A connection made through a theme that, like a web, branches out and sticks things together. That realization that the poem featured at the very beginning of the game, is not just an elegy for a faded kingdom, but for a lost king.

Through this connection players can begin to piece together the whole story. Yet, the theme connects the two of them together. In fact, on a first playthrough the player may not even realize the connections between the Elegy of Hallownest and the Pale King. It is the way Larkin manipulates an overarching theme that he ties places, characters, and information together with music. The Hollow Knight clown makeup meme was eventually created from a years worth of looping hype and disappointment, where the first potential association of clowns to Hollow Knight: Silksong news. In the same way as the White Queen’s theme, the theme of the White Palace is a manipulated version of the King’s Theme. He explains that, “the connection between the two is further bolstered by her theme, which uses the exact melody from the Elegy of Hallownest.” These locations are Greenpath and the City of Tears.įor instance, as 8-Bit Music Theory points out in a different video, the importance of the theme connecting the White Lady and the Pale King. Yet how does Larkin’s music and sound design develop and progress the atmosphere, as well as the story, of individual locations while carrying a consistent tonal theme? Two locations in the game particularly demonstrate this idea of emotional and atmospheric consistency. Wallpaper Details File Name: Hollow Knight Silksong HD Wallpaper 69245 Category: Games Resolution: 1920x1080px Filesize: 446.61 KB Views: 3229 times. The lonely chords of Dirtmouth’s theme, and the mysterious and expansive theme of the Crossroads, deliver us an overview of Hallownest. A lonely, desolate place that has been left to the hands of time. We see how Larkin’s composition displays the Kingdom of Hallownest to us. Carrying the Past: Atmosphere, Emotion, and Motif From the ghostly vocals, to the rising synths, it is as sweeping and sad as the kingdom it represents. It’s steeped in mystery and carries with it a sense of sad wonder. The track Goldner writes about is the third established track, Crossroads. As Sam Goldner writes, in his article on Bandcamp, about Larkin’s score, “Layering a slow, sweeping string melody with distant harp and ghostly sound effects, Larkin establishes an air of mystery on “Crossroads”-or as he puts it, ‘a sense that there was once a prosperous kingdom here…but it’s no longer.'”

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