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=== Intention ===
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'''Intention''' is a practitioner's explicit purpose or will when attempting to manipulate Investiture. A person reaches into the [[Spiritual Realm]] with their mind and concieves or wills something to happen.{{wob ref|77}} All Invested Arts require Intention to some extent. In the most simplistic applications of an Invested Art, the body itself has the Intent to survive, which allows a person to use Investiture without realizing it. This is what allows [[Mistborn]] like [[Vin]] to burn trace amounts of [[pewter]] without realizing it.{{wob ref|15700}} More involved magics, however, require more specific Intentions. For an Invested Art like [[Allomancy]], a simple explanation of the metals functions and how [[Compounding]] works is enough to create the Intention required to work the magic.{{wob ref|850}} On the other hand, [[Awakening]] is almost as much mental as spoken. If the visualizing of the command is not firm, the Awakened object can behave in a unknown manner or not at all. The more complex the command the more important that mental component is.{{book ref|wb|46}} These two arcana--Allomancy and Awakening--make up opposite ends of the spectrum of how important Intent is for the magic to work, with most falling somewhere in between. This also follows a more general principle of Invested Arts. Invested Arts where the power is internal have more dexterity in how they can use Intent to shape the result.{{wob ref|315}}
[[Hemalurgy]] simply require that someone intend to make a spike when they do it. Hemalurgy has only one known mental component: that the user or [[Shard]] must be trying to do Hemalurgy (this is [[Ruin]]'s intent when [[Spook]] temporarily gains the ability to burn pewter). This mental component, if not present, renders the spike to a normal metal spike and simply harms the victim.{{wob ref|3214}} When present, it controls what is stolen when used in conjunction with the correct binding point.{{book ref|mb3|42}}
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