Deepnest - Blog Posts

sometimes I wonder out of all of the tribes that do not have a higher being, only the mantises managed to not get infected.

The bees make sense why they succumbed, vespa was dead so they latched onto the next best thing. The mushrooms are a similar case.

But deepnest?

I feel deepnest also has a warrior culture and I feel that Herrah is a strong enough leader and has people who respect her enough that she could have pulled off a quarantine like the mantises- though I can see why a larger territory would become an issue

My only explanation is thar while deepnest valued strenght it also valued the arts, what with the weavers and whatnot. And with the arts and dreams being interlinked it made them rather susceptible to the infection.

What do you think?

I think that the reason why Deepnest fell is not because Herrah and her kin weren't strong enough, but because the Radiance specifically targeted them after Herrah chose to become a Dreamer. I think there's some dialogue in game hinting to it, iirc? But I could be misremembering, so don't take my word for it. Either way though, Herrah was essential to the plan that sealed away the Radiance, and so the Radiance retaliated as such. In terms of being involved in the war, they were pretty damn involved, and, well...that damned them

The mantises, on the other hand, stayed neutral during the entire fight. Sure, they might have had a treaty with Hallownest, but they were no means friendly with the residents. And given the fact that the Traitor Lord and his followers willingly took the Radiance's infection into themselves, its likely that Radi knew they were sympathetic to her cause/easy to manipulate and simply chose to bide her time so that she could maximize the amount of followers she got out of it. Better to have half of them come to her than to force compliance and lose the whole tribe

2 - SPIDERS' Nest

Day 2 of my inkless Hollow Knight Inktober. It turned out much better than I was expecting it to tbh.

and yeah, i am reposting it because i screwed up with settings in my acc.... oops

Did you know that dragonflies can live without a head? Well, maybe Vox lost his during Alastor's starvation or maybe in one of the fights... But even so, he didn't lose his brains, still trying to infect as many different inhabitants of Hallownest as possible…

But even in such deep and scary places, he already has his invisible followers, heh…

I accidentally came up with this during the course XD

Did you know that dragonflies can live without a head? Well, maybe Vox lost his during Alastor's starvation or maybe in one of the fights... But even so, he didn't lose his brains, still trying to infect as many different inhabitants of Hallownest as possible…

But even in such deep and scary places, he already has his invisible followers, heh…

I accidentally came up with this during the course XD

Team Cherry: Would you like a spider in your game?

New player: Yes.

Team Cherry: Say ‘please’.

New player: Please.

Deepnest: [appears]

New player:

AA AA A AAA A A A A A

Literally all of Hallownest: Not to be racist or anything, but spiders SUUUUUUUGHH—

Ghost, at the Forgotten Crossroads: tram work ahead? uh, yeah, i sure hope it does.

Tram: [doesn’t]

Ghost: >:^/

Hey look, it’s Sheol!

This here’s a character I’ve been working on. I’m still working on his wiki page, but basically, he’s a hunter crippled by blindness and age. To get food, he needs to rely on others — one of which being the Knight.

He’s a quest character and optional boss (which I’m working on) in Deepnest, who gives you a few little missions to go on. Kill a boss using only spells, kill 5 enemies in one slash, bring him a live NPC to eat... the stuff you’d expect.

Sheol’s based off the Goliath Birdeater, in that he’s pretty chill but also absolutely huge. @cardinailed0 did an amazing job with depicting him! Seriously, go check ‘em out, they’re both an amazing artist and person.

I’m gonna keep working on his wiki, and I’ll post it here when it’s done. If you wanna know something about him for whatever reason, my asks are always open!

A’ight, take care.

Shitty animatic thingy I've just finished at 3 am. The schematics are not good but I did enjoy making it!

I love deepnest's aesthetic and enemy design however despise visiting it in game - this is a background for a silly little thingy I'm working on!