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Metal is not the source of Allomancy's power.{{ref|annotation|mb3|chapter=38}} Rather, metal is what is called a [[focus]]--a necessary component to a manifestation of [[Investiture]] (magic system), but not the source of the power itself. When an Allomancer burns a metal, that metal specific molecular structure acts as a conduit to Preservation, and then the Allomancer is granted an ability corresponding to the metal, hence the metal "focuses" Preservation's power to the user. Each metal is the only way a mortal can access Preservation and the power of creation's power.{{ref|?|727|45|Allomancy is fueled by Preservation's body?}} Afterwards, the metal is vaporized.{{ref|?|618|61|When non-god metals are burned Allomantically, what happens to the metals?}} This is true for the base sixteen Allomantic metals. However, the god metals, lerasium and atium, are the sources of power themselves. Burning atium, being [[Ruin]]'s body, means the Allomancer is not accessing Preservation in any way in that process.{{ref|b|mb3|e|78}}
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}}
Allomancy--as well as Feruchemy--have the property that Allomantic abilities are inherent to the user, and hardcoded into their Spiritweb.{{ref|b|mb4|ars}} While other Investitures can take years of practice, Allomancers can use their power the moment they can acquire the correct metals. This comes with the tradeoff that having the trait of Allomancy is something one is born with; a non-Allomancer cannot become an Allomancer (except in the very particular case of burning [[lerasium]], which overwrites one's Spiritual DNA to have the connection to Preservation required to use Allomancy{{ref|?|692|24|If a Mistborn burns lerasium, as in, not just ingests it, what effect would it grant Allomantically?}}).
Allomancy was not created by Preservation. None of the Metallic Arts were "created" by Preservation and Ruin. Rather, these powers are the natural result of Preservation, Ruin, and Scadrial itself.{{ref|?|727|5|Is Hemalurgy dead?}}
However, Preservation could still alter Allomancy in certain ways. He changed the rules of Allomancy twice: the first time, he changed the Table of Allomantic Metals to have atium and malatium as external temporal metals, exchanging them with cadmium and bendalloy.{{cite}} This may have had the effect of allowing for the existence of atium Mistings. Ultimately, this was part of Preservation’s plan to defeat Ruin: to have atium Mistings that could burn away Ruin’s body of atium, allowing someone else, who was not influenced as much by the intent of Preservation, to take up its power and destroy Ruin.{{cite}}
The second time Allomancy was changed was after the [[Final Ascension]], when [[Harmony]] was particularly disturbed by the horrors of Snapping, so he altered Snapping to act differently.{{ref|?|704|26|In Alloy of Law are people still Snapping?}} It is not currently known how Snapping works in the present era.{{ref|?|675|21|How does Snapping work now? You said that Sazed changed it.}} It is also unclear how a Shard can influence manifestations of Investiture in this way, and how much a Shard is allowed to alter the way they operate.
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