Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5106672-20141117061053/@comment-25602483-20141120043110

Andrew.scott.503 wrote: Magic HAS to work in the LWM - otherwise Storybrooke's curse could not function, yes? '''I think the issue is that there is no 'natural' sources of Magic in the LWM. Everything/anything magical has to be imported. Think of this way - Hawaii has no petroleum resources to make gasoline (be a bit pointless to build an oil refinery or build oil wells) - however, that doesn't mean that imported gasoline won't work in the cars there.''' No magic doesnt have to exist in order to occur in storybrooke. Since the purpose of the curse is to bring everyone into a LWM it was casted from the Land with magic. The reason its restriction worked in storybrook, ie the town line limit is because the curse is magic itself and  created its own space in LWM as you can see no one can really find it, instead of bringing them in a town that actually exist in LWM, like warping them to new york, but the curse maid its own world within LWM. Even the well, its basically the water from lake nostos which is why rumple was able to restore magic in the first place.

The reason LWM doesn't have magic is because it doesn't have magic, the fairy tale land itself, and I mean the land, the world itself it magic, hence, inhabitants can use magic ie, the diamonds mined by dwarves are magic. Magic is needed to be brough in LWM in order magic to function. In fact when the dragon said magic is rare, its probably items brought back from the land with magic, hence, its rare because it is hard to warp oneself to LWM, or to other world for that matter.