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The '''Terris Prophecies''' were a set of legends which foretells that the [[Hero of Ages]] will save the world. [[Preservation]] created them with incredible foresight as part of his ultimate plan to defeat [[Ruin]].

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After a thousand years, the same play goes on again but with Vin as the Hero of Ages. The Terris Prophecies were written in the Terris language, which had no gender for a particular third person singular pronoun. So instead of 'he' or 'she', the word that they used was best translated as 'it'. However, when translated, the translators translated it to 'he', so everybody assumed that the Hero of Ages was male.{{cite}} The Hero of ages was prophesied to create and destroy nations. When Vin defeated the kings laying siege to [[Luthadel]], [[Sazed]] thought it to be Vin,{{cite}} but actually it was Sazed.{{cite}} Vin 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 herself in the process, and unbound both Shards.{{cite}} SazedAs Preservation tookhad themforeseen{{cite}}, becomingSazed atook vesselthem, of bothbonding Ruin and Preservation, bonding them 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.{{cite}}

The majority of these quotes are said in awe by Sazed while watching Vin do things making her appear to be the Hero of Ages. A record of the prophecy is never given. Note that some of these prophecies could have been changed from their original text by Ruin{{cite}}:

“The|The Hero of Ages shall be not a man, but a force. No nation may claim him, no woman shall keep him, and no king may slay him. He shall belong to none, not even himself. ” {{book ref|hoa|}}