That palm surgery thing sounds a lot like someone's been reading Terry Pratchett. He invented the Discworld concept of "retrophrenology", which involves special clubs and mallets to rearrange the bumps on your head to alter your future.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
