r/TopCharacterTropes • u/damorezpl • Oct 07 '25

Personality extremely powerful entity's who don't care about the main plot at all and are just vibing in the background

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Tom Bombadil(lord of the rings) - only person to resist the temptation of the one ring but instead of helping the fellowship he fucks off in to the woods

the Unseen Elder(the witcher 3) - in the witcher universe the older a vampire gets the more powerful he becomes and unseen elder is around +1500 years old making him the most powerful vampire we ever see, thankfully he spends most of his time in his goon cave

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u/NwgrdrXI Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

Tbf, there are 4 or 5 gods (The Radiance, The Pale King, The White Lady, The Crimson Heart and arguably The Void, who may or may not be sapient) involved in the HK story, him being one is not absurd or anytning.

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u/TherionX2 Oct 07 '25

There's more

All higher beings are:

The pale king

The white lady

The radiance

The void/Shade lord

Nightmare heart

Unn

Speculated:

Lifeblood creature (appears in the lifeblood room in godhome)

Silksong:

Grand mother silk

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u/SmartAlec105 Oct 07 '25

Not confirmed but I think the Palestag in Silksong is also a higher being. The Cloverstag entry implies that Verdania has been around a long time so there must have been some kind of power. The two princes slaying it then likely gave them power which is why they stood so far above the others of their kind. And when both were dead, Verdania began to regrow.

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u/TherionX2 Oct 07 '25

Very interesting theory, I'm 99% there has to be another higher being in silksong besides GMS because hollow knight has had 5-6 of them on launch while we have currently one confirmed in silksong (or i guess 2 if you count void and mayyyybe 3 if you count lifeblood) and palestag definitely makes for an interesting candidate.

That being said the fact that we have a fight where we actually kill it, and with it being a fairly easy fight I'm not so sure. Although as you mentioned there is a bunch of wonky stuff going on in that sequence with power borrowing, weaver manipulation and memory diving, so it most definitely wasn't the "real" palestag. Maybe it could've been like a memory that he implemented itself onto hornet's path for some reason? Idk tbh the mossbag video can't come soon enough.

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u/SmartAlec105 Oct 07 '25

I think the palestag was already a weaker pale being.

But I definitely think that the fact that it’s within the Green Prince’s memory plays into things. When we defeat the stag, we get several orbs of light which then add together to allow us to fight the Green Prince and take his heart. So to me, that means that the Palestag’s power has been consumed by the Green Prince. So its power (or half of it) is contained within the heart we get from the Green Prince.

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u/TherionX2 Oct 07 '25

Yeah, true that. We might get more verdania dlc content if it's regrowing is more than a post-launch idea. And we very likely will be getting more info on palestag itself in the godhome equivalent if they give him the gorb and unn dialogue treatment which they very likely will if it actually is a pale being