| “ | 'Stand,' I ordered.
And as obedient as a shadow, it did. |
” |
The Rogue Hollow is the hollowgast Jacob first controls and turns into a slave at the end of Hollow City.
History[]
Pre-Series[]
As a former member of the Claywings, it was turned into a hollowgast during the Experiment of 1908. It accompanied wights and other hollowgasts to the Peculiar Archives building to kidnap Miss Nightjar, Miss Finch, and Miss Crow, where it was frozen by Althea Grimmelwald's ice but not killed.
Hollow City[]
The hollowgast is discovered frozen in place by Jacob in the Ymbryne Council hall. Jacob doesn't tell anyone and ponders on if he should kill it or not, but ultimately decides not to. Later, Jacob is lured back to it in his sleep and wakes up with his hand on the hollowgast's head. It is hinted that the hollow sent nightmares into Jacob's mind while he slept. Later, after Althea is stabbed by Caul, the hollowgast defrosts and chases after Jacob into the modern world, where Jacob speaks to it in hollowspeak and bends its will to serve him.
Library of Souls[]
Jacob cannot seem to control it very well but the hollowgast remains obedient and follows Jacob everywhere he goes. When two wights catch up to Emma, Jacob, Addison, and Sergei, Jacob commands the hollowgast to kill the wight who is about to shoot Emma. The hollowgast obeys and brutally kills the wight by swinging him against the wall by the leg. Jacob tries to ditch the hollowgast, but then, while he escapes on the train, the hollowgast latches on with his tongues and follows Jacob. It is assumed to be dead when it crashes into a bridge in Devil's Acre, but is recovered by Ditch pirates, who bring it to the Acre's blood sport ring where it is fought by other peculiars, notably by Don Fernando, who it defeats. The hollowgast soon pretends to be defeated by Jacob on his orders and is later brought back to Bentham's house and healed by Mother Dust. The hollowgast is then used as the heart of Bentham's Panloopticon. As its blood was used to run the machine, it screeches in pain before the anesthesia is put in, to Jacob's dismay.
The Conference of the Birds[]
During the captured wights' escape, the Rogue Hollow is taken with them. This causes the Panloopticon to stop working.
At the battle at Hopewell, the hollow is on the wights' side once more. It kills the hollow that Jacob had recently controlled and sent to fight it. Jacob tries to reestablish the connection between him and the Rogue Hollow, but it doesn't work. He breaks free from a mind controlled Fiona's vines and gets closer to the hollow, tackling it and commanding it from this close distance. This time, it works, and Jacob makes the hollow kill one of the wights and the ambro addict controlling Fiona. After the battle, Jacob returns it to the Acre's blood sport ring where he originally tamed it.
Trivia[]
- The hollow possibly digested a peculiar soul, which could explain why it was in the loop it was frozen in.