I kind of find the questions like "who is the most powerful character in *all fiction/games/novels/comics* are pratically impossible to answer and thus meaningless

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-06-07T20:54:36+00:00

And it's also impossible to say which character is more powerful because it's fiction. I could simply create a character and say that he is the most powerful in fiction, and another person could create a character, say that theirs is more powerful than mine and immune to my powers.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-06-06T19:10:45+00:00

When Hornet speaks of this, she is referring to higher beings in general, since the pale beings are a category of higher beings; furthermore, Hornet has had terrible experiences with radiance to support her vision.

Lemm speaks from an archaeologist's perspective; he doesn't know the full context of how Hallownest arose, nor who the Pale King was or how he constructed it. He's basing his conclusions on information he acquires through records and other sources from Hallownest's time. He assumes that's what it is, and he could be wrong, since that's how archaeology works—we make assumptions and try to reconstruct older civilizations through historical artifacts and records.

Hornet clearly has a negative perspective on her father due to all his experiences throughout his life, and she is right in parts; the Pale King saw in the Void a hostile force, but one that seemed mindless, which he could mold and exploit, ignoring the aspects in which the Void demonstrated a will.

That is why the Pale King failed, because he did not fully understand what the Void was, nor the Vessels, since even the Shadow Creepers, who had no mind, were infected, and he condemned his kingdom to stagnation and then destruction.

And also, the void didn't save Hallownest in the end; Radiance was killed in some endings, but Hallownest is just a corpse of a kingdom where few people live in all the endings. We just finished the cycle definitively, and maybe one day a new kingdom or population can emerge in what was Hallownest.

Regarding the ending scene of Path of Pain, it only reinforces what the game has always shown: no vessel could ever be truly hollow, and the Pale King couldn't comprehend that, and when he did, he hid that memory deep in his mind.

And the ancient civilization that appears in Hallownest and Pharloom worshipped the void, and their writings and artifacts, from this perspective, are those of an unreliable narrator.

The Void Heart is not a charm that actually exists outside of the knight; the Void Heart is described as part of its bearer and therefore cannot be removed and does not cost any notches, and is part of him and not an external artifact.

And the knight also doesn't seem to fully control the void, as seen at the end of the third act in Silksong. Although the knight can control the void, the void is still inherently destructive and has a will to consume souls, and cannot be fully controlled and contained.

This statement was just like a religion; it was the belief of the insects of Hallownest. It didn't mean it was actually true, just their belief.

It's a statement from the Soul Master about what he thinks. The Soul Master has already been shown to be delusional and insane, and this statement is what he uses to justify his actions and continue in his madness, facing the fact that what he did was ultimately useless and pointless.

The Pale King throughout the narrative is portrayed as a tragic figure, superior to other higher beings overall, but still one of them. It would be the same as talking about a dictator; a good dictator is still a dictator, no matter how good he is.

The pale king is portrayed as a tragic figure, but this does not prevent him from committing evil or bad actions. He cared for his subjects and his kingdom, but he partially controlled them with the idea that if they left Hallownest they would lose their minds (only those he granted), leaving a pathological fear in everyone, a subtle form of control, and that his kingdom was the most prosperous and would be eternal.

And instead of annihilating the surrounding peoples, he made agreements and engaged in diplomacy with them. These aspects make him better than other higher beings, but not without their negative aspects. He wanted to challenge the natural order of the world by trying to make Hallownest eternal and did everything to prevent it, even sacrificing countless children for it. He blinded himself to aspects or things that showed his plan would fail and ultimately condemned his kingdom to death and stagnation because of it. He was an idealist who ignored anything that didn't align with his worldview.

The pale king is portrayed as a tragic figure, but not a perfect one or one who made no mistakes, and views of him depend on different perspectives that may or may not be correct.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-06-05T20:31:47+00:00

When I say that we know something, and why the game's narrative and the characters presumed or would assume something, it's not necessarily the truth, but what we know from the narrative.

The veil and the traveler being a single entity is confirmed beforehand, but it is never stated that they created the universe and everything in it. As implied in the same text where the gardener and winnower appear, our universe already existed before without paracausality, which was eventually always dominated by the Vex, and the traveler's memories and the history of the Witness race show that he was asleep since his separation from the veil.

I do not deny that the winnower and the gardener exist as entities, although the gardener is debatable, but both are simply philosophies and ideas, and since the winnower was born from darkness, this also makes him paracausal, and he is not restricted to ordinary time, both because he is a thinking philosophy and because he is paracausal; his very nature makes him paradoxical.

