Tears of the Goddess

In the Aeon of the Champion story series, the Tears of the Goddess are the crystallised essence of the Fairy Godmother, fallen to Middle-Earth as raw pieces of arcane magic. She supposedly shed these tears in reaction to the desolation of the planet after it was ravaged by two Sin Wars The faes believed that this was the source of their power, and used it to bless the natural flora of the newly re-ordered planet by creating the enchanted forests. It was said that in doing so, the Goddess would cry tears of joy - rather than sadness - at the blossoming of plants and other vegetation on the realm, thus eternally supplying the fairies with magic to power their kingdom.

The dark fairy Morgana later proved that faes could draw their power from other, darker sources, by tapping into the chaotic magic of the Nether to tear holes in the magic shield around Prismdale. These holes acted as gateways into the Nether, allowing the life-destroying magic of those accursed planes to seep into the fairy world.