Hollow Knight Lore ► The Mantis Village Explained

Greetings everyone, I hope this new installment of the story finds you all well and ready to delve into the juicy story of Hello Nest. Today we are going to talk about the Mantis

village

and the mysteries that surround it. The Mantis Village is an area found in the mushroom. moors and is one of the areas that connect the moors to the deep nest, one of the spookiest areas in the entire kingdom. Fortunately, we won't be spending much time there because I hate that place, but for now I want to focus on a facet of the sacred nest that doesn't get much attention, what is the origin, purpose, and eventual schism that took place in the enigmatic tribe. of the

mantis

es, the

mantis

tribe occupies two of the areas of the kingdom, being the fungal waste and the Queen's Gardens now we will see why this is the case, we will see in a moment the Mantis

village

houses a tribe of skilled organized fighters , their technology may not be as advanced as that seen in the city, but as the architecture is certainly not primitive, the effort that went into the structures of the village is consistently evident that the Mantis Warriors are some kind of insect and fight intelligent and resilient, he is even intimidated by the idea of ​​facing the tribe's Lords.

He warns them that the Warriors of this tribe are very different from the shell warriors of the city. The Tian Man tribesmen were considered the outsiders of the sacred nest realm and were shown very little respect. Much of the kingdom thought their means of hunting and simply going about their lives were primal and unsophisticated, it was only when the infection took hold. of the kingdom, the tribe relocated deeper into the veins of Hallow Nest, taking refuge in the southernmost part of the wastelands and there they built their own structures for their own defense plants and even established their own form of government overseen by four Lords.

Of the tribe it is even said in the hunters' diary that the mantis tribe and the how honest bugs are quite divided and do not love each other's way of life, but of course, their relocation to the wastelands was ultimately the which separated them from their rivals and their Civilization to this day remains unscathed by any infection. If you do a little research around the village, you can find some war tablets that point to a possible trading relationship these two societies had with each other. It can be found that the Mantis Lords once had a deal with the superiors of the sacred nest and that the mantis tribe was responsible for guarding the entrance of the throne room to the deep nest, the Lord was guarding the door to prevent unsolicited visitors.

They will enter the kingdom. Further proof of this is that if you enter the nest depths through the door to the throne room after fighting the lords, the first thing you see are piles of insect corpses and empty shells, judging by the weapons on them. They resemble those of the lords, there is no doubt that these beasts probably met their end by trying to attack the tribe and make their way to the kingdom. They really don't seem like they have succeeded yet, unlike the now corrupted insects from the nest. sacred, the mantis warrior still shows signs of sanity if you defeat the Mantis lords before entering the deep nest, the mantis warriors around the world.

The village will no longer face you and will instead bow to you in the same way the lords did. You can run past them or, if you're vengeful like me, choose to attack them if you need some extra geo. The infection has not spread that far into the kingdom so far and many of the Mantis Warriors still retain their sense of self, even if that sense of self is highly defensive and very afraid of any stranger. The mantis tribe prospered after the kingdom was largely gone. consumed by the infection caused by the glow, but only for a time.

Something is interesting about the throne room in Mantis Village. There are actually four Thrones, but one of them has been apparently dismantled on purpose by the rest of the rooms. The original entourage was formed. Of the four Lords that protected the village from the evil of the deep nest, eventually that changed quite quickly after the infection, one of the Lords fell in love with the power of the infection and although he remained uncorrupted for a while, he still sought the power granted by it. infection to others. Bugs in the kingdom soon, the thirst for power became the only thing worth thinking about.

Noticing this, the three remaining Lords banished him from the village and the fourth Lord remained exiled in the greenery of the gardens to the west. He had followers, however, many of the previous members of the Mantis tribe also wanted to embrace the infection and so when the fourth Lord was banished, a good portion of the tribe followed him to the gardens, creating a huge divide. among the village, while the Mantis tribe in the wastelands held on to their fundamental rights. values ​​of order and structure in their land, the exiled mantises of the west sought power over their enemies and embraced the infection to the point where they too eventually went mad.

The strange thing is that generally the infection tends to reduce any errors that are corrupted by it. down to primal instinct, but the small group of mantises have managed to build their own village within the bristles of the gardens, it's something I haven't seen happen to any other species of insect honestly, even with the infection, of somehow they managed to retain. his means of civility and teamwork as defined in the entry in the Hunter's Journal, the Merchant Lord was the fourth Lord of the Mantis tribe until he became curious about the power of infections and wanted to take it within him. to gain supremacy over their enemies. and sadly this eventually led to his own corruption as well and now he and his followers reside deep within the western gardens living in exile as punishment for betrayal against his lord brothers.

The hunter's diary entry talks about the hunter's own desire to take the infection on himself and that it is a false hope, even if the temptation burns brightly in the mind, the size of the merchant Lord has increased noticeably and the game really does not has no clue as to whether or not this was a byproduct of the infection, but discrepancies. between the Mantis Wars and the Lord Merchant includes his enormous size, as well as the use of claws instead of any type of spiked weapon, as the infection's grip has greatly reduced his ability to use any type of real sword. , so the Lord has resorted to more primitive offensive tactics when you reach Schrader's Lord in the Queen's Gardens.

