Since this experience is common to all humanity, the effects and connections share a universal quality and applicability. To attempt to describe the effects would be futile, as they are quite mystic in nature. However, this emotional impact, stemming from the experience of life-magic, is essential to Faerie, and its absence implies the absence of Faerie. A second characteristic of Faerie is the heroic struggle. As a rule, the antagonist overwhelms the protagonist, allowing little or no hope for success.
Success always comes, though, as surely as the sun rises.
Whether the conflict is a war against an overpowering army or a battle of wits with a genius, good will triumph. Happy endings go hand in hand with fantasy. War, the ultimate struggle, has declined on Earth to an impersonal affair of missiles and guns. War in Faerie is a heroic struggle against the forces of evil for personal freedom. Those warriors on the field of honor earn their victory with their hands.