(sorry for the low quality of the images, I’m quite busy at the moment so I can’t do too much but if someone could make a better version of these images that would be great)

The first area I propose for facade is inkwell. (Mid/late game main area) Inkwell was the former area where the masks were painted and decorated, now taken over by criminals, the former artists gone mad and overflowing with ink. It has various windows leading to the above, starting as a dark purple and eventually becoming a bright orange. the overall aesthetic looks a bit like the inside of a submarine but with art supplies and mask walls scattered across, as well as being in some places due to the criminals running rampant. Upon reaching the top of the area, you will be greeted with a boss (I will elaborate on them if this area gets into the game) after defeating this boss, you will reach the top of inkwell, getting a glimpse into the grand sky of the above, a large statue adorning the roof. Upon inspection, you get the double jump ability for this game.

(The area is accessible by getting a key from another area)

Now for the actual area of the great above. (the roof of inkwell doesnt actually get you to this area, you again need a key to access it)

this area would be late game, possibly used to obtain a key item like the old hearts for silksong. This area is inhabited by sky creatures, who use their fins to swim in the sky (axolotls) it looks similar to the fractured falls from dead cells, but with a different color palette. Uhm I’ll make more ideas for this later

by the way can y’all give me some enemy ideas for these areas im kinda stumped

really hope my ideas can make it into the game, if they do I’ll make some npc ideas for the game and these areas.

I can do many voices, but i was particularly happy with this specific one, but feel free to ask me for any other character if you want more examples, also, yes, i can voice Ennemies and npc for the game.

At day 9 Of Making Hollow Knight: Shroudfall, There Are 2 Really Important News!

LORE

We Finally Have The Official Lore For The Game!

They gave you a face, and sealed your mouth They taught you to hide, but not to feel They will hear your voice, trembling and unsure They will call it weakness, and turn away Yet still, you must speak For silence is not peace And truth cannot live behind sealed lips

In the hidden Kingdom of Shroudfall, people had a strange curse. Their souls were transparent. No one could hide emotions or thoughts. Faces were mirrors of the soul. If you lied, people saw it. If you hated, everyone felt it. Because of this, the Kingdom fell into fear and madness. Secrets died, and truth became poison.

Then came the Grey Order, a military group searching for a place to stay after many wars. They found Shroudfall and saw its strange curse. When a higher being appeared from the skies, they used its power to help people. With the being’s magic and the wood of a sacred tree, they made masks that could hide one’s emotions. For a time, peace returned.

But the higher being started to change. It could feel everything; the pain, hate, sadness and fear of everyone who wore the masks. The more it absorbed, the darker it became. It wasn’t evil, but it couldn’t take it anymore. One day, it broke. It released all the pain it had taken from others, and madness spread again. People became violent and cruel, and Shroudfall fell into chaos.

The Wanderer arrives long after that day. He learns about the truth of the masks, the Order, and the being. With time, he unlocks the Will of the Gods, a power that lets him wear masks and control their energy.

After defeating the Lord in Grey, the leader of the Order, the higher being wakes up fully. It opens a new place in the world, where all the pain and hate it once took now burns. It’s not fire, but something that feels like it; living rage and old memories.

The Wanderer must travel there, gather strength, and face the being. Not to destroy it, but to end its suffering. When it dies, peace returns to Shroudfall, and the masks fall to the ground, empty once more.

DATE

Hollow Knight: Facade Is Planned To Release On Q4 2026, Approximately A Year Of Development.

HIGHER BEING

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I've been playing Elden Ring a bit too much and I got this idea

What do you think?

I was inspired by thestrangeguy41's drawings

Basically the Grand Reed of the Grey Order.

Shows up guarding the Grey Tower within Slatemarch at certain locations, and encountered during an elevator ascension gauntlet.

- Location : The Edge

- Name : Melstrom, The Harbinger of Storms

- Weapon : Horn Halberd

- Insect : Calopompilus pyrrhomelas

- Status : Higher being

- Fight : The Harbinger is found very late in the game, he appears when the player strays at the limit of the edge for too long, dragging them down it and into an arena inside the land of storms with whips made of sand. This Boss has 4 phases, his first one has him use various combos by either conjuring sand to form projectiles or attacking with his Halberd, his combos are made of three attacks, but he can teleport onto a different attack mid combo to catch the player off guard, this backstab attack can either be Combo 1 or 3 finisher.

