Hallownest

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[[File:Screenshot HK Elderbug 01.png|thumb|right|250px|Dirtmouth's town centre]]

<ref>[[Elderbug]]: <i>"To reach Dirtmouth, most travellers take circuitous routes around the cliffs beside us. It's a hard trek now but in the kingdom's prime things were far simpler. There's an old pass in the cliffs that once allowed easy access. The bridge up to it has long since crumbled away, and even without it, a huge door bars entry."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Last Stag]]: <i>"It was a long time ago, but I remember when these highways and crossroads pulsed with life."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Whispering Root]] in the [[Forgotten Crossroads]]: <i>"...Travelling masses..."</i></ref>

<ref name="pilgrimsway">Pilgrim's Way [[Lore Tablets (Hollow Knight)|Lore Tablet]]: <i>"Travellers of Hallownest, descend through verdant wilds and fungal groves to the city at this kingdom's heart."</i></ref>

[[File:Screenshot HK Aluba 01.png|thumb|left|250px|A bench in the Queen's Gardens]]

<ref>[[Greenpath]] Lore Tablet: <i>"Though once our lands, a pale being lays claim to the caverns ahead."</i></ref>

<ref>Last Stag: <i>"It was not often used by the common bugs, being a well-guarded retreat for our late Queen."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Cornifer]]: <i>"Apparently these gardens were once her retreat... Now some vicious types are crawling all over the place and the plants have grown wild..."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Quirrel]]: <i>"Did it sadden you to see those miners below, still labouring at their endless task? Even overcome, strong purpose has been imprinted upon their husks. The crystal ore is said to contain a sort of energy, not as powerful as the soul the city dwellers harnessed but far less lethal."</i></ref>

<ref>Quirrel: <i>"I'd heard it told the Kingdom's moths did delve amongst dreams and the dead."</i></ref>

[[File:Screenshot HK City of Tears 07.png|thumb|right|250px|Fountain Square in the City of Tears]]

<ref>Quirrel: <i>"The city looks to be built into an enormous cavern, and the rain pours down from cracks in the stone above."</i></ref>

<ref>Cornifer: <i>"I'd wager these pipes and chambers were once used to carry the city's waste."</i></ref>

<ref>Cornifer: <i>"Judging by this wall, the city's folk seemed hesitant to build further into these caverns."</i></ref>

<ref name=manualking>[https://www.fangamer.com/collections/hollow-knight/products/hollow-knight-switch-ps4-pc-collectors-edition-game Official manual]: <i>"As Hallownest fell to ruin, its reclusive king abandoned his subjects and went into hiding."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Relic Seeker Lemm]]: <i>"Have you visited the remnants of his palace? [...] Must've been an impressive sight in its time. Now there's nothing left. It's a strange thing though. There are no signs of conflict around the area. It's as though the whole place just vanished."</i></ref>

<ref name=abysslore>[[Ancient Basin]] Lore Tablet: <i>"Our pure Vessel has ascended. Beyond lies only the refuse and regret of its creation. We shall enter that place no longer."</i></ref>

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[[File:King's Idol.png|right|65px]]

<ref>[[Wingmould (Hollow Knight)|Wingmould]] [[Hunter's Journal (Hollow Knight)|Hunter's Journal]] entry: <i>"The bugs of Hallownest believed that their King created this world and everything in it."</i></ref>

<ref name="lemmking">Relic Seeker Lemm: <i>"Hallownest's king was an elusive figure, deified by the citizens. With the king rarely seen,"</i></ref>

<ref>Relic Seeker Lemm: <i>"If you look closely, each of these idols is subtly different. [...] I suspect each was tailored to the owner. A personalised symbol of the king's omnipotence."</i></ref>

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[[File:Radiance statue.png|right|65px]]

