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Hmm, I must've missed that part about the Wheel in her conversation (I was playing through the endgame around 4 am :D). Of course, it's possible she got that part wrong, or that the gods are simply leeching on the Wheel, yeah.

...eating souls? From what I've gathered, I think that the Wheel may be an artificial construction made by the synthetic gods to feed themselves, by which they're very slowly bleeding out and weakening the kith. Early on we learn that whenever a kith dies (except for Watcher souls), their soul loses a few parts, and then it intercepts some from another soul upon rebirth - but always less than it lost. It is suggested that the total amount of "soul stuff" leaving the Wheel is smaller from what enters it (so it's not just population growth or trapped/lost souls). So where does it go? Well, since the gods are artificial, and were made out of souls (Thaos's memory), and can get stronger by consuming them (Woedica's plan), I think they're eating the soul bits in order to survive. In time this leads to weaker souls, less able to cope with struggles and adversity, and it may eventually result in a world-wide Hollowborn outbreak. Also, this makes sense on narrative level. PoE is likely the first part of a trilogy (or something along those lines), and we already have plenty of clues that gods can be killed: Godhammer incident, the fact they were made by advanced animancy (so advanced animancy should be also able to unmake them), and that they were made from souls (which can be destroyed). I think that killing a god or two in an open battle, and then destroying the rest of them, would be a fitting end for the series. Of course, this is all just speculation. Thoughts?

http://store.steampowered.com//eula/291650_eula_1 - 6.D Anyone who legally downloaded this game from Steam had to agree to this EULA (see its opening), and thus gave Devs the consent to alter it.