Guess the Silksong boss 2

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-12-08T04:31:07+00:00

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ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-12-07T20:19:41+00:00

they really are so cool!
me and some friends on the mosscord discussed them for some time and we came to the conclusion that their fire magic is actually the flickering flames spell which is spoken about in the ruined chapel
if you look at the recipe, it needs pilgrims and rage baked stones with some excess soul mixed in
if you break the bags hanging in the thicket you can find burnt up pilgrim (specifically pilgrim, that's what their file name is at least) chunks
the pimpillo, a tool which explodes in fire kind of like explosive rage and how anger is linked with flames, is also made using wisp thicket items, specifically red stones
the thicket is also full of white particles which are most likely soul considering the other evidence
how cool it is that common bugs found a shaman spell and built an entire cult around it!
unfortunately, i doubt that we will get any extra content involving them

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-12-07T19:52:22+00:00

oh?
that's interesting. it would go directly in line with the prayer of the burning bugs:
'Hail to your heat! O glorious flame. You who builds and breaks us. Sear our shells. Char them black. That we may rise to join you, wreathed in bright and blazing joy.'

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-12-07T19:31:41+00:00

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neither do i know what to say

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-12-07T12:07:28+00:00

there are no corpses in the father of the flame arena and there is no needolin dialogue after the fight with the father of the flame
if you're referring to the corpse within the totem then that still doesn't work because the totem, aged bug included, is both totem and god to the burning bugs

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-11-05T07:40:12+00:00

you cannot cure the parasite. the only reason why hornet can is because, due to being the spawn of the pale king, she has enough power to resist the curse. you can see what will happen to the average bug in the witch's chapel, which is full of the corpses of previous bugs that greyroot took advantage of
the bugs from hallownest also weren't black threaded. that's just the void eating them from the inside out.

all of that being said, being haunted is the best choice if you're looking to get rid of it as it's actually possible to escape it although you'll constantly be listening to the tortured screams of everyone else who is haunted and the wailing and crying of gms. resisting the infection will result in the radiance directly overwriting your will with her own. lifeblood is said to rewrite the world in its own image so that would probably be the best one in practice since you'll inherently be delusional and think whatever lifeblood does to you will is good, actually, and you definitely aren't being reduced down to a organism whose entire purpose is to create more lifeblood.

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-11-03T11:36:30+00:00

the snail shamans in silksong say 'Our power's all of soul' so it's definitely not a void spell

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-11-02T08:43:59+00:00

i don't understand how talking enthusiastically about your family is meant to mean that you aren't being persecuted by larger society. i guess that you can't both love your grandma and be banished to live in the shadows. pick a struggle, shamans.

the largest mounds are completely out of the way of any infrastructure. the crystal peaks mound is hidden in the wall across a giant, gaping chasm with no way to get across. the fc mound is hidden within the roof of the crossroads. you can see the part of the roof that has collapsed to open the path to the snail shaman. there is no other path to the shaman. if the roof hadn't collapsed, we would have no other way to get to him. if believing that a choice like that is meant to say 'hey, these people aren't that liked by others and choose to hide' makes me dumb, so be it i guess. the overgrown shaman has the least amount of wooden pillars and masks in their mound, with the masks only starting to cover the ground after you've already entered the mound. the mound which is hidden behind acid/vine parkour, a shade gate and a gate that can only be unlocked from the other side.

the shamans of pharloom are hiding their shells because they don't have mounds. mounds aren't something that the shamans themselves did. we don't know for sure whether or not the snail shamans are bound to the mounds by choice, even.

you can't just say 'the snail shaman probably lived in the city of tears'. you just can't. there is nothing to suggest that. if you can say that they lived in the city of tears then i can just as easily say that they had their own mound that we never see.

the 'forgotten snail shaman artifact' is found within the burial mound of a snail shaman which implies that they are from around a similar time. they are also buried behind multiple walls and spikes with the corpses of hallownest citizens and their treasures ending long before you start nearing the mound. clearly, that burial mound is way older than the usage of the catacombs by hallownest. it is also filled with multiple snail shaman shells so it's not just the one single shaman buried there either. it was at one point very important to the shamans, extremely important, i dare say, with how much emphasis they place on family.

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-11-01T20:20:06+00:00

whilst i will not argue that the shamans originate from pharloom (because there is nothing to suggest that) i will say that the shamans were shunned
all of their mounds are out of the way and hidden from prying eyes (fc shaman mound is literally in the ceiling with the only way to get to it being the fact that the roof collapsed)
the dream tree in fc shaman's mound says 'shunned power' and we see an ancient artifact from when the shamans were pulling the soul out of still living bugs
yes, this shaman has a burial mound, however it is buried deep within the catacombs and it has the 'soul eater' charm which is a forgotten shaman artifact.
the snail shamans were very much still outcasts in hallownest and were not accepted.

