No I'm not saying that.
It's like "horses for courses"
Charn is by implication a predominately magical world, so "words" may have greater weight as a value...
BUT transposed to our world the word could represenmt the chemical formula of some substance that has the power to eliminate the complex molecules that are the basuis of life.
I saw a horror film once, where a physist realised that the "spell incantations" in a book of magic had a one to one correpondence to formuloas which defined the rules of the universe. (sort of like interlopers cryptograms)
For me its somewhat late and notr expressing ideas well.. sorry
/me is also a bit down after watching the demise of a character in a tv series which he didn't expect