments section. And that’s it. The video’s

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done. You can stop making memes about me now.
I do have a life outside of Hollow Knight you know.

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Now if you’ll excuse me.