#sk-lore
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Oh yk
How do you consume the all consuming substance
symbiosis idfk
spicy energy drink
or it's the liquid and not the sharp slop thingies
Maybe it’s stomach is made from everblooms
you consume it from things that contain trace amounts of it, i think Abyss has void particles in air
team cherry doesnt know the answer to this
"Amazingly, the creature carries the void's black liquid in its stomach, violently spraying it forth if threatened."
Lowkey how the fuck did the soul in the absolom mummy never get eaten by the void
Oh so they’re also confused about it too then
I’m glad to hear that
The creature itself also seems to be barely a living thing
The void wasn’t hungry yet
Relatable
They were saving her as a snack for later
she must have been working hard, it is sad she never thought to mix silk weapon with it to make more potent
That’s why the void got upset when we stole the snack from it
i wanderer that to, how does her constriction/petrification of her corpse manage it
Because fossil taste better than weaver
Literally nothing was stopping the void from pulling her platform down
As seen when the void does pull her platform down
yeah but void wasn't able to sense silk/soul in statue, that might be same reason why GMS didn't bind those weavers that we see are constricted
Ig void just isn’t a fan of eating corpses
Why does void eat anyways
It does leave a lot of corpses behind
Its not alive
void doesn’t eat
The mummies were made so only weaver descendants could get to them
It consumes
i think it would be super interesting if Pharloom and Pharloom's Abyss weren't separated from each other
And She doesn't like widow ig
void would climb up to GMS and latch on her, if she started hauting pharloom
Why tho
just cuz
I dont really think the void would just fucking
god forbid a substance do anything
Yknow those strings attached to GMS’s cocoon
start a tsunami upwards
What if we just pulled one of those down
it loves its comfort zone
And stretched it into the abyss
The void would just climb up it and consume her cocoon instead
They're exposed nerves
small amounts of void would latch on silk
Saves us a lot of effort
yeah
If she didn’t cut it off then she’d probably die
IF silk reaches the abyss in the first place
i mean it reached deep docks
gms in horror as the dark ever consuming liquid starts climbing up to her
Why do the void strings react to the needolin
The big pool itself is quite a bit lower though
why wouldn’t it? It’s still the Haunting, but void intensifies it and makes it worse
Why would random silk react to the needolin
silk doesn't care about distance, it reaches depths
and yk, its still very far down from deep docks
Except bone bottom
needed a whole ass elevator to descend
?????
Except it's not true as several regions are unnafected by the haunting
so what? it is hypothetical situation
or some
One of the literal functions of the needolin is revealing the strands that haunt pharloom
not that many
Ig
but i don't see it very feasible
Yes but my point is that it's likely that different species vary in lifespan.
Emilitia doesn't look that different from any other bug we've killed, or at the very least she doesn't look to be from another species compared to Ogrim.
So to me, its weird that Emi so much older than Elderbug, while looking relatively young by comparison

Deep Docks is affected, which is what matters most
unless you for some god damn reason
The void is MUCH much lower
good for you i guess
Maybe we don’t even need to string the silk down into the abyss
Wouldn’t just connecting it to bilewater work
you would need to hang haunted pilgrims all over the cave system
for it to spread or smrt
Just have the maggots do their job
honestly no
Topic?
When I mention common bugs I mean those bugs that look generic. Like yes, Sly is common but he's also a Fly
not really
Void
Different species have different life spans and therefore appear different ages at different times.
And shi
I don’t think there’s enough maggot water
Alternate ways of killing silk
or wisps too
what about it
Have you played act 3
You never know until you try
shoot her slap her stick her in void stew
no like
Silk herself really isn’t that big
But Emi and Elderbug don't seem to be from different species. Emi doesn't seem special in any way
it took a void sea actively trying to consume her to kill her
Styx can probably bring enough silkeaters to kill gms
And even then she can temporarily stave it off
if you put gms in maggotwater shed just fly out
A bug doesn't need to be special for it to have a longer lifespan than some other bug. Common bugs can live much longer than other common bugs.
infested water wouldn’t do the same
She’d fly out covered in silk eating maggots
Like Hornet
Chat
which she's get rid of lol
does this mean muckmaggots
and then shed shake them off
i played way to make it back from abyss to deep docks it isn't that big compared to distance for Deep Docks to Cradle
Ye
fucking suck soul out of beings
Then just keep throwing maggots at her idk
god fucking damnit
There’s a lot of maggots
So do silkeaters apparently
what about Wisps, would they actively burn her effectively
You just gave me an idea
Sacrifice 500 kingdoms to have enough
Theyre too slow
fuck did i do 😭
Ye but theres lava, spikes and shit
we got to try plasmification instead
nothing lol they had an idea
Why arent silkeaters haunted
It's still weird for me that Emi alone is the sole survivor of the entire fall of Hallownest aside from Hornet who barely counts.
she’s not?
Mister mushroom
mantises
LEMM!
MY GUY LEMM!
