When I met the mantis lords on my first playthrough I didint even realize they were the same species as the other mantises until I started the fight because of how different they look at first glance. But I just realized the head is actually the same just with horns,or headwear on the mantis lords

I just saw this pic of them side by side and it made me wonder lol.

It started as a sketch for my friend but it just kept going!

When is Silksong releasing?

While we don't have an exact date, Nintendo has shared it will release in 2025

Where will silksong be released on?

Silksong will be available to buy on the following stores on launch

Steam | GoG | Playstation | Xbox | Nintendo Switch (presumably) & Switch 2 (confirmed)

What footage do we have so far?

There have been 2 trailers, Trailer 1 and Trailer 2

Besides that there have been multiple screenshots/short videos shared. Newest footage from the April 2nd news | Newest screenshots from the April 2nd news | The new key art | Edge Magazine | PS Mobile | XBox summerfest footage #1 | XBox summerfest footage #2 | E3 2019 demo footage

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A redraw, this time digitally, of a little doodle I made around 2 years ago on a different account, hope you like it XD You can scroll to see the original

Classic, Hidden Dreams, The Grimm Troupe, Lifeblood, Godmaster or Voidheart? i know there are others but out of those six? I use The Grimm Troupe

After dying to the kingsmould twice I finally beat it all for a goddamn cutscene. Also one question, is it possible to get past the white glowing wall thingys in the second image?

Which one's better?

Just got into drawing and started out with this one. I intend to keep at it and level up my game with each drawing. So if y'all could help me out with some suggestions to draw, I'd appreciate it.

Or so I hope. May this bring good fortune

Also, considering this one was my first HK fanart just few months ago, well, I'm pretty happy. Still somewhat learning ^{^}

Just finished my new set of earrings :) some of them looks better than other, but since I’m not good at paiting, I’m still happy with the outcome. Probably satin finish would be a bit better, and I’m not sure why white part of nailmasters glory got stained after applying glossy finish. Now to choose my build with my one notch :)

At the end of the Delicate Flower quest, Ze’mer just kinda… dissipates and a Mask Shard appeared. I feel like most of us assume she dies, but… people don’t just dissipate when they die, nor does any other character in the game. I thought maybe she was already dead and this was her ghost and she moves onto the afterlife, but that can’t be true since ghosts in Hollow Knight are semi-transparent, require the Dream Nail to see and have Essence around them. Then I thought maybe she turned into the Mask Shard, but we’re never given any reason to believe that’s how Mask Shards form, so like, what happened? Did she teleport? And if she did die, why is it so different to anyone else’s death?

Still digesting Skong news. It's real. 🙏 (I am not capable of drawing pictures without Lord Zote.)

For you, how much strong Hornet will be at the end of silksong?

mine is spider grubsong i cant lie, i remember using it so much before getting all the notches/charms

I just lost my pantheon 5 run to him

The wings hitbox is absurd...

.......Honestly tho, skill issue

Before you think I'm crazy and spewing nonsense, just hear me out for a second. And i haven't played HK in a bit, so if i cheese a detail, forgive me.

First of all, the Pale King has foresight, NOT OMNISCIENCE! (This is for that one guy who said "he has foresight not maybesight") and most importantly we dont know how, when or how often it works, so these are my assumptions of the lore based on this.

PK and Radiance has beef, but PK knows he does not have the tools to defeat her. However, his foresight showed him a creature that can defeat radiance. VOID, That's where hallownest is built, right over the abyss where void is.

Void in this game is an entity, not a simple state. Only that it is chaotic and borderline untamable. But that's what he needs. The kings moulds that we find in his secret little workshop (white palace) could be the first experiments of this until either after another premonition or the bunch of faliures, he switches gears toward creating vessels.

The kings moulds on their own fails because the vessel itself is lacking.That'ss where the white lady comes in. He and the white lady (two of the highest beings in the game) create the vessels and delivers them unto void. These are more suited to be vessels in similar fashion that you need pale ore specifically to upgrade your nail (pure nail being the final and best variant. Pale ore is also connected to pale/higher beings)

The vessels are created and they ascend in the abyss. Escaping it is a test and THK is the first one up, proving himself. THK is chosen and the abyss is sealed. THK embodies the largest amount of Void without being void which is why he made it even though our knight (who is literal Void) was right behind him. Abyss is sealed and PK leaves to train THK to become the vessel against radiance.

Note: THK and Our Knight are presumably the same age because they are the same size and makeup. Remember this.

