Hollow Knight Godmaster Lore Explained 

KingMako30 jokes aside this explanation is really good.

ANOTHER QUEST! Give me

NO VOICE TO CRY OUT SUFFERING

I still think this knight has emotions and just got so strong he beat the radiance to hek

KingMako30 makes me wonder how come our knight wasn’t chosen? They don’t care about *ANYTHING*

Crispy Banana it is called sacred by the grey mourner.

Must be something like quantum physics with particles and anti-particles : when they met they destroy eachother (or something like that)

@@Kl00k606 it was stated in the game that wyrms created and ruled over kingdoms in multiple parts of the land, maybe one died and from it's corpse this flowers emerged, that's why they are pale, not for the king, but from another wyrm

Fragile does not mean inert, in fact being fragile sometimes is what makes things powerful. Uranium is so fragile it splits itself, showering everything in lethal doses of radiation.

Curious, because the description says that the fragile flower had Pale Light, and the Stag told the Knight that the Pale King never rode in a Stag before. And the Pale King was from an unknown land as the flower.

What is silksong?/j

@@the_legendary_vin Game that never came out and will never come out /hj

@@amj.composer hmm, interesting, maybe we'll get Xenoverse 3 as we wait

@@the_legendary_vin oh no no, xenoverse 3 AND silksong is never coming out

The “upcoming” Hornet DLC

"False god conjured by the lonely" yeah dont beat grey prince zote and he wont appear in the Pantheon lmao hes just a boss that feels bullshit bc you know he sucks ass

So do pantheon before beating grey prince zote?

@@Ari_178 doesnt really matter. If you can beat him in the normal fight you probably do it in the pantheon fight without much more effort

@@Ari_178 if you let him die in greenpath he won’t show up

@@ChiefNubayy I know

Brickmaster E and no mind to think

no will to break either

primal aspid disagrees

I have no mouth and I must scream

It should just carry a paper that says no, if the knight can draw a map then it can draw 2 letters

DAMN YE CRINGER

THOU CRINGER

English please

AlyBoDrowned14 Exactly

You may laugh now, children.

plausible

That's D&D level story telling, let the player come up with the story and act like that was the original as you quickly cross out your notes and rewrite some encounters

Bungie and byf

Ah, the Scott Cawthon technique.

fnaf lore, probably

who is bill?

@@cyanbaba7795 Bill mama-no, wait, that doesn't work.

@@cyanbaba7795 the shade lord. It’s the name that Mossbag used.

Ah yes, goomy is best waifu, also lasagna is 👌

@@tech6hutch who's Mossbag?

and is the same name of the last nail

So that means that or both nailsmiths wanted to be killed, or that every nailsmith fate is to be killed by a pure mail!

@@Gigafuckass or they just was talking about pure nail

@@chesnaught_ph4291 that's one of the coolest things un Hollow Knight, anyone can interpret the things like whatever they want

@@Gigafuckass ye

droher i thought the same thing

That's actually a very strong, and logical, way of looking at it. You actually managed to make sense of that. Good job!

I had the Same idea

droher why didn't they chain the hollow knight instantly then

Indeed

I like to think that she’s an elaborate gollum reference

@@funnyvideoguy3216 Where was Gondor when Hallownest fell?

​@@wildfire9280 it was also falling

Yeah, and since things that live in the abyss dont need to feed themselves but dont grow nor age either, our knight is still pretty smol

I'd say that makes sense, but if they were all born around the same time, wouldn't they all be about the same age? Including the Knight and the Broken Vessel? My own guess is that they all have the potential to grow to Broken Vessel's size, but most don't. Chalk it up to a lack of training or a lack of proper nutrition or whatever. I'd say that whatever the underlying reason, it's probably similar to why most humans don't become body builders.

BVs cloak is longer, yes, but h is roughly the same size not counting his big ass horns

@@hobbyist518 true. but the knight did come from outside hallownest, and considering hallownest gives the bugs their intelligence and whatnot it wouldnt surprise me that the PKs influence could maybe change how his children grow?

@@waxocelot9395 i would argue that it definitely seems like the horns should grow, though. in addition, it's slightly physically taller than the knight and has a more rounded head, perhaps implying that the vessels' heads become more angular as they grow up.

