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Eskaver wrote: Hmcooper4 wrote: I think that there may be different rules depending on where the Author is located. For example, the Apprentice told Henry that the quill is unable to ressurect the dead in the overworld, but heavily implied that it does have some capability in the UW to perform that task. Likely it may be limited within the realm it is being used. This all-powerful quill must have limitations or there'd be no stopping it!

It need not just limitations. Last season, when Issac used the quill, he just scribbled down a single line "Cruella will never be able to kill again", and it happened. I'm not sure how Walt wielded that quill but I'm pretty sure his using of this power has gotta be more sophisticated than that. R.L.Stine's Goosebumps got it correct - even as an author, to go against his own book creations he'd need to write an entire piece fit for a proper story, and not just a few lines - complete with beginning, development, twist, climax and finale, then finish with a proper "The End" to complete the circle and have the effects take place. Issac wielded the quill too easy it felt no weight, no pressure or sense of responsibility or anything.

I still love Once, but I really don't like it when Henry can just write "Cruella is brought back to life" of lines like that and it just happens. Wish I could see how Henry would take it if he has to write an entire chapter of story to revive one person.