How does magic, at base, work in Westeros?  Most of us must have pondered this at one point or another and developed some kind of placeholder theory that explains to ourselves, if no one else, what's going on, pending further developments.  I have my own but I'm very interested in yours, too, so hopefully forum posters will share. Mine goes like this in a broad sense: when Martin said that the inconsistency of the seasons is not sci-fi based but 'magic', I thought we could take that in two