Others' Island (spoilers all books incl RWC)

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A quick point re Kennit's charm...the wizardwood was placed "exactly over his pulse point"...this seemed to be particularly important for the charm to work so may have possibly contributed to the quickening also (as being different from other quickenings requiring a life force to enter it).

Another thought is that it WAS designed as a charm to ward off the glamours/magic of the Others while on the island. Possibly it quickened simply because it HAD to at that point (first when Kennit came face-to-face with the Other, it assisted him with seeing through the Other's glamour, and then the charm actually spoke to him at last, while he was upon the path and being drawn in by its attraction). Life force or no, the charm had to quicken as that is what it was made to do via the spell that had been placed on it. Once quickened, it could not revert back to being unquickened and so remained a force in Kennit's life even after they left the island.

My memory may be a bit fuzzy but isn't Kennit's wizardwood charm from the Paragon? Wasn't it one of the larger chunks that resulted from Kennit chopping Paragon's face?

That was how he murdered the entire crew by poisoning the soup with the block of wizardwood.

Given that, wouldn't the chunk of wizardwood already been quickened? Perhaps all that was needed was a face for it to function.