Have you ever wanted to know the lore behind every ending in Hollow Knight? I have too, so I decided to try figuring it out!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:31 Ending #1
02:06 Ending #2
04:12 Ending #3
08:19 Ending #4
12:30 Ending #5
16:44 Which Ending is Canon?
#Endings #HollowKnight #Lore
If you enjoy this type of content, I have 6 other Hollow Knight lore videos available for you to watch! Here's the playlist for your viewing pleasure: kzhead.info/channel/PL7vmj1OCwEMNQmkSvO43Ungq3y4rT8PWj.html
Oter man explan me endin of bug knigt
@@siduxjxhdgzhdjxhxuuxxyhgg1079 idk, ask mossbag
And they’re all extremely well edited!
Hey CC! I noticed something in the eternal grind that is the pantheons. Basically, in the charm binding, even Void Heart is unequipped, despite the claims that it is part of the bearer. Any thoughts? Is the Godmaster stronger than void itself?
I know I’m very late, but I’m sure the knight has not died in ending 3. They are merely trapped in the dream world.
On the bright side, Team Cherry has said they don’t like the idea of a “true” ending and have worked on making all the endings fit with the start of the sequel if possible
What, Hornet breaks out of the black egg after becoming a seal?
@@Viscidsquare040 Right? I'm not sure how they will make it make sense.
or maybe silksong fit only one ending, maybe there will be game for each ending. if silksong fit in only one ending it doesnt mean its true ending, maybe silksong is one of alternative timelines
@@reverie02 or its a sequel.
@@user-ld1sn6ur5i one of variants of sequel
In ending #4, the Shade Lord, formerly known as The Knight, or ghost, or... Well, not actually really formerly known as anything, really, bursts forth from the Godseekers body. With the newfound power of unifying the whole strength of the void itself under a single focus, it LASHES OUT in its GODLY RAGE, as it travels to one specific place, where all of its rage is directed: Kingdom's Edge, where it uses its incredible strength to bring the Primal Aspid population to extinction.
If this was true, I'd do anything to get ending 4.
Best ending if it means getting rid of those primal aspids
The knight after the coliseum of fools,"Ima end this whole species life line, AGAIN
I was there I had to see it make them go extinct it was buetiful
Yes! Finally!
Personally, I think that the Knight, or Shade Lord, survives in ending 3 as a shade but not as the shell.
i think that its freed from its shell, and it rests in the abyss in peace
@@pablosuarez9211 they finally fulfilled their purpose
I though he fused with the abyss losing a corporeal body
Yeah I think it uses the voidheart to control it, void given focus.
Well, yeah. It practicly Just a shade of Void, but without a shell... Unless if it found something looks like a shell.
I really admire hornet, as according to my interpretation, she was fully aware that she might end up as a dreamer/ die if you go for the sealed siblings ending. She says multiple times throughout the game that we have a choice to make: we can either "supplant our birth cursed sibling" or destroy the Radiance. She only advises us to choose the latter once, because it's better for Hallownest. She assists us in the final fight even though she knows it could spell her doom depending on our choice. Can't wait to play as her in Silksong.
Though in one of her dialogue options (I’m rephrasing since I don’t exactly remember it) She says she doesn’t want to risk her life. So Idk what she’s thinking in that brin if hers…
@@loganxavier she doesn’t want to die, so she urges us (the knight) to please take the harder path. It’s a fear of mortals.
xd ive got the same pfp but yea i agree
Yeah it will Be nice to play silksong when it releases 80 Years from now
Well she does tell us to GIT GUD (when she stuns hollow knight listen closely)
I love that Team Cherry is like 'all endings are canon, including the one where Hornet is eternally sealed in the Black Egg with you, despite the fact that she somehow winds up in Pharloom some time later!' lol.
Silksong is a Prequel. All endings are still canon.
@@Rhinoiron i believe it's a sequel not a prequel
@@wail2774 Wasn’t it confirmed as a prequel?
