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Well, that certainly renders the Sands more consistent. I've  wonder whether the laws of magic are more along the lines of "you can't break the laws and have it work out the way you want" (unless you give Nyx cookies, of course). You can't raise the dead and have it work out: they'll just be insane and in agony. You can't travel through time and have it work out: you won't change anything you want to, and from a human perspective events will look very much the same. You can't manufacture love and have it work out: people will just do what you want, without their actual feelings changing (maybe).

It would fit with the idea that (1) magic has a price, so breaking the rules should have the biggest price, as well as that (2) Nyx is in charge of magic, and is actively preventing any attempts at rule-breaking from working out.