Maybe nosk can intentionally hide it’s thoughts from the dream nail considering it’s a mind reader itself. But it doesn’t exactly seem that smart or powerful. Maybe its because it’s reading your mind as you dream nail it, so it just loops around to reading your own mind

I think that Nosk is one of many, but that this is the only Nosk that we see, and the others are spread out (for obvious reasons). I also had a theory where Nosks are adult Corpse Creepers, since they use disguises to hide themselves, and also have those freakish legs.

Nosk reminds me of the grub mimic. They can shape shift, walk the same and they can both climb.

When it comes to winged Nosk, I think another hypothesis I heard is more likely. Nosk did originally have wings and took the form of Hornet to try to kill her, but Nosk was easily overwhelmed. Hornet then cut its wings off and Nosk shapeshifted its body to give itself legs. This would explain why Nosk seems to be chaotic with its attacks in the fight. It is not used to having legs, so it does not have any sort of finesse with them.

As for the Hornet disguise of Winged Nosk I have another theory. Hornet is the child of Herrah the beast, the Queen of Deep nest, so she had likely spent a lot of time there. During her time there or during one of her patrols in Hallownest, Nosk lured her in his lair and tried to kill. He quickly learned she wasn't an easy prey and payed for it with his wings. The reason I believe that is because the Godseeker has a couple of bosses who are in their much stronger form from their past, such as Pure Vessel and Absolute Radiance. I wouldn't consider it implausible that Winged Nosk also falls into this cathegory.

My theory, that just came to mind honestly, is that Nosk is an infected instance of whatever entity/entities that trap you when you sit on the bench at Beasts Den. These beings have no dream nail dialogue, leave behind their disguises, and can seemingly assume whatever form they want.

Inspired by another Nosk lore vid, I think the reason Nosk has legs is because it pretended to be Hornet to lure in Herrah, who sliced off its wings, but Nosk made legs and ran away before she could kill it.

Okay, this is admittedly kind of a crackhead theory, but hear me out, what if nosk is an infected vessel? It’s already been shown that there was some sort of exit from the abyss leading into deep nest, so what if nosk, alongside a few other vessels, escaped into deep nest after being thrown into the abyss, but nosk fell prone to the infection, mutated, and killed the other vessels? It would explain why it’s dream nail dialogue is completely blank, since the only other bosses with no dream nail dialogue are broken vessel and the hollow knight. (Plus a couple of enemies but SHHHhh) It would also explain why it doesn’t leave behind anything but a broken mask when it dies, because it’s made of void. This is very much a fringe theory and it has its holes, but some aspects of it do line up surprisingly well.

Nosk…… uncanny valley arachnophobia, inability to trust my memories, inability to trust my judgment, my fear of being harmed by those close to me, multi legged creatures, being attacked by a multi legged creature in the dark, a fast insect that can devour me, an insect that can devour me, a giant insect that can devour me, dying like an ant, the unknown. All of the fears I see when Nosk shows his ugly mug.

Judging from the way, the Hunter introduces himself, I’d say they’re both ambush predators, further strengthening my idea about them being related

Nosk having no thoughts to be read with the dream nail reminds me of the shadow creepers, who also have no thoughts to be read with the dream nail.

I've had an idea about Nosk turning into Hornet. I think it could be a sign that (like the Hollow Knight) the Knight has accidentally built a familial attachment to Hornet, where before all it had the capacity to care about was its own survival, which would make the Sealed Siblings ending unquestionably the worst.

I love the lore of this guy, glad to see a video about this Also I think Winged Nosk isn't a changed Nosk by the godseekers, but a variant of a Nosk species, kinda like the two types of Corpse Creepers

I wonder if the Mask Maker is a simmilar being to Nosk he too has these really long, black limbs and put´s on several... "disguises" he even mentions something about the face behind the mask perhaps just being another mask

My theory: Nosks are the equivalent of tigers. They're some of Hallownest's biggest predators, are the apexes in their ecosystem, are highly intelligent given their mimicry and luring tactics, and are deadly on their own. However, they're wild animals as not all of Hallownest's bugs are sapient beings. Unlike tigers, however, they are radically sexually dimorphic; males have wings, and the females do not.

My personally theory on Winged Nosk was that he was not targeting Hornet, but someone close to Hornet. It is stated that he takes the shape of someone important to you to lead them astray. The only reason nosk looks like us is because "No mind to think", so there is no one close to us. While Hornet is a proud lass, she is not egotistical in any sense of the word, so I doubt she would be draw by herself. So what I think is Nosk tried to lead either her birthmother (in the short time she and hornet where together) or one of her retainers from the Hive or Deepnest, maybe even Drone knight in all his bumble glory, to an ambush and promptly got killed (multiple Nosks) or had his wings ripped off (singular Nosk)

Oh no... This big, scared spider thing has me trapped... Oh, is that a ledge? Time to cheese!

Nosk remembers me to Ko from Avatar the las Airbender

Design-wise, I think he’s a girrafe-necked Assassin bug, but he reminds me of the backrooms’ phobic centipede. The phobic centipede is a giant centipede with two human arms and a human head, and it can project an image of a loved one to lure prey. One story involved it crawling from the ground, looking at a nearby person, and saying “Come here sweetie, grandma misses you. When you said it reads the mind of victims, I thought of that.

