Dec-01-2010, 08:35 AM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Dec-01-2010, 08:47 AM (UTC) by Farseer.)
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.
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.
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."