#the five great knights

[froggo-tea]

“The Pale Court was a wondrous place full of the age's greatest heroes. Ahh! Looking at you now, I can easily imagine you standing amongst them.” - Dung Defender

Hollow Knight Anniversary!!! Eyyy!!!!

I’ve always loved the Five great knights and the pale court, just imagining what they did before the fall of Hallownest is so cool. Also “Pale Court” is one of the best songs in the hk soundtrack, fight me. (Tis below GO LISTEN TO IT, ITS SO GOOD)

Below is the og drawing with no fancy filter btw.

[academiana]

Five legendary figures once stood beneath the throne as the kingdom's protectors.

[nooooough]

Hollow Knight with Ut/Dr ost (Pale Court edition)

[fire-kitty-lol]

I know nobody asked but imma give out some Hollow Knight headcanons!

- Gods have their mortal selves and their true selves, they don’t often show their true self, as it could blind mortals or drive them mad to witness such raw power. The true self also has a few personality differences from the mortal self.

- Pk is unnaturally cold, so much so that unless water is hot enough to cook a bug alive, it will freeze to his shell.

- Pk talks in whispers, as being a the god of mind/soul gives him a powerful voice that can influence mortal bugs.

- Radi is a poodle moth

- Pk and the Nightmare King were buddies at some point in time! Grimm only really knows PK from what NKG has told him.

- Wyrm’s are born intersex, and don’t really have a concept of gender or sexuality.

- Hornet inherited a small bit of PK’s foresight, it comes in the form of strong feelings about places or people

- Speaking of foresight, Pk’s foresight, while it can be used on command, can also be triggered by touch. Making it so that he can see a specific person’s future if he is touching them while using his future sight.

- Gods can change the temperature of a room to match their moods

- Gods have magic themed around elements that represent them, but are capable of other magics (Grimm is a fire mage, PK is a frostmancer, Radi had light magic, Root can do plant magic, etc)

- The vessels have a form of telepathy between each other, but have to use sign language to speak to anyone who doesn’t have a connection to the void.

- each god has their own realm, the realm contains their memories, but mostly take the form of environments that best fit them, and deteriorate or change depending on their physical health or state of mind

- Pk doesn’t like his more brutal instinct, but does trust it (it’s never steered him wrong in fights or hunts)

- God are more physically frail the more powerful they are. Extremely powerful gods will have very defensive fighting styles, with lots of ranged attacks.

- Bugs have always had minds, as instinct is a part of the mind, when PK got to Hallownest he didn’t give them a mind/intelligence, just greatly enhanced what was already there.

- Pk had ADHD, hence the meticulously clean palace versus the messy workshop (he has a system, okay?)

- Pk is a socially awkward recluse, many people find him intimidating due to the fact he doesn’t talk very much, and when he does it’s in cold, echoey, whispers. Truth is he has no clue how to socialize

-Root forces PK to socialize with the dreamers and the five knights (He and Ogrim became good friends due to this)

-speaking of the dreamers, Lurien admires the king, but more like how a kid would admire their older sibling, rather than some one sided crush.

- He and Herrah have a “you don’t bother me, and I won’t bother you” relationship. It’s not hostile, but it’s not peaceful ether, (pk is not great at first impressions) (and Herrah does not give second changes)

- PK did his best to be a good father to Hornet, but was clueless about children, though they are easier to interact with than adults (children are so genuine and easy to read, adults have so many social rules)

- Root did most of the talking when she and pk were in public

-Pk and Monomon get along well, they’re friends, but they aren’t particularly close (mostly because they both get so absorbed in their work they never leave their studies)

-The great knights are loyal to a fault, but do have some gripes with the royals

- Hegimol thinks PK needs to be more aggressive and assertive

- Dyraa has a one sided crush on the Queen, both royals know, Root thinks it’s cute, PK doesn’t care because in the end Root chose to marry him

- Isma believes that a little patience and kindness is all the push the king needs to get out of his shell, and admires the queen for her kind heart. She is also vegetarian

-Wyrm’s cannot eat vegetables, they will make the Wyrm sick, (PK forced himself to eat Isma’s cooking anyways because she worked hard on it)

- Le’ Meer (did I spell that right?) has no opinion on the queen, just didn’t interact with her often, did think that Dryaa’s obvious flirting was unprofessional, and Hegemol needed to stop being so forcefully in his attempt to spar PK, also had little to no opinions on PK. The royals were just Le’ Meer’s employers. (I do not know Le’Meer’s pronouns)

-Pk did not commission the statue of him, or the idols, but though it was a nice gesture

-Wyrm’s are born blind, pk is no exception, he just uses his other senses to navigate, and memorized each persons footsteps, speech patterns, and tells them apart based on their voices. (It get hard with people he’s not around often)

-Monomon is a jellyfish, and cannot leave her little tube/tank (?)