Several great knights survived
HOW COULD YOU FORGET
gang are you dumb
Mister mushroom isn’t from hallownest
idfk
Does Lemm state that he was from there?
lemm only came to hallownest after the fall
i forgot
do you realize that i am talking about hypothetical situation if Pharloom wasn't separated to Pharloom's Abyss
He’s a relic seeker
fuck you
Yeah like all
Not part of Hallownest
I thought you meant, if it wasnt sealed off completely yk
but ye wtv wtv
Me being a relic seeker in present day New York
What
1 she's not the only one and 2 it isn't that weird lol she stayed isolated the entire time
??? They are
They're in the caves not part of the kingdom
they mean the kingdom
we have to try parasite, muckmaggots, wisps and plasmification and void on GMS simultaneously
Prime gms would clear
That or just throw the baby at her
what if prime gms is just gms but she actually claws on you since she's unshackled
They're a separate kingdom but they're still smack dab in the middle of Hallownest with surrounding areas and creatures falling to the Infection and the fall of the kingdom
What Is the difference
id consider fungal wastes part of the kingdom, pk made a deal with them to put pilgrims way there
And fog Canyon has the state university
if you go cave diving in a cave located into america youre still in america
You dont put those things in border towns
the nailmasters survived
That's just for sightseeing lol
fungal wastes should be considered apart of hallownest
Wisps would burn roots preventing twisted child, Plasmification would also infect roots that sap energy from GMS, Muckmaggots would eat silk and outcompete the void, Void would put out wisps and eat silk and what's left is a mess
?? It's literally one of the main entrances to the City of Tears??
They would js fight eachother for dominion
while gms is watching
exactly, none of them winning is what we want
why didn't shamans think of this, are they stupid?
Fungal wastes is part of hallownest
You have a really weird mess to clean up
Not necessarily better than trying an individual strategy. Mixing together cleaning agents (DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS) or soaps doesn't give you a "better clean"
Boring
not really, it will decompose eventually, except the void
6588 Cubic meters of muckmaggot infested waters, 59095 pyres with wispfire, and 49944 plasmium cocoons
that's still a big fucking problem
then regulate amount of void, one jar only i guess
Except the fire on the flamable silk
Well that aint doin shit fs
its.... its the main door to the City of Tears?
Connects to the main path from Greenpath
all of these would just clash against each other
adding a bunch of uncontrolled substances together to stop silk isn't efficient when some of those substances will just interfere with other ones and cause the overall reduction of silk to be less efficient
and becomes a hollowcord original character
wisps will be put out by void, plasmium liquid
none of them winning and gms losing is what we want though
that's part of the outcome so it doesn't result in Act 3 or Twisted Child
this is the stupidest hypothetical ive ever seen come out of this channel
Sure, but if they slow eachother down then GMS would be able to outlast them to the point that she could remove them outheal their negative side effects
okay, now throw in Infection, Steel Master Compression too
And she never gets it back
We can just throw her in the far fields lava
whats going on can u summ it a lil
Alternate ways to kill gms
and there's no guarantee that one substance won't trump (not the orange) over the other ones and make them entirely ineffective or gone
i don't think they will slow each other down too much , void is too effective at that, only one that i can see being slowed down are wisps and parasite, which is for better outcome
theyre debating what would happen if you threw void, the root baby, lifeblood, and void all at gms at once
just throwing a bunch of shit at the same time isn't always better than just a few of them or all of them separately
Stop making plasmified Lost gms in your kitchen sink
that's why you got to measure the ingredients
the answer is nothing would happen, gms needs to be submerged in void, i dont think she’d willingly consume plasmium, and the root baby needs her to be weakened in order to consume her
...the void would just eat up everything what's the point
I mean yeah sure but to me is easier to believe that the Mantis Tribe survives as a whole than a single fucking person in the middle of the Capital when an outbreak is happening
Oh yeah lets combine the hard to stop overly destructive substances at a problem that doesn't need allat
We can just roast gms over a fire shes fully flamable
she isnt
The parts that matter are
we are having fun, you guys it wasn't supposed to be actual argument
yeah, wisps burn silk
Just drown her in laca
Gms would just outsilk any wisp
there’s text in whiteward that states that silk dregs were retrieved after cremation, and youd need alot of wispfire to kill her
Cheap lighter vs 5909 metric tons of wood
she's entirely cut off from that society. and the infection isn't the same as "person coughs on you and it spreads." It also deals with temptation and the radiance taking over your mind. even if she came into contact with the infection, she already sees herself as perfect and better than everyone and everything so the Radiance wouldn't be able to tempt her with any false dreams.
She's also batshit insane
the radiance did NOT want anything to do with her
fr
^
Colosseum
coincidence? i think not!
Salubra
they are infected
i think
just
not in the mood for animal shit
The ones fighting are but not the spectators or other combatants in the rest area
listed two bugs that arent insane
They're just vibing too hard for it
mask maker is tough to defend but what he’s saying has true meaning behind it and makes sense
he’s a philosopher
Doesn't the wanderer's journal book mention how they're infected but too locked in to listen to radiance
and mister mushroom is possibly the least insane person you couldve chosen
Or am i making shit up
He has multiple masks he swaps regularly
its been a while
yeah i swap clothes every day does that make me fit for a straitjacket
the one's fighting yeah, but not the spectators or other combatants resting below the arena. or the dude chained up that you purchase access to trials from.