CAS Don’t kink shame

She tames beasts. I think the beast is the god, Godtamer just came with it.

@@lemmonboy6459 kink shaming IS his kink

i used the god to tame the god

​@@KaroxNightshade If so, then in Hall of Gods, Godtamer wouldn't be reffered to the way she is. I think if one can tame a god, one can become god

It was obvious from the beginning

@@G_Macks Ayo? 🤨

ikr

Wait she wasn’t a milf this whole time

I like the part where you beat them, because they both say Obama of you listen closely

Ah yes two brother get over a long fight to beat the shit out of there student

​@@meleamendez6221 wholesome moment

​​@@meleamendez6221 mean, if you think about it, they both take pride in teaching the knight, and if having to team up to defeat your student isn't an indication of how well you've taught them, what is lol So yes, quite wholesome actually lmao

"soon" 9 months ago

Yikes

hgrge

Ha ha, “10 months ago” they aren’t giving us any date any time soon! Hahahahahah hahahaha *cries insufferably*

@@TheCheeselordForever *cries with you*

Maybe.

I mean, he worships the idea? Theory? What if they initially assumed the likelihood of embodied and focused darkness, but could not achieve the necessary conditions to translate it in real? Therefore, they worshiped the concept of a possible deity in the future, while not having a real Lord of Shades?

@@farresalt4381 The void tendrils also popped up when you got close to where they were. Therefore, void had some mind already. It is possible the Shade Lord controlled these. He also roared against the Radiance when the vessels were young, meaning he existed to some extent a long time ago.

@@KaroxNightshade maybe the radiance actually attempted to destroy the vessels before they were completed and what was left of the shade lord avoided it. I say this because the shade lord in his prime took the absolute radiance like a bitch, maybe the reason it is just regular radiance is because the shade lord beat the crap out of her in a moment? Idk there is a lot to think about

Brian Machado This theory gave me a new view on things. It is very possible that that being is the previous attempt at victory over the radiance. I find this theory refreshing and new, as most theories have been said a thousand times

Hello

@@lordofshades9852 yo Angelo

@@rootbourne4454 I have found a fellow JoJo weeb and I am happy

@@lordofshades9852 Heck yeah jojo/hollow knight fans unite!

@@rootbourne4454 now i want to see hollow knight characters with stands... Hornet has stone ocean,just saying

Oh that's where that dumb background comes from.

ClayXros *DUMB?!?!*

Ahaaa 57 ;3

@@clayxros576 *I PRAY THE MIGHTY GOD OF NOTHINGNESS SILENCE THEE FOREVER*

It is. I dunno why, but it is.

I think the thing that defines a god for the Godseekers is independent thought. That's why they acknowledge Hallownest weaklings as gods.

I really like this one. just have the hollow knight primitively walking everywhere trying to help, kinda like how the knight basically walks around running errands for everyone.

@@ananmaysahu4563 yep I can imagine thk helping elderbug cross the road

Imagine being able to play as him at some point in the story and just tearing through all the enemies.

@@aesiro1336 If that ever becomes possible, I imagine the primary drawback would be needing to navigate around its own size because it's so tall.

@@shadowstar8619 Well, it is probably going to be a different map than in Hollow Knight, plus a bigger map would be more suited to a character that can swing around like Spiderman.

I would love this, though that would mean that hornet would have to go through the wasteland of the outer world in order to get back to hollownest

would pay money to see that

@@judgment5090 She is half higher being, if any bug stands a chance of keeping one's mind it's a half-divine one!

I really want to play as our big brother knight.

I'd watch it

I personally think it’s the nail masters before they broke up and that’s why there already attuned

The way you get into waterways is not by unlocking some generic lock but rather using that weird shrine thingy that requires the key. I don't know what it is, but it certainly isn't similar to the one on the cocoon.

@@skeptic_lemon it is a generic lock.... U only need a simple key for the waterways..

@@nobodycares1065 I'm not talking about gameplay. Yes it is a regular lock and functions like every other lock. What I'm talking about is that it isn't the kind of lock that is on the cocoon of the godseeker. It looks different. That's all.