<ref name="seer">[[Seer]]: <i>"The folk of my tribe were born from a light. Light similar to Essence, similar to that powerful blade, though much brighter still. They were content to bask in that light and honoured it... for a time."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Moss Prophet]]: <i>"Oooohhh radiant being, we are blessed. Your rays touch us. Your warmth fills us. Hallownest is born again, united in your blazing image."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Bardoon]]: <i>"I resist the light's allure. Union it may offer, but also a mind bereft of thought..."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Traitor Lord]] Hunter's Journal entry: <i>"Embraced the infection and turned against his sisters."</i></ref>

<ref name=violenthusk>[[Violent Husk]] Hunter's Journal entry: <i>"The bugs of Hallownest were twisted out of shape by that ancient sickness. First they fell into deep slumber, then they awoke with broken minds,"</i></ref>

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<ref>[[Greenpath]] Lore Tablet: <i>"The Green Children walked from the dream unto these lands."</i></ref>

<ref name="wanderersjournalunn">[[Hollow Knight: Wanderer's Journal|Wanderer's Journal]], p. 40.</ref>

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<ref>Quirrel: <i>"This building suggests some form of worship, though its idol has clearly been long forgotten."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Moss Knight]] Hunter's Journal entry: <i>"Protector of the Greenpath"</i></ref>

<ref>Greenpath Lore Tablet: <i>"Here we now shall wait, patient, for the call to return."</i></ref>

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[[File:Screenshot HK Abyss 07.png|right|thumb|250px|Void basin in the Abyss]]

<ref>{{HK CP Icon Mini|Godmaster}} [[Void Idol]] Hunter's Journal entry: <i>"Inspired or mad, those ancient bugs. They devoted their worship to no lord, or power, or strength, but to the very darkness itself."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Shade Cloak]] description: <i>"Cloak formed from the substance of the Abyss."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Radiance]] [[Dream Nail]] dialogue: <i>"...ANCIENT ENEMY..."</i></ref>

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<ref>Wanderer's Journal, p. 44.</ref>

<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/6rvds8/we_are_team_cherry_the_developers_of_hollow/dl841l4/ Reddit AMA comment] on the Mantises and the spider tribe.</ref>

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[[File:Screenshot HK The Pale King 01.png|right|thumb|250px|The Pale King's former body]]

<ref>Wanderer's Journal, p. 111.</ref>

<ref>Bardoon: <i>"This ashen place is grave of Wyrm. Once told, it came to die. But what is death for that ancient being? More transformation methinks. This failed kingdom is product of the being spawned from that event."</i></ref>

<ref>{{HK CP Icon Mini|Godmaster}} [[The Godseeker]]: <i>"God-king, you reduced your form to match Our meagre shells..."</i></ref>

<ref>Last Stag: <i>"I've heard he was a glorious bug to behold, bright and radiant in visage,"</i></ref>

<ref>[[Eternal Emilitia]]: <i>"Though even [the Delicate Flower's] pure aura is no match for the light of our dear King."</i></ref>

<ref name="wplore">[[White Palace]] Lore Tablet: <i>"No blazing kin. Only one light shall shine against the dark. The Wyrm becomes beacon, minds expanded, to yield, to devote. Eternity in promise and charge in progeny cursed."</i></ref>

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<ref>[[Kingsoul]] description: <i>"Holy charm symbolising a union between higher beings."</i></ref>

<ref>Seer: <i>"But another light appeared in our world... A wyrm that took the form of a king. How fickle my ancestors must have been. They forsook the light that spawned them. Turned their backs to it... Forgot it even."</i></ref>

<ref>Greenpath Lore Tablet: <i>"Those who stray from the White King's roads shall face the law of Unn."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Fungal Wastes]] Lore Tablet: <i>"Warily shall we accept the will of the Wyrm. Its prescience shields us. Fate and Future we shall entwine."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Mantis Lords]] Hunter's Journal entry: <i>"The Mantis tribe and the bugs of old Hallownest had no love for each other."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Mantis Village]] Lore Tablet: <i>"The truce remains. Our vigil holds. The beasts are kept at bay."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Hive Queen Vespa]]: <i>"Though this hive exists within Hallownest, we play no part in its attempt at perpetuation."</i></ref>

