Warding of the Uncrowned Depth

Translation Error

The original spell is not a hard block. It doesn't override free will. What this spell does is make it so that the protected person cannot be found by the force that would turn them into a Night Monarch or in the case of a former Night Monarch, stops them from turning Undead at the beginning of November. The ward doesn't prevent the person from being nominated or voted for. It prevents the supernatural tether from attaching. This makes the ward a veil, and a mercy. It protects without controlling.

Lady Wynter misinterprets several lines and makes a word choice error. In the original, these three lines are a protective legal clause:
"I do not bind the will.
I do not sever the choice.
I do not steal the vote."

In the ancient language, the negation marker is written as a thin reef-hook stroke which can be mistaken for a flourish, a water-damage crack, or a decorative tide-mark. Lady Wynter, under stress and rushing, read these marks as emphasis rather than negation. So, her version became:
"I bind the will.
I sever the choice.
I steal the vote."

Plus, she mistranslated 'dark force's' as "Monarch's' Lady Wynter's translation makes the ward a command spell. It doesn't just make the person unclaimable, it forcibly denies their candidacy. So, the Deep responds with resistance, backlash and magic drain because Lady Wynter is trying to enforce something the spell was explicitly designed not to do. Author's Note: The crown mentioned here is specific to the Night Monarch.