bubala jano
did you know that books are still a thing like people not only still read
books but actually make books too shocking I know
I didn't realize this until fangamer announced a whole new holo night
Wanderers journal that would be released alongside the new physical collector's
edition of the game this journal is written from the perspective of a new
character a ladybug named Elena on their website team cherry explained that this
new book would be an epic tome of exploration investigation and lore team
cherry has also worked closely with the authors Kari Fry and Ryan Novak to
ensure that everything the book would be totally accurate well Kari and Ryan were
incredibly generous and sent me an advance copy of the new journal they
also sent me a packet of hot dogs for some reason thanks Kerry Fry's artwork
really does justice to re Gibson's in-game sprites I mean just look at this
drawing of fluke marm that Hall of God's description is starting to make more
sense now and all of this artwork is accompanied by Ryan's descriptions of
all of the varies friends and foes found in holo night and the amount of lore in
this book is staggering first of all this book does a good job at covering
most of the lore in the game there isn't much on the end game bosses but the book
does go through each area discussing most of the bosses and enemies as well
as theorizing about numerous miscellaneous background objects if
you're new to hollow Knight lore this is a great read but even lore experts like
myself can find a few new tidbits of lore so this book introduces a lot of
small pieces of information for example sleeping under whispering roots can give
bugs vivid dreams this book also tells us that leg eater is confirmed blind but
at the same time this book also gives us information on big events like the
timeline of the infection spread through hallow nest I will go through this new
information chronologically from where it is in the book for the most part but
I will jump around a bit to where needed I'm also going to skip that random
chapter on the manatees not sure why that was even in there first up we have
an explanation for the hot springs according to Alan uh these Springs are
the result of heat seeping up to the surface through underground vents
of all the ways that the knight can collect soul in the game the hotsprings
have always been the strangest to me according to Ellen ah the hot springs
restore the body and soul but I always thought the knight had to pull soul from
somewhere else maybe there is soul in the water sort of like how there is soul
in the air according to the deep focused charm so I guess by sitting in the water
of the night absorbs the soul through osmosis or something the journal makes a
note of these strange plants calling them pale ferns now anytime something is
called pale we immediately have to think of the pale beings in the kingdoms edge
we can see something similar to the pale ferns growing out of the ground there
are also these strange vines that expand outwards these seem to be sprouting from
where the worms corpse can be found as for why anything like this would be
growing in forgotten crossroads I have no idea is this from the white lady I
only seem to think that it's just natural so maybe that's the case the
journal mentions that the temple of the black egg was fashioned from the shell
of an ancient bug now if that's the case then this thing was fucking massive how
does a creature that big even exist well I guess the characters in the game are
bugs and humans are canonically at least five times bigger than bugs so I guess
it's not that big of a deal what is a big deal is how exactly they got the
black egg through that door another ancient bug mentioned in the journal is
the one found at the top of kingdoms edge some people have been saying that
this corpse is the corpse of a worm but we don't know exactly what kind of
creature this was maybe it was just a worm but with an O instead of a why have
you ever wondered why the grub father has all this random shit in his burrow
like seriously masks shards pill or Pokemon dildos from etsy.com well
apparently this is a common practice among grubs they like to collect shiny
things and hide them in their burrows what I find more interesting is that
Alona was apparently finding these grubs and choosing not to free them what an
asshole next up apparently all buzz are said to
be attracted to the resting places of powerful beings now this kind of makes
sense we see one near the white lady's cocoon thing and we also see one at the
lake of on but we also see them in the back
crown of mar musa rena so you're telling me this oversized kickball of a boss is
supposed to be as powerful as the white lady i suppose it's possible wait does
this mean benches or powerful beams too now I think it's time we get into a
meteor topic the timeline for the infection that afflicted how nest and
the surrounding areas has always been incredibly vague but in this book we are
actually given a few hints about how things might have progressed there are
two sentences stating that the fungal wastes have only recently become
impacted by the infection Elena also claims that deep nest has only recently
been hit by the infection and that the weavers had only recently left the
kingdom she also claims that the doors to the city of tears were closed in an
attempt to keep the infection from spreading into the capital the first
outbreak of the infection ended with the ceiling of the hall night inside the
black egg according to the dung defender despite this effort Halla nest was
eventually brought low implying that the infection was still somehow influencing
the kingdom from the hunters journal entry for the light seed it appears as
though the infection had been seeping down into the ancient basin for quite
some time implying that there was infection coming from somewhere up above
there is a line from midwife that hints at deep nest infection happening shortly
before the events of the game she says that few would seek her
services in recent times due to the infection as for the weavers having left
holliness recently there is still one Weaver hanging around but I don't know
if that really proves anything we can see that young Weaver's did end up
getting infected so maybe the weavers left before the
