#hk pale wyrm

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I wonder what kind of celebrations Hallownest had

(happy holidays to those who celebrate)

[buginfestedgarden]

I’m back! And I drew my interpretation of all the higher beings!

My design for the nightmare heart/Grimms ancient form was inspired by @scarletspecter

[hollowed-arts]

Precognition lacks in hindsight | We caught the illness back before the twilight

I might be a saint worth steeples | I might be the brain of evil

-Will Wood Chemical Overreaction

decided it would be cool to offer a transparent Pale King, if that’s your vibe

[azherwind-art]

Don't tell me it didn't happen

[pocochiiiiii]

Happy New Year!

It's the New Year in Japan!

This year is the year of the snake, so Wyrm has become a snake “Kagamimochi” (mirror-shaped rice cake)!

[flame-shadow]

my pieces for @hkhallowzine

the Kingdom's Edge illustration was so much work, but it was very rewarding. and the Stag drawing is spot art that accompanies @vulturereyy's writing

[bluegekk0]

a quick ref for wyrms in the fpk au. weird kaiju sized lizards

[pebblesgum]

Trying out clipstudio paint

[kokosovc]

i think the pale king and king resh share a lot in common so i drew them making out

[dairyfreenugget]

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Little baby

Little baby baby man

Alt texts in order

ID start: A doodle of a newborn, non-void Pure Vessel from Hollow Knight. They're held in four hands by their father, The Pale King. They're smaller than his palms, tiny and round with closed eyes and round, nobby horns, and a short fluffy mane around their neck and down their back. They're squirming in his grasp and holding one of his thumbs with their muzzle pressed against it. End ID.

ID start: A doodle page of a newborn, non-void Pure Vessel from Hollow Knight. In the first doodle, they're held up in one hand by The Pale King, squirming and grasping at his fingers as their squeak, their mouth wide open and tiny teeth and mandibles visible. In the second doodle, they're laying on their tummy and quinting their eyes, looking quite grumpy, a text next to them says "Just opened their eyes and unhappy about the light". In the third doodle, they're being feed meet by their father, they're tiny enough that he has to use only one of his fingers to help them get the tiny meat chunks as they bite on his finger and hold his knuckles for support. End ID.

ID start: Two doodles of The Pale King from Hollow Knight as a child. In one he's a newborn baby, tiny and stubby with a little nubby crown, and a short fluffy mane aroubd his neck that runs down to his centipede fail, his eyes still closed, he's laying on his tummy. In the other doodle he's bigger, toddler aged, with a bit shaper features than the newborn but still rounder, his crown is short and still rounded, and his mane is fluffier and longer, and he has big round eyes; he's sitting hunched over with the second set of his arms lifted up and he's looking up and to the right, his sharp brow gives him a sort of pernament grumpy face. End ID.

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The winds and the Pale King

(footage by mossbag, gif by mossbag)

So in mossbag's latest video some comments chalked up the discarded shell's wind to decomposing gas, and I'd say is a reasonable conclusion, if not for the fact that the Pale King has more than a couple ties to wind that can't quite be as easily explained

(footage by Ccmanci, gif by me)

The monarchflies that become the monarchwings also generate wind, made obvious by said wind stopping upon obtaining the wings

Their exact relation to the king is unclear (part of him? fragments of him? spawn of him? simbiotic to the Wyrm?) however they're undeniably connected judging by their name and appeareance This, while more shaky than the decomposing process of an unmeasurable Wyrm, could still be explained as the individual flies simply having such a strong flapping

but the connections to the wind don't stop here

Both Quirrel and Godseeker describe the winds as guiding them to the kingdom, with Godseeker apparently equating the winds to the king's lingering power (that power beacons to Hallownest -> these winds carry us to the gods)

The same wind that coincidentally makes it impossible for you to leave Hallownest in a straightforward way, even if just within gameplay

Specific winds that both draw bugs to Hallownest and deter them from leaving, certainly sounds like something that'd work alongside/ as part of the Wyrm's Beacon, to "pull bugs into their thrall" you could even say

[brushstrokes-art]

i'd like to introduce you to my fun au where ghost summons the grimm troupe like, super duper early, featuring a less-explored stage of my ghost interpretation's development: the Undomesticated Wasteland Creature.

[hollowed-arts]

What a curious creature...

more AU type stuff. maybe i should just write some stuff for it...

