Hollow Knight Lore Summary ► The Full Main Story
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Hollow Knight came out over four years ago and many are still playing it to this day as we eagerly await Silksong. Let's explore the lore of Hallownest and the world of Hollow Knight from the earliest known events to the multiple endings for the main game. If you've subscribed for my Nier videos, I hope you find this interesting as well and thank you for the continued support. If you're new, welcome and maybe check out my other stuff too?
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The style of this video is similar to other lore analyses such as Clemps and mossbag. It is inspired by lore channels such as VaatiVidya and TGN.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:30 Prehistoric Civilizations
02:20 The Pale King
05:55 The Infection
06:30 Sealing the Radiance
08:38 The Kingdom Falls
10:45 The Main Story
11:36 Ending 1
13:19 Ending 2
13:50 End - เกม
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Great explanation. Just one question. How did you get all that??? The game is incredibly cryptic with it's lore. Am I missing something?
From dialogs with different characters, items description, dream nailing stuff, read everything, hidden places, and adventuring.
Hollow Knight might be my favorite platformer ever just because of the vibe it gives off
I could just sit in the City of Tears forever and never get tired of the ambience
Thank you for making this video with a straight forward narrative without the forced humor and dry gags. Every other video had to tell a joke, a vocal meme of some sorts ever god damn minute lol. Thank you so much for the normal approach of story telling, story transcribing.
Seconding this.
Thirding this. Most youtubers are not as funny as they think they are.
Forthing this.
Yeah I thought mossbag's video was shit too
I can tell who you're talking about, lol. Honestly, to each their own, but i quite liked the forced humour and the dry gags. Something about their irony gives his video (or his channel as a whole) quite a witty personality. But idk, i don't work at ICE anymore.
Holy crap… I’ve never considered that Hornet was actually the players half sister!!! That changes my view on so many things! Thank you so much for making this video! It was so clear with the sequence of events, lore, and vital character interactions 🙏🏽 Really tied everything together!
Thank you, I appreciate the support!
After all, the achievement for the ending to be sealed in the temple together is called "sealed siblings"
Just beat the game and had no idea about any of this stuff haha
this is the best lore breakdown without all the goofy memes, thank you and I recommend watching at 1.25x
I watched many videos explaining the story but never seen one as good as yours. Thank you and keep it up
I feel the Collector is a failed kings mold that ended up getting locked up since he was just being a goof ball...but he may have helped gather the grubs to be examined to see how their metamorphosis worked but probably started doing his own thing and the king locked him up with his already existing collection where he would probably going even more crazy since he couldnt get out to his other captured grubs...his precious
Great video! I know I'm late to the party with the whole Hollow Knight thing but I played it for the first time last week and just beat it an hour ago. The story is honestly pretty cryptic and while I was able to piece together the basics, I wanted more details on the nuance of the story. This video helped so much!
Great job bro i was always confused by what hornet meant during her first monologue but you cleared it up along with just about everything else
Glad it helped!
Thank you for explaining this plot for us. Might replay it again now that I understood the lore better.
wow, this was really well done, would love to hear your take on the other endings available. Doing another playthrough now to try for true ending!
Oh man, I really love your take on my favorite games, looking forward to see more of your videos,
Cheers.
Thanks, I'm glad you like them!
thanks for making this video with impeccable timing. i finally got to see the game completed to 112% last night.
No way, what a coincidence!
Love it. Straight to the point. Me and my daughter loved it
Glad you liked it!
Great lore video, simple and straightforward. HK is one of my fave games of all times. Such a masterpiece.
Couldn't agree more!
I am actually going to replay the game now that I have this complete picture.
Crazy to think about how one of the greatest stories ever crafted by humankind should be buried in a game.
well i watched many videos of the story, even hour long ones, but i didn't really understood it, cause english isn't my native language and i don't understand much hard words, and those others always adds forced humour or jokes which sometimes i din't get and that also made me not understand the plot, but however the way you described was pure one, it was hollow 😅 and thanks to you now i know the (mostly) full lore of the Hollow Knight 🥰 thanks a lot 💖
I love this game, but for the difficulty, especially on Path of Pain, is insane. I really hope that for the background obstacles, it would be less hard.
Very interesting
Thanksss I never understanded the story know I know it
I must be dumb because I just finished the game (81%) and had almost no clue what the heck was going on the whole time.
So the Knight really is a child to the Pale King.