@@Rhinoiron from what I'm finding it seems to be a sequel rather than a prequel
@@Rhinoiron There's no evidence for it being a prequel.
Even though a lot of people already know this, its beautiful to see people still uploading these videos for anyone else, also it can come in handy when silksong is released and new people want to play the first game before silksong
Does this video bring anything new to the table? I'd like to know before I watch it.
@@xomvoid_akaluchiru_987 Not really. Other than speculating what might happen after the ending
That was my plan… but it took me 1 day to kill the fake knight… and I’m stuck at the big rolly boy… these types of games aren’t for me…
Silksong is a prequel.
@@Rhinoiron SMORT
Regarding the "Quirrell death vs Hornet orphan" question, Quirrell was actually quite old already anyway, and his dialogue and likely method of departure indicated that he was entirely ready to face his fate, maybe even amiable towards it. Quirrell's story, its ending included, was by no means a tragedy, and is only made such by the players who refuse to let him go. Momento mori, my friends.
Yes but...I mean we truly don't know he is dead. So...imagination my friend. Imagination. I for myself like to imagine he and Lemm go out the world to see other civilizations.
@@berilsevvalbekret772 Without his nail? I doubt it, a lot.
@@omnitroph1501 new nail bam!
@@berilsevvalbekret772 If I remember correctly Quirrel mentions leaving your nail or not having a nail or something like that is a death sentence or a suicide or something. I forget the words, but I'm pretty sure he mentions it. Plus the nail in the game code is Quirrel death nail.png or something like that.
I agree. I mean, he does say that to us and he is an admirable warrior. Accepting his fate is how he wants to go, so let him.
I personally believe that in DNM, the reason the knight “dies” is actually because it had completed its mission and wanted to put both itself and its siblings to rest with. Because it was Lord of Shades, it could will the void to do anything. Including becoming still forever.
The void becoming still matches the description of [spoiler] the trophy you get for defeating all God home bosses on Radiant difficulty, saying it contains a perfectly still amount of void liquid and it is void given focus.
@@Flobbled if i am not mistaken, that is content of ending 4 and 5, where is not knight anymore but actually shadow lord controling and doing everything, both player and knight have almost no impact aggainst knight's siblins and the sshadow lord itself, both radiance and shadow lord were brought there at the same time.
The knight is a real embodiment of “you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain”
or see yourself to become fucking god*
You just need to only kill monomon an lurien -Hornet is no longer an orphan -Quirrel is alive -Lurien won't have to be sad about his crush dying
Pk is already married. Lurien wouldn't dare disrespect PK by having a crush on him.
@@stuffstuff3455 maybe but i bet he could invent some excuse so white lady lets him get it
Proof Lurien has a s crush on PK.
It would be even more disrespectful to steal (in a romance way) PK from white lady.
@@stuffstuff3455 Ermmm.... you realize what happened between a certain other dreamer and PK, right? It doesn't seem like there's really a problem in that department.
I am so full of feelings about Dream No More. The Pale King was so certain that the only way to contain the Radiance was with the singular best, strongest, purest vessel, so he isolated the Hollow Knight and discarded the rest of the vessels. But the Radiance is actually defeated when the Knight, the Hollow Knight, and Hornet help each other, with the rest of their siblings rising up to support them.
"There arent many bugs left to start society" Yeah now that weve killed them all lmao
What're you talking about? Most of them respawn when you sit on a bench or walk off-screen 💁♂️ The future is bright.
@@JellyWraith no, not bright - we killed that
@@JellyWraith canonically they shouldn't respawn and alot of those are mere husks
There are select moments in this video where the music creates such a POWERFUL vibe and they ALL happen whenever the radiance is on screen. Nosk music is PERFECT for making her seem ominous and sinister and then the BANGER for when you show off her absrad form xD Genius and very appreciated
Windy??? What are you doing here?
