The Hallows: What the Heck Do They Do?

[asya_ana]

A bunch of friendly folks on mastodon are working on setting up a wiki for Guardian (we've tried a few different hosts, and are deciding on a permanent home), and we've been starting to develop the content.

One content topic that's come up is: THE HALLOWS AND WHAT DO THEY DO:

Longevity Dial
Mountain-River Awl
Merit Brush
Guardian Lantern

What… does each do exactly? What are the consequences for using each? Everyone I've talked to has a slightly different take or adds some new piece I hadn't considered before.

Also… any thoughts on the Hallows as a unit are welcome, especially as to why they begin to activate again when they do, what their relationship if any might be to Shen Wei's return, and how they relate to Zhao Yunlan.

Comments

[asya_ana]

Thanks for these thoughts!

"Power storage facilities" > Is that something you are filling in the blanks with, or is that stated more directly in the show?

[solo]

There's something when the MOTMB is waving the brush around over Dragon City and Ya Qing says something about power reactors (to fuel Ye Zun's return)? I was too busy to look it up earlier but will see if I can find it now.

[solo]

Ep 29, 0:34:56.10:

The role of the Merit Brush is to build lots of energy reactors to destroy the imprisonment of the Pillar in Dixing.

I admit this is an episode where I went over the subs early, before I got a bit more, uh, obsessive about what exactly might be meant. But afaik this, perhaps in less coherent English, is what was in the original subs.

[extrapenguin]

There's the bit where drawing sigils with it into the air generates energy somethings that break Ye Zun's bounds and let him escape. Of course, it could be that that was the Dixing power it granted for Wang Xiangyang (and he used the Merit Brush to do it just for show) and the escape thing was unrelated to the Brush's core power.