

#Hollow knight void heart crack#
They thought it would be interesting if players had to travel back to the place where they died and had to crack open the skull to retrieve their money. The idea of the Shade developed when they finished working on the Knight's death animation, which ends with the Knight's head falling to the ground and cracking. Team Cherry considered Dark Souls' corpse run mechanic when they were deciding on what happens after the Knight's death.While this version of the Shade was active there would be no damage to the SOUL meter.When defeated the Shade would explode into a cloud of ghostly-tinted Geo before being absorbed back into the Knight.In the Hollow Knight Beta, the Shade has a blue tint instead of being entirely black.The Shade's Hunter's Journal entry is automatically filled upon acquiring the Journal.Although dying in the White Palace counts as a real death for the purposes of the Fragile Charms and Steel Soul Mode, no Shade is released upon death.If the Joni's Blessing Charm was equipped when the Knight died, the Shade will have HP equal to the Knight's Nail damage.

Also, the Knight retains 100% SOUL meter even though it appears broken.


If the Knight died to a boss, the Shade usually spawns in a safe location to be recoverable without triggering the boss battle. Hitting the Shade with the Dream Nail defeats it instantly, regardless of its remaining health. Though the Shade can originally only cast one Spell, it can cast one additional Spell for each Soul Vessel the Knight has collected. When below the Knight, the Shade uses a dark variant of Howling Wraiths/ Abyss Shriek, when above, a dark variant of Desolate Dive/ Descending Dark, and when a horizontal distance away from the Knight, it uses a dark variant of Vengeful Spirit/ Shade Soul. If the Knight moves too far from the Shade's spawn point while it is pursuing them, it turns into smoke and returns to its spawn point.Īs the Knight gains Spells, the Shade gains the same Spells. Upon engagement, it floats in the Knight's direction and attacks by swinging its Nail when getting close and using any Spells the Knight has learned. When approaching its location, an off-key music box melody is heard that drowns out all other sounds, signalling its presence. Until it is killed, the Knight's SOUL meter is broken, limiting it to 66 charge (this does not affect the storage of SOUL in Soul Vessels). When the Knight dies, a Shade appears in or before the room they died, holding all the Geo that was lost.