sickness could claim the adults now this is where things get weird
ellen:oh states that the hive is unmarked by the spread of the infection
this can't be true there are several reasons to believe that the hive was hit
by the infection first of all all of the enemies explode with that same orange
particle effect that regular enemies do and don't say that shit is honey honey
doesn't take on a gaseous form if it did I'd be smoking it right now
characters like the mantises and dung defender give off white particles when
hit because they aren't infected the bees do not do this second the
whispering route in the hive uses the phrase light familiar and light is
usually to the radiance third the hive husk
which can only be found inside of the hive has the same orange tint in its
eyes which confirmed to the infection has at least reached some of the bugs in
the hive and finally we have team Kerry confirming that the hive was infected in
a reddit AMA after the death of Queen Vespa so why does this passage say that
the hive was unmarked by the spread of the infection while there are two
possibilities the first possibility is that I actually know the lore better
than team cherry this is entirely possible I am pretty smart i watch Rick
and Morty the other possibility which i think is more likely is the team cherry
knowingly left us in the book we have evidence that team cherry has altered
some of the wording on these very pages so I don't think they overlooked this
but why would team cherry do that you ask well this book is written by
character in the world of how honest which means that she is looking at the
world through her own limited perspective let's be real of course team
cherry wouldn't hand us a whole smorgasbord of mouth-watering new lore
on a silver platter at least not without making us work for it I don't think
everything we find this book should be taken as canon as some of these claims
are just elinoz musings about how oddest maybe team cherry should have put an
asterisk next to that totally accurate remark but that doesn't mean we should
throw this whole book away as far as I can tell this is the only blatantly
wrong statement in the book and it still offers interesting insight into the lore
simple things that I had never even thought of so while this book might have
at least one lore inaccuracy I still think we can glean some information from
it well with that out of the way let's move on to the crystal peak now this is
an area of the game that I've neglected in my videos but honestly there's a lot
to talk about here the biggest question regarding this area revolves around the
crystals basically there's a strong connection between these crystals and
the radiance first the journal entry for the crystal eyes husks mentions that
there's a hidden power within the crystals they can be used to fire
searing beams of light and they also apparently sing this is also mentioned
by milla who claims that she can hear the crystals singing and then
she can almost make it out and we all know what happens to her after that the
journal entry for the crystal guardian also mentions that it can only see light
inside of its crystal prison and that it shoots blazing beams of light the word
blazing has only used three other times in the entire game and each instance
refers to the radiance and during the enraged Guardian fight we can see that
it has dream nail dialogue that is written in all caps this appears to be
the radiances voice since her dream no dialogue is also in all caps a lot of
the dream no dialogue for the enemies in this area reference light and the
whispering route mentioned something about a refracted light and now we have
L&S saying that this refracted light is mesmerizing so I think we can safely say
at this point that the crystals in the crystal peak are somehow connected to
the radiance is light it's not clear whether the energy found inside these
crystals are from the reigns's light or some other source the deep focus charm
implies that crystals might be able to draw in soul somehow I'd recommend you
check out this lore doc from metal if you want to read more about this theory
but what does the crystal peek have to do with the radiance well it all has to
do with hallow nests crowd this is one of the most interesting pages in the
book Elna describes the glyphs in this area
is giving off a radiant light she says the glyphs were likely from a
civilization that predates how honest she mentions how some of the glyphs seem
to display winged creatures which sure she also theorizes that these glyphs
were made because the civilization wanted to be remembered by future
civilizations now there is a lot to break down here these glyphs remind me
of seals of binding and we know that these seals can be used to preserve
something of great importance so I guess it makes sense that it could be used to
preserve the memory of a people the seer talks a lot about the importance of
being remembered the radiance also mentions that she will not be forgotten
the moth race was known for tending graves after all and when the pale King
arrived the seer explains that the moths sealed the radiance away by forgetting
about her so being remembered is a big part of
both tribes tradition so this statue was possibly built by the moths before the
pale King arrived there's also a developers note that says this lingering
statue is what led to the outbreak of the infection the fact that this is
lingering implies that it was built before the pale Kings arrival however
the statue itself contains a pale or and is resting atop a cliff that features a
design common in Halla nests architecture so maybe this monument was
made after the radiance was sealed away and those hushed whispers of faith that
seer talks about are referring to the same people who built this monument in
secret ellen:oh claims that the seer is helping the knight to strike back
against the radiance for causing the infection but in the game all that is
ever stated is that the seer is looking for the wielder a figure her people have
been dreaming about for a long time not sure how Alona would know more than us
on this matter I guess she can actually talk unlike the knight so maybe she just
straight-up asked her now this next bit is something that makes so much sense I
