User blog comment:Inept Wiki User/Scary Stuff/@comment-17714224-20140906061403/@comment-3969505-20140914221532

"I'm not even going to go into the fact that this isn't even the original universe. It's just one the millions that has been created over the years which suggests that original universe was probably ours"

Actually that would be a good explanation for why there are so many weirdo alternate history divergence points from ours, other then the presence of real, reliable magic powers (bleeding into major religious sects) and the establishment of something like Academy City.