@@HeyImThorn Hollow Knight Gud. Ccmac Gud. Combine two = Gud Vibeo
@@Windette This is true, it'd be fun if you guys did a collaboration at some point in time. Could be quite fun
@@HeyImThornme when I come back after a while and Hallownest Vocalized: :O
14:10 I really like how is everyone in this image. Elderbug seeing Cornifer happily working in his maps, Dung Defender inside the fountain, Emilita Laughing at the Little Fool while Willoh is asking herself whether to eat him (probably?), Bretta in awe at Hornet, and Zote being Zote. Great video, well summarized, well explained and entertaining. Good job. By the way, that spin-off of Elderbug and Oro has become my new impossible dream: after the official release of Silksong, Team Cherry reveals they're working on a new adventure, Hollow Knight Savehome! :0
I'd actually disagree with the knight losing control of the void. This is mainly because of the godseeker mode, which is implied to take place after one of the pantheon of hallownest endings, as the godseekers acknowledge their past ignorance of your godliness and ask to be punished. Constantly referring to the knight as the God of gods. You can do whatever you want here, all charms, all everything and it's YOU, the knight, who is doing all of it. It's just that we really shouldn't assume that a being, divine from childbirth due to pale and abyssal heritage, who had to claw their way out of the abyss to have the privilege of being born, wandered the wastes aimlessly for most of their days, with their only real goal in life, sealing the radiance, having failed from the very start, driven to hallownest only by their own sibling's failure. Someone who has a strong enough distaste for the gods to shove the corpse of the pale king off his throne, someone who the world has thrown everything it has against them to kill them, now having killed the God they hate most and having ascended above and beyond what any mortal or God could imagine. Yeah I really don't think the knight is the baby a lot of people have assumed them to be. They literally have all the reasons to act the exact opposite of someone who is innocent of vice.
I like this theory, why doesn't rhis have more likes?
Like Menderbug, Godseeker was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Honestly we probably think he's a baby because of how he looks.
This reminds me of that one comic where hornet says that "these are my brothers, the baby and the feral one" "hello baby" the person says the the knight Hornet: "no, this is the baby, that is the feral one"
Void has no mind or emotion so I don't really think the knight has a "hate" towards gods.
Thinking about ending 5 just appears to me that the flower is similar to the King's light. It seems to also appose Void, so its reaction to being affected by Void is either eviscerating it, or simply containing it in another place, trapping the Lord of Shades in Godhome. At least that's my theory on ending 5. There's probably some other, more logical theories. Also, I would find it pretty wholesome if Hornet shows The Hollow Knight all of Hallownest before she leaves. Or says "bye" to it in her own way.
Quick question, since you seem to be the one most qualified to answer it Is the large entity present in godhome (you know which one, the one under the floor with blue eyes) the God of... Lifeblood?
@@charlesmorey4298 With the origin of Lifeblood still a big mystery, other than it's potent healing properties (e.g. Giving the Knight two extra masks), and the strange creature seemingly at home in the Lifeblood room in Godhome, it's quite the theory. I can't say for sure, but with the creature being purposefully put into a room full of Lifeblood hidden away in Godhome, that once interacted also allows lifeblood cocoons to appear in Godhome, they definitely are related.
is still kinda sad that we dont gonna see anymore the knight, i like to think that maybe, being free from his vessel the knight returns to his home where all his brothers are, resting till the end of time in the void
I feel like once the Knight gets the void Heart and all the stuff that leads up to it etc that it truly gains a will, which makes the sealed siblings ending even sadder in my mind bc we know it’ll eventually fail
there's zero evidence for that, though.
@@elvancor yeah, just a fun thought 🤷♀️
The knight always had a will, you can refuse to buy stuff, which as Jinn comments, shows you have a will, all your own. A true pure vessel would never be able to become impure.
