Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-7153552-20130708162914/@comment-3573184-20130910164247

PsijicThief wrote: I agree that a person cannot be any stone, but they can be needed to make it work, much in the way the Septim bloodline was needed to make the Amulet work. That's not entirely correct.

The soulgem at the center of the amulet was made by the Ayleids long before Alessia was even born, and powered White-Gold before her arrival.

When Akatosh messed with the gem, he made it to where only dragonborn could wear it, and it was needed to light the dragonfires, but the amulet itself, even without the dragonborn, could still power White-Gold as it did back in the time of the Ayleids, before Alessia.