Children of the Wyrm

Once, deep in the kingdom of Hallownest, a great and moth beautiful higher being known as the Radiance ruled over the insects that lived beneath the earth. The queen offered the people unity, and therefore, eternal peace. But this came at the cost of the citizens free will. With the queen in power, and protected and worshiped by her own people, the Moth Tribe, no one seemed to have the power to oppose her supposed infinite rule.

Then one day, another higher being arrived in the kingdom. A massive pale Wyrm with abilities that rivaled the Moth queen's saw the mindlessness of the people of Hallownest, and was enraged that someone with so much power would control those less fortunate than herself. To show his own will to save these poor insects, he laid to rest his god-like shell, and transformed into a bug, like the people of the nest.

One by one, the Wyrm used his power to return the wills to the insects. As an act of revenge against his fellow higher being, he claimed to be their king and made the Moth queen's memory fade from their minds. Even the Moth Tribe found the new king preferable worship, forgetting their own queen. Outraged, the Radiance attempted to reclaim her throne from the Wyrm. However, with no one to protect her and no army to command, she was quickly defeated.

The Wyrm's final act of revenge was killing the Radiance, and forever seal her memory away from Hallownest. But before he was able to destroy the queen's evil light, she cursed the kingdom with an Infection, one that used the will, mind, and voice against the host and those close to them.

After the king became aware of this Infection, he became desperate to save his new kingdom from it. In a desperate attempt to stop it, he began trying to create a Vessel to contain the light of the Infection, one with no will, mind, or voice for the Infection to corrupt. For this, he was forced to use something born of God and Void.

His own children.