Let me say just this: Many of those old prophecies seem to be coming true.
What do you care about the validity of an old prophecy?
There was rumour about an old prophecy that the Company's rule would end after a hundred years.
"Sure enough, the old prophecy is true; and here we have the great man come, at last!"
Both sides are driven to fulfill an age old prophecy, and in doing so find themselves at loggerheads with each other.
Thus all the old prophecies have been fulfilled only by their manipulation of Time.
To do what has never been done before, to return, and interpret for them the old prophecies in light of what we now know.
But there exists an old prophecy of a girl who can defeat the Wizard.
"I thought you'd given up on those old prophecies," Solon said.