at least you can do it , it ' s at our sleeping time here lol <| sep |> In the fantasy novel I ' m writing magic is a sort of third state much like energy and matter . The Greeks called it Aether or q u i ntessenceclassicalelement # Fifthelement but it has been known by other names over the centuries . In its purest form it is crystal but a portion of it permeates every living , dead or inanimate thing in the universe . Human magic users aren ' t able to directly tap into this because they have basically lost touch with nature due to their greed and weaknesses . Its the reason why there is the threefold ruleWicca in places like Wicca or other real world magic . Humans use an indirect approach when tapping into the quintessence of the universe due to their fall from grace in the ancient past . Animals , on the other hand haven ' t lost touch with nature so they are able to use magic freely without consequeces . Magic cannot be destroyed and more can be made . Magic can corrupt or it can be corrupted . The parts of the world have different levels of quintessence permeating them . In the nonmagical portion where we live and where everything familiar to us is , due to the fall from grace , the levels of quintessence is so low that it has minimal effects on the physics of the universe . The magical part of the world where my novel takes place quintessence levels is much higher to varying degrees . In the places where it is at its most , i . e . the surreal land of Zim for example or Dream Land or Imagination Land , physics pretty much goes out the window . In other places , The Goodland for instance quintessence levels are fairly stable albeit higher than that of the nonmagical part . In some places of the magical part there are anomalies . Two examples would be the Spiral River , a river that flows up around to the peak of Castle Mount , and Hurricane Island , an island with a mountain so tall that it trapped a hurricane around its peak . Then there are places like The Crystal Desert where enormous crystals of magic just grow out from the ground .