Magic, and Nature people.

Magic can seem like a very complicated thing, though in truth is fairly simple.  Magic is a high form of energy, invisible to the naked eye, that penetrates all of Creation, or is sometime thought of as an affect of the Fall, the shattered power of Man.  Angels use the power God gives them, Nature folk, Faerie, use magic, and are even seen as the patrons of it.  Some humans can tap into the magical energy, wizards, magicians, and so forth, and use it to their will.  Large streams of magical energy on Earth are called Ley lines, and can be seen on the sixth plane, by those with planar sight, or by a Leyode, and there are many famous ley lines around the world, Mt. Olympus, the Jordan River, Stonehenge, Mt. Adams, and many other places.  There are different ways of casting spells, wizards, an archaic term not used very often today, tend to draw magic from items or faerie, magicians draw off their own energy, druids draw upon ley lines and nature directly, and witches tend to summon faerie and monsters to do their biding, daemons use monsters as their minions, that is why witches were persecuted, and not wizards and sorcerers, besides, monsters and the like tended to stand around as their master witch was burning.  

Nature people, are beings of magic, comprised of one of the five Elements: earth, water, fire, air, and aether.  Gnomes, for example, are earth faerie, elves, on the other hand, are aether faerie.  Faerie come in all shapes and sizes, from small, winged pixies, to big, tall trolls, and are found all over the world, like the dragon, a greedy, winged, fire-breathing monster in Europe, to a benevolent, wise, wingless creature in the Orient.  Mankind has been in contact with nature folk from day one, faerie lived in the trees and rivers of Eden, and were looked after by Adam, though faerie also looked after Adam and the human race.  Faeries' task in this world is to look after their particular Element, gnomes look after dirt and minerals, nymphs watch over rivers, springs and lakes, and so forth, part of their tasks are to bring Elemental nourishment to babies, since we are a combination of all the Elements, and children until they are seven, then the child's Elemental nourishment is complete, and a guardian angel is to look after the child.  Nature people are beings of free will, and normally exists as essence, their raw Element, but can take on a physical form via magic, and can be good and evil, or rather better or worse, though faerie, unlike men, are usually either extreme.  The Twelve Peoples of the Faerie are as follows: elves, gnomes, goblins, pixies, nyads, centaurs, sprites, ogres, dwarfs, daemons, gremlins, trolls.