These bandaged bugs wearing Brass Masks gave me a lot to think about.
If the goal had simply been to add new content, there would have been no need to introduce such a mysterious race into the game.
In fact, they seemed more like a community with purposes of their own that just happened to serve that function.
Their existence might not have been shoehorned in for gameplay purposes, but grounded in a coherent logic of its own.
Who knew? Perhaps their secrets would be revealed someday, or perhaps they never would, and would simply remain there.
[What follows is purely my personal interpretation.]
In the world of Hollow Knight, Godseeker's tragedy was never merely an isolated individual's obsession, but a reflection of an ancient race that lost its legacy amid the tides of history and ultimately developed a warped understanding of the world.
Her forebears had once been the beings closest to "true divinity"-those ancient ancestors had not pursued any particular, tangible "god," but had touched the divinity at the world's source by comprehending "the balance in which black and white powers coexist."
They had not regarded themselves as "servants of a god," but had actively become one with that balance, making themselves "part of divinity."
Like embodiments of nature living in harmony with heaven and earth, they had drawn on the power of balance to attain a spiritual transcendence beyond the individual. This had been the true essence of their race's original "search for gods."
Yet that glory had ultimately failed to withstand the cruelty of the ages.
At some unknown point, the world had begun falling into one crisis of imbalanced power after another.
The Void's uncontrolled consumption, Radiance's swelling desire for dominion, Hallownest's blind submission to the Pale King's power...
To survive these disasters, the race's