Talking about spectators
they don't seem reactive about their boss being dead
yeah the colosseum fighters are infected theyre just going about their lives as they were before because that’s what the infected do
i don't think they are. if there are combatants who aren't infected (ones in the rest area) then i don't see why the spectators would be, especially given they have vocal reactions to events and they care about geo n giving rewards n whatnot (plus none of them have any orange glow)
they just don't gaf
what if the lord fool isnt dead and he’s just havign a really good nap
"Whispers of worship" mfs when I shout LOOK AT THE VESSEL FUCKING GO over their brainwashing
Also with the little fool chained up at the entrance who is definitely not infected i don't see why the spectators would be infected
surprised how the radiance didn't get to him
with smt like "ill make you stronger and worthy again"
he neg diffs rad
A real fool doesnt do steroids

they're kinda offset from the rest of society and all of them have all the joy and passion from watching and competing. with him specifically idrk lol
I mean the fighters are infected
but they just
dont give a fuck ig
they're kept in cages
they just take the strength and roll with it
competitors and fighters are different, fighters are infected and kept in cages until they're forced into the arena to battle the competitor
I know, im talking about the fighters
yea the competitors are infected
they're kept in cages separate from everyone else lol
arent those fighters?
they get thrown in and they throw hands
oh mb fighters
competitors aren't infected
they're the ones who sign up to challenge the trials
How does zote enter godhome if he doesnt dream
like the knight, tiso, or other non-infected combatants
GPZ is the manifestation of Bretta's delusions, and Eternal Ordeal is kinda a meme lmao but ig that could be HIS delusions
why are you assuming that gms dies as a result of thus
there’s a very good chance this concoction of bullshit cancels each other out and gms is fine at the end of it
zote has a FATHER?
good shit tc
yeah he does but i wasn't talking about that lol 😭
I wish I had a father
idk, i just do? she will be overwhelmed in multitude of ways, void and plasmium can't be cancelled out with known and available substances in that situation
"Mothers Will always betray you "-zote spoilering silksong
Gms takes a bath in the pale lake
status effects cleared
She's also a Higher Being with great strength and she could kick ass against this concoction of bullshit lmao
“Plasmium can’t be cancelled out”
based on what?
“Void can’t be cancelled out”
based on what?
Just because these things don’t have a counterpart doesn’t mean putting everything into a blender means they will work at maximum efficacy or at all
Void can't be cancelled out mfs when I just stop touching it
Nika ohw to create the dangerous substance battle royale instead of the concotion he was hoping for
this amounts to fanon saying that “oh this would kill gms and also lead to no act 3 and nothing else bad happening”
okay? you can't exactly kick ass against roots that saps your strength, or muckmaggots
she can get rid of them
How is the root meant to get in there
void and plasmium can't be cancelled out with known and available substances in that situation, if they can it isn't known to us
On the topic of act 3, act 3 isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be
it certainly could be better
throwing the cursed bud at her isn't gonna just instantly curse her and make her all fucked up and weaker lmao what
that’s not the point
these things don’t interact so you don’t know what would happen
how so?
This ONLY happens because the bud had a being that could absorb other beings
It took a full turn of hornets neck to make it able to enter
and she had been weakened enough for it to act
Asserting that this would work is bullshit
This isnt an actual argument
and the bud just being thrown in there wouldn’t do shit lmao it would just die
Parasite mfs when theyre alone (suddenly its an unfair scenario)
what if void and muckmaggots
and there is nothing wrong with that, this is just hypothetical
does that mean 2x silk drain?
what are the muckmaggots supposed to do
binding, just shaking them out, performing surgery on herself, etc.
they it silk
Read above
gms would just replenish and cause them to break off
Thow the void into the wall
gang hornet binds and gets rid of them GMS would do the same thing
then why are you doing it here
go to another channel
why the fuck not
fr
How does the gms bind even work
if you're just discussing random shit atp then do it in #sk-discussion where other people can clown on this idea too
is that her focus?
plasmium infection lessens power of binding, muckmaggots need to be in constant supply
you can’t go to a serious channel with a non serious argument and then go “well its not supposed to be serious”
What if gms just throws the maggot away
This channel is frequently unserious
"Hollow Knight Silksong lore discussion. A more in-depth discussion channel; no low effort/memes allowed." i don't see serious written anywhere
oh my fucking god

get the hell out of this goddamn channel right now
all you wanted was to clown on idea and not contribute to discussion?
or I’m muting all of you
Plasmium is not permanent. There's a difference between being fully consumed by it like Plasmified enemies and having some of the substance in your system. There's no plausible way for GMS to become Plasmified unless she actively lets it happen or tries to do that.
