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· The five Great Knights, once the sole protectors of Hallownest, have become forgotten figures.
· Relic Seeker Lemm mentioned that uncovering their identities would be a great achievement.
· They were a group assembled by the Pale King as the kingdom's main guardians, consisting of Dryya, Isma, Hegemol, Ogrim, and Ze'mer.

· Hegemol is described by the Nailsmith Sheo as a 'man of few words'.
· While he slept, his armor was stolen by a grub, which then controlled the armor to fight the Knight.
· The grub stole the armor to protect its siblings, but the Knight ultimately massacred the grub's family.
· Hegemol was responsible for protecting the capital, the City of Tears, and a statue honoring him stands at the city's entrance.
· Hegemol's appearance beneath the armor or his fate remains unknown.

· The Knight encounters Ogrim, the second Great Knight, in the Royal Waterways. He is currently isolated under the name 'Dung Defender' and is hostile towards the Knight.
· During battle, if the Knight delves into Ogrim's dream, it reveals him honorably fighting for the King, the five Knights, and the kingdom.
· Ogrim explains that he attacked the Knight, mistaking them for a 'mindless skulking husk,' and recounts his past duties as a Great Knight and stories of his comrades.
· He mentions that the Knights fought against a physical and formless enemy but didn't know how to defeat it.
· Ogrim was protecting Isma's Grove, and when the Knight obtains Isma's Tear, granting acid immunity, he recognizes the Knight as special.
· However, Ogrim states he cannot visit Isma due to his vow and loyalty to guard the Waterways.

· In the beautiful grove Ogrim protected, the Knight discovers Isma's corpse.
· Ogrim and Isma had a very close relationship, but Ogrim is unaware of Isma's death.
· One theory about Isma's death is that she mutated after attempting to embrace the power of the Infection.
· 'Isma's Tear,' obtained from her corpse, grants the Knight immunity to acid.

· Ze'mer, known as the 'Grey Mourner,' is consumed by grief in her home in the Resting Grounds.
· She came from the 'Quiet Lands' outside Hallownest and uses a unique language (e.g., Chay=me, Mihan=my friend, I=yes).
· Ze'mer fell in love with a Mantis who would become the Traitor Lord's daughter, but their relationship was thwarted by the Mantis tribe, and her beloved eventually died.
· Having lost everything, Ze'mer retreated to the Resting Grounds to dedicate her life to mourning.
· She asks the Knight to deliver a delicate flower from the Quiet Lands to her beloved's grave. This flower is her last connection, and she believes fulfilling this request will allow her to live a life free of sorrow.
· After the request is fulfilled, Ze'mer disappears, and it is unknown whether she found peace or died.

· If the Knight returns to Ogrim after defeating the three Dreamers and obtaining the Dream Nail, they can glimpse his deep sorrow.
· Ogrim appears to be sleeping but crying, and in the background stand statues he crafted himself, longing for his friends and weary from loneliness.
· When the Knight enters Ogrim's dream with the Dream Nail, a recreated scene of the Pale Court appears, along with the silhouettes of the four Knights and the Pale King.
· In this dream, 'the White Defender,' Ogrim in his prime before the Infection, emerges.
· During the battle with the White Defender, using the Dream Nail reveals random dialogues expressing Ogrim's feelings for his comrades.
· Ogrim's dream dialogues are as follows:
· Upon defeating the White Defender, he collapses, reaching out to the silhouettes, but realizes they are not real and feels lonely again.
· The White Defender can be defeated up to five times, unlocking new dialogue each time.
· After the first victory, Ogrim expresses his wish to protect the kingdom so that the Knights can reunite.
· After the fifth victory, Ogrim acknowledges that the Knight is in his dream and says that when the King returns, he will ask him to make the Knight the Pale King's sixth Knight.
· Ogrim still does not know that the other Knights are dead or missing.
· Ogrim creates a statue for the Knight.

· The Knight reaches a specific area in the Queen's Gardens after battling the Mantis Lords, using the Shade Cloak.
· There, amidst numerous dead Mantis traitors, the Knight discovers the corpse of Dryya, the fifth Great Knight, leaning against a cocoon.
· Inside the cocoon is the White Lady, wife of the Pale King and mother of the Vessels.
· The White Lady confined herself within the cocoon out of shame for her progeny's creation, to prevent further offspring.
· She sensed the weakening of the Hollow Knight through the roots and anticipated a Vessel would come to reclaim half of the King's soul.
· If the Knight equips the Defender's Crest, the White Lady mistakes the Knight for Ogrim due to the smell and asks if they have seen Dryya.
· The White Lady, like Ogrim, was isolated and thus unaware of the Knights' fates.
· Dryya was tasked with guarding the cocoon as the Queen's protector.
· She fought alone against the Mantis traitors but was ultimately overwhelmed and met her demise.

· Uncovering the identities of the five Great Knights was a great achievement, revealing not just their individual stories but the saga of five knights who dedicated themselves to each other and sacrificed everything for the kingdom.