The Arbiter explained, "In the Void worlds, there are no mages. Nobody here has any inherent magic, or we couldn't survive out here. We're just able to use artifacts that are found, until they run out of power on their own... Andy has some imperfect ways of figuring out how much power there is, but it's human scholars who actually have to figure it out and catalog it. Andy does not have intuition, just a perfect memory and the ability to do perfect calculations." She smiled and patted the ward. "That comes at a cost, of course, but Andy is worth it." "What's the cost?" Miria asked. *** * Image: * Meta: Only gods have magic, the realm Walker and his ilk, but they can't survive in the void. They need a fully functional planet sphere to sustain them. Earth is special because the gods battled and one God won, but I plan to be very careful to never say which onexcf (although as a shorthand I like the idea of calling him Ian -- as in `I am`). However, now that that God has complete control over the planetary everything, he is able to do without needing to spend his power on miracles. He takes all the inherent power of Earth and he uses it for his own purposes, which are unknown. And of course winning the war with the other gods used up a great deal of his power. This is meant to explain why Miria's Earth has no obvious magic (teleportation discs are science :P), and * Addendum: * References: * Shared: [Discord](https://discord.com/channels/954068589885923389/1272528868233842721/1272531355342864558)