Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3257939-20140521172812/@comment-24891101-20140523201815

Zolnir wrote:

Okay, let's describe it your way, if only to make you betetr understand things. Say that they're drawn to strong souls and they want to eliminate it, or feed on it, or whatever.

Then why the hell aren't they attacking humans right now?

Note that the world is still largely populated by the Grimm, and that no matter how well equiped mankind are there's only so many Hunters. If the Grimm's sole purpose in this world is to destroy everything that has a soul, then why haven't they thrown everything they had at the human now? I thought they were. Isn't that the whole point of Hunters? That they're not venturing out of the forest simply means there are animals in the forest, which also have souls. They don't magically know where all the humans are just because they hunt things with souls. They probably can't "smell" them; they're too far away. They might also have quorum sensing, and only ferociously assault humans settlements when there's enough of them. It's not making a decision, it's simply an algorithm. The forest, being near to a major city, has an insufficient population of Grimm to trigger an attack.

I do agree that something is driving them, though.

Do note that the metaphysics of Remnant are demonstrably different than our own world. The existence of the Creatures of Grimm, plus aura, and Monty's intimations of reincarnation suggest that the soul does exist.