I know I’m waaaay late to this game…. And let me say…. Best Metroidvania ever!! But you got all this from playing the game? I had to come watch this video because I had 0 idea what was going on. 😂 can’t wait for silk song…. I got so lost in this game so many times. I hope they do a better job of helping players track objectives. I had to “back track” so many times…. Just trying to figure out what to do. It was fun…. But frustrating at the same time. If you like platforms and Metroidvania games…. Play this!!!!!! You won’t be disappointed.
I want to know about the mushroom man I know there is an ending with it but who is he
So basically big worm dies, turns into King. Big Moth angry, lot's of plage. Little King gets treeussy, lots of void babies. Baby holocaust, (false) Hollow Knight is chosen (we the actual Hollow Hnight). King gets sipidussy, step-sis born. HK goes in black egg, dreamers go sleep. 4 out of 5 great knights die, King dies.
We arrive, the infected try to kill us, the infected die. Step-sis tries to kill us, she doesn't die. The dreamers try to kill us, the dreamers die. the Now-Infected-Not-So-Hollow Knight tries to kill us, step-sis helps. Big Moth tries to kill us, Big Moth dies. Plague dies. We die.
Silksong will be coming any day now right? Right? ...bafanada
Any day now...
Yup, any day........
Any day now
I like and enjoy the dark souls style of story telling but I kinda think this game needed a touch more overt story
Great presentation. It did bug me though that you seem to have a great command of this game world, but you said "Hollownest" and not "Hallownest" like a hundred times.
there’s basically no difference in his accent
Here one year later to say..... Cry more.
Oh I didn't cry, I just think you're an entitled, overconfident narcissist who can't take criticism, no matter how slight. You don't go far in life.
So what is the difference between you and the last boss (hollow knight as well?)
The last boss was the Hollow Knight that the Pale king considered pure enough to be able to contain the radiance as he could not be corrupted by it and got the title Hollow Knight by the Pale king. That plan failed and the radiance broke free and became the last boss.
The player is the brother to the 'pure' Hollow Knight but of the same purpose, a child with the hope you were pure to contain the radiance but were deemed a failure. The player however escaped the chasm all the failed children were thrown into and that's the game.
The difference 'was' supposed to be that the player character had thought and a mind and sentience, something the radiance could corrupt while the last boss was without those things and hence uncorruptable but it turns out the last boss did have those things, or at least enough to be corrupted.
@@kaylo1499 Not to be annoying, but I correct lore when I see it, the player we play as is not actually a "brother" since vessels are genderless. Other than that you are really good at the lore and typing long comments.
@@MossMothMyBelovedlol wow.
love your voice, you're really great storyteller
So you're saying it's adaptable? Tom Holland as the knight confimed?
You wouldn't happen to be a fan of Rogue Legacy 2, would you? Maybe enough to tell me what the heck is going on in that game?
One hard part of understanding stories like this is that these bugs actually exist in real life and aren’t capable of things like “worship” or “turning their backs to the kings rule.” I know this sounds obvious but when coming across a story like this all of our intuitions about these creatures are wrong and we have to actively re-learn how things are in this story and our intuitions about these creatures will constantly keep creeping back in and messing with our understanding of things. Idk, I noticed this when analyzing why this story is so opaque to me
So wait we _don't_ play as the Hallow Knight? Welp my game is ruined time to get a refund lol.
good video, but hard to understand u at times
I'm very disappointed, I played the game for like 26 hours and I thought it was a game with a simple story and big map, I played all the side battles but i stopped somewhere I didn't know how to solve it!, And when i saw it on youtube , I surprised that the game contains all these details and effects in the story, I really hate the style of Souls games it takes all the time while leaving you hanging with a story full of confusion and emptiness :(
Then these games aren’t for you. You have to have a high iq to appreciate and understand this games story and remember everything
@@King-js7nw You don't even need a high IQ, you just need some patience and a little help and discussion with others.
@@King-js7nwthis dude just said you need a high IQ to understand Hollow Knight. That's the lowest IQ comment I've read in some time. Hahaha.
FInally a lore video closer to the tone of the game. All the others "half humor half lore" popular videos are a cringefest.
I tried reading and understanding the lore......but it seemed like basically nobody was speaking english......it seemed like everybody was speaking like people did in the 12th century.....it was fucking annoying....I still read most of it, but gave up trying to understand anybody and started to just no longer give a shit......I think it was a bad move on the devs to not make things more clear and straight forward....
I am actually going to replay the game now that I have this complete picture.
Hope you have fun with your next playthrough!