okay let's stop
I don't think she can at all
If you take a lace and replace all her silk then take the original silk and make a new lace
Is that the same lace
no, obviously, i assume silk stores imprint and contributes to identity, it will just be lace-shaped silk-child
I was actively contributing 😭
now everyone out
leave this space for actual lore
and serious questions and hypotheticals
What if we just dunk gms into the lava in pharloom
thank you SO much for you contribution to this channel, i am so sorry i didn't see it
that is entirely and seriously plausible strategy
but on serious note, issue with my hypothetical that is isn't organized, if defeating GMS strategy was organized it would likely include Snare Setter which is somewhat important part and other other thing i see being part of snare other that void is wisp i guess, Snare uses soul to create wisps i guess, with weakening mechanisms of other things, who knows maybe in that case Muckmaggots or other substances can help
bro is minimodding
the conversation ended bro i'm trying to make sure you don't get in trouble. the mod said get out of this channel and stop the stupid debate/hypothetical (in this channel) i was just repeating that cuz you were still yapping
i don't know, we need serious proof, this is lore channel, where serious things are allowed
true, we need enough laces to dismember all limbs of GMS
Gms was actually smart on how she was trying to get rid of bone bottom ngl
She was actively trying to send silk down into the marrow exit to block it
She kept the bell beast locked away
She sent skull tyrants into bone bottom
Oh yeah true
She also presumably got a bug to lock the gate sherma sings at
What even is the bell eater
an evil bell beast that tried to eat the bell beast
isnt bell beast invincible or sum
No, not even close.
He's what?
||quick someone post a mark giff||
huh
hornet cant even damage bro
The Blackwyrm
wots that
The Blackwyrm

Its a really hard shell
But the bell eater can actually properly bite into it
Oh
She also could use be deliberately not trying to hurt Bellbeast since they’re friends. She was able to hurt Bellbeast during their fight.
Ohhh
And to be fair, if it's biting bells it must be biting shells like that
bell beast survives running into literal thousands of stacked balls of silver and bronze without even noticing theres not much anyone can do lol
Did I miss any other Retcon in the Doc? I was busy at work and couldn't check if someone wanted to add one
Can you resend the doc?
We hate them or we like them, but we never stop to think about them! What is a retcon? Well, according to Wikipedia, the exact definition is: “Retroactive continuity, colloquially known as a retcon, is a literary device in fictional story telling whereby facts and events established through th...
I think Weaver infertility is retcon
It is, Little Weavers is there
Aren’t there things like “Weaver in 1/8 part” in a room in the upper most area of the citadel? Which implies not all Weavers are infertile? Am I gong insane?
To be absolutely honest with you
That's a retcon within a retcon like
It’s says things like “Weaver, in eighth part, last of their line…” and stuff.
Fuck you mean there are more
Like you tell me of the impossibility of Weaver reproduction
Then you tell to me about Weaver descendants
Retconception
I don’t know what to tell you, it’s right fucking there man. It’s not even in like an update, they added that shit.
Day one.
Yeah, I know
I am unique, you see. My mothers shared the curse of their tribe, to conceive a child is a painful, near impossible task.
But this has also been here DAY ONE
It’s near impossible, not fully impossible.
To me it makes sense that there are more and they somehow succeeded on creating more Weavers
But Little Weavers are like ? ? ? ? ?
The only thing that links them to Weavers is their name and appearance. Could just be genetically modified spiders. I wouldn’t put it past the Weavers to experiment on the Deepnest natives.
I'm guessing the Weavers managed to reproduce, but Little Weavers come in quantities
It would still be a retcon because nothing in Hallownest indicates such a thing happening
I also don't put it past Weavers to experiment with the Spiders
Yeah I’m going with the idea that the Weavers experimented on native spiders of Deepnest and turned them into the Little Weavers.
That makes sense to me, but the thing with theorizing over Retcons is that it doesn't stop them from being retcons
Not until we get confirmation
Actually any info on Mask Makers we got from Silksong is a Retcon by Addition
Although I'm inclined to not add it
Since it doesn't really fill any gap
I feel I gotta make that distinction
How do silkeaters work
In lore? They make no real sense using their description in game
Unless the eat like a stand of Silk connected to the cocoon and through that they bring the entire cocoon
Imma be real they're less immersive than Jiji and her shit
I’m just gonna invoke the “It takes place in a noncanon interaction so we can just not pay attention to it” card tbh.
Eh, I guess. I wouldn't even say they take place in a non canon interaction, I'd just say they're lore irrelevant
(They do tho)
They eat gods soul
Nah that ain't weird
They form colonies in habitats that only exist in like 8 places total
I mean they kinda do, but we cannot ignore the fact that this is something they can do
I mean that’s something you keep asserting while it has no direct confirmation from team cherry
I just don't pay attention to them until I forget they exist 
The silkeaters have an ability taken from gms herself
Respawning isn’t canon. Just because it is in some games doesn’t mean it’s canon in these games.
