Umbrae

I fully agree with his statement. What I am getting at is that the OP stated that you are creating a connection every time that you use allomancy or any "creation magic". This is a poor summation of what is actually going on. Brandon states that you are directing and focusing investiture when you use allomancy. It is a net positive magic but that doesn't mean you are reconnecting to the Shard or in the OP's word "powers" everytime you burn a metal. The metal is just the focus. The way I have always thought of it is like a prism or colored glass. Investiture flows through you and is focused into a certain effect, much like you can filter light through a prism or glass to get a certain color or light.

Location definitely matters. In Secret History Kelsier walks out of Ruins sphere of influence. Odium is bound to Roahar at the moment. Autonomy refuses anyone and anything travel into or out of his/her area that he/she can affect. To say that location doesn't matter to the spiritual realm would mean that you could spiritually effect someone from anywhere and where you get cut by a Shardblade doesn't matter as long as you intend to cut them. Location matters. Al realms are connected. None of them are strange and seperate like the Beyond.

If allomancy was performed by metals connecting you to Preservation it would have to be assumed it could only be performed when a connection could be formed in the first place. We can take that idea and prove it false. Hoid performs allomancy on Roshar, a place that lacks any connection to Preservation. Harmony is strongly bound to Scadrial and has a hard time even learning about what is happening outside of it. I think it is safe to assume that anyone with less power than a Shard could not be making a connection to Scadrial from Roshar.

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There would only be a spren of a concept if it existed within the Rosharan system correct? Also can new spren be created? They are splinters of Honor and Cultivation. So I would assume that unless there are still unclaimed splinters to attach themselves to a newly formed concept within the cognitive realm there would be no spren of said concept. So if Rosharans suddenly started mass producing Batman comics I sadly do not think we could get any spren from it. This is of course speculation but from Syl's chatter and other sources it is what I have gathered.

Hello Everyone! For a bit more than two years I have lurked in the shadows. I picked up Brandon's Cosmere works shortly after he finished up The Wheel of Time. Somehow I had managed to make it all the way through highschool and most of college without ever reading a single book in my life. Midway through my junior year in college I picked up Eye of the World from the library. It was like a whole new world was opened up to me (because that is exactly what happened). I realized that I had been missing out on a wonderful experience for more than 20 years of my life! In reaction to my self-imposed set back, I started to make up for lost time. I devoured Jordan's works and was devastated to find out that he had recently died. When Brandon took it up I was extremely happy to see it finished and I thought that was it for my reading career. I was happy to be wrong. Since then I have read as much fantasy as I could but Brandon's world building and intersecting but independent novels won my heart. I have read through all of the Cosmere works several times now (except White Sand as I never had it in me to ask for a copy), most if not all of the Coppermind wiki, and a chunk of these forums. I never bothered posting, but that changes tonight! I am excited to join your wonderful community if you all would have me. -Umbrae