@@MossMothMyBelovedAnd a true pure vessel doesn't exist. That's the whole point of the story
15:47 there is actually a really easy answer here, quarrel gives the mask to monomon, and hornet isn't an orphan, heres the thing though, if you don't talk to quarrel, he doesn't die, he rather just sits there in the blue lake, so if you don't talk to him, he doesn't die, win win scenario 😊
This is awesome. Every time I watch a lore video, even after playing through the game, every fresh one just evokes so many feelings. AND OMFG THE ENDING! Peak outro.
Ending #4 and #5 could make great games! Ending #4 could have hornet and thk try to beat the shade lord and bring the world back to normal, and ending #5 could be the duo trying to regroup the rest of hallownest and trying to revive dirtmouth!
This reminds me you can do godhomeending without having to kill the dreamers That means that neither quirrel or hornet's mom would die right? and the hollow knight inside the egg might survive too. sounds like the best ending imo
Yep
well hornet only stands outside the black egg temple after you consume the dreamers, may be an oversight
Makes no actual canonical sense. The Black Egg door is gone, and Hornet stands outside the egg. That only happens when the dreamers are dead
:snail:
@@ClownLordi You’re mixing game logic with story logic. Nothing is stopping Hornet from visiting the Black Egg at any time b4 the Dreamers die, and as protector of Hallownest’s Ruin, it makes sense for her to check up on it.
At 6:43 , the other big shade we see holding the Radiance actually looks like the Hollow Knight's Shade, as it has the crack on its head, the same long horns, etc.
it's his shade bro. so yeah, that's him helping us since he's not evil just a puppet in a moth's wing ;p
I haven't seen anyone bring up Godseeker Mode in lore videos, which chronologically happens after either Ending #4 and #5. In it, we can see both the Godseeker and the Knight are alive and well, even if only in Godhome. Granted, the mode has no plot besides "Shade Lord returns to Godhome as the Knighy to play around and Godseeker wants it to spank her" so the canonicity of it may be in question.
I was talking to someone on Mossbag's server and we both agreed that it'd be AMAZING if Silksong checked your HK data to see which endings you got on your playthrough. That way, if you never played HK, the game could work on its own with no references to its endings whatsoever. However, if you got any of the endings, Silksong could show a prompt asking from which ending from your HK you'd like to continue. That could allow for Hornet mentioning her siblings, for example, and how they are now "freed from the great light's power and resting in Hollownest". It could allow for Hornet mentioning Ghost, talking about they're sacrifice for the Kingdom or how their 'new form' aka Shade Lord either wrecked the place or united all the shades under it. I'd DIE for this to be the case but we won't know until we have it in our hands so fingers crossed!!
this would be amazing, but it isn't likely. they said they want it to be a stand-alone game, so you wouldn't feel like you have to play the first one to know what's going on. so for marketability, it'll likely have very little lore answers to the first game, I think
Silksong is a prequel, so none of the endings matter in this context.
@@Rhinoiron We still don't have confirmation on that, but if it is then indeed, no ending will matter
Cool idea, but I would NOT be excited for the new waiting simulator that the sealed siblings ending would be
@@Rhinoiron not confirmed and there is no evidence for that.
My hints Ending 2: the garden is a lot bigger, you know? How about you explore it and meet someone strangely family-er. Ending 3: did you ever listen to Hornet? How about you do as she asks. She might even help you on that path. Ending 4: did you know, there's actually 4 simple keys and one of them you need another key, let your instincts guide you. Ending 5: someone as magnificent as the godseeker deserves a gift of equal magnitude. I know that these are less useful, but I just wanted to Wright them for fun. :D
Write* :D
@@ven6815 The Write Brothers, who invented the aerplain
@@arcanefire7511 Phoenix Wright!
@@WhiteWhistleBondrewd *HOLD IT!* Do you mean *THE* Phoenix Wright from Ace Attorney?
Ending 2 extra advice: Also, get yourself a bunch of dream essence and return to the seer after this!