[sketchyartthings]

While I was drawing/looking at reference images, I realized that the king doesn’t look like he was killed by anything void related at all. His eyes don’t drip with void like every other character killed by overexposure to void in game, so what happened? What if he sealed himself away not to save himself, but to preserve the kingsoul? I mean, if I wanted to preserve an important object within me, I would think the dream realm would be a very suitable place to go. Evidently, the king hasn’t survived this, but it doesn’t look like there was a struggle. There was no evidence of the formation of a void creature in the room to have killed him the old fashion way, and no injury on the body itself. Nothing but a force of nature like the knight was ever going to get in or out of that room past all of those saw blades, and based on that, I don’t think the king planned on leaving that room. It looks to me that the king simply let himself wither away on his throne, and that he did it on purpose. The king was by no means a fool. He did not assume that locking himself in a room forever would be safe, and even if he did, he would’ve done more to solve his problems. The king had no workshop for him to toil in, no library to research from, and there was no effort made to stop the infection after he resigned himself to that room. The king was not there to save his kingdom in safety, and he was most certainly not there because he wanted to outlast the infection. The king wanted to die somewhere that was near impossible to reach. Somewhere in a near impregnable dream behind a nigh unwalkable path. But I don’t think that’s because he didn’t want to be found. After all, the king has tried tasking his children with a near impossible task in the hopes one will rise to meet the challenge before, and it worked. If we trust The White Lady’s perspective, The Hollow Knight was the perfect vessel before it was “tainted by an idea instilled,” so the idea that the king trusted the strength of his children enough to predict, or at the very least hope that one of them would reach the king would despite these measures, is not out of the question. In fact, the increased security of a task like this would make sense as a more intense test of the purity of a vessel. If the parkour skills needed to define THK as hollow were as simple as escaping the abyss, then the saw blades could certainly be explained as either a revised test of a vessel’s purity, or its will. Maybe the king predicted the creation of the void heart? If the vessel’s will is being tested, it would support the idea that the king knew about the possibility of the void heart, as it unites the void behind the bearer’s will. If this is true, then it may explain why The White Lady gives you the white fragment with the following quote. “I have a gift, held long for one of your kind. When united, great power is granted, and on the path ahead, great power it shall need.” This is most definitely referring to the unification of the king soul, but what if it were also a thematic parallel to the great power granted with the unification of the void? If this is the case, I don’t believe that the white lady was informed about all of the details, but likely just that a vessel was needed to end the infection, and that she must give the white fragment to a vessel she deems worthy. To ask the last question about this theory I could think of, why is the corpse of the king in a room dark with what is likely void if void is not what killed him? It could be deduced that the king’s regrets’ darkening of the room was meant to be a more subtle nod to his disposition at the time of his death than a hint as to what killed him, as the void tears found on those killed by void serve that purpose well and wouldn’t have impeded his design, but a darker room alone would be an interesting thematic note as evidence of a nagging question in the king’s head: “Have we payed a cost this great for nothing?” Anyways. Call me a deranged lunatic in the notes.

[pocochiiiiii]

happy new year !

Best wishes for the year ahead!

Since it's the year of the dragon, I garnished it with wyrms.

[shentheauthor]

I be like “I’m normal” and then I look like this while thinking about. Vessel biology

Some thoughts:

Some vessels have lungs, some do not. My headcanon is that Wyrms have lungs, so naturally, that will be passed down to any Wyrm children. Half-Wyrms are confusing, especially since there are so few, and Wyrm genes are displayed differently depending on what bug they’re combined with

The White Lady is a fungus, and I stand by that. Meaning she “breathes” through her gills and pores! It’s passive, so she doesn’t make any noises when she breathes. She doesn’t even have a mouth, since she’s just a cluster of mycelium that the majority of her consciousness is crammed into

So, some vessels have lungs! Some breathe through their void body! All of this is incredibly weird to bugs, who don’t have lungs, but breathe through little holes in their sides! Freaks of nature, the vessels

It might be easier to list potential traits I think vessels can have. There may be a combination of these

Wings (flight-incapable)

Wings (flight-capable)

Tails

Burrowing teeth

Mycelium hyphae

Lungs

Pores/gills

Spores!

Mouths

No mouth

Hard shell

“Skin” (closer to just a bag holding the void body together)

Infertility (the majority of vessels have this trait)

PK’s cold, harsh light

WL’s softer, but more expansive light

Ability to digest rocks and metal

Nutritional needs: minerals, inorganics

Nutritional needs: organics

Poor eyesight

Albinism (PK)

Weak bodies (compared to other higher beings, also from PK)

Horns

Mushroom sprouts

There’s definitely more, but I generally stick to these when trying to come up with various mix-and-match traits for vessel ocs, as well as canon vessels

Edit for those who don’t feel like looking at the comments: Hornet has lungs!