I would very much like to hear about how the wulfmaiden's kingdom is structured.
Guess it's lucky (...?) That her siblings also operate on the same divine timeline as she does so there's someone there for when she remembers hallownest. Do her siblings also have the narrow viewpoint of a higher pale being or as void are they unaffected by the transition to higher being?
They already don't seem to share her need to conquer. But are they as apart from mortality as she is, just in a different way?
(... will they see her coming home as a threat?)
(The answer to your first question about structure will be answered soon in a much more detailed response I'm working on! Will edit this and link it when it's done)
A lot of fan art has depicted it in a similar way, that the void, at least commanded by her siblings, exists on the same timeline and the same headspace as her so she's doing things like hanging out and playing cards with them, or facing their judgement, depending on who you ask lol
I have some mixed thoughts about the void and the void lord in particular in terms of higher existence though! While Godseeker does address it "O God of Gods!", and it seems to be pretty firmly placed in the higher being category by the wiki and some other sources, but I don't really see them as the same thing as others of higher caste and they definitely are not pale. I don't think any of the void kids were ever pale, despite their parentage, and I think there's something to be said about HK being "Pure Vessel" and not "Pale Vessel", and then that pristine white shell bursting open to become one with the void. I think their paleness was all a costume, a literal and metaphorical mask, to conceal what they truly were. I think their outward paleness was PK and others choosing to view them as more like them than they were like void. More fine and sublime. Something like that.
So, they don't crave unending devotion like pale beings do, but I don't even think they really align with other higher beings like I said. Just based on the atmosphere of the ancient void society, the way the void is described, it is without a doubt a force beyond comprehension by bugs. Beyond control, too. We see that in the vessels, and we see that in Hornet firmly describing her father as a fool for ever thinking otherwise. It is a force that seems violent and defensive, but even more so when something it rejects is in its midst, like in Silksong's act 3. And, more than anything else, it is apathetic to the affairs of mortal bugs. It has absolutely 0 noticeable appearances in Silksong prior to act 3, unless you deeply understand the lore and what is and isn't void - but the average player just will not spot it in any trace amount in most of SS. It shrivels away when GMS is expelled from the void. Even the Void Lord, the manifestation of the vessels, of Hornet's siblings, within the void, doesn't even act out or make itself known until she is in mortal danger and deep deep deep inside of its own endless shape.
They are absolutely apart from mortality, but imo they are nothing like the desireful higher beings, unalike in mortals by their age and by their ways of thinking, but much alike in the way they express desires and ambitions and worries. That's not to say the vessels are truly hollow, that's literally the entire point of the first game, but the void represents those things in different ways. I think ghost's behavior and, uh, day to day activities, might be somewhat changed now that it exists (idk I like it better for the knight and they for hk lol) as a threefold form in the void: that is, the void itself, ghost itself, and the void lord. But I don't think its mind was too greatly impact, since I think ghost's mind is kind of fucked up and distant even compared to HK to begin with.
It's not unfeeling. It's responsible for saving its sister. But I don't know something in me just doesn't sit right with categorizing it the same way. I'm hard at work writing (and imagining animatics about) the interactions of the Void Lord and the Wulfmaiden, but there would definitely be a bit of tension, at least on the Wulf's end, at their differences.
(Also, her coming home? No. But some of her other actions, especially the ones she eventually takes to get home, are questionable. Y'all will just have to wait and see until I'm finished with that bit :) )
