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    She stiffened as it turned its wrist to look at her, blinking as its face came into view. She was surprised to see a pale, horned mask. Aside from the crudely-wrapped bandages covering one of its eyes, the shape of its horns and the abysmal state its cloak was in, the resemblance to the spider was quite striking.

    In which the Dung Defender and the Hollow Knight travel to Pharloom in search of Hallownest's missing sentinel and get wrapped up in much more than they initially anticipated.

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    07 Oct 2025

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    MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SILKSONG'S TRUE ENDING.

    After her close call with the void below all things, Hornet wishes nothing more than to retire to her bellhome and rest. Unfortunately, Lace is a nuisance, and will not stop bothering her with petty insults and boorish innuendo.

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    06 Oct 2025

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    It has always been more, more than what was asked of it, more than what was ever needed. Faster. Stronger. Perfect. Pure.
    And now, when it is inches away from what it was made for, when the title many have already begun to whisper is a breath away from truth, it has failed.

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    Just prior to being knighted, the Pure Vessel receives its armor—and, for the first time, reaches its limits.
    Or: the Pale King sees an opportunity to make the Pure Vessel stronger by giving them the magical equivalent of cyborg implants. This does not go well.

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    25 Dec 2022

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    Something is very wrong in Hallownest.

    The Hollow Knight wakes up outside the Temple of the Black Egg. Hornet feels a shift in the kingdom from all the way in Greenpath. Together, the two of them discover the sacrifices each has made—and the grief neither one of them was allowed to feel.

    Hollow survives the Hollow Knight ending, though severely wounded and close to death. Against her better judgement, Hornet takes them under her care. Along the way, Hollow begins to acknowledge their emotions, and Hornet slowly discovers she's been lied to about the true nature of Vessels.

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    25 Dec 2022

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    "Death is not permitted here."

    The Radiance perishes and Hallownest falls silent. The infection of light spares few in its wake, turning the kingdom into a tomb filled with the bodies of the formerly afflicted. After some time spent recovering in Dirtmouth, Hornet chooses to depart the only home she's ever known. She descends one final time in search of survivors who may also wish to leave, thinking nothing of her sacrificed siblings, though she carries a pair of mismatched horns underneath her cloak.

    But something else stirs beneath her feet, ancient and full of grief, and Hornet's task proves far more treacherous than she had believed, her path littered with old gods and new threats. As she delves into the darkest reaches of Hallownest, haunted with visions of the life spent there, the orphaned princess learns that she must reckon with all she has lost, before the kingdom and its secrets destroy whatever she has left.

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    29 Aug 2022