https://scripterswar.com/silksong/map > site used for screenshots, strongly recommended

neither a professional route nor a childs toy one, just my taste of speedrun as a casual player, doing it for the sake of doing it. you still most likely finish sub 5 hours. it is last judge route because I think doing mist with early game gear is hard. not all benches are critical, I will specify when it is. use silkspear actively

guide by image number:

1: -

2: marrow arena/beastfly pogo skip (easy), get silkspear

3: bell beast fight, bellshrine 1

4: -

5: easy ant gauntlet, get swift step, take bench

6: lace fight, bellshrine 2

7: accept flexile spines wish, take bench for quit

8: collect spines, quit, (follow white line after quits)

9: fourth chorus fight, go up

10: go right, crow skip (hard) (I personally take the bench, die to crows near left side of room, use my cocoon for extra pogo), rosary string, bellshrine 3, go left take halfway home bench, gauntlet, moorwing fight

11: enter bellhart, take bench, go left, climb up (rosary string pointed), easy gauntlet, sister splinter skip (easy), get cling grip

12: widow is hard, take the bench (rosary string up), widow fight, bellshrine 4, upgrade nail, open the bellway (we will return), go very left

13: jump down (optional: take choral commandment midway), get wanderer crest, go bone bottom bellway (not shown in image), go bellhart (oppurtunity to sell choral commandment 1/2), go very left again

14: bellshrine 5 (last), take memory locket midway (shown in green) (for sawtooth circlet on wanderer creat later), take bench

15: take craftmetal midway (1/2 for sawtooth circlet + cogfly) (1/1 if you want only one), last judge fight, act 1 ended

@dillianresende, after 3 years and 3 months, finally completed Pantheon 5, finishing the challenge he started over 3 years ago by being the first person to beat the game using only the Shield Charm as their main weapon. Please show a lot of respect for this person who dedicated their life to this challenge, doing a 4-hour live stream every day trying to complete it. Much respect to this Brazilian legend.

After so long and so many tries I finally beat it

sea of marijuana 🍀

i want to know what theories people envision when they think of *Rebirth Theories\* for the Pale King.

i don't mean to blast this user in any way, as it's a very popular opinion. but i feel this community conclusion largely stands because of a *single theory*. MatPat's...

u/Fulghorskibiditoilet pk reincarnation theory has been dethroned as the worst hk theory oat

mossbag completely dismantled MatPat's theory due to MatPat cherry-picking evidence and ignoring apparent key contradictions. (perhaps just rushing a video out)

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it's actually enraging for someone like me to have this be so popular.

very rarely do i get to argue the merits of Rebirth theory, as people read *Rebirth* and immediately think MatPat's theory is clawing out of the grave, and completely dismiss it before reading.

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i've found 2 mechanical ways for it to be possible that the Pale King reincarnated, though 1 is much heavier on speculation than the other. this takes into account the Birthplace Memory.

short introductions as i have threads on the subjects already.

1. the Abyss Creature is used to replicate the Nightmare Hearts rebirth mechanic with Joni as the sacrifice. (most speculative)
2. the Kingsoul united is an awakening or partial residual of self that imprints itself into The Knight. or is used as cookie-crumbs to help PK remember there is a *Plan B* after losing most of his mind to the Void in TK.

i can link what i have written if requested, but it's a long read... the thread using the Kingsoul doesn't actually assert rebirth as much as leave it a possible option.

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i should probably give my thesis on the Birthplace Memory here, it's a big thing MatPat didn't account for.

the Birthplace Memory is a *dual memory*:

• the *Climb* is TK's memory of events. when he crawled out of Abyss.
• the moment PK takes HK out of the Abyss is the PK's memory bleeding over.

although the HK looks back, i don't believe it's at TK. TK may not exist at this moment in the past. he is looking back at his Birthplace 1 last time before he leaves. PK never even sees TK as he turns around just as he approaches.

this also explains why HK is so much larger than we are by the time we enter Hallownest.

i can go into this further when prompted, i am less trying to prove a theory here. i more want to say there's better ones out than MatPat's... and we are addressing the hard topics faithfully.

If you admit the PKs architecture is his own in the White Palace, then you're openly admitting he made these fences in the Resting Grounds in the likeness of the Radiance, and disgracing the fact that the Moth Wing flooring and walls in the Resting Grounds means absolutely nothing.

The PK Stole the architecture and designs from the Moths. I can finally prove it.

So I don't really know how to play music but that's good cause if I start with the immense talent I have I would crack Christopher larkin. I know this because I draw and am obviously using cracks so you can tell me how I do it and it sure will be done in like, 2.34 years

So I just completed my first steel soul, at like 84% and was now going for radiance, so I was completing kingsoul, and was in white palace, and I died, i was whittled down to 1 mask and then I did a stupid jump, but at no point felt in danger cause I thought, of course I'll just awaken again outside, it'll be a bummer and I'll have to start again, but I didn't know I lost my save!!!!

Worst steel soul death I've had yet, cause I never even had the dread or gut wrenching feeling of loss of progress, it just handed me the loss, I didn't imagine I would get.

:((

I'm tryna beat the lace 2nd fight, what's the best crest for her?

I've had some of my friends tell me the wanderers crest is good, but i need an opinion from a pro at the game

It might just be because i'm awful at the game, but i feel like there are some bosses that are harder than people say, specifically bosses that are meant to be on the 'easier side'.

My main problem is with the Dung Defender, i went into the fight thinking it would be extremely easy, only to take about 19 tries to actually beat him.

anyone else have this problem?

EDIT: this isn't a second playthrough, but i have returned to the game after i stopped playing it a couple years ago. i'm definitely better than i was LOL

After getting 100% on Silksong a good while back, I remembered I'd not actually done Pantheon 3 yet so thought I'd get on the case. Trouble is, I now remember. GPZ. I'm in the Hall of Gods and can beat him maybe once every six goes and there's always luck involved. Not good enough. It's now becoming a chore. I can beat everything else in the Pantheon apart from Sly who I've not actually met yet.

I beat Lost Lace, for crying out loud :) And the Path of Pain! And Sister Friede from DS3!

There's nothing fancy here. I didn't look up any guides or anything for the fight so it takes a good while. Let me know if there's something I could improve upon. Thanks ;)

So i jsut beat Failed Champion, but i think i had to stagger him at least 10 times before he died, did they change something?

I used the spell tactic where you just stand in the corner and use spells to stagger him, then dream nail and slash him on the head.

I hit his head every time.

My loadout is as follows:

Charms: Shaman Stone, Quickslash, Spell Twister and Dream Wielder

Nail: Coiled Nail

Anybody know if Team Cherry changed something, i dont remember the fight being this long.

my game crashes after 15-20 minutes of playtime

im on windows 11, steam version of hollow knight unmodded
after the game crashes it shows these poppups, ive tried to reinstall windows c++ and it did not help. I need help because im trying to do the pantheons and I can't do this if my game always crashes.

Got this ending for the first time guys, I'm going to go for the Radiance, But before that im going to get the two last charm notches. That moth is cooked.

Beast crest day!

Idk how many people had to have pressed G instead of F for this to happen. That or google swings a certain way lol

i got like one or two lore questions on my old post about my oc so i figured i'd make a post compiling his questline idea, chances are yall wont recognise me so my oc was the straw thing (little blue cloaked thing with hat and longbow)

the old post did pretty well (185 upvotes as of now hoo wee!!) so i'll try to muster up my strength to make some more art and stuff