Brum and Stoke On Trent are firmly in the hunting belt, purely there to ride horses through. So only a tenuous link to civilisation at best.
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.'