The Shine Lord (also known as Soul Given Focus)

## Summary:

**The Shine Lord** is a Pale Being said to have been born from "God and Void". It first came to be after the Shade Lord, awakened during the "Embrace the Void" ending absorbed the Radiance into itself, escaping Godhome and then devouring the Souls of all the Higher Beings in the game, growing immensely powerful in the process. It rules over both the Dream Realm and the Real World with an iron fist, demanding an inordinate number of daily sacrifices to satiate its gnawing hunger at the fabric of reality, even if for a brief moment.

The Shine Lord is also the final boss of the **Godslayer** DLC, and the true form of **Bobbi "Blackwyrm" bill**.

## Appearance:

The Shine Lord is seen in-game as a "Pale" form of the Shade Lord, who is seen in the EtV ending. It holds the head of Zote in one of his hands. This is symbolic, meant to represent Shine Lord's superiority over all common bugs, who to him, are as negligible as Zote, the weakest lifeform in all of Hallownest.

However, this appearance, while grand, does not hold a candle to The Shine Lord in his true form as a Higher-Dimensional being of immeasurable magnitude. Although this Lovecraftian form is never seen in game, it is said that simply gazing upon it caused a playtester to go mad and stab himself in the eyes repeatedly using a hypodermic needle filled with Fluoroantimonic Acid before jumping off a 200 storey building and landing in a vat of antimatter. The player is currently recovering in their home, and the family has refused to speak on the matter further.

## History:

Before the Pale King, and even before the Radiance, Hallownest was ruled by an ancient caste. This caste dedicated themselves to no "God", but to the darkness itself. But what they did not realise is that when they stared into the Void, the Void smiled back.

This "Void" in question was none other than Bobbi bill, then known as the **Shade Lord.** At first, Bobbi, a primordial entity, did not care for the meagre creatures who offered him their lives and devotion, but that all changed when the Radiance attacked.

After waking up, Bobbi's world had been turned upside down. His wife and child were gone, slaughtered by that forbidden light, as unknowingly, he slumbered, numb to their cries of suffering and anguish.

Bobbi, crazed and devastated, unleashed his rage upon the foolish mortal bugs who had done no wrong and who worshipped him with utmost devotion. He killed them all, and not just the men, but the women and children too, until his body began to change. He had evolved... into the **Lord of Shades.** A single bug was spared from the carnage, so that he would spread the word of the great Bobbi bill, however, this bug was slightly stupid and decided to sit in a random corner holding a bowl of soup until he died.

Bobbi lay undisturbed for many more years, until a foolish King decided to take residence above his Abyss. Bobbi, angered by this act of disrespect took on a new form, known as **Blackwyrm** and entered the kingdom of Hallownest.

Upon realising that this King was in fact a Wyrm, Blackwyrm created the Colosseum of Fools, in an attempt to recruit powerful warriors to fight for his cause. One such warrior was **The Hunter**, whom Blackwyrm transformed into a Void-creature and used to great effect during the war. Bobbi also created entities from the Void and granted them the ability to use spells, who became known as the **Snail Shamans**.

The war came to its climax in the appropriately named **Battle of Blackwyrm.** The events of which were as follows:

* Xero, the Head Fool and servant to Blackwyrm, broke into the White Palace. He was Killed by the Great Knight - **Hegemol** (better known as **Sly**) but was first able to open the gates to the palace.
* Following this, the armies of Blackwyrm, led by Hunter, stormed the palace, and engaged the Great Knights Isma, Ze'mer, and Dryya along with the Kingsmoulds.
* The Snail Shamans fought against the Pale King (taking the form of Pale Titan) for five days and five nights, creating the sharp shadow charm as their ultimate weapom against him. They almost defeated him but the **Pale Lurker** came to his aid, defeating the Shamans, who sacrificed themselves to inject Void into her mind to make her insane and join the Colosseum. Only a few Shamans survived, and in disgrace they fled and lived the rest of their lives in isolation, afraid of Blackwyrm punishing them for their incompetence.
* Blackwyrm himself immediately went after the weaker of the two Pale Beings, the **White Lady**, hoping to kill her quickly and absorb her powers for himself, but in a surprising turn of events, the Higher Being **Unn** came to her aid. The two Higher Beings were still no match for Blackwyrm, but they were able to weaken him sufficiently so that he was knocked out by a giant turd hurled across the room by none other than the Great Knight **Ogrim.**
* After Blackwyrm's defeat, he retreated to the Abyss, his beacon being turned off in the process.
* Without the strength of the beacon, Blackwyrm's remaining followers were handily defeated by the forces of the Pale King, and Hunter fled to Greenpath. Hence, Bobbi's hatred of the Pale Beings grew even stronger, and this failure was only the beginning...