I like to imagine that as The Knight travels through Hallownest, it becomes more and more a thinking, feeling being, mourning lost companions, and becomes increasingly anxious about not being able to Seal the Radiance. It rests on the Dirtmouth bench one final time, and Dreams. It dreams the first three endings, wakes, and finds the Godseeker. There it ascends to the Lord Of Shades, destroying the Radiance and retreating back into the Abyss, where Hornet and The Hollow Knight eventually make contact with it and begin reparations of Hallownest.
The answer to the query about Quirrel is that if Monomon is able to share his knowledge then Mender bug will have more signs to fix and he can obtain hereto unheard of levels of sign mending technology. It’s for the greater good.
I think Monomon being alive would probably keep Quirrel from dying, to be honest.
Yep. He'd have someone to live for again. :') We don't know what their relationship was before she was sealed and he lost his memories, but whatever it was, they were clearly very close.
@@TimeturnerJ I think she's his mom
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 We don't know. Sure, they could've had a parental bond. Or she was his teacher, and he her apprentice. Or maybe they were best friends and fellow researchers, working together. Maybe they were even lovers. We have no way of knowing, so it's important to keep an open mind.
@@TimeturnerJ Think Quirrel is Monomons apprentice.
I've never really heard this anywhere, but the vessels seem to have the ability to nurture void. The hollow knight's shade is way bigger than that of the others.
I needed a new Hollow Knight lore video... and you didn't disappoint at all!!!
I think I know what happened to Esmy. You know how charms come from the last desires of someone who died according to the charm loving slug? Charms resemble either the person or what they were doing before they died. Nailmaster's glory looks like a nailmaster. Coincidence? THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES!
"Esmy" ends with Y not with O
???? I didn't put an O in Esmy.
@@stuffstuff3455i meant, all nailmaster names end with O, and Esmy ends with a same letter as Sly.
Wonder if that has any lore implications or if it's just a choice of letters? Esmy might be a fly like Sly. It can be interpreted either way.
@@stuffstuff3455 no clue
Being faster than discord
Well, this is unexpected
@@leif4698 it surely is old friend
I like how Hollow Knight’s downfall in self esteem started when he saw Ghost behind him and pale king in the abyss. Curious why Ghost has never grown yet it seems Hollow Knight did grow.
I think it might be something relating to training or how long they've been out and about. The Lost Kin is considerably taller than The Knight, but still shorter than Hollow Knight. We know he reached the Ancient Basin, so he probably was pretty powerful. Also something to note is that just like Hollow Knight and his pure form have more evolved forms of The Knight's spells, so does Lost Kin. So maybe it's related to how long they've been alive and how much they have trained. When you think about it The Knight practically saved the kingdom in one day, so that might be why he's so small lol
@@carlosrabock yeah, i think it's even mentioned somewhere that the entire game takes place "over one long night"
Daaaaaaamn a new ccmaci video hecc yeah
I’ve been obsessed with this game for several years now, even so, im still watching this because Im absolutely starved for anything hollow knight related, even if it’s nothing new to me. I’m grateful for people like you who continue to make content from this game. It’s entertaining and comforting to watch
2:13 was so smooth
Honestly I really love the mix between lively commentary and MEMES. This is why I subbed
Did you notice when you are slapping the radience in the 3rd ending the shade that comes to help you is actually the hollow knight?
This was great video, do you think you could potentially do one about what it means to be truly hollow and if the night is or not, and if the Knight lore wise can exist without their shade or if the Knight is the shade with the outer part being the corpse and shell sealing it. They say the Knight is a ghost meaning the Knight is dead but does that mean it is shade covering it's soul or if it is souless with a shade alter ego that looks like it. Only thing that would make sense is how it can make decisions and do anything without a brain with it being physically hollow and without a will to do anything with it being hollow mentally. Does Hollow mean to be selfless and have no desire other than the mission and purpose it was given kind of like the other void constructs.
Why does lost kin turn into a ghost instead of a shade when you beat it?
it might be because the shade has been completely replaced by infection.
Like, if that's the case, why is there still void in it's body when you fight it both times? And why doesn't the hollow knight (who was infected much longer and much worse) turn into a ghost?
