Robert LeBourge, also known as Bob the Revelator, was a male peculiar who made many predictions, some coming true.
History[]
His story was told by Esmerelda Avocet in The Conference of the Birds while the peculiars were attempting to figure out the Prophecy of the Seven, which had been spoken by Bob.
Bob was an uneducated farmhand who spoke mainly in babbling incoherencies. Because of this, many thought of him as possessed or an idiot, or a combination of the two. As Miss Avocet explains, he would sometimes "tremble as if electrified and hold forth in fully formed quatrains of sonorous, seemingly extemporaneous rhyming verse." These verses were noticed to sound like predictions, and people began writing down the things he said after some started to come true.
Noor Pradesh thought that he must have been thought of as some kind of angel, but Miss Avocet states that he had been regarded as a devil. For the crime of divination, he was plunged into boiling oil and hanged, but he wasn't hurt by either of these and escaped.
His pronouncements appear in a book called The Apocryphon of Bob the Revelator (full name The Apocryphon of Robert LeBourge, Revelator of Avignon). It is not known very well and isn't even a proper book, as it was simply written down, not written. The pronouncements were recorded by whoever happened to be present at the time.
The Prophecy of the Seven[]
This prophecy was written some four hundred years before the events of The Conference of the Birds. Speakers of several different languages were present when Bob made it, and each recorded the prophecy in their own tongue, and there some disagreement on what Bob really said. Three of the languages it had been written in are Latin, Hungarian, and Old Peculiar. As translated by Francesca, part of the prophecy begins with several references to the time period of The Conference of the Birds. Later, it describes a war. Francesca tells Jacob and his friends that the only line that all translations agree on is "To end the strife of war, seven may seal the door."
The births of the seven are mentioned near the end, although the text Miss Avocet had did not appear to be complete. It only had one entry: one of the seven would be "a babe who suckles the light," referring to Noor. The other six are later revealed to also be light-eaters.
All seven light eaters wouldn't be needed to close the door, there only needed to be one light eater to do the job. As it turns out, "seven may seal the door" meant seven people independently had the possibility to do so.