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.
== Alendi and Rashek ==
The Hero of Ages, also called Rabzeen and the Anamnesor, was a prophesied savior who would supposedly take the power of the Well of Ascension and use it to save the world. Kwaan believed Alendi to be the hero, and while initially his claim was scorned by the rest of the Worldbringers, eventually they conceded Kwaan had been right, earning him the prophesied title of the Announcer. By the time Alendi was recognized, Kwaan had started to doubt the integrity of the prophecies. 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. Kwaan eventually realized that the prophecies had been edited to require the Hero to give up the power of the Well once taken, and sent Rashek, his nephew, to prevent Alendi from reaching the Well of Ascension. He and his trusted friends went as Alendi's packmen. Rashek killed Alendi at the end of the journey, and took up the power of Preservation at the Well of Ascension. 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. From then on, Rashek pretended to be Alendi, taking his title of the Conqueror and believing himself to be the Hero of Ages.
== Vin and Sazed ==
After a thousand years, the same narrative repeats itself, 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. But these pronouns were most commonly translated so that the Hero is referred to as 'he', while the word was best translated as 'it'. This led 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 referring to a female, who he believed to be Vin. 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. Eventually 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. As Preservation had foreseen, 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.
By 348 PC, Harmony began to lose stability and began to slip towards Discord, standing on the edge, as mentioned in the prophecy. The full transformation does not appear to have occurred yet, as of three weeks after the harmonium detonation and the retreat of Autonomy.
== Prophecy quotes ==
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:
=== Exact prophecy quotes ===
Direct quotations of the original or altered prophecy.
=== Partial prophecy mentions/quotes ===
Prophecy fragments and non-verbatim quotations.
=== Implied prophecy mentions ===
Indirect or uncertain references to the prophecy.
== Notes ==
category: religion
category: Myths and Legends
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