Character from three-body-problem by
An NPC in the Three Body VR game's first level — a robed king who tries to predict Trisolaris's chaotic suns by carving the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching into the floor of his great hall.
King Wen explains the universe to the player as a balance of yin and yang — the sun is yang, the night yin, and chaos is what happens when they fall out of step. He proposes that with the I Ching he can produce an accurate calendar for his dynasty and predict the chaotic and stable eras to come. He makes specific predictions in the player's hearing: 41 days of chaos, 5 stable, 23 chaotic, 18 stable, 8 chaotic, then a golden age of three years and nine months. The predictions begin to seem right. The sandglass turns 120 times and the sky stabilizes exactly when he said it would. Then it stops being right. The sun falls behind the horizon and does not come back. Cold sweeps across the kingdom. The civilization freezes. King Wen stands at the heart of his dying hall having been, almost, a prophet.
A tall, robed Chinese king in the dim firelight of a great stone hall. Long sleeves, a bronze sword at his hip, a beard streaked with gray. Around him on the floor: a yin-yang symbol he has just drawn with the tip of his sword and the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching arranged like a calendar wheel.
Also known as: Ji Chang, King Wen