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* [[Tom Holt]]'s novel ''Here Comes The Sun'' is about a group of grumpy and [[Celestial Bureaucracy|bureaucratic]] beings responsible for ensuring the sun rises and the Nile delta floods and so on.
* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' the conflict between the Summer and Winter Courts of the Sidhe have a major impact on the change of the seasons and the overall climate of the planet. Global Warming is attributed to Summer having a slight advantage over the last few decades.
* In ''[[The King Killer Chronicle]]'', the moon disappearing from the sky isn't caused by the moon being between the sun and the Earth, it's because when it's not in the sky, the moon is actually elsewhere, serving as the moon of Fae. This phenomenon may have been caused when a boy named Jax (Actually Iax, a long dead Namer, and purportedly the greatest of them all at the time.) learned the moon's name and partially trapped it in a box, hence the [[Just
* In the ''[[Mune Shinri]]'' (which the video game ''[[Oracle of Tao]]'' is loosely based on), reality is run by scientific laws, as much of the empirical world accepts. But behind thoses laws, the people keeping them working are various spirits, and a group of beings called [[Shinigami|Reapers]].
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Oracle of Tao]]'' has the entire universe operate not through faeries, but through [[Sufficiently Analyzed Magic|mechanistic laws]] (for instance, fire magic runs on principles of thermodynamics, meteorological principles for thunder and cold magic, et cetera). The [[Dark World]] works also works, but on entropy rather than energy. But the reverse is true, that everything from electricity to magnetism relies on faith, strong will, or emotions. This would all be normal, except mundane things like cellphones and ATM machines also run on magic, and the former can [[
* In ''[[Zan Zarah]]'', everything in the eponymous [[Another Dimension]] is powered by faeries (small magical mostly non-sentient creatures): stone faeries hold mountains together, nature ones make trees grow, water ones keep rivers flowing, etc., etc.
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