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{{for|The Hero of Ages|the [[Mistborn (series)]] novel|pre="Hero of Ages" redirects here}} |
{{for|The Hero of Ages|the [[Mistborn (series)]] novel|pre="Hero of Ages" redirects here}} |
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− | |The Hero will have the power to save the world. But he will also have the power to destroy it. |
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== Alendi and Rashek == |
== Alendi and Rashek == |
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− | 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.{{ |
+ | 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.{{cite}} [[Kwaan]] believed [[Alendi]] to be this hero, because [[Ruin]] was editing the prophecies to make them seem like they applied to Alendi.{{cite}} Misguided, Kwaan sent Alendi out to kill and destroy this [[Deepness]]. Kwaan eventually realized that the prophecies had been edited, and sent [[Rashek]], his nephew, to prevent Alendi from reaching the Deepness.{{cite}} Rashek went as Alendi's packman. He 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 and as Ruin wished, he used it to try to protect the world, and became a [[Sliver]] of Preservation.{{cite}} |
== Vin and Sazed == |
== Vin and Sazed == |
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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 her in the process, and unbound both Shards.{{cite}} As Preservation had foreseen,{{cite}} 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.{{cite}} |
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− | By 348 PC, Harmony began to lose stability and began to slip towards Discord, standing on the edge, as mentioned in the prophecy.{{book ref|mb7|19}}{{book ref|mb7|66}}{{book ref|mb7|71}}{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|4}}{{wob ref|11676}} The full transformation does not appear to have occurred yet, as of three weeks after the [[harmonium]] detonation and the retreat of [[Autonomy]].{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|4}} |
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== Prophecy quotes == |
== Prophecy quotes == |
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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 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}} |
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− | Direct quotations of the original or altered prophecy. |
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− | |He who is not of his people, yet fulfills all of their wishes. |
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− | |He was born of a humble family, yet married the daughter of a king. |
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− | |He could trade words with the finest of philosophers, and had an impressive memory. Yet, he was not argumentative. |
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− | |The Terris rejected him, but he came to lead them. |
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− | |He commanded kings, and though he sought no empire, he became greater than all who had come before. |
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− | |He fathered no children, yet all of the land became his progeny. |
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− | |He was forced into war by a misunderstanding yet he came to fight as well as any man. |
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− | |He was no simple soldier. He was a force of leadership—a man that fate itself seemed to support. |
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− | === Partial prophecy mentions/quotes === |
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− | Prophecy fragments and non-verbatim quotations. |
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|...the Hero of Ages will be an outsider. |
|...the Hero of Ages will be an outsider. |
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− | === Implied prophecy mentions === |
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− | Indirect or uncertain references to the prophecy. |
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− | |I think I've finally discovered why Rashek resents me so very much. He does not believe that an outsider such as myself - a foreigner - could possibly be the Hero of Ages. He believes that I have somehow tricked the philosophers, that I wear the piercings of the Hero unjustly. |
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− | |A quote from [[Alendi's logbook]].{{epigraph ref|mb1|27}} This implies that the prophecy mentions the Hero wearing piercings. |
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