" The nether is incompatible with the ether, with small and short lasting usage and exposure permanent changes wont take place, but much like placing your hand near a fire, eventually it too will burn and scar. It was speculated that the reason why the creatures in the silent woods were turning into monsters had something to do with the nether. Once some of the people who ventured there had been sighted as somehow transformed, it was almost certain that the unrest in the forest was due to a chaotic aberration, a creature which had been pulled from the nether."