*G O O D Q U E S T I O N*
I don't think there was any shade left. We find it completely hollow, like the siblings in the Abyss. But having it as a ghost makes me wonder if that's the vessel's original ghost, as in before being 'taken over' by Void. Mmm...
"It has a will of it's own" - Steel Soul Jinn. Insert cutscene of the hollow knight looking back at Ghost thinking on whether or not to save the knight. And the cutscene where PK has a moment with the hollow knight. That argument doesn't have any merit. You don't even explain how there isn't any shade left. The Hollow Knight was infected for much longer and much worse, and it still has a shade.
Great presentation, narration, and performance!
YAY! thank you! I loce these videos of yours about specific stuff like the masks and vessels, thank you!
fantastic video! _also, is anyone else in the Hornets Mom Getting Revived Gang? is it just me.._
15:40 he doesn’t die, he just goes somewhere you can’t, perhaps whenever you come near he’s just swimming and can hold his breath for an absurd amount of time.
By the way, for the stupid people, this is a theory. One that I prefer over the idea of him dying
Quirrel states you need a nail to survive in Hallownest, why tf would he live it if he had intention of living?
Thanks for the perfekt Vid. I was able to enjoy every ending by my own, and then listen to the story by you. Thanks a lot man.
Hollow Knight is one of my favorite games of all time, therefore Ive watched many videos about it, many lore explanations, essays, theories...That being said, this video has to be one of the best Ive seen by far!
So, the meaning of the game imo is either Nothing lasts forever, you cannot create something eternal Or The knight is not a "chosen one", it is a failure, a rejected vessel, another usseles experiment but regardless you killed the infection and once again joined the void.
Failure**** which is what your mind is.
@@master_troll777 oh yeah thanks
Either Silksong can't exist if all endings are cannon, because Hornett is sealed away in one of them. Or Team Cherry is both wishy-washy AND very good at writing themselves out of a corner.
I’m a sucker for happy endings (i.e. as many characters alive as possible). Godseeker ending gave that to me with us saving the Hollow Knight. The game says he began to have some kind of thoughts, feelings, sentience, etc. Whatever hope or ambitions there are in him, I hope may at least be referenced in Silksong, because the Hollow Knight, like all of the vessels, got the short end of the stick.
U deserve so much more credit for the amount of work u put into each video u make
I just realize because of ending three that the Radiance is the real victim
I like to think ending 5 is the real ending do to how much effort you have to put into it just taking the flower
Oh man, found this video after just getting ending 3. It was so satisfying slapping the Radiance silly after many many attempts at that fight.
I like the editing of the video where you had the timer bar for spoiler warnings. That, and the thumbnail in the right corner is a great way to present the content.
You really changed my view on ending 5, and yeah now I think it's the best one, except for the fact you have to kill a bunch of bosses to get it Poor guys
they are already dead inside so we just free them from eternal suffering !
@@drappieralexandre3639 Yeah but if we didn't kill them they would probably be cured at the end (since the orange vines turning back to black indicates an end to the infection), Uninfected soul master would seem like a nice guy, freeing bosses by killing them would only really be applicable to Broken vessel, dream warriors ect.. Still the best ending tho !!
The radiance is kinda cute
yet another lovely video, congratulations
Dude this was so informative for a 17 minute video, thank you!
Omfg I got so many goosebumps while watching this
The F in the Omfg means Frick right? If not , THIS IS A CHRISTIAN CHANNEL
@@suzannahardjono9951 ofc it means frick. Im so offended that you even asked smh.