Yes, but the events and abilities of those said non canon instances aren't non canon
Fuck I feel like that Boondocks clip
How are silkeaters not haunted
They eat the silk.
Out of all things I'd believe that eating the silk probably keeps them from being haunted
Even if they are, it doesn't matter much
In fact, being Haunted would probably support a theory about them using the Haunting to find our Coccoon or something
How would they have time to evolve that
The haunting is
Wait you're saying this because of the possible theory I said
Ok, let’s use Jiji summoning TK’s Shade for instance. Jiji says they “peer into you” to search for your regrets. Meaning they need the person present. Meaning if said person is dead they can’t find the regrets. Meaning that Jiji summoning the Shade requires TK to be present to find their Shade. As such, summoning the Shade isn’t canon because it requires something that cannot happen within the canon of the game, that being TK being present after their death.
They should scrap sea of sorrow for a styx game
I won't die on this hill, but I wanna follow that line of thought.
If Silkeaters can use the Haunting to find our Coccoon and bring it to us, maybe they didn't evolve but they are just using their innate ability to sense silk to bring it over to us
How Hornet figure that shit out?
Idk
But Jiji's ability to summon a Shade, ergo, Void, isn't non canon

The only instance of it happening happens, and I understand this may be a little difficult to understand, in a noncanon interaction. I just explained why it isn’t canon and you literally just said “yeah but no”.
Yeah but no because Sula and Jiji are of the same species and have the same spot as a Steel Servant's companion
Sula can summon a whole Void aberration, meaning that Jiji's ability to summon Void being, in this case a Shade, isn't non canon
My guy those things hardly look alike.
The Ability exists, she just doesn't use it in a canon instance
Buigger horns and head, thats about it
The legs are basically the same
Does Sula have Jiji’s freakish arms?
That she doesn't, but as we've seen in canon bug evolution, things change as they mature
Same Species, Cardi is just old
And the Pontiff, presumably older than Cardi, is even bigger than Cardi
Then there's this bitch
Ok, but do they grow entirely new limbs, or just longer?
I don’t trust Scrounge. No respect for their relics.
Do you see anything resembling Cardi's body on the first Vaultkeeper?
The only difference I can see is their weird lower body.
Imo it’s a little more believable to grow longer than to grow all new articulated fuck ass arms.
From a biological stand point, I find it more logical to grow arms than to grow a longass body
Where even are this things Organs???????????
Forehead.
And actually, Scrounge is worse because she grew differently
Despite being of either the same or very similar species
She has only two limbs
Tbh I don’t think Scrounge is the same species as the Vault Keepers. It’s always just been way too different from the others to make sense for me.
(Also why I don’t think Sula and Jiji are the same species, legs looking kinda similar aren’t proof of species relation)
Son of a fucking bitch. Fine, sure, Sula and Jiji might be the same species(despite the issue of them barely resembling each other beyond l e g s)
And big ass forehead
With antennas
Nah I see it
Tbh Jiji’s fuck ass forehead looks more like a hat and fucking like half of Pharloom and Hallownest have antennas.
Jiji has a pope hat.
Tbf it does look drawn to resemble a Hat but it's likely part of her body
I think he may have them under his wings
It doesn't make sense for the thing on the left to turn the thing on the right
Those aren't wings as far as I can see, they're just part of the attire. Even if they had 2 limbs below those flaps, they still grow 2 legs
And yet that is how it works
i was going through the mossbag vid on sk and states that the citadel needed pilgrims to maintain the song but why would the citadel brainwash the skirms into judges to bash down the "unworthy" pilgrims they meet, won't this contradicts the lore on weavers needing more pilgrims on mantain the song as the judges lowers the amount of pilgrims arrive in the citadel
It's likely the Judges were raised by the Conductors and not the Weavers
ok
Conductors cared about the song but they cared more about being bitches
Also, which Grub are you
the one bug that escaped the grubfather
Good for you
It's not like every pilgrim that made it into the citadel ended up joining the choir anyway. It's more important for the Citadel to prescreen inductees to get rid of any potential troublemakers than to maximize how many pilgrims get in
I mean looking at them they are really similar. And if they aren't the exact same species they are defently related, this could be a pharlid situation where there are 2 different but very similar species in the same kingdom.
These days
Back then they were rounding up pilgrims in cages
why is the red memory ritual super violent and the shammans die
They probably sacrificed themselves for the spell
It’s heavily implied the spell was that powerful and needed the collective strength of three shamans; and all of their powers and body along with it
why would they
didnt they want the void to happen
No
Who?
