[ID: Hollow Knight fanart. A digital artwork in purple tones. It depicts Ghost and Hollow, both small and wearing pink bows at the back of their necks. They are standing in the middle of a path in Howling Cliffs and reading a map they’re holding together. The background is the sandy path going far off behind them. End ID]
[ID: Hollow Knight fanart. A digital artwork in dark brown tones. It depicts countless of shades flying around together in one giant circle, creating a mass so big it fades lighter far away in the background. Some of them are holding paws End ID]
And for those wondering how I got out of the Black Egg Temple… via my dreamgate next to the bench in town - the perfect place to drop off one’s sister for some medical treatment, say one’s good-byes, and then continue on to the next adventure. Thank-you all for accompanying me on this one. :)
No, Hornet put herself in the egg, I put her in Cornifer and Iselda’s spare bed after dreamgating us both out of the egg. I’ll go back in the egg when I’ve seen enough of the world and am ready to nap for the rest of eternity.
I’m not going to pretend that I’m anything but good at Hollow Knight at this point, but I’m still extremely proud of myself for this latest atunement, this was hard and I feel good about myself for having done it!
Since I offered and @cawareyoudoin said yes please, here are the charm sets I’ve used for the first three pantheons in Hollow Knight! Note: I’ve unlocked all the charm notches, so these are all eleven notch sets.
First set, for the Pantheon of the Master:
Stalwart Shell, Long Nail, Grubsong, Sharp Shadow, Unbreakable Heart, and Weaversong. (Void Heart is there but doesn’t count, because I can’t take it off and it doesn’t effect battle anyway)
Second set, for the Pantheon of the Artist:
Spore Shroom, Grubsong, Long Nail, Shape of Unn, Quick Slash, and Weaversong.
Third set, for the Pantheon of the Sage:
Sharp Shadow, Stalwart Shell, Long Nail, Unbreakable Strength, Dream Wielder, and Grubsong. While I haven’t fully beaten this pantheon yet, I have made it all the way to its final boss with this set and also used it to beat him in the Hall of Gods, so it will work, it’s just a matter of me finishing my training.
Hopefully these are useful to anyone seeing this, either as they are or as something to build on, depending on what your preferred play style is!
Fourth set, for Pantheon of the Knight:
For the first half of the pantheon, Sharp Shadow, Stalwart Shell, Long Nail, Unbreakable Strength, Grubsong, and Defender’s Crest.
For the second half of the pantheon (after the hot spring + bench area), the same, but switch Defender’s Crest to Spore Shroom.
(Note: the last, single-notch charm can honestly whatever suits your play style for the second half of this pantheon, but Defender’s Crest makes the Lost Kin fight super easy because it kills the ghosties for you. Honestly, the only reason I personally switched it out is I found its animation too distracting while fighting the Pure Vessel.)
You know what, I’m happy with this time! I worked hard, I had a lot of fun, and I feel good! No I am not going to attempt the Pantheon of Hallownest, the Pure Completion achievement is one I’ve been striving for for awhile, and now it’s mine - I am truly content! Thank-you for sharing this marvelous, insane journey with me!
After more runs, I have determined for sure that that first victory of mine against the Pure Vessel was indeed mostly luck, but I can now get said Vessel down to 66% health with fair reliability, so I am definitely improving!
And, another benefit, I like this fight! Some boss fights are just… a slog to get through and make you feel miserable (the Radiance is one such fight for me, still haven’t beaten her, stupid dead moth god). But the Pure Vessel… I dunno. It’s hard, yeah, no denying, but it’s a comfortable kind of hard for me? The imagery is pleasant, the music is melancholy but also soothing, there aren’t any ugly sounds, I can practice again in the Hall of the Gods with ease, and it’s just… fun. I’m enjoying practicing against them, and repeated failure is less frustrating because there are attacks they only start using at certain percentages of health, so I have visual cues I can look to in order to confirm that I’m getting better at this. It’s nice, I like it, feels good. :)
So I played hollow knight And I have many feelings
[ID: A vertically long peice of digital art, depicting the Knight from the game hollow knight tied in chains as they are seen in the game in the top half of the image. Organ fluid drips down their body and spills off their cucoon tyring into a swirl of gloing fluid spilting the image in half. THe bottom half show the raience as seen in the game in from of the bright clos and spires from her boss battle. the organge stream flows and blends into her feet.]
figured i should post these– here’s a collection of the art i’ve done recently for @hollowtones‘s hollow knight streams !! since i should probably. yknow. post art on my art blog
yall should really catch her on twitch if u can, her streams are wonderful and she’s a very sweet and hilarious person, i’ve been having a lot of fun as of late :]
One thing that always gets me about the Pale King is his dream nail dialogue. Like yeah “no cost too great” has been memed to hell and back, but I’m talking about what comes after.
After he drops his iconic phrase, there’s another line of dialogue that’s just an ellipsis.
>“No cost too great…”
>“…”
We’ve seen only ellipses used before in dreamnail dialogue, usually to indicate the creature having no or limited self awareness. However, for this to be used for such a major character like PK must have some significance. His dialogue spoke of his own unflinching beliefs, that he was correct, that the ends justified the means— and then he paused. His dialogue ends on that pause, leaving it to sink in, further cementing it as something unsaid, perhaps even something PK didn’t even let himself think - that he might have been wrong.
This potentially speaks volumes. This all-knowing Wyrm with foresight on his side, who should never have reason to second-guess his decisions, seemed to do so in that moment if only a little. Those may even have been his dying thoughts.
And I don’t know, I feel some kind of way about it.
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