Question: your favourite Sky Pillar/Energy Seal worldbuilding?

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I haven't come across a lot of worldbuilding for this, but I've written stories where Da Qing got trapped in a) the Sky Pillar and became Ye Zun's friend, and b) the energy seal (as backstory) and stayed with Shen Wei. And I remember going to an exhibition of representations of science data in April 2019 and thinking that some of the data visualisations might be what Ye Zun is seeing when he's trapped in the Pillar for 10k years. Here's a video I took at the exhibition, with that in mind.

1. Do you have any favourite Sky Pillar or Energy Seal worldbuilding, theories or speculation, based on canon, fanon, fanworks or just generally?


2. Do you think Ye Zun and/or Shen Wei were conscious for any of the time they were trapped? Dreaming? Aware of each other?


3. Both pillars we know about imprisoned enslaved people who rose up against their captors and took their place. Do you think that's just coincidence, or something in the Hallows' programming? Have there been other pillars over the last 10k years?


4. What's with the field of ruins surrounding the Pillar? The dark-energy-reinforced chains? (Were the chains created by the Hallows, or were they installed by the Dixing administration?)


5. What's your favourite scene at the Sky Pillar? For me, it has to be Shen Wei & Da Qing's pinky swear, with honorable mentions for Zhao Yunlan rescuing Shen Wei from being chained up, the sting where Zhao Yunlan's disguised as An Bai to catch the Deacon, and Ye Zun taunting Chu Shuzhi with an image of Nianzhi. :-)


6. Please link to any fanworks (your own or other people's) about the energy seal or the Sky Pillar.