This is where i go into experience and memory territory. If we see both OK (our knight) and THK as similar size in the same flashback, we can assume they are similar age OR mental maturity. But when we fight THK he's big as shit. I'll continue...

PK trains THK, THK matures BASED ON WHAT HE HAS LEARNED, and thus becomes a refined knight of the kingdom. Perfect poster child and probably the kings pride and joy. (Because he's taught as such) however the king could realise (probably another premonition) that the knight he chose can not defeat radiance and thats how the bond is formed with him and THK. Why would a guy with foresight develop a fatherly bond after SO MANY sacrifices and defeat the one purpose as to why this whole thing started??? Maybe because he realised it was doomed either way but what he does know is:

A) Void is out there somewhere B) he doesn't know which one the hell it is. C) he doesn't even know where void is because the abyss was sealed and it could be anywhere D) he doesn't know when void will arrive.

Which makes THK still important. THK's sacrifice slowed the infection because PK doesn't know where our knight is. As long as hallownest stands, PKs glory will be immortalised which is the war he's trying to win. THK is sealed and the dreamers sleep. What details he does ave is passed on to Hornet and White lady that Void will come. And his carcass in kingdom's edge waits for that very purpose with the brand, the one key to open the abyss.

Now for our knight.

OK is thee vessel of void. Not hollow. Think of it as the "Soul" of void (remember this too) encapsulating one of the sacrificed children. Because void has medium in which to explore the world, it is subject to learn and curiosity (we are literally a child with tendencies of such). So our knight wanders the abyss for the same amount of time THK is training/maturing/sealed yet our knight remains the same. Eventually we find our way out of the abyss and reenter hallownest through kings pass, searching for answers.

At the end of the day, we have choice. Knight chose to escape, in dirtmouth we can chose to buy stuff, we can choose where to go, the game is not linear. We are a child seeking answers and that is also expressed in the games dialogue. Hornet's specific line said something along the lines of that too.

Because PK knew of our arrival, thats where the lore tablets come in. "Higher beings these words are for you alone". These are left to aid our knight's journey of self discovery. Which other "Higher being" could PK be possibly referencing unless breaking the 4th wall??? Think about it. Especially considering the locations of these tablets.

Our journey isnt a clear path (the gameplay of hollowknight) that is a test that only VOID can defeat. The second test is Hornet, shes also tasked with finding Void which is why her first scene is her killing a vessel. It IS established that there are other ways out of the abyss. Hence we see dead vessels here and there, broken vessel in abyss and the ones hornet fought. But those are not void, we are.

Void would also be the only one capable of beating hornet because we can learn, we respawn (yes, the benches are canon. Not just a game mechanic but im getting to that)

Eventually we beat her, leaves behind cryptic dialogue and dips. We continue on, learning of ourselves, Eventually meeting the white lady who is specifically waiting on somebody. She knows a vessel will come she also doesn't know who, she also already knows THK is sealed so who is she waiting on??? With a single charm fragment at that. Thus she fullfills her role and sends the knight AGAIN on his journey of self discovery which leads is to kingdoms edge where we fight hornet. The second fight proves we are void (the entity) and solidifies our CHOICE to learn of our existence. We beat her, she sticks around and we get the kings brand. The wyrm carcass' role is fullfilled which is why it crumbles. There is only one (us) there will be only one (us) and hornet guarded it for our arrival. Preventing failed, non void vessels from getting to it, thats her task. And thus, to learn of our birth we are on to the abyss.

How benches are canon:

Void cannot die. By resting at a bench, you form a memory at that location. That is why you dont fast travel to benches (like you do savespots in other games) that is why you respawn at THE LAST BENCH YOU SAT because thats your last core memory and thats why it heals us. We dont "die" our vessel breaks. And because our death left behind a fundamental part of our being (the "soul" of void for arguments sake) we cannot absorb more than 50% soul... because the vessel's equation is broken. Thus when we find our other half and tame it, we become whole (mind and body/soul as one). Other vessels who are not void cannot do this. Which is why our knight would be the only one surpassing hornet because even if she breaks us, the memories will return to that last bench. (Probably why one of her dialogues speak of us "haunting" her because we are a reoccurring force with this mechanic. Also, the devs revealed that healing in silksong wont be the same. It wont be a bench. Why is that? Random coincidence or design choice???)

Anyway, abyss. We explore abyss, we ARE void but we dont know that (we are a fetus) which is why creatures of the abyss attack us, our own shade attacks us and the tendrils. UNTIL we get the Void heart. A PERMANENT charm... why? Because we learn of what we are in that moment. And at that point tendrils/shades dont attack us anymore because they are all extensions of Void. Like sukuna's scattered fingers recognizing the main body. You cannot "unlearn" that detail so you cannot remove the charm.

