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Death for the Deathless by Aischrologia
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games), Hollow Knight: Silksong
09 Apr 2026
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Summary
The caves echo.
They echo on the wind that pushes a caravan carrying Hornet home. This time, she is a prisoner no longer and at her side stands a group of bugs bound by love and friendship to her and each other. Together, they ride to rid free life of the Pale, to find the truth behind an ancient tragedy, and to build a kinder world for the family they've become.
They echo in Hallownest, trickling up the threads of the Great and Mortal Spider, Queen Ephibysse. There, in caves that were ruins, she weaves a new eternal civilisation in her dark and chittering visage. The kingdom, a web and in its clutches bugs find something not found in a spider’s webs before: simple peaceful lives. There is but a single cost. Abandon all creeds and faiths and heed the last true God, the Void and the death that it is cursed to never receive.
They echo on the sands between, a wind swept trail in the shape of a Wyrm, slithering up to the gate, and then vanishing all at once.
There in the echoes, may the heroes find a final hope, begged vainly by a headless god:
Cut them from us—Death for the Deathless.
(This is part two of a larger duology that starts with “A Wish Cast Vain”)
Series
- Part 2 of Corpse-Wish-Dream