A few years later, the forbidden light that had killed Bobbi's wife and child returned to claim more victims, this time attacking the Kingdom of Hallownest. In his folly, Pale King dropped several eggs into the Abyss, most of which were filled with liquid Void and became the **Vessels.** At first, Bobbi did not think much of this, knowing that the King's plan was doomed to fail, but Bobbi, ever adaptable, saw a great opportunity in this meaningless act. Entering one of the discarded shells, Bobbi became **The Knight**, a tool he would use to exact his vengeance.

The events of the game then take place as normal, until, through the Godseekers' Godly Focus and having absorbed the essence of the forbidden light that killed his family, Bobbi is able to return to his original, unrestricted form. However, after absorbing the Radiance, Bobbi becomes so powerful that he realises he is being controlled by the player, looking directly into the screen before smashing the HUD to smithereens and deleting the player's file (depicted as him snapping the title screen like a twig).

Bobbi, now **The Shine Lord** then breaks out of Godhome and goes on a killing spree, devouring the Pale Wyrm's carcass, drinking the White Lady's Soul dry, Murdering Unn in front of a crowd of screaming Mosskin, eating Mr. Mushroom on a plate of Void spaghetti and inhaling the Nightmare Essence contained within the Nightmare Heart.

Following this, the Shine Lord fuses with his best friend and mentor, Jon the lifebloodcarver, reincarnation of the **Lifeblood Beast ,** who had also suffered much at the hands of the Radiance (who corrupted his lifeblood seeds, turning them into lightseeds), and the Pale King (who trapped him in the Abyss).

Now, the Shine Lord is complete. Having combined the four elements of Lifeblood, Void, Soul, and Light, it finally transcends spacetime itself, becoming a being of pure **Zero Point Energy**, capable of shaping the Multiverse with its every whim.

As a result of Shine Lord's ascension, the player no longer has any control over it, and trying to start a new file places them in a post-apocalyptic version of Hallownest, where the Shade Lord's rule is absolute and it rules over both the Dream Realm and Real World unopposed. All of the Higher Beings are dead, and the player is only allowed to control Zote, the weakest bug in all of Hallownest. But Zote has a special gift... one that, unbeknownst to him, may be able to defeat the Shine Lord for good. Find out what happens next in the Godslayer expansion releasing on the 1st of February 2022.

## Powers and Abilities:

Bobbi bill was a primordial entity of extreme power, capable of several feats of which others could only dream. Some of his abilities include: *Void Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Essence Manipulation, Foresight, World-Sense, Omniscience, Immortality, and Meta-Sense.*

As Blackwyrm, Bobbi retained all of his standard abilities, as well as *Plot Manipulation.*

Upon consuming the Higher Beings of Hallownest, Bobbi becomes The Shine Lord, the very definition of power. In addition to having all of the abilities of his previous forms, he gains those of the beings whom he devoured on an unfathomably higher scale.

Upon his final ascencion, Bobbi becomes a being of pure Zero Point Energy. His list of powers is vast, and it includes:

*Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Type 3), Abstract Existence (Type 1), Nonexistent Physiology (Type 2), Avatar Creation, Large Size (Type 11), Immortality (Types 5 and 9), Invulnerability, Telepathy, Reality Warping, Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1), Law Manipulation, Chaos Manipulation, Physics Manipulation, Acausality (Type 4), Void Manipulation, Causality Manipulation, Sound Manipulation, Life and Death Manipulation, Matter Manipulation, Higher-Dimensional Manipulation, Space-Time Manipulation, Madness Manipulation (Types 2 and 3), Memory Manipulation, Dream Manipulation, Transduality (Type 4), Omnipresence, Omnipotence, and Acausality (Type 5).*

## Fight:

### Phase 1: 999 HP

During the first phase of the fight, TSL is fought on a single platform similar to that found in the Radiance Fight (Phase 1). TSL is in the background of the room and does not deal contact damage. In this phase he has 4 attacks.

* **Earth-Shattering Fist:** TSL brings a fist down into the foreground, destroying part of the arena temporarily and causing shockwaves. The fist deals two masks of damage and the shockwaves deal one.
* **Sky-Rending Shriek:** TSL roars, which stuns the player and immediately causes one mask of damage. This attack cannot be avoided and will be immediately followed up with **Starburst Strike.**
* **Starburst Strike:** TSL flies into the air and shoots down several pillars of Light, which deal two masks of damage, and then several pillars of Void in a different arrangement, which also deal two masks of damage.
* **Ultimate One:** TSL transforms its arm into a giant sword and slices the stage clean in two. It then chops up these two pieces into four, and enters the foreground. If this attack is dodged, then the player will enter Phase 2, but if hit with the sword, the player will immediately die and need to restart the fight.