Hes one of the shamans
imagine a shamman boss with all the hk moves
He left to chill with his family
Wait I just noticed
To the pilgrims using weapons would be a sin
But one of the songclave quests is asking for pins
Cool
The citadel is haunted and there’s no one to hand out punishments
I’m sure no one cares
genuinely cant wait
they were planning on sitting back to watch the kingdom crumble but the idea of acquiring the old hearts intrigued them so they went along with the idea of saving pharloom iirc
wow
sometimes I feel like gms isnt even conscious
like she is mindless
ahe doesnt have a detailed story like the pale king
shes pretty one dimensional personality wise
is the world better off without pale beings
some of them are pretty good (pk, white lady) though others seem pretty evil (gms, hornet)
hornet became a pale being?
how do you become a pale being
shes always been one, being a pale being doesnt always mean youre a higher being
unsure, palestag is described as a stag touched pale
dont know
racist, kills innocent people for no reason, aids in destroying multiple environments
this mf hornet wants to kill wvery single fly just cuz they’re kinda gross 🥹
People for some reason forget that they captured her
What's bro talking about
What innocent person did hornet kill
the journal entries are the same even if the flies DONT capture her
she just wants to wipe out an entire species for no reason pretty much
I don't think the journal entries make much sense if she's not captured
No reason?
They are straight up evil even if you don't count that they captured her
Like they just jail random bugs because why not
They literally attack hornet on sight
do you see her calling for the extinction of any other haunted species?
Is that relevant? She kills every enemy that attacks her, so I'd say that if every ant in the world for example attacked hornet (which they do) she would kill them all (which she can do and does if you let her)
Even if she doesn't mention in the few paragraphs of the journal entries of a whole species that she wants their extinction, she pretty much would kill anything if they attacked her
The less these gruesome bugs breed, the better.
Foul creatures birthed into servitude. Their plight elicits no sympathy from me.
With this one vanquished, I hope to have sped the end for that jail and its distasteful order.
And I think in cannon they do capture her
there is nothing like this for any other hostile creature, its beyond unreasonable
How
Literally the last phrase disproves your whole point
She wants to end the jail and the slab order
There you go
its the entry for the broodmother, the "order" is the species that is wardenflies
It's more of a feeling than anything, it's got too much going on for it not being, it has an OG soundtrack for some special sequence, a special hornet outfit, and makes the journal entries make more sense
I think with order it refers to the whole prision thing
I dont we can consider a sequence that can be ignored something that happens in the Canon timeline
Also, if hornet really hated the flies so much, why didn't she kill the baby fly
it talks about the gaol sepereatley to the "order"
Because they explode
And the place they're on is already unstable slimey vomit
someone can call for and want genocide, but not act on it, doesnt make them a better person
it doesnt change the fact that she says they should stop breeding
or that she doesnt feel bad for the fact they are literally enslaved
you arent a real person
Ok bud
She also just rips out the eyeball of the broodmother to turn in
Like theres easier things to take right?
turn in the baby
That works
But what if the baby exploded
Skill issue
Hornet rips out a dead persons eyeball to give to songclave when they asked her to calm the cries from something in the slab
let them know that it can be used as a hand grenade when in danger
"theres a horrible whail coming from the slab" "I killed it heres the womans eyeball"
what else was she gonna do? take the very removable hat like a sane person?
The hat could be from anyone
But the eye, it's only hers
It's also an intimidation tactic
To show she doesn't mess around
They didnt even ask for proof she killed it
nobody knows who the broodmother is, its as meaningful as the hat
the eyeball could be anyone's too
That's what makes it even more intimidating
Not really
what if i kill grindle and submit his eyeball in to complete the quest
Who has an eye that big
they wouldnt know a thing
She just assumed she had to kill a random person for being in the slab
Greyroot
The being with a black eye?
Loddie
groal
Who Tf is loddie
The ladybug
checkmate
Bruh
Do you think people know fly anatomy
There are tons of flies in pharloom
So yeah
Like 3 that go out Once to capture 4 people a mile away from tbe citadel
That's only the ones we see
But there are other captured bugs in the slab
So more of them had to go out
Also, we see other dead flies in putrified ducts and mount fay
One in ducts
And some in the area directly beside their home
The flies did not randomly spawn in the right most areas whilst being in one of the left most areas you know
They had to go there
If someone gets to songclave they should never have met a fly in the first place
Almost like the area directly near stiltkin territory had criminals by citadel standards
Yeah, not like there are more than 15 bugs in there
They are everywhere
?
We see like 4 outside the slab
You say that enclave bugs didn't see flies as an argument that there couldn't be many flies out there, while there are very few bugs in enclave
Yeah, WE see 4
Again, they flies have to have crossed multiple areas to get where they sre
And there are multiple captured bugs
Heck, even grindle gets captured
As an argument the songclave bugs shouldnt know the biology of the flies
So that's a fly we didn't know was there that captured him
yknow why were the songclave bugs even so bothered by broodmother in the first place
i dont think she was hurting nobody like skull tyrant or beastfly
they just heard a mother in grief and said "go kill her"
grindle wasnt captured, hes looting
They didnt tell us to kill her
"Horrible cries have been heard from that prison beside the Citadel. What profanities must be happening within to cause such an awful sound?" Is everything they wrote
well its in the description ig
We cant know they wrote that
they put it in the fine print
ah yes grindle seen here famously not being captured
Hornet slimed out GP for a heart she didn’t need do you really think she wouldn’t take the barest excuse to kill the mother of all flies
so murder was just fully hornet's decision then
Yeah
The wish was just kinda asking if they could shut the thing in the slab up so people could explore quietly
but wait no the quest is listed as a grand hunt quest
if they didnt want hornet to kill broodmother then why not put it as a wayfarer
they were egging her on
We dont know if it being listed like that is canon
“Worry not dear residents I shall make sure these profanities cease”
“By calming the beast down and resolving the cause of its pain and misery?”
