#monarchwings

(footage by mossbag, gif by mossbag)

So in mossbag's latest video some comments chalked up the discarded shell's wind to decomposing gas, and I'd say is a reasonable conclusion, if not for the fact that the Pale King has more than a couple ties to wind that can't quite be as easily explained

(footage by Ccmanci, gif by me)

The monarchflies that become the monarchwings also generate wind, made obvious by said wind stopping upon obtaining the wings

Their exact relation to the king is unclear (part of him? fragments of him? spawn of him? simbiotic to the Wyrm?) however they're undeniably connected judging by their name and appeareance This, while more shaky than the decomposing process of an unmeasurable Wyrm, could still be explained as the individual flies simply having such a strong flapping

but the connections to the wind don't stop here

Both Quirrel and Godseeker describe the winds as guiding them to the kingdom, with Godseeker apparently equating the winds to the king's lingering power (that power beacons to Hallownest -> these winds carry us to the gods)

The same wind that coincidentally makes it impossible for you to leave Hallownest in a straightforward way, even if just within gameplay

First of all, vessel's cloaks are biological, they have it from birth and is inherited from their father (just like their body type)

Second, they are wings, but require monarchwings to be consumed in order to work properly either because void fucked them up or they are vestigial (and therefore would always have been disfunctional)

Third and last, the monarchwings don't *transform* the cloak, just hold the strands together and gives more propelling area (the lighter almost white color is because of the monarchwings own bioluminescence)