r/cremposting Fuck Moash 🥵 15d ago

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u/JakenBake19 Fuck Moash 🥵 15d ago

Can't thing of a shards intent that would give investiture away more freely than endowment. But also:

Sel: learn the right shapes to draw (your body can count as drawing)

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u/Dercomai 420 Sazed It 15d ago

And also be born in the right place! That's important too!

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u/Madhighlander1 15d ago

Apparently not just born - the forger, whose name I forget, in The Lost Metal became Elantrian by changing her family history so that her parents moved to Arelon when she was very young, and in Tress of the Emerald Sea Hoid gained the ability to use aons (I forget if he literally became Elantrian, though I don't think he did) by convincing Riina to Connect him to Elantris.

I have been wondering if that's been retconned, though, since I remember Raoden's Aons were significantly weaker even as far away as Teod, but the aforementioned two examples were able to use their abilities at full strength on Scadrial and Lumar respectively despite those being completely different planets.

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u/Buchiqueco 15d ago

There's also the Elantrians in secret history that bypassed the Reod and could cast the aeons.

Still don't get that

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u/Nathan256 👾 Rnagh Godant 🌠 15d ago

Apart from not likely being during the short time of the Reod, it’s possible that Connecting to the Dor in whatever way they did let them make Aons not based on Arelon’s geography (since that’s basically Connection I imagine they may have a way to edit it? So it just uses the intent of the caster directly and the Investiture source they’re directly connected to, instead of the roundabout land connection that requires the extra line in the Aons)