“…Yes”
thats not in the slab you doofus
and the original message didnt specify the slab
we were talking about warden flies, slab is implied
so this prison which is designed in the same style as the slab
Who put him in there if not for the Wardenflies
What other judicial body is there (not counting craws)
Songclave probably wasnt asking a Hunt wish to get fresh sharp pins
Not like the broodmother wanted to talk at all
is that what youre saying
Michael
Or any of the flies for the matter
The judges?
Because she’s a filthy fly incapable of higher thought
We HAD to kill her
We just had to
Idk, her son is very capable of just talking
Why wouldn't she
So… the citadel
SON??
Yes
what other group of the citadel which works as the wardens and jailers and happen to also explicitly be shown to travel accross the kingdom would capture grindle and throw him in that jail cell also operated and owned by the citadel
What do you think songclave did with the eyeball hornet stole from the broodmother
there is literally no evidence of flies in the random marrow prison
Soup
Uhh envoys
ah yeah the little prison which the envoys run as a hobby
how could i not realize
Well they capture people and travel outside of the citadel
Don’t shoot the messenger
they seem to be moreso sent on out-of-pharloom weaver capture missions only, we dont really see them roaming within pharloom looking for criminals
Btw killing green prince is a good thing
its definitely the flies
what is he smoking
His depressed ass would have died anyways and verdania will grow again from his dead body
the citadel branded and built jail... run by some farmer's pests?
Also killing him lets you spare karmelita
Something something pins in the cell something court of craws something something craw summons implies they’re all over pharloom
does he know the craw summons can only appear in the few areas adjacent to greymoor
(the marrow is not one such area)
it is true, the summons can only appear in bellhart, wisp thicket, far fields, and sinners road
But they seem to have been following Hornet’s whole adventure
and hunters march i think
They know she brought the dark
Far fields
i said far fields
Bilewater too though which is crazy
ah
i think them knowing hornet caused the crumbling could just be chalked to them being smart and figuring it out, i mean its not really like we ever see them beyond greymoor
but even if they do have craws following hornet sneakily throughout her journey then thats just craws following her
anyway you know his posts get very speculative
idk if that means anything towards the craws running a punitive system that rivals the citadel's
a fair few of them i’m like tc who never thought about any of that
ye i know, but most of his detail observations are great
even if the conclusions are kinda
out there
this one's kinda crazy even in comparison i think
The rationale is sinners road is also craws because of the emblem
which THAT idk about
the sinners road emblem is different enough to the craw juror headpieces
yeah ig if we ignore that the emblem is only kinda loosely similar
green prince
i do agree the sinner's road emblem is unexplained tho
we dont rlly see it anywhere else
but
That grasshopper is guilty
the truth
i dont think its the craws lol
youve no proof
sinners road emblem?
I don’t need proof
Hang that grasshopper now
I’ve got the rope right here
youre a terrible judge 💔
pretty sure it's some type of holy emblem in universe. fourth chorus, cogwork dancers, and crawfather have it on their noggin
the citadel has their holy symbol
actually idk about crawfather i think his is different
this is not rlly it
!wiki cogwork dancers
sorry
The Cogwork Dancers are a main boss in Hollow Knight: Silksong. They are twin automaton dancers of impeccable construction. They serve as the guardians of the final trial for those who wish to reach Pharloom's peak.
Combat Values
190 + 190 (First Phase)
220 + 220 (Second Phase)
220 + 220 (Third Phase)
630 (Total Each, Phases 1-3)
180 (Fourth Phase)
1 1 1 1 1
Access to Cogwork Core
1
Miscellaneous
Genderless
Cogwork Dancers (1stPhase) (Phase 1)
Cogwork Dancers (2ndPhase) (Phase 2)
Cogwork Dancers (3rdPhase) (Phase 3)
Cogwork Dancers (4thPhase) (Phase 4)
looks close enough
The Cogwork Dancers are a main boss in Hollow Knight: Silksong. They are twin automaton dancers of impeccable construction. They serve as the guardians of the final trial for those who wish to reach Pharloom's peak.