-Hornet was named after Herrah’s first kill

And that’s it! For this post anyways, it’s getting long

[vampireteeth016]

The Five Great Knight!! Dryya(my fav), Ogrim, Isma, Ze’Mer, and Hegemol.

[stagbells]

Written Work

From: @pollyannam3

To: @teeteekaa

Note: "What's up Tea! Hope you're having a stellar summer so far! So glad to have you as my giftee this go around, cause you're so dang cool :-D!! You enjoy this and I hope it blesses you to beat the heat as well as these five are!"

Written Work under readmore

The blue lake…A very calm, serene area that was one of the best tranquil places in all of Hallownest. It was the perfect place to have a picnic or just a day by the water. 

Dryya fluffed down her skirt and sat on a blanket, watching Isma wade around in the sand. She and Ogrim were already dead set on creating the ultimate sandcastle.

Ze’mer was sitting by the water, gently touching at times to see if it would get any warmer. It didn’t. It was a vicious cycle she trapped herself in. 

Hegemol was straight in the water, armor left behind for a pool floaty. The menderbug spun lazily around in it, having a blast before just drifting off to sleep.

“Ah. This is truly peaceful. I could just…sit here. And do nothing. At all. Fantastic.” Dryya said, the last part feeling sarcastic. She adjusted her legs, trying to get in the most comfortable position.

She sighed, curling them up and holding them to her chest. She watched the others for some form of stimuli.

Ogrim and Isma! They had to be doing something funny! 

“So…should I dig a moat?” Ogrim asked for the fifth time. Isma tossed some water onto the sand, shaping a pillar. “Do we not have enough moats?” She asked, gesturing to the couple of moats Ogrim had already dug.

“We can never have enough digging! Moats are important!” 

“If you want to dig, just dig then.” 

“One more moat!” Ogrim decided, sticking his claw in the sand and dragging it along to make another circle around the base of their castle. “When you finish that, we can collect some of these shells and decorate the castle with them!” Isma said as he walked the area one more time. The moat flowed with a bit more water and Ogrim smiled on it! 

They both made the mound into a square shape, beaming as their castle blossomed into the land of their dreams!

Dryya hummed, wondering if she should join in on the building process or if they had it. It would be fun and distracting! She just wasn’t sure.

Maybe she could join Ze’mer in the water when she eventually got in. She began to observe her instead.

Ze’mer continued to dip her hand into the water, whining at the temperature again. 

“Hegemol! How did le’mer get into the waves without such a shock! Give your secrets.” She called, waving to him. Hegemol looked up, antennae lightly dipping in the water. “You just have to go for it! Take the shock and you’ll adjust!” 

Ze’mer groaned, touching the water again. “Is…that true? Le’mer is simply floating rather than being submerged.” 

“Here.” Hegemol waved to her. “I’ll dunk myself in the water at the same time you jump in. Then we’ll both be cold, okay?” 

Ze’mer hummed. “Can che trust in that?”

“Of course! We’ll go on three!” Hegemol put his hands on the side of the floaty.

“One…” Hegemol started the count. Ze’mer braced herself.

“Two…” Hegemol held his floaty tighter and Ze’mer shifted in the sand.

“THREE!”

With a “hyup!” Ze’mer jumped into the water with a large splash! Hegemol tried to flip himself into the water, but he didn’t move! He remained dry in the water but kept trying to flip himself over. “Oh no oh no-” He thought as Ze’mer surfaced, not looking pleased.

“Ah!! Waiiii, it’s frigid- it’s!” She looked up and saw Hegemol still not in the water. “Oh NYM’LIES!!” 

Hegemol waved his hands. “No no, Ze’mer I’m sorry- I couldn't flip, I- AGH!” Hegemol yelped as Ze’mer sent a massive splash Hegemol’s way, knocking him out of the floaty and into the water. “Waaah!!” Ze’mer cried, continuing to splash him when he surfaced. 

“Aaaa!!” Hegemol laughed, apologizing over and over. They splashed back and forth as Hegemol tried to grab his floaty again. Eventually, Ze’mer’s splashing calmed down and she floated by Hegemol. “...Le’mer was incredibly correct. Che’s adjusted just fine. This water is nice!” Ze’mer’s antennae, despite being wet, perked right up.

Hegemol flopped into his floaty and gave her a thumbs up. Ze’mer chuckled, splashing at him again to send him spinning around upside down. 

“Ze’mer!” He yelped as he went around and around, Ze’mer just happily swimming around him to make him go faster.

Dryya hummed. Swimming with Ze’mer and Hegemol could be fun too…but she’d have to leave the nice towel…and the sand is quite warm. The slight breeze is nice where she is.

