Board Thread:Fanon Canon/@comment-2089817-20151121173630/@comment-18812574-20151123154723

I've wondered about this myself actually. The population of the world, despite the Quincy killin' off a handful of Hollows, continues to grow. So I figure new souls HAVE to come from somewhere. Soul King seems the most likely candidate.

But I think the power-level thing should be the other way around. There are more people = more people have power but they're not AS powerful, whereas in the past you had fewer individuals with power but those who were were extremely powerful. That would seem logical to me at any rate. You know, "wealth dilution" or whatever. However that has not been shown to be the case in canon, and in fact seems to be the opposite, so it's a bit of a puzzle. Maybe it's never changed.