can't believe I never noticed it before in the cast off shell where the Kings
brain is found there is this strange object
Helena theorized is that it might be some sort of egg and looking at it now I
can't believe I missed this this was probably what The Pale King hatched out
of after molting his worm form if this is true then this puts to rest the whole
idea that the pale King took on a third form after his death in the white palace
since there's no broken egg anywhere near him Elna also mentions that arcane
eggs are jet-black which I guess makes it even more likely
that they are made of void I know I've said before that black doesn't equal
void but shut up another small detail we got was an explanation for what these
things are Elna believes that they were used to extract soul from bugs and
inject them into other bugs that could explain why the room is filled with
follies and mistakes which were the results of experiments with soul gone
wrong the machine itself also contains the spell twister charm which reflects
the desires of the soul sanctum for mastery over Souls the journal also says
that the Blue Lake is filled with blue-hued minerals explaining why the
lake is a perfect place for quarrel drown himself we also get confirmation
that bar Doon is a caterpillar not sure that was in question but it's not
confirmed anywhere else we also learned the fog Canyon was once
a part of green path this isn't stated anywhere in the game
from what I can tell but it is alluded to with green path music lightly playing
in the fog Caden region of the world map Alana also takes a stroll into the abyss
and somehow survives she gives us a very interesting description for these
strange egg looking objects claiming that they are colorless she also says
that it seems they were broken from within by a powerful force the comet
that stands out most of me is the claim that the eggs are colorless I always
thought these eggs were just completely black Elin also makes note of the sea
avoid saying in acts with a mind of its own so if the sea acts with a singular
mind then that means that the sea avoid isn't full of a bunch of individual void
tendrils but instead is the collective mind of the void itself that kind of
weakens my theory that the void tendrils were created by the ancient civilization
but at the same time Ellen also calls the void murky water what the fuck kind
of water has she been drinking Elna also claims that the abyss
lighthouse was built atop a natural spire it certainly does look like they
just stuck the lighthouse part onto a pre-existing structure but does that
mean that this thing formed naturally this design is the same that we see in
the background of the main room in the abyss where the vessel shells are also
underneath that we can see a pattern very similar to the one where the void
tendril entry can be found if all of this is naturally occurring it would tie
in to elder bugs common about the rocks down in the ancient basin possessing a
will of their own there is one strange detail regarding
how Elaina interacts with the lore tablet right outside of the abyss
basically Elna says that she is unable to decipher the tablet now these tablets
are very unique in that they say higher beings these words are for you alone
from dev notes ama's and the king cell description it seems as though higher
beings is a phrase reserved for characters like the pale king the
radiance and the white lady but it seems a bit odd to me that these tablets would
only exist for the benefit of like three people
there are a total of five lore tablets that use the phrase higher beings one in
the howling cliffs three in the Kings pass and one in the ancient basin it
isn't really clear who these tablets were made for but there is a clue when
the second lore tablet in the Kings pass the tablet says let all bask in your
majesty for only this kingdom could produce one such as you so according to
this lore tablet how unless somehow produces higher beings I don't think the
pale King was making godlike creatures since he seemed to be interested in
ruling how honest unopposed this has led me to believe that the phrase higher
beings is referring to bugs that the pale King has granted higher thought to
through his beacon so what does this mean for Ellen ah why can't she read the
tablets I'm pretty sure she's an intelligent bug she probably even
watches Rick and Morty maybe this tablet can only be read by bugs that were
specifically granted higher thought through the pale Kings beacon so bugs
like Alana tea so cloth though and corna fur would be unable to read it since
their intelligence is not native to howl honest I'm pretty shaky on this though
so feel free to tear my reasoning to shreds and that's about it for new
content there are quite a few things to think about with this new book it adds a
little bit of information to the world of how honest giving us more thoughtful
descriptions of background objects and environments no one in game says shit
about holliness crown so it's nice to hear at least one bugs perspective on it
I do wish Eleanor would have told us a little bit more about her own past she
kind of lacks the backstory we see an other traveller such as Oh cloth and tea
so but I guess she's just trying to be objective I'm sure people wouldn't be
too happy if I started talking about my first marriage in the middle of my
analytical lore video now like I mentioned before it appears as though
there is a mistake in this book and it's entirely possible the team chair left
the mistake in the book since Alana is a character from the world of how honest
who doesn't have all of the information this means we have to take her claims
with an air of caution despite this most of the information in this book seems
pretty reasonable for the most part enough raises a lot of things as poss
abilities with a claim about the hive being the only objective claim that I
think is downright false regardless it's great to be able to hold
a physical book about Halle Knight in my hands and it looks great on any
bookshelf - of course there is one final piece of lore to discuss team cherry has
finally listened to our cries and given us confirmation of one of the most
heated debates in Halle Knight lore discussion that's right
pickles are finally canon just like in Rick and Morty