3:18 I don't know if it's accidental or not but the Stalking Devout had Sans eyes if that makes sense.

I think winged nosk is just nosk's previous form. My theory is that Nosk lured Hornet into its lair but hornet just tore of nosk's wings and defeated them. Explains why winged nosk is first disguised as hornet

I really liked it! Nosk is one of my favorite bosses!

Amazing video as always :D

my idea is a mutated corpse crawler that gained intelligence from the infection

The Nosk might just become the knight itself because, not only it wasn't able to read the knight's mind, it might be because the vessels have "No mind to think"? Then making it not possible for the Nosk read it, and the only option it was left was to shapeshift into the knight itself?

(JUST A THOUGHT) maybe nosk was just a vessel but instead of dieing or escaping nosk jumped in to the void pools and void grew on the vessel and ripping the things face off and some day nosk escaped the abyss and due the pain that it felt it became an violent creature leering its own kind in to its nest to serve never ending hunger for violence. (Most likely it became violent because of it turning infected when escaping the abyss

I think nosk is related to corpse creepers

"What is Nosk?" Adorable. 10/10 would smooch.

What is Nosk? Baby don't hurtme no more

That is a rain world vulture from hell

As a mind reader, i block dreamnails. I use a sort of telapathy like the great Wyrm, but i cant do much else. And yes i can confirm i was confused asf during your battle with me because i couldnt see anything in the knight's mind. The empty void in the knight's mind invokes utter fear in me. **Also i took the infection in willingly**

The mask Maker looks suspiciously like nausea.

The Hunter said it used to pluck at his heart strings, and he also said that he used to have siblings maybe Noskes related to the hunter

missy from bigmouth

i always thought nosk was weird, first of all, hes black, hes a being that doesnf seem to have a head or a chest, only weird black sticks coming out of one point where the infection is, he simply doesn seem to have thought, will or anything, just like an animal,

4:49 just so you know, sure they dont have wings but they still somehow fly by using their webs... in the air somehow...? I have no idea how i just know that they do

I do have my own hypothesis for Nosk. I believe Nosk is like the infected balloons and light seeds. It is a more physical form of the infection itself. Even among the members of the spider tribe, Nosk is a serious oddity. Sure there are those creepy villagers in the hidden village, but they were clearly more sentient than Nosk. This would also explain why Nosk has no thoughts for the dream nail to reveal, as well as why Nosk does not have a corpse after being blown up.

In the pantheon (spoilers) when I went to fight nosk, he was disguised as hornet. Thoughts?

Nosk is a spider

first things first, i think Nosk is (or at least was) a relative of Corpse Crawlers and Grub Mimics. if you look at it's behaviour it's very similar to Grub Mimics, screeching and running at you at high speeds. it's also similar to Corpse Crawlers, they clearly have the ability to condense themselves down into very small spaces with little issue, and so can Nosk. it's like a perfect mimic, having the aggressive and violent nature of a Grub Mimic but having the caution and patience of a Corpse Crawler. so, Nosk is an inbetween of a Corpse Crawler and a Grub Mimic, why is there only one then? think about it. Grub Mimics aren't very common so they're not a large issue considering the rest of deepnest's areas and even then they don't seem particularly active, and Corpse Crawlers are almost impossible to tell when they're inside something and don't seem to be too much of an issue when something's alive, so if the deepnest residents did what i think they did then they probably had a procedure for preparing to kill something whenever someone dies, but Nosk? it actively hunts, if it was a species then it would be considered a terrible pest, a creature that needs to be stopped. i think deepnest's residents actively hunted and killed most of it's species, just leaving it left. the only reason Nosk isn't dead is because it's become more powerful due to the infection, being able to hold it's own against many deepnest residents in a pinch. nosk was a species > got hunted to near extinction > nosk survived the purge > nosk becomes more powerful due to the infection > here we are

I think that it took the infection into itself intentionally.

The pennywise/ it from stephen king in hollow knight world

I thought it was a corpse creeper

I feel like Nosk might not be infected but instead that it has eaten infection wich it throw up at us but that just a theory.

I actually have a theory cuz if you don't know after beating nosk you get one of the pale ore but I'm going to check again but if I'm wrong it comes from a black egg and we already agreed that nosk is someone made out of void it's not too far-fetched to say that nosk came from that egg how the got to deepness I do not know but maybe The pale King had something to do with it and also I don't think nosk is actually infected is why a lot of creatures have that orange like blood and acid we know that the radius is infection is mental and physical so that would be physical deformity or something to signify so I think it's actually acid because one because infection doesn't burn and to the only way for a creature to get infected is if they were to have enough consciousness but if we dream nail him he has no thoughts oh and about the flying variant of him I think that's because of Godseeker has a tune and somehow allow the nurse to look into our memories allowing it to get a new form or looking into godseekers memory and looking and finding hornets and it has relations to us seems like from out with fighting wants to kill us because it's piss and also it seems like it actually took some abilities from broken vessel since at this point in the game we should have memories of those character so they can watch on that's my theory

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Maybe nosk was someone who actually wanted to help others to cope, and probably had wings and would've probably fought infected bugs or beings. This is what I think personally. Edit: God, this is outdated

Nosk is a bug change my mind

Wrong, the mimic grubs are likely these species.

i ship mask maker and nosk