Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20181103233945/@comment-36170150-20190110015023

Not 100% sure on any of the magical science but here's some thoughts, Alonon stated that everything in the TLS universe exists from the interactions between Lust energies and Purity energies, no one can be 100% one or the other because then they couldn't live.

Its estabilished that Incubus Kings need to have sex to survive, otherwise they waste away. What if the Goddesses need worship in the same way Incubus Kings need sex? Since sex can be directly attributed to Lust energies, devotion and worship are probably the things that can be attributed to Purity energies.

Of course this doesn't mean every goddess needs to have an entire race worshipping them to survive or even to thrive, Simon survived the entirety of chapter 1 with a small harem, the Goddess of Magic probably survived for a long while with just her small cult, it could be a quality vs quantity kind of thing, people like the Mother and the Fucklord going for quantity while Simon and the GoM go for quality.

I'm not sure how all of this plays out with the whole immortality discussion, but maybe the whole "wasting away" thing has to do with the shard not being properly fed and then turning on its own host until they have too much of one of their energies consumed and they cease.