Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4519633-20141022032431/@comment-25926288-20161014002748

KnocknickKnock wrote: Eskaver wrote: If we go by the infamous "raw power" determinant, it still remains unknown what limit the Author's Quill has. Besides that, we have iffy magical connotations when battling or breaking a protection spell.

Protection Spells is speculated by me to be:

(1) You can't break the protection spell at all. This would mean that you are weaker than the caster. (Blue tried to break Rumple's spell in season 2 and got nowhere).

(2) You can break the protection spell over a brief period of time. This means that you are equal.

(3) You can break the protection spell easily. You are likely stronger.

But then this is complicated by the type of protection spell. There are protection spells formed from potioncraft and items, protection spells from a caster, and blood-magic protection spells. In oder of strength, caster's is weaker than potioncraft and blood magic.

But rambling over, the Author's power is never matched against anything. Assuming that Henry could actually write someone back to life in the underworld, then he's essentially close to Diety tier, but he's lesser. But Regina could as easily stuck a heart into some person (from her heart collection) and perform the same task.

Feats are essentially what many lack. From Rumple to the Author and beyond. The author per the writers words can only write history not fiction. per the writers words in a interview with EW! that happened recently.

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/10/12/once-upon-time-spoilers-hot-seat-season-6 I saw. But that was a vague answer. Isaac gave Cruella powers, poofed away, and conjured stuff. Isaac created a world inside a book that could stay that way, nearly forever without interference. Only Henry's morals seem to be stopping him.

It suffers a bit from what Once's magic suffers from: What can it not do? Why lax limitations? I assume the Author can esentially do everything a magic user can do, but we hardly know what that is.

Example: Rule of Teleportating things: Need to know where that individual (or item) is. Can teleport to a place that you can think of (have memory of) etc.

By the way Isaac treated the Quill, it would seem that anyone could make another one if they so desired.

Magic is weird on Once. A small group of people managed to generate a townful of magic (that essentially the magic Rumple, Regina, Zelena, Emma and countless others use). Magic is an unknown energy that's environmental, but also internal.