#void kingdom

An idea that was inspired by @sophi-s ‘s story, Tales of Hallownest, as to how the Lord of Shades came to be. Any ideas and Criticisms are Welcome. Enjoy!

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Nothingness and division. For most of its existence, that was all the VOID knew.

In the nothingness, the bleak and empty state of existence, Darkness ruled over the dull caverns. It was so from the dawn of time and possibly even beforehand. It didn’t care for it to be this way. It couldn't. VOID had no Mind, no Will, no Voice. At an unknown time, division came forth. 

A strange, yet not unwelcomed, presence appears. Descending the Basin, the presence became more and more apparent, more and more... divided.

When the foreigners, full of life and warmth, Minds, Wills, and Voices, tried to contact the liquid darkness, for the first time in its existence, VOID felt the thing to accompany it throughout the eons.

Hostility.

Almost immediately, the VOID lashed out, creating long and thick Tendrils that snapped and whipped in any direction, with no clear purpose or Will, only feeling disdain for those who dared to interrupt the dark silence of its existence.

VOID felt the Tendrils impact various surfaces, though it couldn't truly distinguish them from one another; cold and hard, warm and soft, thin and snapping. It didn’t care; VOID simply wanted the intruders AWAY.

An unexpected thing happened when a heavy, warm form fell into the Abyssal Sea. The object lashed out as it drowned, but in fear and terror, unlike the-

Wait. VOID halted the rage and hostility in its being. What is this? A Voice called out, with no clear indication or answer. It sounded deep, raspy almost.

How do I know these words? Why can I think now? VOID asked itself, baffled and almost amazed at this new sensation, not noticing the rest of the intruders fleeing to the shore and up the caverns, even as liquid darkness slowly ceased writhing.

Words, sounds, memories, and emotions, were flowing from the corpse of the fool to the entirety of the Abyssal Sea. Of banishment from the bug's settlement for forbidden arts and a long, excruciating journey to a safe haven.

Treking through cliffs of loud whistles. Decension to the caverns of green creatures, territorial claw bearers and acidic lakes. 

Escaping warriors and defenders of Leaf and Root, grieving over those who tried to fend off the hostile bugs. Descending to caves and caverns in which all color is reduced, feeling the pull on a mysterious presence even more below, at the bottom of this world.

But never a moment's rest. Always escaping, running, cowering in fear.

This fear was disgusting; it drawn those bugs to a corner from which they could not escape but even more so, it was all too familiar to the hostility VOID felt, but hiding underneath it.

As the Abyssal Sea finished absorbing the bug who became its first stepping stone into consciousness, VOID made its first- and only- eternal promise to itself. 

Ok, the void kingdom in hollow knight I headcanon like I'm pretty sure most people do to have been submerged by the void sea because snail shamans and the whole history of evolution of life theme in game

In the background of the abyss we see bark like pillars with dalek eggs

(not my image, found on 2019 wiki guide)

And lots of circular shell structures

It wouldn't be remiss to assume that the abyss was alot like earths deep oceans but bug or these guys

It wouldn't be wrong to assume the geo caches and really just geo are what used to be void citizens assuming because of the statues the void kingdom encompassed all of hallowsnest

It's also fun to imagine alot of the stuff we explore in game are what used to be underwater, under void lol, caves

And because I like Aerial, mixing these assumptions together you get that the void kingdom was likely made of large shell structures as seen in the first drawing

As for the life blood, that where life blood beast and Deepnest come in, specifically glowing shrooms

So, the life blood cocoons are the life blood beast babies and that's where the whole taboo thing came from, but the butterfly structure around it is more like an unfertilized egg, it's what your meant to eat

Don't let the movement and flying trick you, the life blood beast is probably some kind of literal god that was dating the void - it has magic sperm we don't know what that does

Cause its in God's home, probably meaning the void kingdom was rich in ores like pale ore n stuff, so everything was probably covered in those copper swirls but void er ized

Anyway that stuff was fine to eat, cause these are fish bugs not humans or homosapiens

But like the rocks and stones in studio giblies Laputa, the way to extract the healing properties of the egg sperm butterfly things was lost with the arrival of the radiance

Head canon the radiance was with this guy

(gamer walkthroughs)

Which is either how she got the in or they was like fuck this and she killed them

Anyway

Mosquitoes have a water stage as larvae, whoes to say they didn't string together like frogs and make illuminating grasses

Whoes to say plants weren't like that too, for all we know coral could talk and then diverged into mushrooms in the fungal wastes and the glowy shrooms in Deepnest