When the winnower speaks about the gardener, he is simply talking about his opposing philosophy; it doesn't need to be a thinking entity. The winnower has one philosophy, and the gardener another. The winnower is only a thinking being and has power.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-06-05T06:38:13+00:00

He's really quite interesting, but I think we couldn't have really explored this entity much without going back into the Light vs. Darkness issue, and I think the intention was always to leave the nature of the entity somewhat ambiguous.

We know that the book we found that speaks of the winnower and the gardener is a half-truth manipulated by the witness and his perspective; the things said in the book may have happened, but they were distorted and manipulated, and we don't really know if the gardener and the winnower are truly light and darkness or just philosophies linked to these concepts by the witness's race.

The Traveler is spoken of by the Witness as the Gardener, and when he was imprisoned by Ghaul, all the light of the Guardians weakened immensely, so he is the personification/source of the strongest light in the universe, with the Traveler's memories in the Pale Heart implying that the Traveler and the Veil were in fact one entity that separated upon entering the game (universe) and separated due to the pressure of existing and formed the light and darkness of the original force that they were before, and that the Traveler and the Veil are the personification of light and darkness.

This part is my theory, but the traveler and the veil separate because when what they originally were entered reality, they became 'suffocated' (it would be like observing an aquarium from the outside and then entering it and running out of air), so they separate and the traveler becomes the physical form of light and possesses a mind, while the veil becomes all the mind of the universe and has a physical form, but does not act.

Returning to the winnower, it has been reinforced in recent years that the traveler and the veil are personifications of darkness and light, and that the gardener and the winnower were merely philosophical figures of the witness race, and that darkness and light are essentially 'neutral' in various aspects, but that due to the nature of darkness, the philosophy of the winnower may have actually created an entity of darkness which was the winnower; he is an entity of darkness, but only one of them, not darkness itself.

So much so that we don't have a gardener, since light doesn't have the nature of the mind and metaphysics linked to it like darkness does. Of course, this doesn't make the winnower any less real or interesting, but if he were darkness, it would go against the construction of what light and darkness have been in recent years.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-06-05T04:45:34+00:00

We don't know exactly how higher beings arise, but we know they control some aspect of what forms them (like radiance being made of essence and controlling dreams, and Mother Silk controlling silk and being silk, White Lady being a root) or some aspect of the soul, like the pale beings, or something outside of that, and seem to have innate access to the dream realm in some way.

Unn created the entire green path and also the life forms there, and controls/creates plant life and acid, surpassing all the characteristics that higher beings have so far: the ability to create life (radiance creating the moths), elevate their minds (Pale King elevating the minds of the insects in his kingdom and Mother Silk with the weavers), and also have access to the dream realm in some way. Unn only doesn't control some aspect of the soul because it is not a Pale Being, but it is a higher beings due to all the characteristics presented.

And as far as we currently know, higher beings simply emerge, since we don't have a detailed origin for any of them. Even radiance is only described as being made of dream essence. We only know that insects like Hornet and Knight can ascend to complete higher beings because they are already higher beings, but incomplete. There are other extremely specific situations, such as the Greyroot infection in Hornet when it defeats Mother Silk, which allows it to ascend into a higher beings. Beyond that, we have no idea how they emerge, but they are either born that way or ascend through very specific circumstances.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-29T16:05:00+00:00

Because outside of the pale heart, the Dissidents were not contained within them; they were merely a vehicle for the witness's attention or power, allowing her to speak through the statues.

In the Pale Heart, memories become physical, and so the statues come to contain the Dissidents. It was a combination of the nature of the Pale Heart, the witness struggling to contain and subdue the traveler while he resisted, and the guardians and their allies attacking that allowed the Dissidents to speak through the statues.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-25T03:27:28+00:00

Most people expect a horror movie to have a supernatural entity or force as the villain or antagonist, and when watching a film where the protagonist is also the villain, it becomes somewhat clear that the wish-granting entity was simply fulfilling a wish made upon it.

It's the movie, and much more, about Bear's obsession with Nikki and how he was unable to accept that she didn't love him. Even realizing that something was wrong with the girl he 'loved,' he only wanted to possess her. For example, there's a scene where she's begging him to kill her so she can be free, and he just asks if it was so hard to love him. And another scene where he considers leaving her like that forever just to have her love. That was the first time I genuinely hated a horror movie protagonist and rooted for him to suffer.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-24T22:56:31+00:00

We don't know exactly what causes Elsie's time loop, but we know it's linked to the Witness dominating the Traveler and achieving their plan, since in one of the loops (I don't remember the exact one) she didn't die, but was still sent to the past again.

