Hollow Knight: Hallow Warriors

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Hallow Warriors is a mini-series about the events of Hallownest before the Knight started their journey. It focuses on the adventures of the Five Great Knights and their perilous adventures but also other moments of the kingdom's history.

Prologue: Kingdom's Birth
An egg cracks as light emerges from it. It zooms out to show a giant wyrm, the Palest One, with many more eggs next to it. Simultaneously, all the eggs hatch as many wyrms emerge, burrowing through the ground.

It zooms in to a white wyrm, digging near a land filled to the brim with light. Two large wings come out from the light, revealing the Radiance.

It shouts, "Who are you to enter this holy, hallowed land?". The wyrm replies, "I'm not here to invade, just to rest for a blink of time." The Radiance says, "Fine but leave at tomorrow's dawn. If I spot you wriggling anywhere around here at noon, my light will not be concealed."

The wyrm falls to the ground and begins shedding, only to reveal the Pale King.

After one day the Radiance searches for the wyrm, but only finds its shedding corpse. It teleports away, as the title shows.

Chapter 1: Pale Beginnings
The Pale King awakens in a tent they made earlier. They light a fire and make a lightweight spear out of stone, when a primal aspid spits hot venom at them. They throw their spear at the acid melting the spear but stopping acid. The aspid snarls angrily and spits more venom. This time, the Pale King dodges it, grabs the aspid, and stabs it through his crown-like head, killing the aspid.

He then cooks the meat on the fire and out of nowhere, he flashes to the future and sees himself glowing next to group of bugs. He flashes back and the meat is burned to a crisp, and he's left starving.

He exits the tent and searches for food. Out of nowhere a group of husks come to attack him. He crafts a stone nail and runs up to one of them. They swing towards him, he dodges the attack, and stabs them in the side, killing them.

Meanwhile while he was attacking the husks, more come behind him. He turns around and stabs each of them, doing minimal damage. Even more come, completely surrounding him. He starts glowing a pale light, and then a burst of power erupts knocking all of the husks back.

They come back up, but don't attack him. Instead they act confused, as if they forgot everything. He says "I have granted you a higher mind. You could keep it, if you join me to make a new kingdom." They all agree and he walks towards the tent, them marching behind.

Chapter 2: The Dream
A green, slimy, massive slug makes its way to a stony cavern filled with mindless bugs. It trampedes a group of them and then finds a massive acid lake to rest in. It dreams of a forested cavern with mossy, thorny creatures, like the one it used to live in.

Then, stems start sprouting out of the rocky, barren ground, surrounding all the bugs nearby. Flowers start blooming as if it were spring, filling the cave with a fresh aroma. Thorny vines grew so tall that the cavern's roof raises and all the bugs were now covered with plants like they were a part of them.

A group of bugs rose from the ground already covered with foliage who had higher minds. They then worshipped the slug who they called Unn and built a temple and even a chapel showing their devotion. They called themselves The Mosskins and they followed the call of Unn for information and instruction. They called their area the Greenpath for the plants they were born from.

Marching towards their area was the Pale King, whose group just walked across the massive cavern. They came from foresight that the king had, which involved the area ahead.

Confused, the Mosskins asked Unn for their wisdom. Unn said "Get the glowing leader here, I would like to speak to them." The Mosskins gathered the Pale King and his troops and brung them to Unn. The slug said "What would you want with our land?" The king persuasively replied, "To walk among it. Access to all of your land, and in return, we give you our protection." "As long as your people are loyal to our laws, we will allow it.", Unn calmly said.

The Pale King and his group proceeded to find who he sought after, a Higher Being of root. Once they found the White Lady the King said, "Would you like to become the Queen of my kingdom?" giving her a freshly picked bouquet of flowers. She, surprised, accepted the offer and the gift, and that was when the royal family of Hallownest was birthed. The original line of his followers would be high royalty, and the newer you were, the less wealthy you were.

Chapter 3: The Darkened City
It was a new day for wyrm and root. Their followers marched behind the king, who had a new foresight. He saw a deep, forgotten city made of darkness itself. A darkness to never be defeated, a darkness that never lived or died, but was always there.

He gathered his followers and took the one made of root to that solemn, but somehow darkened place. There they saw creatures who used that darkness to survive.

He took one in as a pet, for love and entertainment, but also for his own studies. He named it Zaria, for its genderless structure and how it was heartwarming, but also its creepy, mysterious way of living.

When he found that sorry city, he got his followers to gather its mysterious rock and build his own palace, a way for his followers, him, and the Queen to live away from the cavern's extraordinary dangers.

When he was near that old stone, he felt as something was draining him, taking his lifeforce. He ignored it though, as it would be gone anyway.

When the White Palace was built, he kept one of the rocks to himself for his curiosity. In his home, his plans to rule the kingdom could one day come to LIGHT.

Chapter 4: Hallowhold
The King had an election with his followers, to see who was fit for persuading bugs to join their kingdom. A young bug whose name was Varo won, a loyal servant of the Pale King, who wanted glory and power over riches. Varo gathered a group of bugs to start his journey to find bugs who wanted a Higher Mind.

After they left the Palace, the King made a name for their kingdom. A holy, sacred home for bugs, Hallownest. He also started making blueprints for their capital city, the greatest city there ever was in the whole world. He would call it Hallowhold, a holy stronghold with the greatest guards, and a city inbetween it.

He also started a training academy, for the bugs who would protect Hallowhold and its' people. The city would be divided in two, one side for his first followers, and another for the followers who would be gained after Varo's journey.

The next day, Hallowhold would start being built. The workers tried hard to build the city, and because there were so little workers, they got bored and started putting spikes on top of buildings for their amusement. After a year of hard work, Hallowhold would be finished for all of Hallownest to see.

During the duration of Hallowhold being built, the king studied Zaria, and found many surprising discoveries. He noticed that Zaria was always next to the black rock, like it was absorbing energy from it. He found out that its' species found a way to absorb the draining rock, instead of it draining them. He called that rock voidrock for its' black appearance.

He also studied a white substance called soul, which he gathered after one of his servants cut themselves and soul came out of them. He found out that soul is a substance all living things need to live. The substance from the voidrock, which he now called void, absorbed and held soul, for unknown purposes.

Zaria had very little soul, as you get get soul from eating living things. Living things could also be in water, so they don't drink water. Instead they had minimal soul so the void wouldn't absorb theirs, and absorbed the void's soul which it got from other living things to survive, which is why Zaria was always next to that rock, and why the King always felt drained near that rock.