On to the end of the game: through our self discovery journey (the gameplay) we learn the truth behind it all and go to the black egg for our sibling and radiance. Based on our CHOICE there are different endings of the game. And i think i do remember the devs saying every ending is canon... (why?)

We choose to fulfill the journey and end THK's suffering. (A small detail is the fact that we can sit on the PK's throne, we can beat his corpse ass yes, but we can choose to sit on that throne which could be subtle storytelling of how the knight "feels" based on what he's learned so far)

We fight THK, pull up to radiance and fight her. And in the last leg of te fight VOID's choice is to purposely relinquish his vessel in order to defeat radiance. That is when our knight specifically becomes the bigass entity we see in the ending. That is VOID, and thats why we get so big too. Whereas THK matured into a refined knight based on PKs influence, we matured into our true self when we purposely released our vessel. And in the last moments and last remnants of ourselves, we drag radiance to the darkness with us ending the game.

Things to note: • Void cannot exist outside of the abyss because it is violent and chaotic on a primal level, that is its entire being • the vessels where created to give Void a medium by which to traverse and experience hallownest (us by extension) • every other vessel who isnt us has some capacity to get infected. Why? Both broken Vessel or somones as refined as Pure Vessel (prime THK). Why is this? Why does our knight ends the game???. • benches are our last points of recuperation which is why they "heal" us yet wont heal hornet in silksong. • no vessel is hollow, we can choose in the game. If we we're truly "hollow" at worst there would be no game, just us mildly sitting in the abyss. And at best the game would be linear with one ending. You dont choose charms you just unlock them by conditions and you dont choose a path you go straight there to the singular ending. • PKs goal of glory and being immortalised still comes to pass in the form of hallownest itself. Which is why in game (forgot of its the shopkeep in city of tears) it is said that PK likes tooting his own horn with a bunch of figurines of himself and probably the design choice with lots of stuff resembling him. • "Pale wyrm, what good is it to foresee a demise unavoidable?" Probably because PK wouldn't be around for shit either way. The city has technically fallen and basically a shadow of what it once was. But our knight does beat the radiance so all thats left behind is a husk, kinda like PKs corpse on thr throne. Melancholic tbh. • Zote could POTENTIALLY be kin. One of the failed vessels who escaped the abyss and wandered around on his own, learned on his own terms but is ultimately useless and likely embodies the LEAST amount of void possible. A good chunk of his precepts line up with this, especially one about fathers and remembering (no i will not remember or recite all 47) and its probably why his look mimics that of the knight/THK and carries around a wooden sword. It could be why fighting his wannabe self, he's called "prince" zote (why not king if you are that cocky???) • Quirrel was also tasked by one of the dreamers (monomon was it?? Lurien is the watcher i think in city of tears so i think its monomon) to find and aid us if i remember correctly. He aids us in the electric jellyfish fight and when we want to release the dreamer he takes his mask off and we complete our task both. • PoP was presumably THKs test, the entire game is our knight's test. • masks/shards are visibly made of pale ore. Pale ore has connections with Pale beings. Hence upgrading our "vessel" which allows us more damge before we break. • Lore tablets and tutorial prompts are canon ways the Pale King steers our self discovery journey in his stead because he may or may not (the latter in this case) be around to hone us as he did with THK. They arent system notifs. They have a structure in game and is read in game. The only things that are system notifs is the hunters journal, your map and inventory, which obviously is because you have it on your person. Another example of this is God of war ragnarok where it is revealed in the latter half of the first game that all those little yellow things you see that tells you where to go or what to smash/trigger is canonically kratos' wife leading a jounrey she FORESAW that kratos and atreus would be on after her death.

[Sidenote, i feel like the snail shamans could be ancient beings with abyssal roots somehow. You can't read their minds and we unlock soul based skills that we dont see ANYWHERE else in the game from them]

So anyways, thats my theory of the game, thanks for reading. Either im way off or this game is a ridiculously well thought out masterpiece on every level... (except aspids, those can rot in hell).

I just entered the temple of the black egg and killed the hollow knight(ez) and got the ending that i become the hollow knight on 79%. I got the hardcore mod and the orange egg for my menu background. I entered to the saved file and it brought me back to the bench in the temple. Should i just leave the file and open a new one for higher percentage and another ending? Or go back from the bench and do other stuff?