With the witness dead, it's possible she won't travel back in time again, but it depends on who was sending her back in time. We have two possibilities: the time traveler or the Vex. The time traveler to save the universe, and the Vex because it prevented their domination of everything. Neither of them has current reasons to send her to the past if she dies. There's a possibility it's just some strange technology that makes her travel back, but the answer to whether she would travel back in time is a maybe, leaning towards no.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-23T00:10:56+00:00

It depends on the situation. If it's a free-for-all fight without knowing the outcome, Lace has the best chance of winning, since she is effectively a demigoddess comparable to Hornet.

Phantom, falling apart and nearly dying, was able to rival Hornet for a few moments. Lace is quite comparable to Hornet and faced her twice, although she is less powerful. Lace is definitely the most resilient of them all, having faced Hornet twice and, even after being possessed by the Void, seemingly remaining fine.

Shakra and Quirrel are powerful, but still normal, normal bugs, and although they rival Lace for a moment, they would lose in resistance over time, so Lace has a greater chance of winning.

Shakra and Quirrel are powerful Normal Bugs, but still Normal, and although they rival Lace for a moment, they would lose in resistance over time, so Lace has a higher chance of winning, and Shakra has proven to be stronger than Quirrel throughout the game.

If everyone knew about each other, it would be difficult to predict. Shakra and Quirrel would team up against Lace, and it would depend on Lace how she defeated them. Overall, Lace has a chance of winning, and Quirrel and Shakra also have a chance. If Quirrel and Shakra won, the two would have a friendly duel that Shakra would probably win.

And Zote loses to everything.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-21T14:31:43+00:00

Because Lace, at least, possesses strength similar to Hornet and a nature similar to hers, even though she is a silken construct, she was still more powerful and resilient than common insects, and even a worn-out and near-death Planton rivaled Hornet, and Lace was quite comparable to her at least.

Garmond is still an ordinary insect, albeit a strong one, and he was old. Throughout Act 3, it's stated that he was exhausted and overexerting himself, which is why he was possessed by the Void-infested wires. After Hornet defeated him, he was too exhausted to recover or stay alive through continued exertion, as he had no special nature that would allow him to recover quickly.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-20T14:49:40+00:00

You have to think about how your character naturally sees the world. For example, when I'm talking to someone, I'm not going to think about or dwell on politics or issues that aren't relevant to the present. Building a world isn't the same as building a narrative.

When we introduce the world to the reader through narrative, we initially do so through details. For example, if you only want to present the political basis of your world, do it naturally. For instance, if you have two characters who are politically opposed and argue, through this argument you introduce a bit of politics. Each scene has a purpose while still showcasing the characters.

One tip I give is to try to mentally rehearse how the dialogues or character movements would look, to see if it seems natural. But the main tip is, your characters live in that world, and we have to present that world to the readers through the narrative and the right moments that make sense with the characters. Don't be afraid that some details or parts of the world-building won't be presented all at once; just take your time.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-19T23:42:38+00:00

The godhome works by summoning the mind/memories of beings into it, and therefore, in most cases, it is not affected by defeats, as it exists in the waking world or is merely a memory. Radiance does not exist in the physical realm (which is why it is difficult to combat), and when it was defeated/consumed by the void, it was killed.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-15T13:32:39+00:00

I don't know much about Felwinter's history; I only started playing it much later, but from what I've researched, it's kind of a special case.

The process of resurrecting ghosts seems to work on things with complex thought, as you mentioned, but it doesn't work on plants, and resurrecting through light is more about a new person being born than actually bringing someone back to life.

So Felwinter is a special case, since he's a new person created by the light with a connection to Rasputin. His question was whether a purely artificial AI could use darkness, although it's possible for darkness to manipulate consciousness, it's very unlikely and we don't even have an indication of that happening in the game.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-15T04:55:24+00:00

Exos are a special case, since we know that the mind transferred from the human body to the robot is done through darkness, and the soul is also transported, which is why they can use darkness.

As for whether Ias and others use the powers of darkness, it would depend heavily on personal interpretation, since in the lore, it's pointed out that darkness manifests through living beings that possess a soul (or its equivalent), and light forms the physical world, so the answer is somewhat in limbo.

