#mighty hegemol

[vulturereyy]

Do you accept?

#hollow knight #hollow knight meme #mighty hegemol #hk hegemol #my art #lets take ibuprofen together #mallowdraws

[linterteatime]

more hollow knight gijinka's hooray(? ඞා

#hollow knight #gijinka #humanization #unn #watcher knights #watcher knight #failed champion #mighty hegemol #cristal guardian #false knight #fanart #my art #I think unn might be the first gijinka i have given normal “eyes”...well i guess it fits her maybe #she is a bit different from the other bugs on hallownest so she can stand out me thinks

[mysterious-v4nus]

the pure vessel training with the 5 great knights

another friend on discord asked me to do this

#my art #hk #hollow knight #the hollow knight #pure vessel #5 great knights #mighty hegemol #mysterious ze'mer #kind isma #fierce dryya #white defender #ogrim

[mebis-art-dump]

From the pale court team:

Pale Court Update!

Hi Everyone,

We're here to talk about the development of Pale Court a bit and share our thoughts as we move into the new year.

First, we hope everyone has had an outstanding holiday season, filled with games, gifts, and gratifying victories in the world of Hollow Knight and beyond. The team has been enjoying the holidays and is now coming out of a break period and are back to work on the mod, particularly finishing up Isma, squashing pesky bugs, adding some VFX, and then transitioning to other bosses. It’s been a wild ride, and we’ve still got a lot to do, and we’re eager to get back into the swing of things and start grinding away again.

We would like to remind everyone that the mod is a passion project and, while we would like to get this into the hands of everyone, we do all have school and jobs to attend to. Rest assured we are hard at work and are putting our all into every detail that goes into the mod. As an example, we've had a Zemer attack that's been in for a couple years now but has gone through many different iterations and we just never landed on something that seemed right, whether it be the pattern or fairness to the player, or difficulty of the move. In these cases we'll shelf the move for a bit and move on to other things while we keep it in the back of our mind, but not forgotten.

Moving forward we want to reiterate that we're committed to putting this out and it's still an ongoing project. From attack design, animations, VFX, and character VO, we want to make sure we’re doing everything to the best of our ability for the player in mind. Additionally, the more the team has grown, the more we've had to build our workflow pipeline for playtests to directly give feedback in a concise manner to the software devs. We wanna thank everyone for sticking with us, so we’ve included a profile and little dev tidbit for the bosses, continue reading below, and we hope you all have a great day… Let’s share some bosses!

Isma

Isma is a pretty cool character. When we meet her, she has no visible weapons, so we had to conjure up something completely from scratch. The obvious approach here would be to play off the plant theme and have plant-like attacks, and while this sets the identity of the character, it doesn’t set the identity of the fight itself. We ended up taking some inspiration from everyone’s favorite boss, The Collector. We wanted to look at the boss and see what the strengths and weaknesses were, and how to improve on it. We can see the boss itself tries to spawn mobs and overwhelm the player, but felt it doesn’t accomplish the goal of choking the player of comfortability and maneuverability, and we want to change that. We feel like we landed on a really good direction on that pretty early in development and from then on it’s been tuning and tuning and tuning. We feel through this process we’ve taken what can be an annoying, monotonous experience and turned it into a very interesting battle with spatial awareness, where you are forced to juggle many different aspects of a fight, or get choked out slowly in the battle. This boss has quickly risen the ranks and become a favorite among the playtesters, and we hope that you guys can enjoy it as much as we did!

Zemer

Have you ever wondered how Zemer would wield such a HUGE nail and be as elegant as she is? This is what we wanted to do, and man did it quickly become a problem! Originally Zemer was her “normal size” and her base attacks took up half of the entire playfield. The quickest and easiest approach here was just to shrink her size, so we did, and this opened us up to a lot of fun things. With a smaller size this let us up her mobility through movement options. We also kept the idea of her having this huge nail as well, and in playtests, she felt more like a zoner but with a more physical approach, we expanded on it… a lot! She ended up being SO fun in development that we kept thinking up more and more moves for her, and she has probably the most moves of any boss fight in the game. When we started putting up the final touches on her moves we found playtesters were having a very tough time getting ahold of her, but when they did it felt very rewarding and enjoyable. She is a complete menace and we expect it to be the hardest boss and give people a lot of trouble, with a huge sense of satisfaction for those that put in the time and effort to master the fight.

Hegemol

Your favorite thicc boi is back and better than ever - Hegemol has been a very interesting experience for us so far. Failed Champion / False Knight do a great job at physically restricting space, while we touched up about space restriction in Isma, you can think of her as an upward trend, the more time you don’t deal with her, the more choked you feel. Hegemol is the constant on the chart, his size will remain an ever present force in your face, and you’re going to have to deal with it the hard way. It was a challenge to really dial in what we wanted to do with Hegemo and, we can see why TC originally took a more basic approach in fear of not overwhelming the player with this monstrous body constantly trying to be on top of you, feeling like a wall closing in. We feel like we’re in a great direction now, and we want to capitalize on this feeling of dealing with an immovable object, as well as being an unstoppable force, while remaining a completely fair fight. We’re still early in development with Hegemol, but he’s already going to be an interesting case of seeing how players figure out how to cope with the constant pressure.

