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Radiance was responsible for the infection even though it was at the beggining only caused accidentally. To be honest she got quite good reason to be angry, because Pale King forced everyone including the moth tribe which worshiped her, to forget about her. Unfortunetly some bugs still had some memories of her and they have started to see the light in their dream which after some time turned them back to feral state.
She might be immortal but at the end she was swallowed by the void (darkness) from which Hollow Knight, Knight and many vessels were borned.
Also fun fact. When you see and think that Hollow Knight is screaming, you are wrong. It is a Radiance Voice. Hollow Knight (like other vessels) cant talk and doesnt have voice at all.
Long story short:
1. There was Radiance, moth tribe and bugs in feral state.
2. Pale King was borned from the Wyrm (or reincarnaite)
3. Pale King forces bugs to forget about Radiance, so he could be the only god.
4. Everyone forgets about Radiance
5. Pale King builds a great Kingdom of Hallownest, keeps good contacts with Mantis Lords, Mushroom people, but spiders rejects him. Bees seems to remain neutral.
6. Everything is going well
7. Some bugs starts to dream about light (Radiance)
8. After some time those bugs starts turning back to feral state and infection starts to spread
9. Pale King starts to experiment with void and creates Hollow Knight. Perfect vessel to seal Radiance
10. Hollow Knight with Radiance are closed in temple and doors are sealed by three great bugs who fall into eternal dream.
11. Hollow Knight fails to keep Radiance inside and she starts to spread infection again turning almost everyone into feral state.
12. Pale King with White palace dissapear.
13. After some time Knight arrives to replace Hollow Knight.
14. You defeat Radiance, infection ends and all dead vessels can go back to rest.
Thank you!
Does Hollow Knight (player's character) have agency? Does he feel and think?
The Dark Heart Crest thing said something about him being mindless, or something, I think.
What is this assumption based on?
Maybe forced is a wrong word. Convinced might be better. Free mind and will for forgeting their goddes.
The Radiance represents temptation, living solely on desire, Siegmund Freud’s concept of the id.
The Pale King represents the pursuit of knowledge and power for the sake of one’s own knowledge and power, without being bound by ethical standards. He can also be seen as a representation of self-memorialization, doing whatever he can to prolong his legacy even after death.
The void represents the unknown balance that exists between desire, the pursuit of knowledge, and morality that must be explored and discovered by the individual, carving your own personality and fate upon the shoulders of what came before.
What makes him do things?
I don't know if it was the Pale King's plan to make the citizens of Hallownest forget about the Radiance. I think it was incidental ( I tend to subscribe to the view that the Pale King was a well meaning utilitarian like Ozymandias from Watchmen ).
Note that both the Radiance and the Pale King were gods of light; they were rivals. Neither was good nor evil; the moth people were quite content to live worshipping the Radiance in unison, and the bugs did well worshipping their king and developing their individuality. Things only went south when the moths decided to worship the Pale King and the Radiance became enraged with jealousy. Of course, from that point, the Radiance was pretty outright evil, and the Pale King committed some serious evils trying to seal her away.
Also worth noting that the Pale King (and probably the Radiance, too, but I'm not sure if there's any clear evidence for it) was very much a monotheistic god; he didn't tolerate the idea that there was anything outside of his reign, in both space and time, preaching that his civilization was the first, last and only civilization, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Why did my Knight save the curvy bug fangirl?
And why did he go help the old guy in the dark centipede place?
Or go hang out with miner girl who becomes a brain dead miner person? (Visiting her to chat up with her.)
As for Myla, what kind of heartless monster wouldn't go say hi every once in a while?
And as for Zote, he's a legendary knight of great renown, a truly valuable asset to the knight's quest.
Well that's just straight up false. The Hollow Knight had feelings. It's why the Radiance was able to take over.
It's a pretty standard trope of the "mindless" creations having just as much feeling as normal people. You can see it in tonnes of media. I really don't see how the vessels can't have feelings just because the creator says they don't.
For me Void is not evil nor good it's absolutely neutral... it's nothing... (like vacuum in space for me). It's Pale King weapon against the Radiance.
Also both sides was defeated by this weapon... King in his palace (probably by his Kingsmoulds). Radince by our Knight, Hollow Knight and shades of their siblings.
Both lights were absorbed by the Void, and after that it simply dissapear... returnes to the Abyss... and did not become a new king or god. You can also see in Dreams No More ending how Siblings shades - fragments of a lingering will dissapears/hiding right after the plague was gone! They can finaly find their peace! Weapons must have a target or objective... Plague was that target!
P.s. If there are misstakes in the answer, I apologize, I'm not a native speaker.
But that's why the Hollow Knight failed wasn't it? Because it discovered feelings while being raised by the Pale King. The Knight did not fail because he remained a true "pure vessel."