Difference between revisions of "Terris Prophecies"

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]].{{wob ref|8056}}

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.{{citewob ref|6070}} [[Kwaan]] believed [[Alendi]] to be thisthe hero{{epigraph ref|mb2|15}}, becauseand while initially his claim was scorned by the rest of the [[RuinWorldsingers]]{{epigraph wasref|mb2|13}}, editingeventually they conceded Kwaan had been right{{epigraph ref|mb2|30}}, earning him the propheciesprophesied totitle makeof themthe seem'''Announcer'''.{{epigraph likeref|mb2|34}} theyBy appliedthe totime Alendi was recognized, Kwaan had started to doubt the integrity of the prophecies.{{citeepigraph ref|mb2|30}} MisguidedHowever, Kwaanthe sentrest Alendiof outthe toWorldbringers killdid andnot destroynotice thisthe [[Deepness]]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 DeepnessWell of Ascension.{{citeepigraph ref|mb2|epilogue}} RashekHe and his trusted friends went as Alendi's packmanpackmen.{{epigraph Heref|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 and as Ruin wished, he used it to try to protect the world, and became a [[Sliver]] of Preservation.{{citeepigraph 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 play goes on again but with Vin as the Hero of Ages. The Terris Prophecies were written in the Terris language, whichand hadall noof genderthem forrefer ato particularthe thirdHero personwith singulargender-neutral pronounpronouns.{{epigraph Soref|mb3|69}}{{book insteadref|mb3|71}} ofBut 'he'these orpronouns were most commonly translated so that the Hero is refered to as 'shehe', while the word that they used was best translated as 'it'.{{book However,ref|mb2|45}} whenThis translated,lead to most assuming the translatorsHero translatedof itAges towas 'he'male, sobut everybodySazed assumedbelieved thatthe prophecies had been using the Heroneutral ofcase Agesso wasthat malethey could have been refering to a female, who he believed to be Vin.{{citebook ref|mb3|71}} The Hero of ages was prophesied to create and destroy nations. When Vin defeated the kings laying siege to [[Luthadel]], [[Sazed]] thoughtbegan itto believe the Hero to be Vin,.{{citebook ref|mb2|55}} but actually it was Sazed.Eventually{{citeexpand}} Vinshe 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.{{citebook ref|mb3|82}} As Preservation had foreseen,{{citewob 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.{{citebook ref|mb3|82}}