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==Snapping==
When a person is born with the hereditary Allomantic ability, they cannot burn metals until the Allomantic ability is awakened in them. The process of Allomancy being activated within a person is called [[Snapping]]. In the [[Final Empire]] era of Scadrial, Snapping required immense trauma. This was usually inflicted by an intense beating at a young age. It was possible for Allomancers to Snap from other intense emotions, like joy, but this was much more uncommon.{{
However, after the [[Final Ascension]], [[Harmony]] changed the way Snapping operated, but it is unknown how it was altered.{{ref|?|675|21|How does Snapping work now? You said that Sazed changed it.}}
Allomancy is a End-Positive{{ref|b|mb4|ars}} magic system--meaning energy is gained in the process of its use. It is of the [[Shard]] [[Preservation]].{{ref|b|mb3|e|32}} Energy does not come from one's own body, as happens in [[Feruchemy]], but from Preservation himself.
Metal is not the source of Allomancy's power.{{
It may be quite unclear that Allomancy is of Preservation. After all, Pushing and Pulling on metals isn’t an effect that "preserves," so to speak. However, it is important to know that saying "Allomancy is of Preservation" has a very specific meaning: the way an Allomancer ''accesses'' the power is of Preservation, but the actual effect of the power is unrelated to Preservation.{{ref|?|622|107|How is Allomancy of Preservation?}} This is a fundamental difference between Allomancy and Feruchemy. In Feruchemy, its power comes from your own energy, but Allomancy is of Preservation. The act of burning a metal--accessing the power of Preservation--must be in line with the [[intent]] of Preservation. So burning a metal needs to "preserve" one's own energy, and so the power must come from the external source of Preservation's body.{{cite}}
Advanced Allomancy combined with Feruchemy will be the method Scadrians gain faster-than-light travel eventually.{{ref|?|632|2|Is this a prequel to the "modern" trilogy?}}
== Development ==
Allomancy was in the original book of Mistborn (now known as Mistborn Prime). In that version, Allomancy only had Mistborn and no Mistings.{{
The metals themselves changed over time. Brandon had been misled by employees of a hobby shop in his childhood that pewter was an alloy of silver, so in the original draft of Mistborn, silver and pewter were paired, and he named silver Mistings Silvereyes. When he realized the factual error, he was forced to change it to tin and Tineye.{{
After the original trilogy and Brandon’s reveal that atium and malatium did not belong on the true Table of Allomantic Metals, Brandon chose the true external temporal metal to be cadmium, as it was particularly dangerous and hard to acquire, so it made sense that only Scadrians with the technology after the Final Ascension could discover it.{{cite}} Brandon originally had cadmium's alloy named cerrobend, but that name happened to be copyrighted, so Brandon was forced to change it to the generic word, bendalloy. The error was present on an early version of the Table of Allomantic Metals.
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