Talk:Spatial-Temporal Lock/@comment-5946702-20130429164205/@comment-26256072-20150515025543

1st limit depends on the canon.

Example: Cole Turner (Charmed) became an Avatar so he could change history. The other Avatars were unaffected by the new timeline (because they were still Avatars), but Cole assumed the life of his alternate self, who had never become an Avatar and therefore didn't have those powers. His Avatar powers weren't so much "lost" during the transition, but rather "suspended" within the new timeline; if he wanted them back, he had to restore the original timeline.