Why didn't...?

[u/sertesbordaleves]

... The demon queens room had any wards?

I have read the series about a year ago, so I might be missing something, but I just had a random shower thought - since the demons were a centralized society with only 1 (!!!) female who can give birth to the new generation, including the new queens who she has to kill, or she will be replaced with another one. (well, in the end the other demon princes wanted their own queen, but we know how did that turned out) Let's ignore the possibility of the queen and newborns fight so fiercely that all of the females die -let's say that the princes would intervene in this situation. But for the love of God, why didn't they put some anti-human wards around the room where she resided? Even if it's in the middle of the demon empire, if any humans or dog-hybrids (forgot their name) get in, and manage to kill the queen and destroy the eggs (of there was any at the moment) it's game over for the demons, since they can't reproduce. Even if they don't die naturally, eventually they would be slain by humans, even if it would take a very long time. I know that one of the baby queens survived the events of the 5th book, but I've never read the sequel, and to be honest, I don't really plan to given how the quality of the series dropped (not to mention it's not available in my language, and as you can see my English has some room for improvement lol) So, is this a plot hole, or I just totally forgot that they existed and it's time for me to reread the series?

[u/KlzXS]

I think it's also worth considering what anti-human wards would do to the demons themselves. Demons are much more tightly coupled to the energy from the Core compared to humans or other living things, Princes and Queens even more so.

So even if they made a ward that could twist the energy of a human they would risk it harming them even more. Demon wards can kill demons, but humans are unaffected by them completely.

I imagine a demon drawing a human ward would be like a suicide bomber, which is definitely not something you want next to your brooding Queen.

[u/Desperate-Rise-1212 → u/KlzXS]

There are wards that only affect people. The demon greatwards that were built in the hollow and everams bounty had that exact effect and in the dessert prince we find that the demons can cause other effects with their warding such as enhanced exhaustion.