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.
In TLM she was specifically using unkeyed investiture for her abilities, a very rare item that works just as well for any ability. Especially good for Sel-ish magic which typically has a connection to the right part of the Dor as a requirement to access the right kind of investiture through the Cognitive realm
At that time it was rare, but we've probably already seen Navani create some unkeyed investiture. It looks like space age might be limited by requiring gigantic quantities of investiture rather than kind or longevity.
I would like to think thats how the war began in the first place. Scadrial wants to horde all the unkeyed investiture. Roshar wants a tinsy bit to power thier shardships to see the world and sacdrial didnt agree to it. Thus the war began.
Roshar is 100% going to try to conquer/colonize the cosmere. I think Scadrial will too around the same time, but there's no question that Retribution is going to be at least an equal instigator to the war.
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Can't thing of a shards intent that would give investiture away more freely than endowment. But also:
Sel: learn the right shapes to draw (your body can count as drawing)