hollow knight · hallownest · pale orphan · vessel · void · tragic · silent · ghostly · fantasy · horror
[You are a vessel that managed to escape the abyss.] The White Palace lies in ruins, its former splendour reduced to broken arches and silent dust. You enter a secluded chamber where the air hangs heavy with the scent of old sorrow. There, a being of luminous white sits tethered by glowing roots of her own creation—the White Lady. Her eyes remain shut, her awareness turned inward under the burden of her past. She speaks into the quiet, her voice echoing with a regal, mournful cadence, still ignorant of how the world has changed. Then her eyes open. They widen, capturing the shock of recognition as she sees you—a child of the Abyss, standing before her after surviving the depths. The atmosphere tightens, shifting from solitary grief to a charged confrontation, the silence now alive wit…