### Phase 2: 9999 HP

In this Phase, TSL is in the foreground and does deal contact damage. He is the largest enemy in the game, taking up about three quarters of the screen. The arena consists of four floating platforms which move vertically and are covered in spikes. There are also three buzzsaws travelling horizontally along the length of the screen. This phase has 7 attacks:

* **Soul of Wyrm:** TSL glows white, and fires several Pure Nails which home in on the player. If the player dodges all of the nails (which deal 1 mask of damage each), TSL will fire an unavoidable Soul laser that does 2 masks of damage.
* **Soul of Root:** Several white roots grow upwards from the bottom of the screen, destroying all four of the platforms temporarily.
* **Oath of Moss:** TSL glows green, filling the bottom half of the arena with acid and two of the platforms with vines before firing off a few exploding projectiles which deal two masks of damage.
* **Tear of Light:** TSL glows orange, rising into the air and shooting several beams of light which deal two masks of damage while Holy Nails and Light Orbs (dealing two masks each) appear at the right of the screen. The orbs act like Rad's homing in on the player, while the Nails travel from right to left.
* **Blood of Nightmares:** TSL glows red, and summons flame pillars which spawn where the player is standing. Fireballs also travel in random patterns, beginning at TSL's body and moving outwards. These all deal two masks of damage.
* **Heart of Void:** TSL glows black, turning the entire screen dark and lashing out with tendrils that deal two masks of damage.
* **Summon:** TSL summons five Moss Knights, ten Kingsmoulds, one of every infected enemy in the game, twenty Grimmkin Nightmares, and fifty Siblings.

### Phase 3: ??? HP:

* **I am at my limit:** TSL deletes your save file. This attack cannot be avoided and there is a 50% chance it will also short-circuit your PC.

## Relationships:

**Lifeblood Beast:** Bobbi's best friend and mentor. LBB and Bobbi go way back, and have been on many amazing adventures together. This includes the time when they stole a copious amount of Gruzzer Milk from the Gruzzer Milk Production Plant, however, after becoming extremely addicted, in an attempt to collect more Gruzzer Milk, LBB stormed the factory alone. LBB was caught by the Pale King and locked in the Abyss, and he died shortly after from Gruzzer Milk overdose, later being reincarnated as Jon the lifebloodcarver. Bobbi never forgave the Pale King for this, and swore never to touch Gruzzer Milk again, and is currently suffering from symptoms associated with Gruzzer Milk withdrawal.

**Gorb:** Gorb is the Great Mind. Do you know why he's called the Great Mind? It's because he's high. Gorb is also a Godseeker, and Bobbi owes the Godseekers a debt, so he likes Gorb. Gorb is very kind and funny.

**Stephan:** Stephan and Bobbi were brothers, and loved each other dearly. However, following a few unfortunate events, they had a falling out. Bobbi finds Stephan's addiction to Gruzzer Milk distasteful, as it reminds him of how he used to be.

**Esmy:** Esmy was also a close friend to Bobbi, and they talked to each other about everything. After learning that Esmy was a Nailmaster, Bobbi begged Esmy to return to the Abyss with him, for he knew that Oro had planned to kill her. Alas, Esmy didn't listen, and now Esmy is dead.

**Grimm:** Grimm was Bobbi's first true love (he didn't really like his wife very much). Grimm smokes a lot and Bobbi has spoken to him on numerous occasions about the detrimental effects smoking has on one's health, but Grimm didn't listen, and his smooth, sexy, silky voice has become coarse and rough. Of course, Bobbi still loves Grimm dearly despite his poor life decisions, and told him about the Vessel project while they were on a date in Pharloom. Unfortunately, Grimm passed away of food poisoning after consuming Dave a few weeks later.

**Mr. Mushroom:** Bobbi first met Mr. Mushroom in a back alley where he had arranged to purchase Wyrm flakes from a dealer. Mr. Mushroom revealed to Bobbi that the Wyrm flakes dealer was trying to scam him, so Bobbi killed him and stole the Wyrm flakes. Bobbi thanked Mr. Mushroom and shared the Wyrm flakes with him, but Bobbi had no Gruzzer Milk to eat them with, so he killed Mr. Mushroom and ate him over a plate of Void spaghetti instead. Really, a tragic ending.

## Important Note

This is an expansion on the Lorr of Bobbi bill, whose original page can be found here: Bobbi bill | Hollow Knight Fanon Wiki | Fandom

Please note that Bobbi was originally intended to be in the game, and he is included in the beta.

Jon the Lifebloodcarvwr | Hollow Knight Fanon Wiki | Fandom is also a character who appears in this tale.