What Is the Shade Lord? - Hollow Knight Lore

The line "void given focus" always stuck out to me as peculiar. Your interpretation brings much needed clarity to this. Thank you!

Everyone always believed that the Shade Lord sought to consume or destroy Hallownest, after escaping godhome. But I always thought that it would just return to the abyss like the Void did in the dream no more ending. If that is the case, then the last ending(s) is/are no longer a cliffhanger. But I could be wrong of course.

Good Video but one Thing: I think the Hollow Knights Shade isnt part of the Shade Lord because in this ending the Hollow Knight does survive and as WE know a vessels Shade only appears when their Shell breaks but then again we don't even know if the radiance in the pantheon is somehow still Part of the Hollow Knights dream prison or not so who knows.

Team Cherry said godseeker mode comes after the embrace the void ending. This is further shown by Godseeker's dialogue in that mode. They didn't say which variant. The shade lord is not made out of the Hollow Knight's shade as it comes out of the black egg temple in the embrace the void endings.

I never considered the Void would simply like to leave because it dislikes Dreams, neat

I believe I have said this before on a previous video that you have made, but the Shade Lord always struck me as the Void taking on a more physical form. We have seen that the Void has shown its own sentience, so it would make sense for the Shade Lord to be a form the Void takes to move around once the Knight reaches the summit of the Pantheon. As for what the Shade Lord does after it breaks out into Hallownest. I believe it would more than likely try to consume all light and life before returning to the abyss. We have seen that the void has wanted to break out of the abyss with how void tendrils attach to a King's guard outside the palace. Perhaps the Void's inherent darkness causes it to want to destroy light and life by instinct.

What I believe is that the Shade Lord would've probably done the same thing Radiance did to Hallownest. It would basically become its new ruler and consume Hallownest in darkness like Radiance consumed it in light and dreams. That is at least how I view it.

wow another great video

I feel like since the Grey Mourner is not from Hallownest it could be that the Grey Mourner is from the 'Lands Serene' a place outside of Hallownest and it could be that is also where Delicate Flower originated so if the 'Lands Serene' is powerful enough to like destroy or move the void then the place could be white but if the Shade Lord did consume Hallownest in the Embrace the Void Ending then if you give the Delicate Flower to Nailmaster Oro and Elderbug then i'm pretty sure they are teleported to the 'Lands Serene' but if the Delicate version of the Embrace the Void then i'm pretty sure that the Shade Lord got transported and who knows what happened to the 'Lands Serene' this is just a theory

This is super interesting, I’ve never looked at it this way!

Great analysis!

hey i'm early :D i'm sure it's a good video