A significant portion of Kwaan's inscription is missing from the epigraphs, is not referenced in Sazed's notes, and is not shown as having been tampered with by Ruin on the Coppermind article.
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...And I tell you, call me daft, but the words of the prophecies are changing. The alterations are slight. Clever, even. A word here, a slight twist there. But the words on the pages are different from the ones in my memory. The other Worldbringers scoff at me, for they have their metalminds to prove to them that the books and prophecies have not changed.And so, this is the great declaration I must make. There is something—some force—that wants us to believe that the Hero of Ages has come, and that he must travel to the Well of Ascension. Something is making the prophecies change so that they refer to Alendi more perfectly. And whatever this power is, it can change words within a Feruchemist's metalmind...
...I sense a craftiness behind these changes, a manipulation subtle and brilliant. I have spent the last two years in exile, trying to decipher what the alterations could mean. I have come to only one conclusion. Something has taken control of our religion, something nefarious, something that cannot be trusted. It misleads, and it shadows. It uses Alendi to destroy, leading him along a path of death and sorrow. It is pulling him toward the Well of Ascension, where the millennial power has gathered. I can only guess that it sent the Deepness as a method of making mankind more desperate, of pushing us to do as it wills. The prophecies have changed. They now tell Alendi that he must give up the power once he takes it. This is not what was once implied by the texts—they were more vague. And yet, the new version seems to make it a moral imperative. The texts now outline a terrible consequence if the Hero of Ages takes the power for himself...
...Give it away to this same force that has changed the texts. Give it up to this force of destruction that has brought him to war, that has tempted him to kill, that has craftily led him to the north. This thing wants the power held in the Well, and it has raped our religion's holiest tenets in order to get it....
In fact, only 8 sentences in total are changed by Ruin. If we remove the part above it does sound pretty vague and confusing for Sazed and Tindwyl to decipher. A big part of the book is spent with them trying to figure out if the prophecy is just a legend and why it is so confusing, why Kwaan both refers to Alendi as a trustworthy guy but seems to also doubt him etc. However if we include it, it becomes pretty evident that some outside force is tampering with the writings.
Are we supposed to think that Ruin flat out deleted these segments or is there any other explanation? I couldn't find any WoB on this either.
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A significant portion of Kwaan's inscription is missing from the epigraphs, is not referenced in Sazed's notes, and is not shown as having been tampered with by Ruin on the Coppermind article.
...And I tell you, call me daft, but the words of the prophecies are changing. The alterations are slight. Clever, even. A word here, a slight twist there. But the words on the pages are different from the ones in my memory. The other Worldbringers scoff at me, for they have their metalminds to prove to them that the books and prophecies have not changed.And so, this is the great declaration I must make. There is something—some force—that wants us to believe that the Hero of Ages has come, and that he must travel to the Well of Ascension. Something is making the prophecies change so that they refer to Alendi more perfectly. And whatever this power is, it can change words within a Feruchemist's metalmind...
...I sense a craftiness behind these changes, a manipulation subtle and brilliant. I have spent the last two years in exile, trying to decipher what the alterations could mean. I have come to only one conclusion. Something has taken control of our religion, something nefarious, something that cannot be trusted. It misleads, and it shadows. It uses Alendi to destroy, leading him along a path of death and sorrow. It is pulling him toward the Well of Ascension, where the millennial power has gathered. I can only guess that it sent the Deepness as a method of making mankind more desperate, of pushing us to do as it wills. The prophecies have changed. They now tell Alendi that he must give up the power once he takes it. This is not what was once implied by the texts—they were more vague. And yet, the new version seems to make it a moral imperative. The texts now outline a terrible consequence if the Hero of Ages takes the power for himself...
...Give it away to this same force that has changed the texts. Give it up to this force of destruction that has brought him to war, that has tempted him to kill, that has craftily led him to the north. This thing wants the power held in the Well, and it has raped our religion's holiest tenets in order to get it....
In fact, only 8 sentences in total are changed by Ruin. If we remove the part above it does sound pretty vague and confusing for Sazed and Tindwyl to decipher. A big part of the book is spent with them trying to figure out if the prophecy is just a legend and why it is so confusing, why Kwaan both refers to Alendi as a trustworthy guy but seems to also doubt him etc. However if we include it, it becomes pretty evident that some outside force is tampering with the writings.
Are we supposed to think that Ruin flat out deleted these segments or is there any other explanation? I couldn't find any WoB on this either.
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