Yeah. Do daeva even have cells?

Yes, but not nuclei.

That makes a weird amount of sense except for how it completely doesn't.

We can incorporate parts that aren't made of cells - in the most boring case, fingernails are not made of cells - but when we are using tissues that are conventionally made of cells they actually just won't behave right otherwise. But the cells don't need and don't take instructions from DNA.

That is extremely weird even for 'thing that operates by magic'.

Why? It doesn't seem weirder than chakra to me.

If you don't need DNA to function I wouldn't expect cells to work the same way? And chakra has actual sensible rules.

I must have overlooked these sensible rules in between encountering all the plants with teeth and magical gestures that duplicate me.

Chakra follows replicability rules. If you repeat experiments with it you get consistent results.

If you take samples from a hundred daeva and look for nuclei...

Yes but the nuclei aren't there for weird reasons, or the cells are there for equally weird reasons. Why have cells?

Because we're made of meat and meat is made of cells.

And you're made of meat instead of something else because...?

Oh, that seems to be patterning us off humans for some reason, I couldn't tell you why that.

And daeva are only sometimes originally humans.

Most are not. Those look a little different, most of the time, they wind up looking like someone put a handful of ethnicities in a collage and humans usually mix differently than that even when they do have mixed backgrounds.

I wonder where or how the different magic types started.

It is widely suspected that daeva started existing the first time a valid summoning circle was written.

That sounds internally consistent at least.

I suppose! Prompts the question of why there was such a thing as summoning circle validity, but sure.

I didn't say it solved all questions, but yeah. Especially since it's weird we have apparently not had summoning daeva before?

A bad but valid circle is not complicated. So yeah, it's sort of weird it's never happened here by chance.

It might have and then remained secret? Can you get all valid circles from this world?

That is actually a conjurable parameter, I can check.

A decent number that suggests some level of accidental circle-making, but none of them look very purposeful.