That spy is not one of ours!

@@animosutheanonymous SPAH SAPPING MAH GODTUNER

It was his weakness and attempted to sealed instead of eliminating it because it was probably the happiest moment in his life. Just to sad

That actually makes a lot of sense! I SUPPORT THIS THEORY

BIG BRAIN TIME

Goddamit every time I read more about the Hollow Knight it just makes me sadder. That poor thing wasn't allowed a single nice thing in their entire existence jfc

It could also make sense for it to be an actual part of the palace, because the king couldn't really tell if they had a mind, so he at least could've tested their physical abilities. He probably didn't want any of his subjects wandering in, either. The hollow knight seemingly completed the path, and at the end, you said what happened. The seal of binding being there is confusing to me, because it's hornet's seal.

That makes sense!

akagura more like fat art mod

Lonkulus hey Flukemilf be sexy asf son

mmmmmmm dont like this post. dont like it one bit.

Please dont this game already rivals cuphead in terms of shitty fanart:1

@@dilestvegenerate5294 .... No it doesnt

One more detail you're missing, it says that IF you have void heart, if you don't it says "power without unity" this may mean that the hollow knight IS the lord of shade, gaining void heart gives them the power of complete void godhood, like the description first read of the knight "void given mind"

So maybe now in the next DLC we may be figthing ourselfs? Like a rematch of hornet and the knight/Shade Lord?

Good Point! Also how Hornet beats the Shade Lord... BDSM.

But wait, if the dlc is about Hornet defeating us the knight (Shade Lord) what happens if you just get the flower ending? You don't get the dlc?

But the flower ending doesnt change the Shade Lord/Knight, it still consumes the godseekers and defeats the Absolute Radiance.

I think it's specifically pointed out that the shade lord is the void given focus basically i think that the void itself is its true form while a void given focus gains an actual "Form" just a thought though.

that would be freaking dope

Awww! I hope so! That would be adorable. Ya know. Minus the empty husk of the Grubfather.

Father?

@@OMS21XX the one who ate all the grubs after finding them all

YES

Shade Lord is rocking a couple more eyes, so they're probably not related.

The Hunter is probably more related to Herrah, because they both have six eyes, and says that Hornet (someone also related to Herrah) is a Hunter.

The shade lord looks more like the mask in the arena

The Shade Lord could be a giant PRIMAL ASPID MADE OF VOID.

Hunter has said before that he has siblings 🤔

That would be very amusing, because one of the modes hints that the knight actually enjoys the thrill of combat after becoming the shadelord, meaning he is a battle junkie, much like the hunter who enjpys the thrill of the hunt and understands the world around him by doing so, a trait that he kinda somewhat passes on to the knight.

@@huntercraft5674 Wow, I never even thought of that! I wonder if the Hunter would be counted as a god in the pantheons.

@@huntercraft5674 the knight has no gender

@@noticeme6412 yeah, i know, its hard to have a gender if you got killed as a newborn and shortly after, got revived and turned undead by an eldritch force... Perhaps i was too lazy to write "they"

@@noticeme6412 Dude, I have such a hard time with that. I'm not a native English speaker, I speak Spanish. And there's no 'gender neutral' way of speaking in Spanish. You say "la vasija" (the vessel), but that implies it is a girl. "El caballero" (The Knight) o "El pequeño fantasma" (Little Ghost), that implies it's a dude. Thus I just associate the Knight as a dude even though it doesn't HAVE a gender and it just fucks me up-

Oh dang that makes the regular ending way darker but that’s a really cool theory

Well shit. Good think we go ahead and handle the radiance

No, don't.

do

Oh my god, your right

I've helped make religions out of weirder......

*shatter* Whoops! Hallownest just broke, but while it was breaking Monomon had ideas about good morals!