Oro and Elderbug's Bizarre Adventure would be an absolutely lovely story to see in any medium
I love ur vids so much. Keep it up 💗
1. The cycle continues 2. The Cycle continues, despite your efforts. 3. The cycle ends. 4. The cycle ends and a new begins. 5. The cycle ends and hollow nest is spared
Quirrel should live forever. My reasoning: Quirrel
I like how doing a quest wrong creates a new ending
I'm a few years late but i really enjoy how you drop those hints. It's playful and helpful.
freaking amazing and made me realise that the shade lord/hollow knight at the end of ending 4 might be in silksong
i love how the community collectively decided on 'true ending' for the dream no more ending despite TC saying there is no true ending. to be fair, it does function how true endings usually do: extra content/requirements need to be fulfilled to unlock it, and it plays out a different cutscene than the 'normal' ending. anyways, neat little quirk
I just connected to things to the depressing lore The whole night in a fleeting final effort to kill radians does a suicidal act that he knows will permanently end him yes he has enough determination to hang on for a few seconds and take full of vantage of the shades power.
I love the editing of this video
Hollow knight complete lore: Before Hallownest existed, the land was split between tribes of insectoid and arachnoid beings: the moths who worshipped The Radiance, plant-like beings in Greenpath who worshipped Unn, the mantises, the mushrooms, the spiders and so forth. Then a higher being known as the Wyrm traveled to the land of Kingdom's Edge and metamorphosed into the Pale King. He shrank himself to appear like the bugs that inhabited the land, and built the kingdom of Hallownest. Ultimately he sought to expand his kingdom to encompass all of the nearby lands and tribes, whether it was through diplomacy or force. One way or another the bugs began to follow him, and in doing so surrendered their old religions. Among them were the Moths, who abandoned their old deity, The Radiance. The Radiance began to appear in the dreams of bugs in an attempt to re-establish its following. These visions caused most of them to go insane, which became known as The Infection. The Pale King countered The Radiance by creating Vessels, living insectoid beings made from Void, which the Radiance was powerless against as they had no dreams or free will. Though thousands of Vessels were created, the Pale King only chose the purest Vessel to become the “Hollow Knight”. This Pure Vessel was then used as an instrument to seal The Radiance within itself and locked inside a vault called the Black Egg Temple. For extra protection, the Pale King appointed three bugs, known as the Dreamers, to make a seal that would stop the Infection. Monomon was a jellyfish-like scholar and teacher, Lurien was the enigmatic watcher of the City of Tears, and Herrah was the rebellious queen of Deepnest. Monomon and Lurien volunteered to become Dreamers while Herrah made a deal with the Pale King to produce a child. The Dreamers entered stasis to protect the Hollow Knight's slumber. The Hollow Knight’s shell eventually cracked due to a small flaw in its purity (its emotional attachment to its creator and father the Pale King, who raised and trained it). The Infection began to leak out, corrupting the minds and bodies of everyone in Hallownest. The kingdom came to ruin, and the Pale King vanished in the chaos, along with his court and palace. The story of The Hollow Knight begins with the protagonist, The Knight, arriving in Dirtmouth on the border of the old kingdom. The Knight begins their journey through the ruins of Hallownest, seeking answers to the mysteries of their own past
What if silksong allowed you to choose which ending you continued from and the gameplay would differ from that point on?
Cool, but that would require beating the game 5 times to see everything.
The pale flowers hold a small fraction of power similar to the power of pale beings like the pale king and the queen and I’m sure it destroys the void meaning it’s paper, sizers, rock with pale energy beating void and void killing the radiants and the radiants killing the pale king The pale flower just destroys void
Congratulations for 75k subscribers, ccmaci🎉
I already knew all the endings, I really just wanted to watch the video and great Jon.
In Ending 4 and 5, I think the dreamers are considered dead. This is because hornet would only wait for you in front of the black egg after you've killed all the dreamers (At least, that's what I think. I didn't try acquiring Void Heart before killing any of the dreamers)
best ending is ending no 5 radiance is dead hollow knight is free from the radiance shade lord isn't anymore most of the characters survive maybe the dreamers awaken as the black egg seems to be unsealed.
And Hollow needs his bug coffee
@@lepurpleboi3266 what is bug coffee made of?
