The pieces
🤺 Hornet
The half-wyrm, half-weaver hunter from Hollow Knight, captured and carried to a kingdom far from Hallownest. She wakes in a cage at the bottom of Pharloom and climbs. Unlike the Knight, she talks.
🏰 Pharloom
A kingdom built upward toward a Citadel of silk and song, whose pilgrims walk the long road up to be judged at the gate. Everyone you meet is on that road or has fallen off it.
👑 Grand Mother Silk
The power at the top, weaver of the kingdom’s silk and its haunting. Act 2 is the climb to her; what she is and what binding her means is the story’s hinge.
🕸️ The Weavers
Hornet’s mother’s people, whose statues teach the silk skills and whose doors only Needolin opens. Their fall is the kingdom’s history.
🕳️ The Void
The thing from under Hallownest is under Pharloom too. Act 3 is where the two games meet, and Lost Lace is where they end.
Themes, for those who like them named
- The first game was about a vessel with no will; this one is about a hunter with too much. Hornet is bound at the start and binds at the end.
- Pilgrimage and judgment: the road up is the structure of act 1, and the Last Judge is its literal gate.
- Silk as memory: the game’s currency of healing is also the kingdom’s curse, and the Everbloom is a memory you can hold.
Still to verify
Cross-checked on 17 September 2026 against the Hollow Knight Wiki and Wikipedia, kept deliberately short of the act-3 answers. What is still unverified is the only thing reading cannot settle — nobody here has played it.