It also makes sense for Grimm not to die when you defeat him in a pantheon: - For normal Grimm, he simply goes away from godhome and resumes doing whatever he was doing prior, either tending to the ritual or sleeping, he will return to godhome when he's called upon again by the godseekers. - For the Nightmare king, I think you do kill him when you defeat in the pantheon, but the nightmare's heart, which is the true god of the nightmare realm (Grimm is just its servant, even in his Nightmare King form, as he's a king, not a god). So Grimm is killed, but the Nightmare Heart simply doesn't allow him to die in that way, as that death would not serve Grimm's purpose in the ritual as the father to burn in order to feed the child. Instead, when you defeat Grimm in his NKG form in the main game, you complete the ritual and so the Nightmare Heart lets him die to feed the child, then the troupe moves away from Hallownest. - Otherwise, it's just gameplay but speculating about pointless things is fun

@@filipporapetti9354 Grimm is a god, just like Vengefly King and Massive Moss Charger. Just because he is a servant, doesn't mean he can't be a god. Interesting take though

@@blazcol_5046 Thanks!

They’re bonding over their shared pupil

Lol

That IS the cutscene you are supposed to see, but due to a bug it shows a different thing.

​@@ManioqIVbugs 😋

O h n o

Seems... somewhat viable. I can see that being a super secret ending or some shit.

I think you can't take the flower into Godhome though if the flower breaks on dreamgating

Godhome is accesible via Dream Nail, not Dream gates

@@nonary3731 I don't think the flower can withstand a travel via dream from a physical world to a dream world if it can't even stand a travel from 1 physical place to another physical place via dream.

Jorge Casero v

Is that a Tokyo ghoul re profile picture

Maybe he's just super fuckin ripped and he was actually feelin really chill in the chains until he realized he didn't need to be there anymore.

comeh123 gotta love that theory

That's actually a lot better than my theory TBH. I thought maybe the Hollow Knight himself had somehow chained himself, due to him clearly having enough self awareness to stab himself in a futile attempt to kill the Radiance/Infection in the boss fight vs Hollow Knight, therefore maybe he was sealing himself with whatever small mental capacity he had left. When the Radiance dies he was fully aware of the Infection being gone and can thus free himself. I completely forgot that unless the Knight also somehow understood this, the Knight gets chained up in the other endings.

Why feel the need to add you don't play yourself? Get lost, stay far away from this community, your mindset is becoming a relic of the past more and more

:)

With that knowledge the Knight would be the same size, since they were born at the same time and the knight obviously didn’t die

@@sethmasters4925 The Knight is malnourished then XD

Still that's the coolest option I can came up with.

I mean, both Kirby and the Knight killed at least 3 gods killing one of them twice

C) the horrible abomination is your half sibling Is a pretty good one too

Haha, that would have been good

Bapanada octis. I know you’re not talking about Zote but that’s my favorite thing anyone says in the game audibly.

@@icankickflipok *Map begins to rattle but stops*

@@icankickflipok *bapanada **_fuck this_*

@Henry Sylvia *y e s*

Happy music?

Heckin’ smol boi!

you just posted cring you are going to lose attunement

@@triangletriangle4520 how he lose attunement if he was not attuned

thou posted cringer! now thou shall receive the punishment of the gods! * gets banned *

If there is a third game, just a guess but I think it might be in the view of The Hollow Knight That would be so damn cool to play as them

Either one would be really cool

Technically the knight is dead tho.

I get that I just think it would be cool

@@LovelyMishi If it took place after the Embrace the Void, or Delicate Flower ending then they would still be alive

No.

@@Cati_Offical yes.

RADIANT MOSSBAG

Radiant difficulty Mossbag is just a ten hour video on The Coloseum of Fools and The Abyss Creature.

VaatiVidya Pretender God of Dark Lore

From the Pantheon of Loreceeper

Dafuq u mean? It's the Moss Prophet.

You are both wrong, it's Mr. Mushroom's next form.

holy fuck you guys are idiots, it's obviously myla

Are you stupid or something? That is obviously the elder bug

No no no. It’s clearly lemm. He wants his 10 eggs

What if 4 years after this vid went up i JUDGED his vore fetish

Team cherry? Never heard of him

Nobody 707 I think they are half god/higher beings, half void

Extra high being

"Made of God and Void."

i think neither because they are undead

"Of Root. Of God. Of Void." I think that's how it goes. The physical forms of the vessels were birthed of the union between the Pale King and the Pale Lady, then they were dropped into the abyss as eggs, where their minds/souls/consciousnesses were carved out of them and replaced with Void. As far as I know, only two vessels managed to be both functional and alive by the time of the game: the Hollow Knight and the Knight. The Broken Vessel did manage to escape the abyss, but it was hollowed out and piloted by the infection by that point so I'm not going to count it as alive. Though technically, the same could be said of the Hollow Knight...Congratulations on being the only living AND functional Vessel, Knight!

