"Stevie. If they have magic at all. They're getting it from an entity. You know how this place works," Winter says impatiently. "So the ability to take your name-- and the ability to hold illusions over all the people they hold them over-- came from fear, one way or another."

Not that he's necessarily saying it was malicious, either-- faeries gonna faerie-- but there has to be something rotten in there somewhere if there's magic in this world.