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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8813910" data-attributes="member: 6801228">You are pretty close to correct. Close enough that you have the correct show[SPOILER=&quot;Discussing Madoka, spoilers for plot&quot;]So, to go through the order a bit, here is what happens. A creature called a Kyubey finds a young pre-teen girl who is suffering. They offer to grant the girl one wish of their heart's desire, and in exchange they will gain magical powers and fight &quot;Witches&quot;.&nbsp; This is about all they are told.The girl's soul is removed from her body and placed in a gem, leaving her ageless and nearly invincible (they aren't told about that part) and basically turns them into a Lich. The gem is the source of their magic, and since it is also their soul they die when it is destroyed or removed from their body. Using magic corrupts the gem, and only through the use of the &quot;Grief Seeds&quot; dropped by slain Witches, can the gem be purified. Despair and dark emotions also corrupt the gem, and can be &quot;removed&quot; by the use of a Grief Seed. If a gem is fully corrupted, the gem shatters, killing the girl and turning her into a Witch, who will then seek to kill and devour magical girls and humans to gain power. This is often caused by overwhelming despair, which becomes the Witches' default emotional state. (This is also not told to the girls). This does lead to more girls needed to fight more witches, which create more girls needed to fight more witches, but that isn't the &quot;final goal&quot; per se. The energy released by the &quot;wavering emotions&quot; of the girls and witches is utilized by the Kyubey in an attempt to stop entropy. They are emotionless beings and have no sense of morality, so the engine revving up is all good as far as they are concerned, despite the terrifying toll and emotional distress they are continuously inflicting and creating.[/SPOILER]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8813910, member: 6801228"] You are pretty close to correct. Close enough that you have the correct show [SPOILER="Discussing Madoka, spoilers for plot"] So, to go through the order a bit, here is what happens. A creature called a Kyubey finds a young pre-teen girl who is suffering. They offer to grant the girl one wish of their heart's desire, and in exchange they will gain magical powers and fight "Witches". This is about all they are told. The girl's soul is removed from her body and placed in a gem, leaving her ageless and nearly invincible (they aren't told about that part) and basically turns them into a Lich. The gem is the source of their magic, and since it is also their soul they die when it is destroyed or removed from their body. Using magic corrupts the gem, and only through the use of the "Grief Seeds" dropped by slain Witches, can the gem be purified. Despair and dark emotions also corrupt the gem, and can be "removed" by the use of a Grief Seed. If a gem is fully corrupted, the gem shatters, killing the girl and turning her into a Witch, who will then seek to kill and devour magical girls and humans to gain power. This is often caused by overwhelming despair, which becomes the Witches' default emotional state. (This is also not told to the girls). This does lead to more girls needed to fight more witches, which create more girls needed to fight more witches, but that isn't the "final goal" per se. The energy released by the "wavering emotions" of the girls and witches is utilized by the Kyubey in an attempt to stop entropy. They are emotionless beings and have no sense of morality, so the engine revving up is all good as far as they are concerned, despite the terrifying toll and emotional distress they are continuously inflicting and creating. [/SPOILER] [/QUOTE]

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