<p>I don't think this as been addressed in the anime, but I imagine gods have to fight off things to stay alive and uncorrupted. Remember that purple painful skin after a god touches a monster? Well, that needs to be avoided.</p>

<p>Without a weapon (regalia), if fast enough, a god can just run away or dodge attacks to avoid any danger. Yato was pretty strong on his own and his opponents were surprised by his personal abilities on multiple occasions.</p>

<p>But it is a god's duty to protect the human world (Near Shore) from the creatures of Far Shore, and only running away makes them pretty useless for this cause. Bad creatures will be left to trouble people and other gods, which might result in bad reputation, and furthermore additional hostility from gods and humans. People's prayers would not be answered (at least those involving bad creatures) and remember that "supergod commitee" which got pretty pissed off at one point and tried to destroy a fellow god for doing what they thought was wrong without investigating too much. Wouldn't wanna risk that.</p>

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Hakase
<p>Basically, for a god, a regalia is like clothes. Without a regalia, a god is considered "but-naked". A regalia is necessary for a god's survival as the regalia is a god's sole weapon to protect themselves from blight (pain caused by darkness either dark-thoughts of their regalias or physical contact with phantoms).</p>

<p>In the time of war (Yato being a war of god or god of calamity), the only motive was "to kill or to be killed" and that's why a regalia is important to protect their master's (god's) life. Most of the times (for calamity gods), it is necessary to kill to fulfill wishes, therefore a weapon i.e. regalia is needed. Plus, there is a need of regalia to kill phantoms too, to fulfill wishes.</p>

<p>A god with no regalia cannot survive for long in the world.</p>

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Varun
<p>What happens to gods without a regalia? I am writing a blog and want to know for details. I know Yato mentions it but i can't remember!</p>

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What makes you think they have to have them? If you're unsure of what Yato said, then how can we be sure of what you're talking about?
кяαzєя
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Voting to reopen this question. Seems like a fairly straightforward question to me, independent of whether Yato has himself said anything on this topic or not.
Ashishgup
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nothing happens actually. regalias are their weapons so they only get relatively weaker versus ayakashis and other enemies.
Bahamut
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@Hakase add that as an answer
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What happens to gods with no regalias?
# What happens to gods with no regalias?
Posted by: username_0 on 2016-02-15
What happens to gods without a regalia? I am writing a blog and want to know for details. I know Yato mentions it but i can't remember!
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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: What makes you think they have to have them? If you're unsure of what Yato said, then how can we be sure of what you're talking about?  
> **username_2**: Voting to reopen this question. Seems like a fairly straightforward question to me, independent of whether Yato has himself said anything on this topic or not.  
> **username_3**: nothing happens actually. regalias are their weapons so they only get relatively weaker versus ayakashis and other enemies.  
> **username_4**: @Hakase add that as an answer  
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### Answer by username_5 on 2016-02-18. Score: 5
I don't think this as been addressed in the anime, but I imagine gods have to fight off things to stay alive and uncorrupted. Remember that purple painful skin after a god touches a monster? Well, that needs to be avoided.

Without a weapon (regalia), if fast enough, a god can just run away or dodge attacks to avoid any danger. Yato was pretty strong on his own and his opponents were surprised by his personal abilities on multiple occasions.

But it is a god's duty to protect the human world (Near Shore) from the creatures of Far Shore, and only running away makes them pretty useless for this cause. Bad creatures will be left to trouble people and other gods, which might result in bad reputation, and furthermore additional hostility from gods and humans. People's prayers would not be answered (at least those involving bad creatures) and remember that "supergod commitee" which got pretty pissed off at one point and tried to destroy a fellow god for doing what they thought was wrong without investigating too much. Wouldn't wanna risk that.
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### Answer by username_6 on 2018-01-02. Score: 0
Basically, for a god, a regalia is like clothes. Without a regalia, a god is considered "but-naked". A regalia is necessary for a god's survival as the regalia is a god's sole weapon to protect themselves from blight (pain caused by darkness either dark-thoughts of their regalias or physical contact with phantoms).

In the time of war (Yato being a war of god or god of calamity), the only motive was "to kill or to be killed" and that's why a regalia is important to protect their master's (god's) life. Most of the times (for calamity gods), it is necessary to kill to fulfill wishes, therefore a weapon i.e. regalia is needed. Plus, there is a need of regalia to kill phantoms too, to fulfill wishes.

A god with no regalia cannot survive for long in the world.
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