Wells are certainly a natural feature on Oddworld. There was a popular theory going around earlier about them being plants, but the Big Well is certainly no plant. I think that wells naturally have no standard form, but that natives and industrialists 'decorate' them.
But if wells are natural, how come they so often can be seen in the Abe games being supported by native or industrial support structures? I think that somehow the Mudokons and the Vykkers have come up with a way of developing artificial wells - ones based on spiritual magic, the others constructed on science.
How do they work? Well, I'm not a scientist either, but air flow seems to be quite important. Just look at all that stuff flying out of the wells in the Abe games and out of the Big Well. But that can't possibly be all it is, because Abe can fall into the Big Well while stuff is being blown out. And what's that big 'boom' sound all about?
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