He's already been lost to the infection for quite some time, but his attacks are still lethal and it's best to keep your distance as much as you can when fighting. If you interact with the Cicada Warrior Cloth in the Fungal Debris and follow her to Bazin's Deep Nest and then eventually to the Gardens, she will appear to help you against the Traitor Lord at the climax of the fight, so let's back up a bit . Until when this schism first occurred, no one is really sure if this was the final cause of the tribes splitting, but I'm pretty sure this happened after the Mantis traders moved into the gardens.

Now I'm sure you're familiar with the delicate flower quest you must take from the resting grounds to the east and travel across the map to bring the flower to this grave. The tombstone says here lies a merchant boy. This is huge because he implies two things. One that this relationship between the gray mourner and this mysterious child was romantic in a way and two, this child was the daughter of the fourth Lord, the merchant of the tribe, as expected, the Lord did not like this relationship because the gray mourner was unfamiliar with the customs of the tribe. the tribe openly disapproved of their relationship and labeled the gray mourner a stranger.

Now the cause of her daughter's death is also not specified at all in the games, so this could mean that she was executed because information about her questionable relationship has to do with this relationship in the game is extremely scarce and all of this was presumably before the infection took hold in the village in the gardens. No one passed during and after the infection has proven to be a little more difficult to unearth. If you saw one of our previous war installments, you'll know this. The fierce Draya, one of the five great Knights of the Holy Nest, lies deceased outside the Queen's chambers in the gardens, the mutinous behavior of the mantis tribe and the gardens became volatile and the Mantis warrior launched the gardens into an assault total against the Queen.

Shreya, one of the five Knights, presumably died defending the Queen against all the savagery evidenced by the path of dead mantises pointing to Drai's corpse leaning next to the Queen's chamber. If you talk to the Queen inside her chamber, it doesn't even sound like she is aware of Draya's sacrifice wearing the Defenders' shield. The Queen thinks of you as another of the five and asks you about Draya. She asks you if you saw her or not on the way to his rooms and even speaks on behalf of Andria and that she very much enjoys a late night meeting, it's actually a little sad to know that he is not aware of Draya's death now that Drea did not make it to the game alive and was actually intended to be a truly climactic boss fight for the player, as evidenced by Team Cherries' Kickstarter description for drea, one of sacred nests five great nights and defender of Queens Glade, went crazy because her queen lost and the garden was invaded still retains its honor by offering a fair challenge to the

hollow

knight

nail to nail a duel to the death now this strongly hints that drea was supposed to be an opponent for the young

knight

but for some reason things and development changed .

Andrea and almost all the other Knights were eliminated from the real game, maybe a future dream battle they have in store for us, something similar to the white defender in the hidden dreams update, obviously I can't speak for Team Cherry, but I think including Drea as a dream fight later on and another expansion would be a pretty solid idea anyway, going back to the mantis tribes thing I've snooped around on the wiki pages. game itself and other sources, and I didn't find any presumed reason why the western mantises would attack the Queen and cause such a mutiny, so the only sensible conclusion was that it was simply a byproduct of the infection, after all, that It would make sense. because a percentage of mantis warriors followed the exiled fourth lord to the gardens before his infection, meaning they would have gotten there with their wits and sanity or at least before they were taken, some other indications of the intellect of the mantis is that they are one of the few bosses, you actually have to start by challenging them, the battle itself is also one of the few that contains multiple enemies and they don't die either, they know to retreat from their opponent when they have weakened which is a tactic that no Another boss or enemy, I think he shares the dream of the game, sticking the other mantis warriors in the fungal waste will also give you different results depending on your current status with the Mantis lords, if you have not defeated them, their thoughts are obviously hostile and say things like.

We honor the intruders of the Lord. We will finish. His character will change after you challenge and defeat the Lords and you will get lines of dialogue like a great warrior. The Lords accept him or honor a stranger. How strange is it that the Thien tribesman shows evidence of intellect even during the game mode, look for the Mark of Pride amulet before defeating the Lords and one of the Warriors won't even try to attack you, he will just close the door right in front of your face. Obviously, there is no display of primitive behavior here when trapping the Mantis Warriors. in the western part of the Hallow Nest will produce very different results, the infection has driven them to primitive instinct and their simple dialogue reflects this and finally before I end this I thought I would include what I thought was a really interesting fact stated by the hugger on the official Hollow Knight wiki page in response to a comment from another user, clarified the gender of the Mantis Awards and the merchant until version one zero three one the four Lords were considered female until one zero three to update they tagged the merchant mantis like May, this is really interesting to me because if you study the praying mantis and sex in real life, the anatomy of the female mantis is much larger with an anatomically longer body segment, at least it looks like the merchant mantis . mantis would be the only female in the group because the merchant's anatomy is much larger now this could also have something to do with the infection like I said before this does not contain anything pertinent to the game's story this is something I thought was really cool and wanted to point out that the Tian tribesman outlasted his rivals in Hallow Nest due to his supreme intellectual lethality and his ability to adapt to his environment.

All theseThey were abilities that the insects of Hallow Nest were not born with and instead had to be. Trained to kill and use weapons, the Manton Warriors were already prepared when the infection reached them, unfortunately not all the Warriors resisted the temptation, leading to a great schism and the death of one of the greatest nights of the howling nests. . Thanks for tuning in. forge, we have many more

hollow

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