<ref>Quirrel: <i>"Supposedly, there's a village deep in the warren. Its inhabitants never accepted Hallownest's King."</i></ref>

[[File:Screenshot HK White Palace 01.png|left|thumb|250px|White Palace]]

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<ref>Wanderer's Journal, p. 6.</ref>

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<ref>[[Watcher's Spire]] Lore Tablet: <i>"Though my gaze shall no longer fall upon this city, I will act forever in its protection."</i></ref>

<ref>Official manual: <i>"Five legendary figures once stood beneath the throne as the kingdom's protectors."</i></ref>

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<ref name="seerrad">Seer: <i>"And so this kingdom was born from that betrayal. But the memories of that ancient light still lingered, hush whispers of faith... Until all of Hallownest began to dream of that forgotten light."</i></ref>

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<ref>Moss Prophet: <i>"To stifle that light is to suppress nature. Nature suppressed distorts, plagues us."</i></ref>

[[File:Pale King Abyss.png|thumb|right|250px|The Pale King taking the Hollow Knight out of the Abyss]]

<ref name="pkabyss">[[Pale King]]: <i>"No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering. Born of God and Void. You shall seal the blinding light that plagues their dreams. You are the Vessel. You are the Hollow Knight."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Furious Vengefly]] Hunter's Journal entry: <i>"The infection that passes from creature to creature grants strength and courage, but it also seems to enslave the will."</i></ref>

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<ref>White Lady: <i>"Success then for the scarlet heart, and irony, to use my spawn to grow its own."</i></ref>

<ref>Pale King: <i>"...Soul of Wyrm. Soul of Root. Heart of Void..."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Hornet (Hollow Knight)|Hornet]]: <i>"Ghost. I see you've faced the place of your birth, and now drape yourself in the substance of its shadow."</i></ref>

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<ref>{{HK CP Icon Mini|Godmaster}} [[Pure Vessel]] Hunter's Journal entry: <i>"Chosen vessel, raised and trained to prime form."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Watcher's Spire]] Lore Tablet: <i>"Sleep beckons eternal and these words become my last. Though my gaze shall no longer fall upon this city, I will act forever in its protection. For King, for bug, for Hallownest, I head now to my rest."</i></ref>

<ref name=rglore>[[Resting Grounds]] Lore Tablet: <i>"To protect the Vessel, the Dreamers lay sleeping."</i></ref>

<ref>Deepnest [[Whispering Root]]: <i>"...Sleeping Queen..."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Midwife]]: <i>"Hers is a tale of tragic exchange. Cost her and her people greatly, though I suspect she bore no regret in making it."</i></ref>

<ref>White Lady: <i>"It faced the Gendered Child? She's a fierce foe, strong in mind and body, striking reflection of her mother, though the two were permitted little time together. I never begrudged the Wyrm's dalliance as bargain. In fact, I feel some affection for the creature birthed."</i></ref>

<ref>Hornet after Herrah is killed: <i>"We do not choose our mothers, or the circumstance into which we are born."</i></ref>

[[File:Screenshot HK Dreamers 08.png|thumb|left|250px|Memorial to the Dreamers in the Resting Grounds]]

<ref>[[The Hollow Knight]] Hunter's Journal entry: <i>"Fully grown Vessel, carrying the plague's heart within its body."</i></ref>

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<ref>White Lady: <i>"Its supposed strength was ill-judged. It was tarnished by an idea instilled."</i></ref>

<ref>[[Royal Retainer]] corpses around Ancient Basin and the [[Royal Waterways]] Dream Nail dialogue: <i>"...Missing monarch, we need you now..." "...Return to us..." "...the madness spreads..."</i></ref>

[[File:Prologue.png|right|thumb|250px|The Hollow Knight in the opening cutscene]]

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<ref>Relic Seeker Lemm: <i>"Have you visited the remnants of his palace? It's down below this city, in the bedrock of the kingdom. Must've been an impressive sight in its time. Now there's nothing left. It's a strange thing though. There are no signs of conflict around the area. It's as though the whole place just vanished."</i></ref>