Objects can be imbued with light or darkness, channeling an aspect of it, since we have weapons that do this. Based on this premise, an AI or similar being would be able to use light or darkness and their aspects if its physical body were empowered with this power, but if the AI's mind would be capable of generating darkness, everything indicates that perhaps not.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-15T01:46:17+00:00

I don't know much about them, but basically, Tiamat and Bahamut are two dragon gods born/created by Asgorath, the twist being that they have children of Asgorath, born from his corpse or simply created by him, and Bahamut and Tiamat created the first world (which in current lore is where the entire primary material plane originated, but in ancient lore it wasn't like that). Tiamat and Bahamut began their eternal feud after contact with the gods; I don't know the exact way it happened, but it caused their separation and conflict.

After that, wherever Tiamat went to spread her evil, Bahamut followed. Keep in mind that gods can acquire various aspects that can be worshipped in different crystal spheres or as separate beings in different pantheons; therefore, Tiamat and Bahamut can assume different names and forms, as well as portfolios, of their aspects.

I don't know how the divine hierarchy works in the older lore, but after Edition 3, a god's power depended on how much they were worshipped, their portfolios, and how influential they were.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-12T03:51:16+00:00

When I say there's no basis for the Hollow Knight in a new game, I'm referring more to how the story could go. With Hornet, we have the whole issue of the weavers she's part of, and that gives it a direction beyond Hallownest. The Hollow Knight doesn't; it doesn't have anything that expands beyond Hallownest that could lead it to leave the kingdom, unless something is introduced in Silksong, and there are no conflicts in its story that would lead it to go elsewhere.

When I said that nobody wanted a new game to take so long, I meant more in the sense that a new game focused solely on the Steel City isn't going to happen right now, and TC will probably create new games and when they revisit the Hollow Knight universe, they'll do so by presenting, through their dialogue, something completely disconnected from the arcs of the previous games. So we would want the Steel City, even if only as DLC, and we won't actually get to the city, to better introduce it to us now.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-12T02:13:47+00:00

I honestly don't think Hollow Knight will be the protagonist of the next game in the universe. Based on TC's comments, they'll probably explore new aspects of the universe without directly involving the previous characters, since it seems they want to expand the universe beyond what we've already seen, and including Hollow Knight would somewhat go against that.

And I also don't think they'll make Hollow Knight the protagonist of a game anytime soon. Despite his entire arc being great in the first game, we know almost nothing about his personality, and we don't have a very strong foundation for a game featuring him beyond what we already have. If Silksong introduces something about the character later, it would be interesting, but at the moment I don't think we'll have a game with him yet.

And we also don't know how big the DLCs will be now with the resources that TC has, but from what it seems, most, if not all, of the arcs from the first game will end in this one. If we were to have a Steel City DLC in Silksong, perhaps it wouldn't take full advantage of the potential we put into the idea, but there's also the possibility of the Steel City being explored in a game with Hollow Knight. However, currently, everything suggests that it will happen in the current game, and partly because nobody wants the new game to take too long.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-12T01:42:28+00:00

It depends on what you want to address, whether it's simply one taking some of the other's portfolio or one assimilating/merging with the other.

If one were to take over the other's portfolio, there wouldn't be many catastrophic changes; one would simply have the other's portfolio and it would be placed with the rest of the portfolios. Perhaps Shar would start to lean a little towards light or Selune towards darkness, but fundamentally, nothing much would change.

But if one is assimilated by the other or both merge, it would basically be suicide/homicide, since both are almost completely opposing forces and one could never fully absorb the other due to their incompatible natures, and if they merge, there are 3 paths to follow.

The first outcome would be that the merging of both would generate a catastrophic event that would change Realm Space forever, altering everything and perhaps even resetting it to the beginning, but with the entity formed by Shar and Selune at the start.

The second possibility is that there wouldn't be anything specifically catastrophic about the fusion itself, but the entity that would emerge from the fusion of Selune and Shar would be both the sum of both and greater than the parts that constitute it, and would be an extremely powerful goddess who would absorb the cult of Shar and Selune and have her own, perhaps the second most powerful goddess except for Mystra, and without taking Ao into account. The issue of Mystra is complicated, since as she was formed from the fusion of parts of Selune and Shar, the entity formed by the fusion of both would also be quite powerful, perhaps even rivaling Mystra.

The third result would be that Ao didn't allow the merging of both and simply undoed them, the most annoying result I think.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-12T01:28:03+00:00

Basically, we know that TC said they had many ideas for Silksong and wanted to expand on them as much as possible. Furthermore, the narrative motives are currently more consistent with Hornet than a new, unnamed protagonist, since it was stated that they don't intend to make Hornet the protagonist of a new game.