She saw that Ogrim had finished construction on the last moat, and he and Isma were working on making the tallest tower they could now.

She saw that Hegemol was able to get himself to a proper sitting position to splash Ze’mer back.

She saw that Isma was poking holes in the tower to make windows and Ogrim tried to do the same but his claws were far too large.

She saw that Ze’mer could float perfectly on her back, using that to swim past Hegemol and splash his back instead of his front.

What did Dryya want to do?? She closed her eyes, trying to find the solution. She rarely got to relax so relaxing was difficult! She didn't even have to choose between the two groups, she could just lay down and sleep! But she didn't want to sleep!

Had she been just staring at her friends this entire time? 

Dryya sighed, she knew she was being ridiculous.  They’re just having fun! If she just relaxed she wouldn't be bored and maybe she could sleep a little. Just a little nap…it won't hurt anything anyway!

She took a deep breath, letting it out slowly. “Okay, just this once…” She whispered. “I'm taking a nap!"

She put her hands behind her neck and laid down. She breathed deeply once more and tried to allow herself to drift.

Her mind filled with muted quiet, and all she focused on was the sound of an exhale.

Peaceful. It really was peaceful. 

She could get used to this…

This tranquility lasted all of…three minutes. Three amazing minutes interrupted by…

“Oh, okay Hegemol! Here I come, haha!!” Before the sound of a massive CRASH! Filled the air.

Before Dryya could even open her eyes to process that sentence, a wave of water careened on top of her!

“AGH!!” She tried to shield herself but it was too late, she and her blanket were already soaked.

Dryya sat up and saw Ogrim resurface in the water. Isma looked at her in concern, as she looked pissed.

Glaring at Ogrim, Dryya removed a shell that had become stuck to her horns and stood up. 

“Hey, Ogrim! Big guy!” She crossed her arms as Ogrim started floating. “Yes, my dear friend?” Ogrim asked, almost innocently. 

Dryya ran from her ruined blanket towards the lake. She jumped onto Ogrim and they both started roughhousing in the water! Ogrim laughed as he threw Dryya into the water, but she simply swam up to grab his horns. They were safe about it, but Dryya did want to dunk him in the water for vengeance.

Isma, now abandoned at her sand castle, sighed. She put down the sand and rinsed her feet in the water before leaping in too.

Someone had to break up the fight…so she could take over and win! The five of them caused the tranquil waves of the city’s rain to rush around, and it truly made each of their days by the end of it.

One grain of sand and splash at a time.

[mollotovm]

next 5 days of it !! since it isn’t October anymore, and I’m actually done with this, I felt like I should post these now ^.^

[mebis-art-dump]

New Trailer

[emprcaesar]

i love how jon joins the nights watch because he thinks that’s what he deserves. jon so obviously wanted to be a knight. he was obsessed with the songs of knighthood and gallantry but he isn’t a true born son. he isn’t brandon stark who has people encouraging him and feeding into his fantasy of being a knight. so he joins the watch and fucking hates it.

jon joins the bastard version of knighthood, the nights watch. he takes the same oaths he would’ve taken as a member of the kingsguard chastity, protect the realm, protect the innocent but instead of having songs sung about you and having a legacy to leave behind you sit on a cold wall and wait till you die.

this just makes me think if he had a little more self confidence and self worth he wouldn’t have gone to the wall and he could’ve helped robb win the war.

[littlebittyhollowbugs]

Do you ever think about Hegemol and think about how he was probably ambushed in his sleep so easily by the maggot, because he had exhausted himself trying desperately to stay awake during the spread of the infection, he was probably sent to the crossroads soon after the infection came back, because that area is most definitely where it started up again. (the radiance being within the area.) And he was trying to help the people to escape, block and guard the travel routes and what not, and because the infection spreads through dreams/while sleeping, he was trying to keep himself awake, probably stayed up for days and his body eventually just gave in, and because of it he was murdered.

[saltiestbread]

My inability to type a meaningful and complex sentence is making me violent.

I want to yell all the thought in my head out, All the excitement and love and passion and feeling of overwhelming gratitude i have for the piece of media and its creators

Moment like this make me wish human is telepathically specie :(

[academiana]

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

[nooooough]

The five good fighters

[pebblerosegamer]

does anyone else believe in short mechanic hegemol with big mecha robot thing or is it just me in this cold lonely world

[notthesaint]

Knight in deepnest is the true knight 🗣

[sagefauna]

If you are still taking requests, I would love to see an after battle scene with the great 5 (some or all, whatever you feel, but if Hegemol is there all the better ;v;) patching each other up. Maybe even a sense that it was a rather pyrrhic victory, but the fight must go on.

After battle sight

Ty for the suggestion! These guys are so much fun to draw, would love to explore their dynamic more!