A Hollow Knight: Silksong player morally opposed to cartography has made a discovery both enormous and fruitless: you can get a special map quill if you stubbornly explore most of the game without one.
The map quill, you may recall, is sold by map vendor Shakra at the very beginning of Silksong. The base quill is a white feather that lets you map out the world of Pharloom as you explore it, filling in traversed regions whenever you rest. Without the quill, you only ever have blocky outlines of areas to go off of, so it's an essential part of keeping track of where you've been and where you need to go.
