The concept of Life in the MGE universe is very different as it is in our world.
We are born.
We live.
We grow.
And we die.
However for sentient creatures that are touched by mamono energy, the cycle runs differently.
We are born.
We live.
We grow.
And we come home.
The source of this difference is Mamono Energy.
Both Mamono and their husbands have a finite amount of Life Energy that is expended and will eventually extinguish.
For a normal sentient creature that is not touched by Mamono Energy, death is the natural outcome of the full depletion of Life Energy.
For sentient creatures that are touched by mamono energy, the depletion of Life Energy starts a process that is characterized by four distinct stages.
STAGE 1 (Less than 1 year of Life Energy left.)
A mamono and her husband will grow extremely agitated and restless. They will feel like there is “something they need to do”
The Mamono Energy that sustains their youth and vigor begins to take over more areas of their essence now that their Life Energy is receding from it. They find themselves needing to have even more sex than ever before just to “feel normal.”
STAGE 2 (Less than 6 months of Life Energy left)
A mamono and her husband will start to have extremely vivid shared lucid dreams. They will have an overwhelming compulsion to travel to a specific point that they somehow “know” its location.
Both Mamono and her husband will also have an overwhelming compulsion to settle their affairs. Appetite is fully absent during this phase as their Mamono Energy begins to overwhelm their Life Energy.
STAGE 3 (Less than 2 months of Life Energy left)
A mamono and her husband will have already started to journey to the destination they see in their dreams. Even if they resist with all their might, they will sleepwalk towards the location. By this time, their Mamono Energy has fully enveloped their Life Energy and has begun to consume it to reinvigorate their bodies to even greater strength than ever before.
STAGE 4 (Less than 3 weeks of Life Energy left)
A mamono and her husband will become obsessed with reaching the destination they saw in their dreams and know the location of. At this point they stopped having sex, are unable to sleep, and food tastes vile and rotten. They only drink and rush to the destination they are being called to.
HOME; THE UNDERWORLD
The destination the Mamono and her husband are obsessed with finding is the ever-changing gateway to The Underworld, which has the most concentrated, and an infinite wellspring of Mamono Energy.
Reaching The Underworld is easy enough for High-to-Elite practitioners of magic, and if either the Mamono or her husband is sufficiently trained, they will recognize their change and make the journey by magical means well ahead of even the first stage.
There is a tentative STAGE 5 of the process where the Life Energy is fully depleted and the Mamono and her husband expire. But their essence (and soon after, their bodies) will then manifest in The Underworld.
Once the Mamono and her husband arrive in the Underworld, their Life Energy is immediately extinguished, and their Mamono Energy fully takes over, and functions now as a near-perfect replacement of Life Energy, continuing life indefinitely for both Mamono and her husband in The Underworld, allowing them to start their eternal “Afterlife”. Life is new, senses are enhanced, appetite returns and the life lived prior to returning home is seen as a dull experience compared to the new life awaiting before them.
This eternal Afterlife is made possible by the infinite amount of Mamono Energy in The Underworld that will serve as a wellspring of eternal life for any living sentient entity that has been touched by Mamono Energy.
If a Mamono and her husband live in a “Mamono Kingdom” the abundance of Mamono Energy will drastically slow down the need for a Mamono and her husband to travel to The Underworld.
In fact, some Mamono Realms are so saturated with Mamono Energy, that it is possible for a Mamono and her husband to reside in the land of the living even with zero life energy indefinitely.
Because Mamono Energy in enough abundance can so perfectly replace Life Energy, there is a common belief that Mamonos and their husbands are immortal.
Such immortality is possible given the right circumstances.
In The Underworld? Yes
In a rich, dense Mamono Energy infused Kingdom or Nation? Possible.
In the world of the living, in normal lands or nations? No.
Undead Mamono and their partners are a special case. They already have had their Life Energy extinguished, but due to their “flesh” having already expired, it requires exponentially less mamono energy to maintain.
Even still, most undead Mamono are not found far from Undead Kingdoms or Mamono Nations / Realms. They can continue to exist in the land of the living with far less Mamono Energy than their still-living counterparts.
Long lived Mamono, such as Dragons unconsciously sustain their husbands by slowly burning and transferring her own Life Energy to fuel her husband’s mamono energy production to keep her husband alive with her.
The ratio of Life Energy is approximately; for every one year of Life Energy a Mamono burns and transfers, her husband will be sustained for one hundred years.
Non-flesh Mamono, such as automations are sustained by her husband’s spirit energy to allow her to produce Mamono Energy. Due to her body being “inorganic” her Mamono Energy consumption is extremely low.
END OVERVIEW
There is a life and death cycle, even within the MGE universe. However, for Mamono and their husbands, Mamono Energy makes a seamless transition between one stage of life, to the next.
1) Mamonos and their husbands have a finite amount of Life Energy.
Once their life energy is depleted, they will either find their way to The Underworld, to a Mamono Energy rich nation or kingdom, or pass on and still end up in The Underworld.
2) Mamono Energy will eventually replace Life Energy in a Mamono and her husband.
The bodies of both Mamono and her husband will eventually adapt and use mamono energy exclusively to fuel life.
End V.4.0