Hah! No, I go... I went nowhere alone. I just never stayed with anyone, or in one place, long.

[by Need's standards anyway.]

At a high enough level they're the same. A scientific understanding of magic gives it more options, more predictably. Not that the intuitive approach isn't valuable, but when someone was creating a whole species that's supposed to live on after their death, predictable, replicable results were important so the whole team could use them.

It started with just modifying animals. Then someone - don't remember the name - had the bright idea, hey, what if grasswolves had brains modeled after humans? and making a new species of people who loved you as their creator became a fad.