Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20181103233945/@comment-36170150-20190719210637

The Fulminato wrote: it's the same mechanism both estaven and simon use in the first phase of the war, in that case the FL was fueled by the sex frustration he create in erosia with his spell, and simon from his harem. because all strong emotion have power one can use to power himself and fear is a very strong emotion. I don't think so, at least for the base spell.

Incubus Kings can normally draw power from lust energy and create sexual links, that is normal behavior for the shards. What Estaven's spell was doing is prevent people from having sex so that they were always pent up and full of lust energy, and then making it so he could harvest that extra lust energy through the sexual links.

However, I do think that Simon's "ascended" lust magic that he used to beat Estaven, which originated from the love his harem had for him, worked in the mechanism you described: strong emotions, beliefs, and trends of thoughts can affect the Tower, and then with the proper know-how, the entity to which those emotions and beliefs are directed at can draw real power from the Tower.

Estaven's fear-mongering attempt was probably inspired by how Simon defeated him, he researched the spell Simon used against him and then tried to make a fear-based one rather than a love-based one.