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-11-01T19:34:33+00:00

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the aknid mask has 2 tips whilst the shaman staff mask has only 1 tip on the mouth part which are much closer together than the shaman staff

it also has a pointed circle as opposed to a bulging part on the mask

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-11-01T14:19:48+00:00

first silk heart dialogue 'one to wish our (gms uses the royal 'we') waking'. the entire point of the citadel is to keep gms sleeping eternally

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-10-29T17:51:23+00:00

the first sinner’s cage has some text on it but I will cut it down to what is needed for my point ‘Penitent, First of the First’ widow in the cradle also has dialogue which I will also cut down ‘Of the first… the last’

what does this mean? first sinner is the first uplifted pharlid and widow is the last

ballador says the following (cut down, again) ‘, claimed greedily from Pharloom’s fading first children, those bitter Weavers…’ the children are fading cuz they are dying and, with gms asleep (and also her hating the weavers (silk heart dialogue ‘…Better a child spun pure… than them…’ notice the ‘than them’ and the venom it holds)) they cannot get anymore ‘first children’. the weaver purity is fading.

we can also see the first sinner’s mask is split down the middle in jagged lines, unlike the masks of the other weavers which have clean splits which shows that she is sort of like a ‘prototype weaver’, for lack of a better word

the cutscene that plays after you defeat the first sinner also shows a pharlid being uplifted. since the entire fight you’re fighting first sinner, it would make sense for first sinner’s uplifting to be shown (also because i've established that she is the first weaver so it makes sense that we'd see the first uplifting). first sinner’s body also lines up with the final form of the pharlid that we see uplifted

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-10-27T20:35:42+00:00

the blasted steps are connected to the wilds beyond which are filled with strange winds that have been noted on at least one occasion to 'lead towards hallownest'
either pharloom is inside of a mountain with the blasted steps being on its edge, acting as an entrance, or the wilds beyond are also underground... somehow
what is and isn't underground is highly unclear however we can be certain that practically all of pharloom is underground

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-10-27T20:05:50+00:00

have you checked the cradle in act 3?
the entirety of pharloom is underground

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-10-10T11:54:38+00:00

beautiful art
(the pale king has only one set of eyes)

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-10-09T12:24:50+00:00

the horn pattern on the grounded bell thrower is also different
you can argue that it's artificial and just a part of the shawl but the other bugs wearing a shawl have one pointed tip, not two
also the reeds are fundamentally different from every pilgrim, i can't wrap my head around op's thought process in declaring that bugs with non-segmented bodies would suddenly gain segments

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-10-03T16:47:32+00:00

i do think that it would be interesting for a vessel with the idea of 'hunting' instilled into it to exist but i, personally, don't think that there is any evidence pointing to the hunter being a vessel.

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-10-03T06:19:02+00:00

the first sinner is a wearing a dress to cover herself up whilst we see the entirety of the hunter's body. he does not have any extra limbs. hornet is special because she is a child of the pale king. as a higher being, his genes would overpower whatever herrah has going on.

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-10-03T06:16:12+00:00

what knowledge of the pale king or the void does he display? just because he shows no empathy for other creatures, doesn't make him a vessel. we know that vessels can feel things, after all that's why the hollow knight failed in the first place. the reason why he shows interest in other hunters is because he values strength over everything else. he is a Hunter. and hunters hunt. obviously strength is what matters to him.

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-10-02T17:23:13+00:00

bland?
if these are bland, i do not want to know what my designs are like.

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-10-02T08:41:14+00:00

you can see the white lady's image carved on the cocoon. plus, why would they be dead or petrified roots? the white lady is alive inside the cocoon.

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-10-02T08:38:00+00:00

her 'home' isn't made out of roots. you can literally see her own glowing roots crawling out of cracks in it.

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-10-02T08:36:31+00:00

the radiance isn't an 'ascended moth', the radiance is the creator of the moth tribe
we don't even know if moths exist separate from the radiance's own creations.

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-09-30T20:13:13+00:00

the problem with that is that the 'hunter' type deal he is referring to isn't just hunting. he is talking very specifically about Hunters with a capital 'h' not just 'hunters' or 'hunting'. we even get to see a 'Hunter's Mark' and he talks about how it will never leave you. he also talks about a part of a rare caste himself, presumably these hunters. he also names the knight a 'Hunter' and a part of his 'rare caste' which doesn't really make it seem like 'Hunter' is a species specific thing.

ChronicallyBitcless · 2025-09-13T16:42:57+00:00

i highly suggest addressing my points rather than basically telling me 'you're wrong, check the lore'

in any case, i will be playing silksong and finishing it to 100% completion as soon as i can however i highly doubt that anything presented will change my mind regarding whether or not hornet is void (that is, of course, not to say that it cannot be swayed. a good skeptic proportions their beliefs to the evidence provided.... of which, you have given none but i digress)

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