[quote=@Kafka Komedy]
[@Prince of Seraphs] Ah, I think you are referring to the Holy Pillar. That's not where magic comes from, that's simply a huge pillar of transdimensional energy (SP, as it's called in game). It normally allows travel between parallel universes, but said energies can also be harnessed to alter time. The heroes have a device that can store a little of said energy. They can use it to briefly stop time, but if there is enough SP, then the Compass of Space and Time can send users through time, either forwards or backwards. At least, that's how i understand it.

As for the crystals, they seem to power the world's magic, since, although everyone can use magic freely once they're destroyed, the oceans stagnate and the wind refuses to blow.
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I've never played the game I'm just working off of what you've talking about IC. So in Bravely Default magical power previously stored in crystals used as a power source is then released essentially making the source the Bravely Default environment? Am I getting that right?