Dryya

We’ve had some great fights in Hallownest, and our favorite flavor of fights are sword duels. Hollow Knight has a lot of them, but almost all have some special flavor thrown in there, and we don’t really have something with a more “vanilla” flavor to it. We lacked a fight in the mod that had a very methodical flow to it, almost like a lightsaber duel, or a waterbender with choreographed motions. Enter Dryya, she is our lovechild to a classic sword fight that we think Hollow Knight really needed. She’s fast, smooth, and brutal! Being a grounded sword wielder, she wants to constantly be up in your face and on the offensive. On the surface this seems pretty straightforward, but in reality we did have some problems where the knight could dash away or through her and it’s been fun to see how we are getting around that player behavior. We want Dryya to continuously try to engage with the player, and that means minimal time between attacks - she doesn’t want you to have any breathing time. If you’re willing to tango, you’ll enter a flow state and feel like you’re really having an authentic duel. We hope a more classical fight will have people coming around a lot for an engaging experience.

#hollow knight #modding #hk pale court #pale court #hollow knight pale court #five great knights #hk dryya #hollow knight dryya #fierce dryya #dryya #hegemol #mighty hegemol #hk Hegemol #hollow knight hegemol #isma #hk isma #kind isma #hollow knight isma #ze'mer #mysterious zemer #mysterious ze'mer #zemer #grey mourner

[candor-creator]

you want a revelation you want to get right but it's a conversation i just can't have tonight

#bee draws #hollow knight #hk #pale court mod #hk hegemol #mighty hegemol #pure vessel #hk pure vessel #hk pv #lyrics are No Light No Light by florence + the machine #same as the isma piece - only started working on this after i beat him #you can tell from the dates that this took MUCH longer to draw though #hollow knight art

[boyyardee]

shout out to men

#hk hegemol #mighty hegemol #lurien the watcher #hk lurien #hollow knight #lurimol

[academiana]

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

#hollow knight fanart #the five great knights #mysterious ze'mer #fierce dryya #Loyal Ogrim #kindly isma #mighty hegemol #the grey mourner #dung defender #myart

[dynamighttt]

Hegemol, one of The Five Great Knights of Hallownest. This one looks good.

#paint #painting #hk #hk fanart #hollow knight #hollow knight fanart #mighty hegemol #hk hegemol

[aridis]

#hollow knight #hk hegemol #hk lurien #hk the watcher #mighty hegemol #hk human #hk gijinka #i like these two #for someone using a crane lurien is awfully quiet #lurimol #(?) #maybe #who knows

[nooooough]

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

#this was fun #hollow knight #undertale #deltarune #ost #pale court #the five great knights #kindly isma #fierce dryya #mighty hegemol #mysterious ze’mer #hk tiso #parkour #i hate parkour #crossover #edit #mod

[tonythr]

Here's some frames from an animatic/PMV project that I'm working on. They literally have a duration of only half a second but I decided to make them into full-fledged fanarts for some reason, so I just wanted to give them a little more appreciation. I'm actually kinda proud of how Isma and everything that comes after her turned out!

#hollow knight #pale king #white lady #mighty hegemol #fierce dryya #mysterious ze'mer #kindly isma #white defender #the radiance #kingsmould #soul master #lurien the watcher #monomon the teacher #herrah the beast #hornet #pure vessel #the hollow knight #hollow knight fanart

[vulturereyy]

"I recall reading once, about the grand courtship dances of the Damselflies. You must imagine how my heart soared upon seeing Lord Lurien himself, finally granted the chance to perform one…"

—Diary of Aedmond the Butler

#hollow knight #lurimol #happy lurimol day :) #lurien the butler #mighty hegemol #hk lurien #hk hegemol #hollow knight fanart #mallowdraws

[basilbellona]

Where Chivalry Goes to Die fanart of The Beast receiving the praise it deserves

( @vulturereyy 's work, it's really good, go give it a read!)

#vulturereyy #hk fanfic #hk fanfiction #hegemol #mighty hegemol #hk hegemol #hk #hollow knight hegemol #bretta #hk bretta #hollow knight bretta #hollow knight #my art #sketch #pencil #traditional art

[glitchylaptop]

Sometimes my mind expands so much that I think that

Am I just the only one who thinks that The Five Great Knights and The Ancient Five should meet each other?

#like maybe white lily and isma can be friends! #or maybe white lily could also be friends with ze'mer #maybe even hollyberry and ogrim can be friends! #i have many ideas that maybe one day i will share #hollow knight #hk #fierce dryya #dryya #ogrim #dung defender #white defender #isma #hegemol #mighty hegemol #ze'mer #grey mourner #pale court #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #crk #white lily cookie #dark cacao cookie #pure vanilla cookie #hollyberry cookie #golden cheese cookie #glitchy talks

[mebis-art-dump]

2 days until release

#hollow knight #hk pale court #mighty hegemol #hk mod #mebi's art #Youtube

[miscmangos-wonderland]

ik people like menderbug hegemol theory/headcanon, but have you all considered:

lurien's butler hegemol. thematic significance. hegemol and lurien can be implied to be working together in some capacity, such as the statue by the city gates and hegemol having the key, hegemol just. disappearing after his armor was stolen.

it would also account for the soft voice thing since the butler is a cowardly husk whomst is v smol, and politeness is grilled into butlers.

i also think it would be incredibly funny but also incredibly sad since he waited at lurien's side even as infection overtook his mind.

also, it would make sense for lurien to have a highly trained fighter to guard him at all times, and for that highly trained fighter to be lauded by the king for protecting an important figure

anyway this was me rambling a random theory that doesnt have very good legs, lmk all your thoughts

#hollow knight #lurien the watcher #lurien's butler #hk hegemol #mighty hegemol #hk theory #kinda crack theory #butler hegemol