Talk:Hollow Knight/@comment-29660464-20180115030558/@comment-33586098-20180320084730

I’m probably very late but as far as I know the pale king thought that the hollow knight was hollow, when in fact it wasn’t. so the king failed to make an entirely hollow, hence successful vessel. because the hollow knight wasn’t hollow the radiance was able to take control and start leaking infection into the surrounding area, and since making vessels was the king’s last effort to contain the radiance and it had failed, this meant the downfall of hallownest. the relevance of the birthplace cutscene is that the hollow knight looks back, which proves it isn’t hollow. it’s unclear whether the knight (player) is entirely hollow, at least to me, so I guess I’ll leave that one to the theorists.