Quote Originally Posted by Chives View Post
All Wildbow's stories so far take place in a shared universe which gives us a handful of ways to get power there besides gaining a shard. For example, Myrddin could be a wizard from Pact who slipped through the cracks and ended up in Worm.

Also for Imp, 90% sure Behemoth could see her so there's some kind of rule regulating who can see her and who can't.
Well that's actually the heart of my theory that magic does really exist in the wormverse, its just that the Worms learned it from a species they passed by and its all mixed up with the other stuff they have. Also its the reason I think that Smurf could learn magic from someones mind the same way that she can learn tech. Also I'm fairly certain that Behemoth and the other endbringers being able to sense her might have been an effect of how they all view the world with deranged senses. Either that or a programmed in immunity attached to one or the other shards.