hollow knight. [release number 1]

Lore The story of Hallownest is quite complicated to formulate. Small fragments of the story are dropped in the game, which have to be supplemented with assumptions. This could be an incorrect story, but data has been collected from many sources of information to write this.

Still, everyone is free to interpret it as they wish.

Advertisement Main Story Introduction Before the kingdom of Hallownest, there was an all-powerful creature, THE FLARE, who through his light engendered the tribe of moths. Together, they created the kingdom of Hallownest, a place for arthropods to spend their lives. Soon, arthropods of all kinds arrived. The Mantis tribe, a warrior people, or the Bee tribe, a hierarchical society, were among the many species that arrived in the new kingdom, and although they respected Flash as the highest authority, the Mantis had their own government, and the bees locked themselves in their hive, oblivious to everything that happened in Hallownest.

Everything was peace and harmony, or so it seemed.

Flash was actually a parasite that took advantage of the weak minds of the arthropods that worshipped her, for her own purposes, in exchange, she granted them any wishes they asked for. That was already enough, although the arthropods did not realize it and some that did notice did not care. Their possessed minds were no problem compared to the wishes they got. No one cared until a being arrived that would change everything.

The Pale King The Wyrm tribe was a tribe that lived since the same time as Flash, and they had a lot of power, enough to defeat Flash. And although they could have done it, they mysteriously began to die out, but when the last Wyrm died, he was reincarnated in a smaller being, but with the same wisdom, the Pale King.

The Pale King discovered what Flash was doing and opened the minds of all the arthropods. With the help of the 5 great knights, whom the King was recruiting, with the support of the White Lady, with whom the King had fallen in love and without minds to invade Flash was defeated, or rather forgotten, since there was no battle. In Hallownest a new stage began.

The Golden Age of Hallownest In the kingdom, an era of prosperity began, in which a great deal of technological progress was made. Trams and deerpaths were invented, and amulets were discovered. Each area of ​​Hallownest began to play an important role in society, such as Deepnest, where a new tram was beginning to be developed, or Kingdom's Edge, where a coliseum was created for the enjoyment of the inhabitants. The City of Tears became the capital of this prosperous kingdom, but the good times did not last long.

The Infection Flash had been planning her revenge all this time, and she succeeded. She took advantage of the minds of weak arthropods again, who even if they forgot her, remembered the pleasure they felt when receiving wishes. She appeared to them in dreams, and each time the dreams became more frequent, and painful. It was like an infection. In the end the poor arthropods could not take it anymore and became crazy, aggressive and stronger. The dream was so powerful that it took physical form, it was like a mucus or orange liquid (it can be seen in Infected Crosses) and it spread through the air. The tribes of arthropods with more privileged minds were able to survive, although some could not resist the temptation of having so much power. Flash was no longer content with ruling minds, now she wanted to destroy everything. All seemed lost.

Experiments with vacuum The King tried to find a solution to this plague, and thought that to defeat the light, darkness is needed, so he went to the Abyss and began to experiment with it to create a pure receptacle. He needed to create something capable of containing the infection inside it, and since the void was just that, void, he took advantage of it to try to create a being capable of fulfilling that task. His first experiments did not go very well, nor did his seconds. It took him many years to find a pure receptacle, while Flash threatened to annihilate the arthropods, until one day, he succeeded.

The Hollow Knight He created the perfect vessel, or so he thought. It was the Hollow Knight. The King needed a being incapable of feelings, and this one seemed to have it. The Hollow Knight absorbed Radiance and she was trapped in his mind, as if in a dream. To make sure, the King got three very powerful beings to become the seals that would contain the Hollow Knight, in case something went wrong. They were Monomon, the Master, who contained a lot of wisdom, she studied a lot in her archives. There was also Lurien, the Watcher, who watched over the City of Tears from her Tower and who, out of loyalty to her king, agreed to make that sacrifice. And finally Herrah, the Beast, queen of the creatures of Deepnest who at first was not willing to sacrifice herself, but after a deal she had with the king, she accepted. The three became the Dreamers, they fell asleep forever and from their dreams they contained the Hollow Knight.

The return of the Infection Time passed and the King died, the White Lady went into hiding and the group of 5 knights dissolved. And although everything was supposed to be under control, there was something that made people not stay calm. Well, as mentioned before, the Hollow Knight was not perfect. He did have a feeling, loyalty to the king. The king treated the Hollow Knight as if he were his son, and he felt attachment to the king. That showed that the Hollow Knight was not so empty after all. Flash took advantage of this, and spread once again. Not even the Dreamers could stop her, but they could not wake up, because now they had to contain the Hollow Knight locked up. The Hollow Knight's void was filled with infection and now she controlled his body, and at the same time, used it as a transmitter, so if the Hollow Knight came out, it would spread much faster. The weak arthropods became infected again. The kingdom returned to ruin, and without their king, they were running out of hope.

And at this point is when our character arrives at Hallownest, another vessel that must make its way through this devastated realm for good, replacing the Hollow Knight as a pure vessel, or ending the Flash itself once and for all.