This time attuned by the Godseekers, they take an all-powerful form and lash repeatedly at the Radiance's core, her Essence bursting out. However as the Radiance is cornered by the Void, the Knight's Shade fuses with it. If the Knight pushes through the Pantheon of Hallownest, they can challenge the Absolute Radiance in Godhome in a similar fight as within her dream. Unbeknownst to the Godseeker however, the Void was also lured within Godhome. With the Godseekers' attunement, she becomes the Absolute Radiance, her perfect state. The Knight can summon her by defeating the Pure Vessel. Regardless of Hallownest's recent events, the Godseeker seeks to attune the Radiance to Godhome, where her people can revere the forgotten being as their God of Gods. The Radiance's Essence bursts out as the Void consumes her and vanishes from the Temple of the Black Egg, putting an end to the Infection. The Shade of the Hollow Knight takes advantage to expose her core, to which the Knight's own Shade deals the last blows. At the end of the fight, it finally catches up with and immobilises her. The Void itself slowly creeps in her dream, seeking to ensnare and consume the Radiance. However, with the Void unified under the Knight's will, the battle takes a tragic turn for her. If the Knight enters instead the mind of their sibling with the help of Hornet, they have the possibility to challenge the Radiance herself. By defeating the Hollow Knight, the Knight is able to seal the Radiance within, taking the place of their sibling within the Black Egg. Her fate is linked to the end of the Knight's journey. After killing at least one Dreamer, or obtaining the Monarch Wings, the Infection worsens in the Forgotten Crossroads, turning it into the Infected Crossroads, and making its bugs more violent and dangerous. She infects Myla, causing her to attack the Knight, and uses Lightseeds and Infected flies to reanimate the Broken Vessel and the Watcher Knights. įrom her prison, the Radiance, heart of the Infection, plagues the dreams of bugs.

She reignited the Infection, threatening again the land of Hallownest and prompting the Knight to return. Her influence finally started to break out of the Hollow Knight. Time passed, Hallownest turned into a myth while the Radiance remained sealed. She ultimately wiped out the inhabitants of the Kingdom, whose King had vanished, but left the rest of the land untouched. Because of this, the Radiance was still able to invade the dreams of bugs. However, the Vessel had attained impurities of mind. The Radiance was sealed within them, and the Vessel was chained within the Temple of the Black Egg. The Hollow Knight was chosen, raised, and grown for that purpose. These creatures, infused with the Void to be without a mind and without a will, were to be able to withstand the Radiance's influence. The Pale King attempted to stop the Infection by sealing the Radiance within a Vessel. With the Infection, the Radiance offered unity to bugs at the cost of a mind incapable of thought. However, the King and his subjects resisted her memory, which then started to manifest as the Infection. These dreams could break the minds of bugs and eventually enslave their wills to her. Soon, all of Hallownest began to dream of her appearing to them as a blazing light. Her memory started spreading throughout the Kingdom, by then in its golden age.

In doing so, the Radiance was almost entirely forgotten, yet traces of her memory remained, such as a statue on Hallownest's Crown. Īfter the Pale King arrived in Hallownest and expanded the minds of his new subjects, the Moth Tribe turned their backs on the Radiance and worshipped him instead. The Moth Tribe is born from her light and in return revered her. The Radiance is a higher being of light similar to Essence, and as such, opposed to the Void, her ancient enemy.

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