Hornet is the daughter of Herrah the Beast, the queen of Deepnest, and The Pale King. Her birth was the result of a bargain: her mother would become a Dreamer if the King granted her a child. As such, Hornet spent only a short time with Herrah, though she remembers it with fondness and seems to admire her mother. Her shared heritage with The Knight and the rest of the Vessels makes them siblings.

She was raised in the Deepnest, and survived the fall and the Infection of the kingdom. Hornet wanders around its ruins, chasing off all travelers and outsiders whom she automatically assumes are trying to desecrate the place (despite most of them being harmless). She puts on an imperious facade to compensate for her lack of ability to truly protect the kingdom crumbling around her.

At first she is antagonistic toward the Knight, trying to kill them and primarily acting as an anti-hero. Hornet's initial purpose is to protect the sealing of the Black Egg. She also guards the Cast-Off Shell in Kingdom's Edge. After some time, she was able to sense the awakening of the Infection and started off on a journey to travel across Hallownest in search for answers.


𝐼'𝓋𝑒 𝓈𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓎𝑜𝓊, 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝑒𝓅𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝑔𝓇𝑜𝓌𝓉𝒽, 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓁𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓂𝑒. 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝑜𝓁𝒹 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔𝒹𝑜𝓂... 𝒜 𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓇𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓌𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓃𝓈. 𝐼 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝓈𝓂𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝒾𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝒾𝓇... 𝐼 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝓇𝑒. 𝐼 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊'𝒹 𝓉𝓇𝓎 𝓉𝑜 𝒹𝑜. 𝐼 𝒸𝒶𝓃'𝓉 𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓌 𝒾𝓉. 𝒮𝒽𝒶𝓌!