impure_void: (do not speak)
Hollow Knight / Pure Vessel ([personal profile] impure_void) wrote in [community profile] boxfullofzeroes 2020-08-26 02:33 pm (UTC)

These are not awards, but tales of lives. Certainly some that moved into the City, becoming important parts of its function, but not all. Cursory examination tell of Moss Knights that traveled through Hallownest when it was almost new, a City guard that became a Menderbug, a failed warrior that attempted to challenge the Mantis Tribe and barely survived even making it to the outskirts of their village, a Nailsmith from a long line of Nailsmiths who uprooted his family across the kingdom for the sake of wealth...

Again, they pick up the cloth.

They cannot default to previous terms of achievement or rank. They attempt it at first--they set a Moss Knight near the start, as Knights are high-ranking, but the rest are mainly civilians. The Mosskin should be lower. Lower than the former Menderbug. No, as Menderbugs were nearly a secret, the nobles of the City did not want their existence to be known or celebrated, while Mosskin were each equally a part of Unn's dream of leaf and life--

They do not look back to the Relic Seeker for instruction.

Each would have been important to themselves and their own people, but they know not by which class or judgement these are meant to be graded.

And so they simply...stop. A Kingsmould deactivated, a figure still as their own false effigy outside, staring down at the words until they blur into incomprehensibility.


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