Terris prophesies

[Panwp]

How ancient terrisians menaged to create their strangly specific prophecies. At the end of oathbringer when odium looks at The Diagram he says something along the line" I cant belive you've done it all without acces to Fortune". So that made me wonder: is it possible that ancients terrisians had acces to chromium? Or somebody helped them in creating it?

[Spoolofwhool]

Preservation created the prophecies using future sight so they would know how to continue Ruin's imprisonment and eventually defeat him. Ruin then changed the wording of the prophecies so that they would tell the people to free him instead. 

[StoneWalker]

This WoB, as well as what I understood from the books, heavily implies that it was Preservation that gave the prophecies to the Terris people, but then Ruin distorted and manipulated them for his purposes. The origin of the prophecies is ultimately Preservation, a shard with extremely powerful foresight -- one of the most capable (that we've seen) in seeing and interpreting the future correctly. 

[Farnsworth]

I think it was Ruin who actually created the prophecies, not the Terrismen. 

[Weltall]

Preservation gave Terris the prophecies (StoneWalker's WoB outright says it and there are others as well) but Ruin later manipulated them. And missed the full extent of Preservation's planning. So everyone's correct, from a certain point of view. xD

Edited November 28, 2017 by Weltall