Combat Values
190 + 190 (First Phase)
220 + 220 (Second Phase)
220 + 220 (Third Phase)
630 (Total Each, Phases 1-3)
180 (Fourth Phase)
1 1 1 1 1
Access to Cogwork Core
1
Miscellaneous
Genderless
Cogwork Dancers (1stPhase) (Phase 1)
Cogwork Dancers (2ndPhase) (Phase 2)
Cogwork Dancers (3rdPhase) (Phase 3)
Cogwork Dancers (4thPhase) (Phase 4)
epic lore discussion
honestly if i had to give an alternative i think this symbol is some remnant of the reaper religion
Ehh this is why I think it’s just a generic crown emblem
it kinda resembles these spikey wheels a bit
Radiance has it
cogwork defenders dont have it
Silksong players when a random spikey thing that vaguely resembles another vaguely spikey thing:
in that case its probably just some ambiguous citadel thinv
wait who doesnt have it
?
except for the other guards
i thought they were the only ones
but arent they canonically weaker anyways
ok but no way this is about radiance
in her case its supposed to invoke sun imagery
why would the rising/setting sun be the symbol of sinner's road
hi @worn sigil
hows ur day
lets talk
about
lore
shall we
what u think about grimms canonic power
does he solo
goku
Some do
or not
If you will please look to the right
iirc the disabled ones do
i love it when silksong defeats the guy from that one game and gets saved by hollow knight
the ones that are active dont
wait
isnt that
like
the alternative
ending
i honestly feel like its a cut design choice
also loving this response time rn
??????

cuz
brochacho
its rhe ending for act 3
dude can you please fuck off
I guess it was easy to make the switch for the enemy proper because then that just applies to all of them
best image i could find of the ones near the map location
yo
thats
tuff
map
why cant this kid type everything in one sentence
oh yeah lol
Question, What causes Horn Growth??
the enemies dont, i think its just a cut design choice by TC and they just forgot to update some of the sprites
maybe they have better designations that we don’t get to see
i think the spikey crowns in the cogwork automatons case is just a design choice and not a significant religious symbol
Power is stored in the horns I guess
Maybe it focuses better??
like the spines and the crawlers have spiked elements too
Flintstones chewable vitamin gummies
just in different arrangements
there's also this guy
with the crown but no spines
That’s a different guy
Those are clearly antennae to get a wifi signal for the confessional
why didnt they just connect it to ethernet
the confessional is right there
why go for wireless
no that sounds ridiculous
how else would each treasured underworker get their own personalized message then
we wouldnt want to be scamming our workers
You just skip to the appropriate track for each worker
a salary is still a salary
What did bro say
i would love to know too
I think it’s just a design
As for the roachkeepers having one on their back, probably to prevent muckroaches from ambushing them
Like armour
But you do bring up a good theory
Yeah that’s possible
It feels too significant to be just something random given that it’s the front gate design
But we don’t really have much to go off of
So it could be just for the looks
Roach tenders: yeah make a cool fuckin gate and put it on the backs of the big dudes
I bet you the catchers pinned it on the keepers while they were sleeping and thought it was hilarious
Who wants to hear my interpretation of Silksong’s true ending?
🦗
styx gets murdered by skynx, who then wears his mask as his own
not a nosk
some kinda
you could say some type of imposter, calling it a nosk implies a connection that has basically nothing supporting it
upside-down face
mimics shit
classic Nosk moves
we don't really know what an uninfected Nosk would get up to
they could be smart
-ish
nosk uses magic, it doesnt rip the face off of bugs
the only thing in common is "upside down mask"
Some type of what?
Head empty
knees weak, arms heavy
I did always think it was interesting that Nosk gave no dreamnail dialogue beyond a '...'
there was clearly something going on with them, being able to shapeshift and search the hearts and minds of others for memories
yet, if they had a mental state, it seems like it was one different enough from other bugs that the dreamnail doesn't make any sense of it
among us
How do you know that?
No. Technically some kind of spider.
first of all, how would nosk be able to get the knights mask if not for magic
secondly
"In the deepest darkness, there are beasts who wear faces stolen from your memories and pluck at the strings in your heart. Know yourself, and stay strong."
-nosk journal entry
Its pretty dark in deepnest
But this makes sense
I love citadelle lore
She is like half spider half whatever tf pale king is.
Biologically she is vloser to Hornets
1- Hornets aren't bees
2- They use needles to attack
3- They are more powerful than the average bee
4- They are viciously fast
Also Vespa could be a reference to the wasp family Hornets are part of in real world
Does that mean Vespa named Hornet in the game?
Sure, but none of this has an impact on her biology
I know
Then why say this?
They share a lot in common
Not biologically
Yes, because Hornets are known for their silk usage.
Oh yeah that too
I am drawing parallels to real world hornets
Not meant to be the exact similar
Sorry, but do you know what biological means?
Hornet may indeed share many similarities with hornets, but this has no bearing on her heritage
Ok I made a mistake
lore
What is the everbloom because it’s super different between the games
its in hk?
Ye it’s named the delicate flower in hk
oh
They are quite different
Delicate flower only repels the void after it consumes the seeker
Everbloom serves as a protection from the void
Everbloom also doesn't break after getting hit once
I personally put that up to the fact that the delicate flowers were brought from really far away, so they’d probably been dead for awhile. The one we get from the memory is the prime version of it
As far as we know, they're the same flower
These differences might as well be just another Retcon.
It would be weird to make these nigh identical flowers and not be the same one
You can get fresh delicate flowers from the grave
