BF said “….most precious substance in all the land…powers the world.”
I am just trying to make sense of the different terms.
We’ve heard realm, land, world and worlds.
Taken in context, those major characters (except for the BF) are referring to Storybrooke when speaking of a land without magic.
Emma: Here’s the thing, Jefferson – this is it. This is the real world.
Jefferson: A real world. How arrogant are you to think yours is the only one? There are infinite more. You have to open your mind. They touch one another, pressing up in a long line of lands. Each just as real as the last. All have their own rules. Some have magic, some don’t. And some need magic. Like this one. And that’s where you come in. You and your friend are not leaving here, until you make my hat. Until you get it to work.
That entire quote is idicative of Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” series.
SK wrote himself into the story as himself.
Worlds ‘touched’ and had their own rules.
One of the worlds was ‘our world’ and while it didn’t have magic, it had ‘Thinnies’ or ‘places where the boundries between worlds was thin’.