Dreamers

Monomon the Teacher

Lurien the Watcher

Herrah the Beast

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To protect the Vessel, the Dreamers lay sleeping.
Through their devotion, Hallownest lasts eternal.

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From left to right: Herrah, Lurien, and Monomon

The Dreamers are three beings who entered into an eternal sleep in order to use their power to seal away the Hollow Knight. The ones who became the Dreamers are Monomon the Teacher, Lurien the Watcher, and Herrah the Beast. Their seals are present on the exterior of the Black Egg located in the Temple of the Black Egg.

The Knight encounters two projections of the Dreamers. The first time is in Greenpath after picking up the Mothwing Cloak. The second time is in the Resting Grounds after inspecting the Dreamers memorial. Both times the Dreamers tell the Knight to stop trying to break their Seals. In the Resting Grounds, the Dreamers attempt to prevent the Knight from finding their resting bodies by trapping the Knight in the Dream Realm.

After finding a Dreamer's physical body, using the Dream Nail on their body sends the Knight into a Dream that contains a vulnerable form of that Dreamer. Killing this form and absorbing it using Focus breaks their respective Seal.

Dialogue

Greenpath Resting Grounds After taking the Mothwing Cloak Would it seek to break the Seals? They cannot be undone. They must be undone. Let us sleep little shadow. Return to your darkness. Allow us our peace. After inspecting the Dreamers memorial Go no further, little shadow. 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? Would the Seals break? They cannot be undone. But the Vessel weakens. That plague springs anew. They must be undone. Yet still our Seals remain. Our duty holds. It must be cast away. Our duty holds. It shall be done. Fade away, little shadow. Fade away, and let us sleep in peace.

Locations

The Dreamers are encountered as a group in Greenpath and the Resting Grounds.

Their physical bodies can be found in different locations, with Monomon's physical body being in the Teacher's Archives in Fog Canyon, Lurien's in the Watcher's Spire in the City of Tears, and Herrah's in Beast's Den in Deepnest.

Encounter in Greenpath

Encounter in the Resting Grounds

Monomon's location

Lurien's location

Herrah's location

Gallery

Dreamers encounter in Greenpath

Dreamers encounter in the Resting Grounds

The Dreamer Seals on Black Egg

Dreamers Memorial

Achievements

	Teacher
	Destroy Monomon the Teacher

	Watcher
	Destroy Lurien the Watcher

	Beast
	Destroy Herrah the Beast

Trivia

• In Team Cherry's previous game, Hungry Knight, there are three masks found on the bosses that look similar to the Dreamers', specifically Monomon's.
  • In the original concepts for the Dreamers, all three Dreamers looked identical; sharing Monomon's mask and having the body shape of Lurien. The identical masks can still be seen on the archways outside the Temple of the Black Egg, and on one of the Hollow Knight promotional posters. The identical bodies can still be found on the Hollow Knight fountain in the City of Tears.
• Cut dialogue exists for all the Dreamers which can still be found in the game files.
• A test room for the Dreamers exists in the game's files. It contains a figure that looks exactly like the original concept for the Dreamers. It cannot be interacted with in any way.
• A concept sketch of a spider-like being with an early Dreamer mask was shown in an exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

Early promotional art

Unused Dreamers test room

Sprite of the figure found in the Dreamers test room

Sketch of a creature with an early Dreamer mask

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