| First encounter at the door | Bzzt! Who's bothering me now?! Leave the great Yarnaby in peace! Shoo shoo! |
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| Exhausted dialogue | Shoo I say! Unless you've brought a worthy specimen, with something truly nasty inside them, bzzt! Otherwise, leave the great Yarnaby in peace! |
| Speaking while being infested with Muckmaggots | Shoo I say! Unless you've brought a worthy specimen, with something truly nasty inside them, bzzt! Otherwise, leave the great Yarnaby in peace!
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| Exhausted dialogue while being infested with Muckmaggots | Shoo I say! Unless you've brought a worthy specimen, with something truly nasty inside them, bzzt! Otherwise, leave the great Yarnaby in peace! Go and rest! Bzzt! Free yourself of your trifling ailment and leave me in peace! The great Yarnaby has no time for petty maladies! |
| Speaking while plasmified |  Madam, my shell has been overcome by a foreign force. Plasmium, it has been called in your land.
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| Exhausted dialogue while plasmified | Bzzt! Leave me in peace! The great Yarnaby treats the sick! Not those that benefit from their afflictions. Enjoy its advantage and leave me in peace!
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| After becoming Cursed | Shoo I say! Unless you've brought a worthy specimen, with something truly nasty inside them, bzzt! Otherwise, leave the great Yarnaby in peace!
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| Speaking after completing Infestation Operation | Halfwits, the lot of them! Such great achievement, wrought by Yarnaby! A bug healed full by my marvellous machine! A few weaklings expire, and they all raise their claws. Is there no place for progress in their tiny minds?! |
| Speaking again | But, hold! There is something more about you... I've sliced the shells of countless filthy pilgrims! All those plain, greying innards! Yours are something else entirely! It tickles at my mind, still! Bzzt! What is it of your shell that eludes even my perfect, precise perception? |
| Speaking again | Don't act the fool, specimen! Bzzt! Share more of yourself, that I may gain greater understanding! Learning! What other hope is there to save our blighted, thankless world?!
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| Exhausted dialogue after completing Infestation Operation | If you refuse to share your secrets, then distract me no more, specimen! Bzzt! There is still much work ahead for the great Yarnaby! Much thought, much learning! |
| Playing the Needolin | Yarnaby! The tortured one! They hate, they lie! |
Yarnaby
Yarnaby is an NPC in Hollow Knight: Silksong. She aids Hornet in the removal of the Cursed Crest with her Wish Infestation Operation.
Background
Yarnaby is the former physician of Bellhart. She had created a machine to extract parasites from bugs,[3][4] but some bugs did not survive the surgeries.[5] She considers her time as very precious, and only assists the seriously afflicted.[6][7][8] She was exiled from Bellhart due to her cruel and painful medical procedures,[2][9] and she still bears a grudge from that fateful day.[10][11] She believes that her exile is unjust,[12][13] and she desires to prove her brilliance to the world, primarily Bellhart.[14][15]
In-Game Events
Yarnaby resides in a locked Bellhome in Greymoor. Calling out to her from outside elicits a response.
Most of the time, calling out to Yarnaby results in her telling Hornet to leave her alone.
If Hornet calls out to her while Cursed, Yarnaby allows Hornet to enter her Bellhome. She then offers the Infestation Operation Wish. Upon completing this Wish, Hornet binds the Witch Crest.
After exiting her home once this Wish is completed, she refuses to let Hornet back into her home.
Wishes
| Wish | Info | |
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| Infestation Operation | ||
| Description | ||
| "The great Yarnaby can rid you of those nasty "roots", but to crack your stiff shell my mighty Extricator needs an upgrade!" | ||
| Acquire Steel Spines from Crull and Benjin in Sinner's Road so Yarnaby can remove the parasite. | ||
| Location | Reward | |
| Greymoor NPC
Yarnaby |
Witch Crest | |
Dialogue
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Location
Yarnaby is located in the northwest of Greymoor, inside her Bellhome.
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Location in Greymoor
Gallery
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Outside of Yarnaby's house
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Hornet calling to Yarnaby
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Yarnaby opening her house
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Yarnaby's house interior
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Yarnaby in her house
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Yarnaby singing
Names in Other Languages
| Language | Name | Meaning/Explanation |
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 Brazilian Portuguese
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Yarnaby | — |
 French
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Yarnaby | — |
 German
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Yarnaby | — |
 Italian
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Sutunia | From surgical suture. |
 Japanese
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ヤーナビィ Yānabyi |
Yarnaby |
 Korean
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야르나비 Yareunabi |
Yarnaby |
 Russian
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Ярнаби Jarnabi |
Yarnaby |
 Simplified Chinese
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雅纳碧 Yǎnàbì? |
Yarnaby |
 Spanish
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Yarnaby | — |
 Internal name
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DOCTOR
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References
- ↑ Yarnaby dialogue: "Two bugs hide away there, Benjin and Crull. Simple types, woefully ignorant... yet they have been useful in procuring me materials."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pavo: "A frightening fiend! Callous and crude in her practice. For the health of glorious Bellhart we voted, unanimously, to expel her!"
- ↑ Yarnaby: "If there's something nasty inside a shell that must come out, we use great Yarnaby's Extricator!"
- ↑ Yarnaby: "A bug healed full by my marvellous machine!"
- ↑ Yarnaby: "A few weaklings expire, and they all raise their claws."
- ↑ Yarnaby: "Unless you've brought a worthy specimen, with something truly nasty inside them, bzzt! Otherwise, leave the great Yarnaby in peace!"
- ↑ Yarnaby: "My time is precious! Only for the seriously afflicted!"
- ↑ Yarnaby: "Finally, a specimen worthy of my mighty Extricator!"
- ↑ Creige: "Head to the top of the moors. There's an old doctor up there hiding in her bell. Her remedies are said to often hurt more'n they help, but given your state, I'd say it's worth the risk."
- ↑ Yarnaby: "Again the world lashes out at me!"
- ↑ Yarnaby: "Though the ungrateful world shuns me, still, by my own claws shall it be saved!"
- ↑ Yarnaby Needolin Dialogue: "They hate, they lie! ... None else can see the truth..."
- ↑ Yarnaby: "Why, 'tis the great Yarnaby, genius physician, unfairly outcast, who now towers before you!"
- ↑ Yarnaby: "The simpletons hiding in that blasted bellvein would shudder into dust if they saw how much I achieve without them!"
- ↑ Yarnaby: "Great Yarnaby has healed you! Shout it through the caverns. Scream it from the great spinning towers! Just make sure they hear you in the so-called 'civilised' settlements of this ignorant land!"
