Difference between revisions of "Terris Prophecies"

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, 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 referred to as 'he', while the word was best translated as 'it'.{{book ref|mb2|45}} This lead 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 refering to a female, who he believed to be Vin.{{book ref|mb3|71}} The Hero of Ages 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}}

 

 

== Prophecy quotes ==