Ascend! Ascend ascend ascend with Gorb!

Attune with Gorb! LOL

Oh my god

Oh my Gorb**

this is too fucking underrated

why do you belive void creatures communicate telepathically?

So what you're saying is that Godseeker was looking for the God of Gods and it went like this: "Uh.. you? Oh wait, no it's you. My bad."

@@roiroije6326 sounds about right given their personality

Dah Derpy Guy but why is hornet there? And why does the hollow knight approach her ? Why does he stick his nail in the ground but hornet attacks? ( to me it looks like the hollow knight is injured or using his nail to hold himself up )

@@gh0stgamez424 Horny is there probably waiting for knight to fight HK. She is in the door of Black egg temple so in the way of HK. He just woke up from being sick. He probably feels a little bad after that. That my opinion

makes sense can't disagree with that and hornet probably gets ready / attacks him because she probably thinks he is still infected and is hostile because of it ( imagine if in the hornet DLC we will be able to talk 2 the HK and learn shit from him )

horny is a pretty bad nickname for hornet or anyone, really.

makes sense

....I am reporting your comment. I am in this description and I don't like it.

Shouldnt have touched him before the pantheons dude

Same, that spamming pile of shockwaves and pain

Alright, got through that, time, for pantheon fo... *sees watcher knights* NOOOOPE

Please tell me this isn’t true because at the moment I’m trying to get through the pantheon of the sage and if grey prince zote is in it I’m gonna cry

Well, mossbag doesn't steal content from other creators xD.

Mossbag doesn't milk shit to death lmao

Mossbags voice is ways sexier though

Oh yes it is.

@@cake6851 Don't you talk shit about Vaati. He is still the master of lore.

Ascended markoth:im about to end this man whole carer

Radiant Gruz mother:I'm about to end this man's whole career

@@Feeling_Like_Karla I dont understand how Radiant Gruz mother was so hard...? Did it in like 10 tries

@@Raiko01 THE JOKE! WE FOUND IT!

@@Raiko01 if your PC is kinda shit, that bisch will lag your entire pc and yeet you the fuck out of the battle

All vessels can focus, they're higher beings. But pure vessels can do it without side effects. Example, the soul sanctum scholars. Due to them not being pure (without thought or regrets) they were deformed due to the regrets (or the whispers they hear). This further my idea that higher beings turn to void due to immense regret in the soul they steal. You reflect on your regrets and let your soul, or shade rest (like in steel soul mode) or use a delicate flower. The delicate flower having the ability to cure regrets as seen with lemer in the flower quest.

The knight experiences these mentioned side effects when he dies. Due to your shade or regrets not set still, your soul meter breaks. Due to soul containing regrets. Even after getting the void heart your shade and soul cannot become one. It's only until the dream no more and godhome endings can your shade and soul become giving the shade the ability to focus.

I didn't even think of that! Good point!

Was it ever in doubt that Zote was a higher being? I knew from the moment I first laid eyes on him.

How did you think he'd survive his trip through Hallownest? His nail-wielding skills? What are you, stupid?

Maybe not since the description for the grey prince states "false god of the lonely" so Zote is still below everyone and everything in Hallownest even the Gruz Mother is more of a god than Zote

It's not much of a new revelation really, I already knew Zote was a higher being the moment I saw the ethereal look in his eyes after bravely combating the mighty vengfly

You can see in the cutscene that the black egg is still there. I like to think that the chains existed there to contain the infection, but since the radiance had been destroyed, the power that strengthened them probably weakened which allowed the hollow knight to free itself

​@@hexagonalhd5797 we are going so insane we are hyper analyzing how the final boss escaped some chains holy shit lmao

The pale was trying to make a pure vessel. Pure, as in without thought or regrets. The shade lord is the complete opposite of that. It's void given a mind.

