"Return to Your Darkness" - PART 1 - Hollow Knight
22There's something rotten in the Hallownest. Let's dive in and see what destroyed this land from within.
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Hollow Knight is a Metroidvania video game developed and published by Team Cherry. At the game's outset, the player character, the Knight, arrives in Dirtmouth, a small town above Hallownest's ruins, seeking to venture within. As they journey through the forgotten kingdom, the Knight encounters the possessed remnants of Hallownest's former residents and other creatures, who are slowly being overcome by a mysterious Infection. They also encounter Hornet, the self-proclaimed protector of Hallownest's ruins, who attempts to stop the Knight's quest on multiple occasions. Through learning the history of Hallownest on their journey, the Knight discovers that they are a failed Vessel, one of many artificial beings created by the Pale King to stop the Infection by sealing it away within them. It also becomes clear that the Pale King's attempt at sealing away the infection using the Vessel known as the Hollow Knight did not work and would soon completely fail, allowing the infection to consume all the remaining inhabitants of Hallownest.
The game tells the story of a knight on a quest to uncover the secrets of the long-abandoned insect kingdom of Hallownest, whose haunting depths draw in the adventurous and brave with promises of treasures and answers to ancient mysteries.