It's the origin that most easily explains any power combinations. No science or tech or genetics requiring a backstory or explainations, just one word: Magic. Done. Easy. Or at least that's my theory.
Not to be contrary, but coming from a game like EvE Online (where even we joke about "space magic"), I've come to embrace the way that Arthur C. Clarke explained the fuzzy line between technology and magic.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Magic is an easy hand-wave at the explanation, but tech and science aren't much harder to buy into once you scale them up some.
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Not to be contrary, but coming from a game like EvE Online (where even we joke about "space magic"), I've come to embrace the way that Arthur C. Clarke explained the fuzzy line between technology and magic.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Magic is an easy hand-wave at the explanation, but tech and science aren't much harder to buy into once you scale them up some.