Difference between revisions of "Terris Prophecies"

The '''Hero of Ages''', also called '''Rabzeen''' and the '''Anamnesor''',{{epigraph ref|mb2|12}} was a prophesied savior who would supposedly take the power of the [[Well of Ascension]] and use it to save the world.{{wob ref|6070}} [[Kwaan]] believed [[Alendi]] to be the hero,{{epigraph ref|mb2|15}}, and while initially his claim was scorned by the rest of the [[Worldbringers]],{{epigraph ref|mb2|13}}, eventually they conceded Kwaan had been right,{{epigraph ref|mb2|30}}, earning him the prophesied title of the '''Announcer'''.{{epigraph ref|mb2|34}} By the time Alendi was recognized, Kwaan had started to doubt the integrity of the prophecies.{{epigraph ref|mb2|30}} However, the rest of the Worldbringers did not notice the changes in the prophecies because they trusted their copperminds, never realizing they could be altered.{{epigraph ref|mb2|epilogue}} Kwaan eventually realized that the prophecies had been edited to require the Hero to give up the power of the Well once taken,{{epigraph ref|mb2|epilogue}}, and sent [[Rashek]], his nephew, to prevent Alendi from reaching the Well of Ascension.{{epigraph ref|mb2|epilogue}} He and his trusted friends went as Alendi's packmen.{{epigraph ref|mb2|epilogue}} Rashek killed Alendi at the end of the journey, and took up the power of Preservation at the Well of Ascension.{{epigraph ref|mb3|65}} Instead of giving it up as Alendi would have and as Ruin wished, he used it to try to protect the world, and became a [[Sliver]] of Preservation.{{epigraph ref|mb3|18}}{{epigraph ref|mb3|6}} From then on, Rashek pretended to be Alendi, taking his title of the Conqueror and believing himself to be the Hero of Ages.{{epigraph ref|mb2|37}}

After a thousand years, the same playnarrative goesrepeats on againitself, but with Vin as the Hero of Ages. The Terris Prophecies were written in the Terris language, and all of them refer to the Hero with gender-neutral pronouns.{{epigraph ref|mb3|69}}{{book ref|mb3|71}} But these pronouns were most commonly translated so that the Hero is referedreferred to as 'he', while the word was best translated as 'it'.{{book ref|mb2|45}} This leadled to most assuming the Hero of Ages was male, but Sazed believed the prophecies had been using the neutral case so that they could have been referingreferring to a female, who he believed to be Vin.{{book ref|mb3|71}} The Hero of agesAges was prophesied to create and destroy nations. When Vin defeated the kings laying siege to [[Luthadel]], [[Sazed]] began to believe the Hero to be Vin.{{book ref|mb2|55}} Eventually{{expand}} she became the holder of the shard Preservation, Ruin's equal and opposite, and after the death of Elend, attacked Ruin hard enough to kill him, though it killed her in the process, and unbound both Shards.{{book ref|mb3|82}} As Preservation had foreseen,{{wob ref|5667}} Sazed took them, bonding Ruin and Preservation together into Harmony and became a vessel of both shards. He fixed the world's failing ecology and renewed the land, and remained to guide and protect the world as the Hero of Ages.{{book ref|mb3|82}}