Deathwish
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A Wish Cast Vain by Aischrologia
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games), Hollow Knight: Silksong
01 Jan 2026
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“Lies that cannot be dispelled are lies believed. In the telling of it are we set free.”
Following an age spent bound in service to the Beast God of Silk, Lace awakens. She awakens from slumber, inflicted by defeat, her silken body wounded and mended by a claw different from her Mothers; she awakens from her possession, haunted threads, which once filled her mind with her liege and Mother’s demands, now severed; she awakens into a new age, one drowning in spider webs: the age of the Weaver Queen. Above her, she finds the trembling shadow of her former rival and last hope, the Weaver’s body warped by claiming godhood. Below, she finds a Pharloom haunted by the consequences of her past actions, by survivors, and by a trail of riddles left by the red-cloaked warrior. Is Lace caught in another web?
Newly mortal and spiraling out of control, Lace is unable to resist the lure of an order, especially one given by the most interesting thing ever to happen to her. What remains of Hornet will lead her on a quest spanning the breadth of her now dying kingdom, force her to face the lies she perpetuated, and show her that some paths cannot be taken alone.
(Edited 5/17/26)
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- Part 1 of Deathwish
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Death for the Deathless by Aischrologia
Fandoms: Hollow Knight (Video Games), Hollow Knight: Silksong
06 Jun 2026
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The caves echo.
They echo on the wind that pushes a caravan carrying Hornet home. This time, she is a prisoner no longer and at her side stands a group of bugs bound by love and friendship to her and each other. Together, they ride to rid free life of the Pale, to find the truth behind an ancient tragedy, and to build a kinder world for the family they've become.
They echo in Hallownest, trickling up the threads of the Great and Mortal Spider, Queen Ephibysse. There, in caves that were ruins, she weaves a new eternal civilisation in her dark and chittering visage. The kingdom, a web and in its clutches bugs find something not found in a spider’s webs before: simple peaceful lives. There is but a single cost. Abandon all creeds and faiths and heed the last true God, the Void and the death that it is cursed to never receive.
They echo on the sands between, a wind swept trail in the shape of a Wyrm, slithering up to the gate, and then vanishing all at once.
There in the echoes, may the heroes find a final hope, begged vainly by a headless god:
Cut them from us—Death for the Deathless.
(This is part two of a larger duology that starts with “A Wish Cast Vain”)
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- Part 2 of Deathwish