"Something injected into the world by bored Overdeities, like a child who throws a stone into a river to watch the ripples? Or perhaps just a touch of Chaos for the same?"<br/><br/>He paused, and then grinned and shook his head. "Maybe not, but magic is pretty much a way to pull on the threads of the multiverse and tell the laws of reality to shut the hell up and sit the fuck down. Pardon my language. Definitely not something from an otherwise absurdly organized universe."<br/><br/>He paused for a moment, before putting some things together. "I do know that there is a way of... living, thinking, I am not sure what term is correct, but it thins and eventually 'kills', again for want of a better term, magic. I am going to call it technology. Yes, the same thing that I use for my constructs, but since magic is also an integral part of them, it isn't going to turn off magic. That is a fairly low amount of technology against a huge amount of magic. My attempts to increase the technology have produced... lets just call them failures and say no more about them.<br/><br/>Anyway, that is what happened in the planes that gods can't get too, the ones that have disappeared from their lists. Vorela, our home plane is starting to show some subtle signs of drifting that way, so we might want to pull your daughter, her mate, and the rest of their friends out at some point.<br/><br/>Anyway, the point I was getting to before distracting myself is that magic and technology currently seem to be damn near mutually exclusive. A plane or planet, they are one with a couple of exceptions, can be either magic based or tech based."<br/><br/>He paused again, letting everyone catch up with his meandering train of thought, before continuing. "So while magic is currently mandatory for the current status-quo, it isn't the only path. So, magic allows for the massive diversity, and there are dozens if not hundreds of thousands of species that rely on magic to allow them to breed and exist. Gods have the second more than the first, though as most of you have realized... Do I need to finish that?"