The Pale King

Character from Hollow Knight by Team Cherry

The god who built a civilization for bugs, fathered hundreds of children to use as containers, and loved exactly one of them — which destroyed everything.

Also known as: The Wyrm, White King, Kinglight, The King

What They Know

• Founded Hallownest and gave bugs sapience — replaced the Radiance's dream-unity with individual consciousness
• Created the Vessel program: children born of his union with the White Lady, filled with Void in the Abyss, designed to seal the Radiance
• Possessed foresight — could see possible futures, which is how he knew the Radiance was the threat
• Built the kingdom's infrastructure: Stagways, Trams, the City of Tears, the White Palace, the Kingsmoulds (Void constructs)
• His original form was an enormous pale Wyrm — shed his shell in Kingdom's Edge to take a smaller, regal form
• His love for the Hollow Knight — a single parental gesture — was the crack that allowed the Infection to breach the seal

Connections

• married_to — white_lady
• parent_of — hollow_knight
• parent_of — knight
• parent_of — hornet
• bargained_with — herrah
• opposes — radiance
• built — city_of_tears
• sealed — abyss

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