.  Finally, recent predictive phenomenon are less absolute because the Pattern is loosening. Predictive phenomenon -- whether Dark Prophecy or Light Prophecy -- WILL happen according to Prophecy if they are old enough to be recorded and were transcribed accurately.  Prophecy is the criteria to be met. Not an absolute of what will happen. We know this, because we've heard Foretelling, where the person uses a conditional statement. No conditional statements, if your Foretelling is an absolute future.  A bit of research failed to turn up the glossary entry I thought I remembered. An incomplete search of references to Far Madding's Guardian all refer to to it as a single device, although the description is of three "cloudy disks" and three independent functions/ranges which would suggest separate ter'angreal that function independently of the other two. It is unclear which is the case.  I personally suspect that the Guardian is like a Paralis Net referred to as a single unit, but made up of independent ter'angreal for each different function, but can find no definitive declaration either way.  