After six years of speculation and discussion from theHollow Knightcommunity, a Team Cherry developer has finally confirmed a long-standing theory about lore found within the game’s collector’s edition about the game’s Grub creatures.
Hollow Knights are already painfully aware of this (and have been for the past few years)but the wait for news on Hollow Knight Silksong is starting to feel endless. After previously being promised for the first half of 2023,it’s now been pushed back to an unspecified date later in the year. While we wait for the day we can finally play through the long-awaited adventure, we can at least get a little more lore about the game that started it all.
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As reported by GamesRadar+,Hollow Knight community figure mossbag recently had the chance to ask a member of the Hollow Knight dev team a question, and chose to settle a debate that the community has struggled with ever since the collector’s edition released - are the Grub Care instructions that came with the game’s collector’s edition canonical, or not?
Those who aren’t deep in the Hollow Knight community might be wondering what the heck all the fuss is about, so let me run you through it. The Hollow Knight collector’s edition featured a document called the “Grub Care Instructions” that was basically just an extra item for the edition that gave potential grub handlers some tips and information about the creatures, which play a key role in the game.
Although the information featured in the Grub Care instructions is just a fun bit of world-building and fairly inconsequential at best, it’s still been the subject of several debates within the Hollow Knight community for some time now, as it was never confirmed by Team Cherry whether it was canon or not. Now, thanks to mossbag, we know that it actually is canon as it was written by the team, finally ending the debate between fans and solidifying it as being an in-universe piece of text.
The conversations between mossbag and Graig, who has playtested Silksong and previously sung its praises after fans asked for more information, were shared on Twitter and show that the answer really was that simple all along. It was written by Team Cherry, so it’s canon to Hollow Knight, end of discussion.
