We may have glimpsed Silksong's Sea of Sorrow expansion in a six-year-old trailer

There won’t beryllium immoderate prizes for correctly guessing that Hollow Knight: Silksong’s archetypal expansion, Sea of Sorrow, volition impact a) a oversea and b) immoderate benignant of adverse emotion. But determination is mounting grounds that the watery DLC volition restore, oregon astatine beryllium inspired by, places and bugs that developers Team Cherry had antecedently near connected Silksong’s cutting country level – yet had been shown successful in selling for the main crippled arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2019.

All recognition for this goes to YouTube’s Hollow Knight loremaster Mossbag, on with the loveable sickos that support the (non-Fextralife) Hollow Knight wiki. Mossbag’s rain-lashed compass points towards Sea of Sorrows being astatine slightest partially based connected Pharloom Bay, which according to aboriginal improvement materials, would person been plopped astatine the acold eastbound of Silksong’s map, adjacent to (eurghh) Bilewater. Pharloom Bay ne'er made it into the crippled that yet released successful September this year, but determination is simply a distinctly nautical-lookin’ portion shown astatine 1:13 successful Silksong’s archetypal uncover trailer, covered successful barnacles and lodging astatine slightest 1 conch-dwelling NPC:

That country was ne'er recovered in-game either, truthful it’s a beauteous harmless stake this was meant to beryllium Pharloom Bay. And, arsenic Mossbag notes, that aged footage besides shows the country being lit by chiseled scythe-shaped doorbell lamps of an astir identical plan to the lashed structures we spot successful the precise archetypal changeable of Sea of Sorrow’s ain teaser.

Pharloom Bay mightiness not beryllium the lone resurrected concept, either. The mysterious, lightning-struck solid enclosure shown halfway done the Sea of Sorrow trailer looks an atrocious batch similar the Lifeblood Spire, different chopped country that’s been documented since earlier Silksong’s release. Specifically, by adjuvant Australians, who snapped photos of a Hollow Knight grounds astatine Melbourne’s ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) depository successful Melbourne. That 1 ne'er made it into a trailer so, y’know, cheers mates.

I perfectly don’t privation to dependable similar I’m disdaining the signifier of developers recycling ideas for DLC oregon expansions. If anything, it’s rather chill to spot idiosyncratic concepts interval successful and retired of the gamesmaking process, and to wonderment – aloud, sometimes – however they might’ve changed successful the meantime. Silksong itself has different absorbing illustration of this, which I’ll spell retired if you don’t caput airy spoilers. See the coral-coated, seemingly underwater situation astatine 0:23 successful the uncover trailer? Seasoned skongers volition cognize that colourful plan lone accounts for a tiny, optional conception of the game’s infamously tricky last act, but paying attraction to lore snippets volition uncover that Team Cherry reworked the wider portion into the Sands of Karak: the aforesaid coral kingdom hinted astatine successful the earlier trailer, but mislaid to time, dried out, and claimed by the desert.

Whether oregon not Pharloom Bay has been arsenic drastically rejigged, Sea of Sorrow is presently aiming for merchandise successful 2026. Like the archetypal Hollow Knight’s expansions, it’ll beryllium escaped to owners of the basal game.