Hollow Knight: Forgotten Souls



Forgotten Souls is an additional fourth content pack released for the game Hollow Knight. Released April 3rd 2021, it adds a total of ten completely new bosses and several dream battle variants of them.

Plot
The content for the pack can be accessed after the knight has destroyed the three dreamers and gained access to the abyss. Inside the abyss the Knight can now find the Ancient Gate, dreamnailing the gate will unlock the new bosses and will have Skaroman arrive in Dirtmouth.

After defeating all four escaped vessels and getting their charms, the Knight gains access to The Forgotten Tomb. But before being able to go further, the Knight must defeat The Ancient guardian. After defeating the boss, Skaroman can access the Forgotten tomb and its outer buildings. The main building can be explored and acts as the main area of the content pack, and the outer huts house idiviuals found on the Knight's journeys, such as Skaroman, or The Searcher.

The Knight, and Skaroman can explore the tomb and discover its secrets, fighting the bosses that block the knight's way. As the knight explores more of the Forgotten Tomb it will discover more about the ancient civilisation eventually entering a strange world partially in the dream realm with Skaroman. In this it is revealed that Skaroman is the last of an ancient species of bugs that were a small part of the void worshipping kingdom. If the knight continues to explore the tomb, it is revealed that deep in the heart of it is a great power sealed by the Void Kingdom, described as the "Rebel Void". The knight has two options when it reaches the resting place of this being. This option comes when Skaroman enters and uses his soul abilities to break apart the Abyss Lord if the knight attacks the Abyss Lord it will start the path to the destruction ending, if it attacks Skaroman it takes the Knight down the Rebel ending.

If the Knight chooses to combine its powers with the Abyss Lord it starts the Forgotten Child boss fight, which if completed leads to a cutscene of the Void rushing out of the Abyss and Into hallownest, eventually reaching the Black Egg temple and consuming the Hollow Knight - Radiance Included. If the knight destroys the Abyss Lord, and its power, then as a last resort the abyss lord will transport the knight to the dream realm, where it is stuck.