The Radiance

== General ==
The Radiance is a higher being that controls the Dream Realm. She is the source and origin of the infection.
== Origin ==
Details and exact origins of the Radiance is a bit muddy might be wrong.
The Radiance was a Higher Being that was the leader god of Hallownest long after the Void Kingdom died. She is the embodiment of the Dream Realm and fought against the Apolafsi after he threw a tantrum at her and the Nightmare Heart for leaving each other. Years later she found and became the subject of worship there. The Hallownest Population was composed primarily of moths and she thrived off of their worship. One day, a Wyrm, the Pale King, entered this domain and the bugs of Hallownest preferred it to the Radiance. One by one all bugs including the moths forgot about her. Only a single statue of her remained. Super pissed at Hallownest for leaving her to a white fork, she created the Infection and the then disorganized Husks. The kingdom was in despair, corpses came back to life, bugs became aggressive. The Pale King - through countless experiments - deducted that she should be contained within an empty vessel, a child of his own fused with Void.
Eventually the Pale King chose the "perfect vessel" from the Abyss and left the other children of his to rot - not aware that a decade later they would be one of the most common bugs found in Hallownest. The perfect vessel, dubbed "The Hollow Knight", wasn't actually that pure thanks to their dedication and need to save the kingdom planted in their head by the Pale King. When it came time to seal the Radiance away, the Hollow Knight was placed in the Black Egg - sealed away by the three dreamers. All seemed fixed in the Pale King's eyes until the infection started leaking from the Egg because of the vessel's impurity. Pale King, realising he fucked around and found out, took his castle in the Ancient Basin and sealed himself and the palace in the Dream Realm - where he died.
== Storyline ==
Eventually, the events of the base game would happen and Ghost, a vessel, would fight their sibling the Hollow Knight controlled by the Radiance. Hornet would join the battle and fracture the Hollow Knight's mask. Ghost then becomes the new vessel containing the Radiance and Hornet, the dreamer sealing the egg. Although the infection was stopped for a while, it started leaking again from Ghost and the events of the RP starts. A new faction started by Lego the Butterfly called "The Refuge" is created with the sole purpose of defeating the Radiance and the Husks and to reignite the kingdom of Hallownest.
After the Third Husk v Refuge war would end, her firm grasp on the Hallownest bugs would be almost completely diminished as Husks would become almost completely extinct.
Category:Characters
Category:Neutral Evil
Category:Higher Being