Castaway Prince

The Castaway Prince is a proposed character for the FrostFern comic. He is a cutting of the Queen of Thorns, separated from her in order to protect her from The Radiance's infection that gained it's own sense of self given time.

He is technically a Higher Being, though he is on the weaker end of that classification, being only a part of a much greater Higher Being.

Lore
Before the events of Hollow Knight, the Radiance spread her infection across Hallownest, corrupting the creatures within it. While this barely touched FrostFern, the Queen of Thorns could feel this opposing power, almost like a flame licking at the extremities of her influence.

Over time, this infection grew within the Queen, to the point where she felt the need to take drastic measures to cure herself. As such, the infection was quarantined to a specific part of her body, which was then severed and sealed away.

This severed coil of infected vines and thorns eventually became the Castaway Prince.