My view of the Shade Lord is like a Primordial force that never had focus or direction and wanted just to erase life. After getting both focus and form it has now the capacity to delete the very existence of everything. My favorite final
yo, i love hollow knight, and the lore of it, but that video was so well built that i loved so more
Poor Radiance, she got forgotten by her worshipers and then just wanted bugs to remember her light again :(
a thing with higher beings, great motives, REALLY bad executions. radiance ruined everyones lives, pk threw down 10 million of his babies
Yeah she's still kinda a psycho for murdering the entire kingdom
I definitely think endings 3 and 5 are the best endings: as both end the tyranny of the Radiance whilst also not allowing the Void to rampage and consume all. Ending 1 is just a dark souls kindling, so it just perpetuates the need for Hollow Knights. Ending 2 condemns Hornet to die (and if Radiance leaks from the temple as it did before, it condemns the kingdom as well as the dreaming Hornet is locked inside the temple as it's sealer). Ending 4 is the opposite of problem of the games premise: the darkness comes to consume our knight and seeks to usurp the Radiance in darkening the world instead of making it bright. The Knight becomes the Dark Lord.
Wow you explain these really good
🖤I love each ending for what it is. No matter how back water it is to get those endings. This is basically the story of one family and the tragic circumstances that surround them.💙
My personal headcanon for ending 5 is that the dreamers do wake up, and at first Quirrel is all depressed, but he only gets halfway to the Blue Lake before being ambushed by Sheo and the Nailsmith, who march him back to Greenpath where they teach him pottery, crochet, and life-appreciation. Happy ending for everyone! 😊
i think silksong will start after ending 3. that would also explain how little ghost / the knight isnt there in silksong
well i think it could be canon ( real ) with all endings exept no 2 wich could be a dream from hornet.
2:13 is noone gonna mention that amazing transition
This video is amazing, very good job.
Man, I just wanted a happy ending for the Knight
that whole "all endings are canon" is bullshit, if we ever find out the fate of hallownest through silksong one of these would have to be true.
or at least one of them false
I like ending 3 the best and I feel it makes the most sense
To get each ending, you need to find what else to do from the previous one. Using the dream cutter thing, discovering the origins of the vessels, taking the throne of the god of god and doing the flower quest. Pretty darn cool.
That's funny, none of them make sense
No ending where the Wyrm survives. Trash gme! 😡
Wyrm in the background: boi why did I even hire u-
I am happy to see this in my recommendations
While I knew basically everything in the video, I never considered that containing the Radiance could be an intrinsic want of the vessels (and by extension, the shades), adding a reason to why the shades all dissipate in the Dream No More ending. Wait, this would also add to the futility of trying to contain her, as the vessels would be marred from their inception...
Everyone's gonna die anyway and Quirrel is one of if not my favorite character and he basically has his whole life ahead of him, so why make a sacrifice to some one whos probably gonna turn to dust in the next 5 minutes due to starvation and thirst
Dream No More seems like the best ending to have for hollow knight and would make sense if that one was considered a base line for silksong, with the Radiance, The Hollow Knight, and our knight being dead and hornet being alive, i feel like that perfectly seta up Silksong and nothing could go wrong unlike with the other 4 ending. Ending 1: the knight could fail, leaving hallownest in ruin Ending 2: i dont even need to explain this Ending 4: the shade lord could ranpage hallownest, killing hornet possibly, or the hollow knight kills her Ending 5: this one just doesnt seem like it SHOULD be cannon, just a extra bonus ending for the pantheons
Thank you so much this is literally so useful I just finished hollow Knight for the first time a while ago and it confused the living daylights out of me
My headcanon is that in ending five the god seeker and the shadlord/the knight are teleported far away... To farloom! And the hallow Knight is no longer under control and he can finally feel emotion freely, once he realizes that hornet is not a threat he vows to protect hallow nest if the his brother/Shadlord/The Knight comes back and Hornet goes to farloom to either tame the Shadlord or kill it.