Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7014539-20140412191511/@comment-24674051-20150529183717

Eskaver wrote: Only the Author can use the quill, but Anyone can just take it and they are powerless. Put Ana versus Henry and she'd just steal the pen without a problem.

More powerful, but not helpful in a fight or battle unless the have time.

It's more like power from a magic item than acquired. Not to discount them, but the Apprentice can easily just take the quill and just give it to someone else that it chooses. Well, my point is that, at least at the moment, the quill is tied to Henry, granting him the power of the Author. And that power has tremendous potential. ANd this is not a list of Powerful only when they have time, or just in a fight. It is simply most powerful.

And by the argument that it's power from a magic Item, I would almost classify the DO powers in that same category. Rumple without the DO is, to the best of my knowledge, powerless. Point being that I classify the Author's quill (which I am sure that the Apprentice has a spare) in the same category as the Dark One Dagger. (Maybe not quite the same power level, though).