(SPOILERS) so that true ending, what was that?

[Athenex]

So mini hollow knigth died or becomed one with the void and no happy ending? this makes me sad

[Desticler]

He had one goal. He, among with his entire kin, were created just to get rid of Radiance.
Considering she (Radiance) literally dies, what would The Knight do after this if he was alive? I have no idea and it doesn't really matter.
But I do think he became one with void. He literally had a charm which gave him control of the void so it'd make sense for him to become one with it.

[Athenex]

Originally posted by Desticler:

He had one goal. He, among with his entire kin, were created just to get rid of Radiance.
Considering she (Radiance) literally dies, what would The Knight do after this if he was alive? I have no idea and it doesn't really matter.
But I do think he became one with void. He literally had a charm which gave him control of the void so it'd make sense for him to become one with it.

It would be cool if somehow he becomes king of the void and the shadow things start thinking like normal and start making a kingdom. but I dont think it would be possible

[The Judas Goat]

So basically:

In the Hollow Knight, the Radiance wins, because the Knight is a flawed vessel.

In Sealed Siblings, either the Pale King wins, or the Radiance wins. It depends on if you think the void heart charm makes the Knight a perfect vessel. I don't, because of what happens in Dream No More (see below). I think this ending is a hard win for the Radiance - even better than the first ending for it, because now, the Black Egg can never, ever be opened, which means that the only point in reality that it can be attacked from is an impregnable fortress.

In Dream no More, the Pale King wins. If you think the radiance dies in this ending, watch closely - it never explodes, it just gets dragged into the Void. The Void, being a mindless primoridal force of emptiness, is, in fact, the only thing that can actually seal the Radiance forever. And, actually, the Pale King was killing two birds here.

In the Godmaster endings, both the Pale King and the Radiance lose. They lose, because of what happened in the history of Hallownest. Once, there was a Kingdom that worshipped the Void. The radiance destroyed them - her dream-nail dialogue is evidence. Once they were gone, to make sure they'd never come back, she turned their people into mere animals, and then made a tribe of followers - the moths. The Pale King didn't like that, for whatever reason. It's not because he sympathised with the Void Kingdom - his goal is to use the Void, not to be used by it.

This is probably why the Godseeker got imprisoned. This is also probably why the Pale King made a point of murdering the ♥♥♥♥♥ out of any impure Vessel instead of just letting them be a citizen of the Kingdom - because sapient Void in the wrong circumstances could wake of a force that was no better than the light he sought to contain.

The Knight is his fears realised - in Embrace the Void, it, with the help of the Godseeker, finds the hidden scraps of Divinity that the Radiance's light couldn't blot away, and ascends there. Light will no longer hunt the dreams of bugs - shadow will. And to its will shall Hallownest be enslaved.

[Desticler]

Originally posted by The Judas Goat:

If you think the radiance dies in this ending, watch closely - it never explodes, it just gets dragged into the Void. The Void, being a mindless primoridal force of emptiness, is, in fact, the only thing that can actually seal the Radiance forever.

Well... I just used to think that Void killed the Radiance immidiately when she was completely inside it. I always thought of Void as a power that can just destroy manner like a nuclear bomb's explosion. But this actually sounds believable.