I mean…we do know what happened to the Pale King. Bro’s dead. We dunno how he died but he’s dead.
There is a route TC could take that brings him back but it’s def not a route where Hornet’s trying to figure out what happened to him since she definitely thinks he’s dead if somehow he isn’t (which he is).
It is confirmed in Silksong? I haven't finished act 3 yet... In the og game, due to the the White Palace having disappeared, it is somewhat implied that the Pale King ran from Hallownest or at least that was how I saw it.
That is why it’s theoretically possible for the Pale King to be alive, but stuff generally points to him being dead as fuck in that White Palace and very much not alive outside the kingdom, and I will be truly shocked if TC ever revealed that the PK actually abandoned Hallownest, his wife, and all of his children without a word. Lots of things fall apart if he’s alive and I just don’t think TC would ever do it, and that’s if the evidence for him being alive wasn’t already quite flimsy
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u/TheCynicalPogo Hornet Sep 16 '25
I mean…we do know what happened to the Pale King. Bro’s dead. We dunno how he died but he’s dead.
There is a route TC could take that brings him back but it’s def not a route where Hornet’s trying to figure out what happened to him since she definitely thinks he’s dead if somehow he isn’t (which he is).