Oh, no, I didn't mean it as a statement about canon, just that that's my headcanon. Canon is not very clear about ANYTHING with regard to the Hallows. *g*
It would be an interesting design choice: if even one of the Hallows is lost, they become destructive and dangerous. Or maybe it was a design constraint? (But then why not just build them into one big Hallow so they can't be split?) LOL, maybe Ma Gui kind of made them ad hoc, and with each additional one, the problem changed and he had a new-shaped conceptual gap to fill --> he kept designing more until the picture/functionality was complete.
(Do we know that Da Qing's encounter that made him immortal was with the complete set?)
As far as I can tell, overall Chinese canons tend to treat immortality as a more positive thing, compared to Western canons, not that that means anything about any individual case. /sweeping generalisation At any rate, Guardian doesn't treat Da Qing's immortality as a curse, IMO ...
Yes, that's true. It doesn't dwell on Da Qing's 10k years of Kunlunlessness or even Shen Wei's waiting, particularly.
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It would be an interesting design choice: if even one of the Hallows is lost, they become destructive and dangerous. Or maybe it was a design constraint? (But then why not just build them into one big Hallow so they can't be split?) LOL, maybe Ma Gui kind of made them ad hoc, and with each additional one, the problem changed and he had a new-shaped conceptual gap to fill --> he kept designing more until the picture/functionality was complete.
(Do we know that Da Qing's encounter that made him immortal was with the complete set?)
As far as I can tell, overall Chinese canons tend to treat immortality as a more positive thing, compared to Western canons, not that that means anything about any individual case. /sweeping generalisation At any rate, Guardian doesn't treat Da Qing's immortality as a curse, IMO ...
Yes, that's true. It doesn't dwell on Da Qing's 10k years of Kunlunlessness or even Shen Wei's waiting, particularly.