User:TheSlicer/Prophecy Chamber

This is a list of prophecies created by the Keeper. Here, in this cave beneath the island of Cronicia Nui, they are guarded forevermore.

The Savior
''Before eternal night may fall at last, Before malicious might has victory, Before the spell of chaos can be cast To shred apart the will of destiny, A light shall thus come forth from shadow's heart, Do battle with antagonistic ghost, To keep the worlds from being torn apart And save that which the light cares for the most.

''And yet success cannot be guaranteed; The savior might not win against the dark, For it is shadow's nature to mislead Before the light-force even can embark. And still there is some more—a deadly fact The light must quickly come to understand— For it will not survive the end intact If it should thus pursue Fate's last command.

The knowledge of the savior's final fate Is truth at which the light must fast arrive: For if an age of peace it shall create, The child of dark and light cannot survive.

The Savior prophecy deals with what has been interpreted as some grand conflict at the end of times. However, before the universe can plunge into darkness, it is stated that there will be a savior in the form of a light out of the shadows, though the savior must understand that he or she cannot survive the final conflict.

It is possible that this prophecy applies to Takanuva's battle with Teridax in the prime reality: Takanuva is the "savior", or the "light... from shadow's heart" (which could plausibly have been corrupted to "a light among the shadows"). In that interpretation, Teridax is the "antagonistic ghost" with whom the light "do[es] battle" in the darkness beneath the Mangaia.

The battle ends with the merging of the two's minds and Takutanuva's apparent death, fulfilling the section regarding how "the child of dark and light cannot survive". (It is a matter of open debate among scholars whether the "child" in the portion is Takanuva or Takutanuva; Takanuva can be said to be a light created through dark struggles, though Takutanuva is a physical embodiment of dark and light.)

However, it should be noted that the battle between Teridax and Takanuva never occurred in the storyline in which the Elder Prophecies exist; rather, Teridax was killed a thousand years earlier, during the Great Cataclysm.