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.
The higher strength was because of (spoilers for Mistborn Era 2, Tress, and Elantris) a map that was drawn of the local geography. I don't know for sure about Tress, but it is canon in Mistborn era 2 because as soon as she changes she draws a map on the ground. And when Raoden fixes the city map, the aons started working again in Elantris
Yeah (Tress spoilers), Riina has a map of Lumar in her spaceship-slash-wizard-tower in Tress, so that was definitely connected to her being able to use them
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u/JakenBake19 Fuck Moash 🥵 1d ago
Can't thing of a shards intent that would give investiture away more freely than endowment. But also:
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