Yeah, take away the magic from the story and what's left is as impressive as some reporter guy called Clark Kent who dresses up in tights and a cape in his spare time. Or the Visible Man.
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.'