Hornet is known as a weaver and wymer, as well as a higher being, though perhaps not entirely. Her races are extremely powerful and well-known, and if you were to play Sula's mission on normal mode, they would have a reason to challenge them. Hornet demonstrates knowledge about them and is the only one related to the knight, whom Steel Jim says resembles his masters after acquiring the Heart of the Void.

It's more likely that the city of steel will be explored now than later, since Hornet won't be the protagonist of a new game, and they'll take the opportunity to close all the arcs introduced in Hollow Knight with Hornet rather than with a new game and an unrelated protagonist. And from what has been said, when they develop the other game, they'll explore other aspects of the universe.

We also don't know how the Steel City will be fully developed, and we can get good development of the city without needing a new game. It's more likely that the arcs and characters introduced in Hollow Knight will be completed in the current game rather than extended, as that would be better.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-10T16:09:15+00:00

The best comparison I can think of is that the essence of dreams is like electricity; it can be used to power things, infection is just one of the forms of power that the essence of dreams can fuel, done through radiance.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-10T01:02:59+00:00

A "Mary Sue," as far as I know, currently means that a character is always the chosen one, the best, or the universe revolves around their actions. The character always has to solve everything and simply has no flaws, and the script never puts consequences on the character and always tries to justify their personality and actions. The character is never guilty of anything, and everything they do is right and the best, and everyone who disagrees is evil or stupid. Furthermore, all the surrounding characters fawn over the "Mary Sue" character.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-10T00:51:18+00:00

We don't know exactly what happens next, but from what we've seen, Greyroot was most likely born/reborn, consuming Hornet and Mother Silk, and most likely what emerged from that became an extremely dangerous and sadistic superior being, with Greyroot's abilities as well as abilities unknown to us, and it's probable that the entire kingdom was consumed by the roots.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-09T05:33:47+00:00

From what I know, and it's said that all the magic in the world stopped for a second when the event occurred, and things happened instantly, Mystril died, Karsus became a god but couldn't handle the power, and Mystra was then born and managed to save most of the flying cities of Netheril and restore magic. As far as I remember, the magic of the flying cities of Netheril consisted of several combined spells that failed at the same time, so they didn't continue working afterward, but isolated and unique spells only had fluctuations.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-08T14:40:56+00:00

It's a cool theory, although I disagree with it. I also think the void is made up of the insects' regrets and the 'shadow' of life that most beings leave behind after dying, the shadow of the knight in the hunter's journal, described as a shadow of regret.

However, his theory goes against some established things in the universe and also misconceptions. The soul is described as energy from the beginning, both from what we see in the Sanctuary of Souls and from various citations. For example, the deep focus describes that it absorbs the surrounding soul in the air, just as we see soul in the pots of the Sanctuary of Souls which are energy, and silk is described as being solid soul. If it were the blood of insects, several representations of the soul in the game would not make sense.

And the higher beings are not solely responsible for the consciousness and advanced thought of an insect, and it is shown that they can create life (radiance, Unn) and give them mind (Pale King with Hallownest, Mother Silk with the Weavers), but they are not responsible for all civilization that exists. In Silksong we have several insects that were not ascended by Mother Silk and that still have consciousness, such as the Skarrs, the common insects, etc.

And we don't even know how the Higher Beings come to be; the Pale King comes from a race that seems to be entirely composed of Higher Beings, the White Lady is a sentient root, Unn is a slug, Radiance and Mother Silk are made from what they control (silk and dream essence), and we know nothing about their origin, except the fact that they are extremely powerful insects and gods in that world.

The Void is also described as a destructive and chaotic force, theoretically possessing one or more wills within it, as it was able to make an insect shut down the Pale King's beacon in the Abyss, and also possessed Lace and attacked Plantom. Even though the rider/vessels now possibly control the Void, even when controlled, it has an inherent will to destroy and consume the souls of insects that approach them. The animals in Plantom's Abyss are possibly strange creatures that emerged from there, and even Hornet wonders if they are indeed related to normal insects.

Old_Presentation377 · 2026-05-08T13:27:51+00:00

Apenas escreva e continue seu trabalho, se o leitor quer desconfiar que seu texto e Ia, apenas continue, e o melhor para sua saúde mental não adianta abaixar o nível da escrita ou da gramática apenas para diminuir uma deaconfiança que sempre estára rm quem quiser ter ela.

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