Hollow Knight's Quirrel Could Add More Connective Tissue for Silksong

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Hollow Knight: Silksong news could appear at any moment following Team Cherry's surprise appearance at the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase in June 2022. With rumors swirling that a Nintendo Direct for September will be announced shortly, no doubt fans of the indie metroidvania franchise will be asking whether they can expect something during this stream.

In the meantime, those fans will just have to continue speculating with the small handful of trailers and informational blurbs released by Team Cherry thus far. One concrete detail is that Hornet, the princess-protector of Hallownest, will find herself in a new land called Pharloom where dark secrets await. The Silksong reveal trailer from February 2019 shows Hornet locked in a cage, though it isn't clear whether she was kidnaped from Hallownest or caught while traveling the wider world. Either way, there could be a path for recurring Hollow Knight NPC Quirrel to play a part in the next adventure.

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When The Knight enters Hallownest, it is a desolate kingdom with just a handful of people living amongst the ruins. A handful serve as shopkeepers in Dirtmouth, the settlement built around the entrance to an expansive maze-like anthill of locales, but other NPCs pop up throughout the adventure. For example, players buy maps from Cornifer in each biome, have the option of saving Zote to unlock a secret boss battle, and even partner with the wandering cicada Cloth to defeat Traitor Lord in the Queen's Gardens. Hornet is an NPC that players battle multiple times, and she was originally going to star in an expansion before that project morphed into Hollow Knight: Silksong.

Quirrel is one of the more important recurring