Talk:Demon Lord/@comment-38413939-20190204182343/@comment-10429980-20190210173913

@Timjer: I continue because I honestly enjoy these sorts of debates, especially since Pollux hasn't resorted to insults and he seems to like at least some of the setting, enough to at least learn more about the lore than most critics.

@Pollux:

And I am saying that if he enters another reality then he would be subject to its rules (though I guess it depends on the author's own views, to me this is how being transported to an alternate reality should work). i.e. because he is alive he would start producing mana. And even if he somehow didn't then there would surely be magics that could kickstart the ability. It just seems to be a non issue, as again monsters love more than the man's mana. Indeed, its their feelings for the man himself that cause his essence to taste so much better.

And the "addiction" is in practice no worse than our "addiction" to food. Indeed, one could say our addiction to food is worse. Food withdrawal symptoms always end in death (starvation), whereas monsters can survive on things other than essence. Regardless, I don't see why its a big deal. The benefits to becoming "addicted" to eating essence are far greater than any costs.

What indication has ever been made that mana amount has anything to do with monsters getting pregnant? The only advantage incubi have in getting a monster pregnant is that they can have sex for longer periods and more often (plus release more sperm at a time), thus increasing the odds. Monsters just have generally low fertility, nothing I recall says anything about mana having anything to do with it. Monsters eat essence, they don't use it to get pregnant.

The sphinx's decision in MGQ is not painted as being right or wrong, hence why you can respond to it in different ways and she will admit both views have a valid point. Honestly, we aren't given enough information on what transforming her husband into a monster would have meant for me to be confident one way or another. The rules of MGQ are too different, and sometimes ill defined, to really apply them to the MGE world.