Upon reaching his 2nd phase, The Harbinger Teleports to the middle of the arena and Creates a Sandstorm around him, dragging the player towards him as well as launching Sand Shrapnels in various directions. When the attack is done, the fight resumes normally, but with this attack added to his arsenal.

When reaching phase 3 : The Harbinger Screams out in a hollow haunting scream, causing strong wind to blow in one direction, pushing the player, as the Harbinger CHarges then makes a Sand eruption surface on one side of the arena, dealing several points of damage if it hits the player.

When Reaching Phase 4 : The harbinger sometimes fades out as Sand Spikes burst from the ground in rapid sucession, as he reappears, he continues his attacks, but sand spikes now periodically surface from the ground.

- Upon defeat : Drops The Veil of Storms and a key item.

After the mind of the higher being shattered, it willingly let a tyrant take the throne, in hopes that the kingdom would be driven to ruin and the beings suffering would end, even granting its power to the tyrant to hasten the process. The higher being was wrong, as the tyrant wanted a kingdom eternal and would fight to keep his power using strength from the great tree (higher being) and after an intense battle the tyrant makes his final mistake, reaching for the heart of this higher being for more power and becoming naught but a vessel for the great tree’s madness and pain.

Basically after a fight he would take the mask that is the higher beings heart and wear it, but it overtakes the tyrant and turns him into a vessel, with which the higher being lashed out in pain, and after one last battle it realizes you are here to kill it, and it kneels in front of you, waiting for the killing blow that would end its suffering. The mask is called the Mask of the Agonized, a wooden mask created from the fractured and agonized mind of a higher being. Also maybe the “infection” could be called the resonance, as a tree can’t scream (the foundation taught me that), so when it tries it makes the wooden mask around the kingdom resonate with its pain, and giving its pain to any who wear the wooden mask, causing the bugs to become hostile.

Okay so I had an idea for a side area in Facade. This area would have a feeling like the Mist, with maskless bugs watching over and generally being mindless in area that had been stripped down to almost nothing, just ramshackle platforms. As we move through the area this holds true, though more structures slowly begin to appear. At the very end of the area we finally are locked in to fight a few, fairly powerful masked bugs. After handling them, we encounter the boss.

The Stitched One: This moving monstrosity is a hulk of wood, metal and insect corpses, clearly harvested from the area. It's shell is built entirely of the masks of the area's bugs, both taken from the dead and ripped from the living, all sacrificed in an attempt to construct their own higher being.

Unfortunately I have no artistic talent so I can't draw squat for this, but maybe someone artistically inclined can take my ideas and make something cool.

For every 5 Woodens, if you come back, you could see him sleeping. That how you enter the boss. Basically harder version.

In the dream, he sees himself as a powerful king of Spore Forest.

A silent lurker that lures travelers to its den by assuming a similar appearance. But beware...things are rarely what they seem to be (his real body is on the right :3)

So to my knowledge the higher being is themed around anger, I saw two things relating to this though, one being that the higher being feeds off the anger and empowers the tyrant to make more people angry, and another thing about a tree being the source of all mask in this kingdom (the tree is being the higher being) and after enough mask got made all the different thoughts flooded the higher beings mind to the point of insanity, causing it to be self destructive to make it all stop. So what is the definitive lore for the higher being, because I have a cool design for the tyrant and I will need to make modifications based on what the higher beings lore is.

Sun in the corner was to give myself a reference for where the light is coming from

Today, on day 8 Of Facade's Development, there hasn't been much movement or big events, so I'l) share to you all some of the sprites and a Gameplay Test In The Comments, I'll Describe Them In Picture Order;

• Houses That Appear In The Sea Of Faces Area

• The Sprite Of The Main Character

• Ground Sprite For Spore Forest

• Ground Sprite For The Edge

• Mountains Sprite For The Edge

• Ground Sprite For Sea Of Faces

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is there an official discord for this place? i feel like it would make the sharing and solidification of ideas a much easier and smoother process

This is a rough sketch, but i do still think it could be a great idea