Trivia (Hollow Knight)

Backer-Designed Content
Some pledge tiers in the Kickstarter campaign included the ability to design NPCs, bosses, dungeons and even a whole village.

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Fans voicing characters
In addition to the ability to design NPCs for the game, backers were also given the opportunity to provide voices for their characters:

''The characters in Hollow Knight will speak in little snippets of an insecty, gibberish language that accompanies text boxes. Some examples can be found here.''

Stretch Goal Quests
One of the stretch goals at $44,000 was the addition of four new quests to the game:



Blundering Oberlisk
''This placid herbivore doesn't seem to wish harm on any of the creatures it shares a habitat with. However, its careless nature and bulky weight sometimes leads to messy accidents.''

White Knight Duel
"One of Hallownest's five greatest Knights and defender of the Queen’s Glade. She was driven mad by her Queen lost and the garden overrun. Still she retains her honour, offering fair challenge to the Hollow Knight: Nail against nail. A duel to the death. "

Unfortunately, the duel did not make it into the game, but the corpse of the White Knight can be found in front of the hiding place of the White Lady. This is most likely the Great Knight Drya.

Tyrant's Fist
(Possibly an earlier version of Desolate Dive)

This ancient, royal magic allows you to focus energy into your fist and slam it down into the ground, releasing a shockwave that blows away foes and can even rupture the earth you stand on!



The Forest of Bones
(Possibly what ended up being Ancient Basin)

"The Bone Forest is further into the game than other areas we've shown so we don't want to spoil too much! But we will say it's a gigantic area of the game, with plenty of routes you can take through it and hidden secrets you can find if you brave the heat and the strange creatures who clad themselves in the bones of dead giants."



Dream Diving
By the looks of it, originally the Dream Nail was able to open up the dreams of NPCs and allow the player to enter their dreams:

"During your quest through Hallownest, you'll find an ancient, bizarre artefact called the Dream Nail. Using the Dream Nail, you can slice through the conscious layer of a being's mind and access the "Dream Well," a deep space containing a bug's hopes, fears and secrets. Terrible nightmares and unique challenges will test you as you search for the core of the dream, but persevere and you'll uncover startling revelations and claim precious treasures that can't be found anywhere else.

''Dreams will fit the personality of each character and may even reveal some surprising secrets they have hidden away. These dreams will often involve unique twists on the Hollow Knight gameplay, such as challenging you to escape a horde of invincible flying nightmares or defeat a group of creatures without your nail. The Dream Nail is a mysterious weapon with hidden uses, and inquisitive players will find dreams hidden in the strangest of places."''

Unending Greed (Glass)
''Causes much more Geo to drop from enemies, but will break if you’re defeated while it’s equipped! Be careful and don’t let your greed blind you to the dangers ahead.''

This charm was part of the first reveal of the Charm system in an early update on the developer's website:

Increases Geo drop from enemies but breaks upon death. Possibly an early version of Fragile Greed.

Vengeful Swarm
When taking damage, spawn angry hatchlings that attack nearby enemies.

This charm was part of the first reveal of the Charm system in an early update on the developer's website:

When taking damage, spawn angry hatchlings that attack nearby enemies. Possibly a very early version of Thorns of Agony.

Unnamed Charms


In the reveal of the charms system, an image showing various charms was posted on the developer's website. Some of these charms made it into the game, while a few others didn't, and have so far been left unnamed. Vengeful Swarm and Unending Greed (glass) are also shown.

Second row, leftmost charm: While this charm doesn't appear to resemble any named charms, its design is somewhat reminiscent of a spider, implying that it might've been meant to be obtained in the Deepnest.

Second row, second charm from the right: Possibly an early version of one of Lifeblood Heart/Core, or possibly Joni's Blessing.

Third row, second charm from the left: Possibly an early version of Fragile Heart.

Third row, third charm from the left: While this charm doesn't appear to resemble any named charms, the gold and purple color scheme gives off a regal vibe. This might imply that it had some connection with the White Palace, or, although this seems like a stretch, it was a very early version of the charm that eventually became Kingsoul.

Third row, rightmost charm: The design and color are somewhat reminiscent of Shaman Stone, only without the hole, although this may be a bit of a stretch. At the very least, the swirl patterns are somewhat similar.