I really hope in the end we can see him again without dying he deserves it

i think that the gods attunement made the knight go back into it's prime form, before it got separated from the sea of void in the abyss, when the void was united completely, before part of it was injected into the eggs

I love your theory and the ending: "I like to think the character we play as has a personality" deal, cause I agree with you. The Knight being able to do sidequests, and do random shit the players do like summon Salubra, play in the rain in the City of Tears, bonking Bardoon's tail, beating up Millibelle to get their Geo back, etc. marks a personality, and the fact that Nosk turned into Hornet in Godhome means that the Knight has grown to care about her, too.

hey you play hk too.

So when are you finishing your second season of your series?

Its a nice observation about pale king having planned all of this beforehand,I've heard theories that he could have some kind of future prediction powers. Maybe he knew that HK couldn't hold the radiance, so he locked the knight inside the abyss, so he could escape the abyss, and exiting the kingdom. Since the vessels are not bugs, they could function outside the Hallownest.Hornet herself said that the knight had another kind of emptiness. With this emptiness added to its own and the combats through Hallownest, little ghost managed to get strong enough to defy the higher beings. Maybe each ending is a possible future seen by the pale king, without the void heart the worst scenario, and the defeat of radiance the best one. But I dont think the Pale King wanted to free the bugs in that way,since it seems that wyrms attracting bugs and making them submit to them is what they do. Idk if this is just my opinion, but the Pale King seems to see the kingdom more like a object or something he needs or somethings he owns, rather than individuals. Radiance is just his competitor, its not about saving the kingdom, but about securing a resource, in this case bugs. Then, the Pale King probably knew about the true nature of the void. My theory is that the black substance we see the void take form in the game, is the remains of a former higher being that was worshiped before Hallownest.What happened to this god? Idk, maybe like Unn its powers just faded with time, maybe radiance managed to weaken him into this liquid form and trapped in the abyss, maybe before dealing with radiance, the pale king dealt with the void, or the pale king seek the void and trapped it in the abyss in this liquid form to use it to make the vessels. One thing that makes this interesting, its that we have more proof of the nature of the void. Most would think that PK would be desperate because of the infection, what if the reason of the desperation was because he was using void as material?Maybe he thought that dealing with void would be too risky in normal circumstances, but he took the risk because he needed to defeat the radiance. Maybe he took the risk because he knew it would need something godly to revert the void to its prime state,so without a higher being, or maybe a higher being's light(idk if the white lady, Unn or Grimm have the light that can give bugs a mind like the hive mind from Radiance, or the individual mind of the PK) it couldn't be done. But he didn't counted on the godseeker attunement and their focus, that like it was said in the video, with help from the void heart, managed to awaken the shade lord. And these are my thoughts about it. Really liked your comment, gave me a lot of ideas to think and I also have to say thanks for the video mossbag, you made a great analysis and gathered a lot of information, I didn't know about the cutscene with the vessels after you beat pure vessel, or that one about godseeker's memory. That was fun, I love discussing lore

I didnt expect camila to know the game Hollow Knight!

@@XPowerfullXPlayerX bruh chill

too late for that buddy, it's 5 years old too late i bet your comment would get pinned back then

Great Comment tho

I support this theory.

Kuzu :D, i second this comment

Dude congrats on beating P5 with bindings. It took me forever to beat it plain and then I just noped out of there. Might try again someday for the weathered mask but goddamn.

That moment you make a DLC but it becomes a game

@@clayxros576 That moment when you trap yourself with a supposed DLC of a weak character fighting a god, so you just ditch the DLC and make a new game instead so you dont have to come up with bullshit for how hornet can defeat the shade lord

hello good sir she just needs to eat like 10 pale lords to absorb the pale soul to be powerful enough to be called the LORD OF PALES and then destroy the lord of shades

If you gave the flower to the Godseeker does the Hollow Knight still appear in the ending?

@@christiandauz3742 If I remember correctly, yes

That would make embrace the void the canon, when it is not.