<ref>Wanderer's Journal, p. 124.</ref>

<ref>Quirrel: <i>"The sickness in the air that clouds the mind of lesser beasts... they resist it."</i></ref>

<ref>[https://youtu.be/6M8UjgOjMlA Prologue cutscene]</ref>

<ref>[[Dreamers]]: <i>"What compels its climb out of the darkness? What compels its return to this sacred kingdom? A call from beyond the Seals? By the Vessel, or by that captive light?"</i></ref>

<ref>Quirrel: <i>"This dead world has sprung to life. The creatures are riled up and the earth rumbles. The air is thick. I wonder what could have brought it all about?"</i></ref>

<ref>[[Wandering Husk]] Hunter's Journal entry: <i>"The remains of a bug, animated by a strange force. Wanders the roads where it once lived. These "civilised" bugs of Hallownest were weak in life and now they are equally weak in death."</i></ref>

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<i>In wilds beyond they speak your name with reverence and regret,

For none could tame our savage souls yet you the challenge met,

Under palest watch, you taught, we changed, base instincts were redeemed,

A world you gave to bug and beast as they had never dreamed.

- From 'Elegy for Hallownest' by Monomon the Teacher</i>
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{{Gallery
|Title = Gallery
|Image1 = Map Artwork.jpg!The map of Hallownest
|Image2 = Screenshot HK Abyss 03.png!The floor of the Abyss
|Image3 = Screenshot HK Ancient Basin 03.png!Central area in Ancient Basin
|Image4 = Screenshot_HK_City_of_Tears_01.png!Lower area of the City of Tears
|Image5 = Screenshot HK Crystal Peak 02.png!Conveyor belt in Crystal Peak moving crystals
|Image6 = Screenshot HK Deepnest 02.png!Worm pit in Deepnest
|Image7 = Screenshot HK Dirtmouth 01.png!Dirtmouth well leading to the Crossroads
|Image8 = Screenshot HK Fog Canyon 01.png!Descending down Fog Canyon
|Image9 = Screenshot HK Forgotten Crossroads 03.png!Abandoned village in the Forgotten Crossroads
|Image10 = Screenshot HK Fungal Wastes 01.png!Mushrooms in Fungal Wastes
|Image11 = Screenshot HK Greenpath 01.png!Greenpath bench
|Image12 = Screenshot HK Hive 03.png!Main room in the Hive
|Image13 = Screenshot HK Howling Cliffs 03.png!Western dunes of the Howling Cliffs
|Image14 = Screenshot HK Kingdom's Edge 02.png!Hallownest marker in Kingdom's Edge
|Image15 = Screenshot HK Queen's Gardens 06.png!Queen's Gardens area near the Stag Station
|Image16 = Resting Grounds After Dream Nail.png!Resting Grounds graves
|Image17 = Screenshot HK Royal Waterways 02.png!Waterfalls in the Royal Waterways
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<ref>[[Choral Commandment]] found in [[Bone Bottom]]: <i>"Full Chamber to the kingdom of the White Wyrm. Claim the Weaver, in half part. Last of their line. Sensed strong with Silk. Resistance anticipated. Quell with rune cage." </i></ref>

{{Localisation
|DEname = Heilandsnest
|DEmeaning = Saviour's Nest
|ESname = Hallownest
|ESmeaning = —
|FRname = Hallownest
|FRmeaning = —
|ITname = Nidosacro
|ITmeaning = Sacred Nest
|JAname = ハロウネスト
|JAromanised = Harounesuto
|JAkatakana = foreign
|JAmeaning = Hallownest
|KOname = 신성둥지
|KOromanised = Sinseongdungji
|KOmeaning = Sacred Nest
|PTname = Hallownest
|PTmeaning = —
|RUname = Халлоунеста
|RUromanised = Xallounest
|RUmeaning = Hallownest
|ZHname = 圣巢
|ZHromanised = Shèngcháo
|ZHmeaning = Sacred Nest
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